Fairview High School - Yellow Jacket Yearbook (Fairview, OK)

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(5) aiYor -IW porwu’l-OT1 flaws'73 (1) The gas shortage is real for Rick Bierig and Sherri Noble. (2) The new parking lot is being built across from the gym and corridor—the long-time center of work and activity. (3) Hap- py smiles and stifled groans abound as seniors receive their formal portraits. (4) Cindy Clinesmith watches warily as she donates a pint of blood to the Red Cross 31oodmobile. (5) Students spend many hours on Main Street. Theme 3

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1974--Something was happening at FHS! We nere having a rebirth of school spirit. Things ivere beginning to come together--to mesh. Football and band practice started in August. Laura liostwick had been elected to a state FHA office % ('indy Reese and she had gone to the ational Convention in Dallas and held their summer planning session. In October. Yearbook icon Highest Honors. Rep club teas formed and functioned spasmodically through a losing foot ball season and the beginning of basketball. The girls were winning but the boys couldn't get started. Suddenly in December a new s iirit began to emerge. First the student council decided on an all new Christmas Fete. Instead Of the Christmas walk. exchange of small gifts, and traditional party, the idea emerged to adopt children from the Enid State School. Resides being a worthwhile project, the side benefit to FIIS was a unified student body.

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In January. the basketball team began winning. students turned nit to elieer. pep rallies were held again and real spirit came through. A record number of students made “Outstanding Teenagers and W ho's Who, forty seniors of 64 made the honor roll. Interest in national and local problems was relevent and involved the students even when they trished to avoid it. Rising wheat ami cattle prices encouraged farming students. There was no more “dragging main before school when gas tanks on Main Street ran dry during the cold days of January. A “conserve energy project brought students to school in the dark. There was increased student interest in traditional events like the Jr.-Sr. Banquet and Class Might. Without an increased enrollment, a record number of yearbooks was purchased. More boys participated in track and spring football. Apathy and uninvolvement was leaving. . . one step at a time.