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

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€ndlc doy droq on ond on For some students school is a drag. Going to school day after day lis- tening to the same teach- ers gets monotonous. Over and over parts of speech in English, graphs in algebra, figures in ac- counting and drill lessons in typing (jet pretty boring by the third nine weeks. Sleeping in class is rare- ly seen in FHS but when it is everybody finds out quickly. Tne normal sleeping student usually doesn't sleep for just one hour but ends up waking up after the next hours class has already taken up, finding himself surround- ed by strange, smiling faces. Reading stories during English has found numer- ous students' collapsed heads down on the open English books. English teachers are continously trying to keep droopy- eyed students from 'zonk- ing out' on their books. After sitting through two or even four basket- ball tournament games waiting for the hometown team to play, bored spec- tators can be seen wig- gling on their seats wait- ing tor the action to be- gin. Early band practice finds half of tne band players marching in their sleep. After waking up a majority of them do know what to do. Writing weekly stories for yearbook drags on during the first semester but sticking with it pays off when the test of writ- ing copy becomes easier during the closing of the year. Every break was wel- comed — a fire or torna- do drill, an assembly, even the not-so-good magician was cheered. Working after school can also be a drag. A per- son gets a job to have spending money, then works so many hours that there is no time to spend it on those trips to Enid for a movie or to Oklaho- ma City for a concert. Even time for a visit with a friend or a late-date to the Sonic must take its turn to school and work. When the 180 seeming- ly endless school days are over and lockers are being cleaned out someone says, 'Boy, didn't this year go fast.' And, surprisingly, everyone agrees that it really did. WORKING HARD with little disturbance. Tony Pendergraft checks his math while Carl Hein and the rest of the class are apparently in a daydreaming world. LIEING DOWN ON THE JOB Susan Glasgow takes forty winks from her job as a school librarian, during a slow check out time. THESE BORING DRILL LINES! Jim Fast, Mark Castleberry, Kena Krob, and Kendall Reeves tap through drill lines to increase their typing ability. 28 Student Life

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Dou one! night the other drag qoc on If you can't find your best friend at home, you probably will find nim on the Main Drag. A majority of the students of FHS spend most of their spare time dragging Main. They say that America's favorite pass- time is baseball but in teenagers' hearts it seems that it is in the car going up and down a wide street. Radios and tapes blare out the favorite song and honking horns add to the noise as friend greets friend. During the winter. LET S ALL CO. Terry Fettke digs into a pan pizza at the Pizza Hut while Michelle Harris finishes off her first piece. The Pizza Hut is visited many times a week by students. CENTER. GOT HIM. Kendall Reeves spends some spare time at the bowling alley playing one of the popular space arcade games. GO JUICE. Jeni Hepp stops at Stewart Oil, one of the three 'key pumps' in town, to put gas in her car. Not only is it cheaper to pump your own but it is open all night. new high pressure sodi- um lights tnat give an or- ange glow were installed on Main Street and its intersecting street, Broadway. The pot holes that de- veloped during the win- ter, like the one that caused a rash of lost hub caps in front of Jensen's was repaired by the State Highway Department (since Main is also U.S. 60). The one stop light was overworked while the railroad crossing south- west of town was worked on, causing a de- tour at Main and Broad- way. Everyone found out low long the east-west light really is. However it gave ample time to catch up on the day's events being spelled out on the bank’s time and tem- perature sign. There are usually a few buildings that end up on the drag also. The bowl- ing alley with its lanes, pool tables and elec- tronic pinball machines was visited frequently by draggers. The Pizza Hut and the Sonic not only offer a turn-around area but also can provide the weary driver with re- freshments. One thing that one must not forget when dragging Main is that a car needs gas to keep on running. With the price of gas going up the stu- dents' favorite passtime might dwindle back into baseball. Going back and forth Main Street may have been the favorite thing , to do after school, but with harvest, jobs, soft- ball games, otner activi- ties and fast rising gas prices during the sum- mer, the Drag may come to an end. 30 Student Life