Fayette High School - Falcon Yearbook (West Terre Haute, IN)

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CLASS PLAYS DAMSELS IN DISTRESS SENIOR PLAY 12 HBACKWOODS ROM EO -JUN IOR PLAY

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CLEO STARKEY Leadershlp Ava ard CAROL MARSHALL C EAR' DEAN WHALLON Scholar Shlp V319dlCt01l'1ll DORIS BLACKBURN D A R AYK31d BARBARA NAUGLE Home Economics Aw ard MARTHA JEAN BLEDSOL English Commerce Aw a1d Award Salutatorian 11 Award J A

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DISCCDVERY The drscovery of the class of 1900 xx as an accrdent Four ye ns 'wo early one mormng rn September 1946 the faculty of the Fayette Hrffh School cauffht 1 fflrmpse of rn anxrous xnd frrffhtened 5.1 oup huddled together Just 1ns1de the door To the casual eye they seemed merely an or drnary Group of boys and gnls xx ell dressed reasonxbly good lookrnof and b ldly frr htened Gently tryrnff to drspel the fears of the strfmffers the faculty bade them enter and spent the next fexx days tryrng to gram then conhdence and fr rendshrp Thex succeeded after 0f19 lt drlfrcultx rn accomplrshrng. thrs THE FIRST EXPLG RATIGN The dr covery haxrnff been reported to the ruler of the h1 h school C P Lrgeett h recerved the nexxs xx 1th mfuked delrffht and a fexx mrsvrxrngs and examrned the report cards of these llld1V1dLldlS xx hrch xx ere presented to hrm These cu ds supposedly denoted the degree of mental alertness possessed bythe oxxners The drscoverers recerved the permrssron of the prrncrpal to explore carefully the natures and rntellects rf any of the stranffers md rf possrble to make of them val uable addrtrons to the country Accor drngly each of the drscoxerers became an explorer care of the var1ous explorers They xxere tfluffht many nexx and stranffe customs and mrnners and xx ere requrr ed to learn drfferent lessons Before too long they became com pletely at home rn therr nexx surroundrnffs They xx ere permrtted to form an orgamzatron of then oxxn and elected M1 Jordan rs therr sponsor Dorrs Ann Dreher presrdent Leon Blackburn Vrce pres Jackre Jox Sec Treas and Mary K1tCh9D nexxs reporter Durrnof the Inst month of th1s year the annual freshmen sophomore ball game vx IS played The sophomore boys beat our boys but the ffrrls upheld therr honor by defeatrnf the sophomore Cfrrls They suffered much avony and desparr durrnfr thrs perrod because of the socral func trons vxhrch they xx ere requrred to attend rn order to acqurre porse and drgnrty The male freshmen rn partlcular found the dances torture but the females enjoyed them Greatly In tlme hoxx exer these functrons became festrve occfxsrons for everyone The lntellects of these lndrxrduals xx ere found to vary ln keenness from sponges to razors but on the xxhole they turned out satlsfactorrly and many shoxxed srfrns of unusual abrlrty IH var1ous fields At the end of the year a terrrble drsfxster befell the freshmen Many had therr growth retarded a year by rt and a fexv xvere permanently drsabled and left the class forever The drsaster xx as called final examrnatrons and It ranks as one of the xx O1St massacres of the trme Wrth the comrnfr of next September they recerxed a nexv name As xx as customary they became sophomores 13 D u C -7 v C I . 1 2 n cc , u . w ' ' , c c UC, c D c 5 . 2 . I ,III III I I . . . II I I I . . ' C . D. v C 1' - wy ' - . I . 6 Z . ' O, 2 I gl ' . ' ' cn . h C .5 h 1 C f y - v . ' . ,- ' ' . ' C I' ' I v I II ICIII .. III. I II .I ' 'S . v' G . . - . 'g I I NI ' .D , e u - v v C x .5 C v 5 v n u I I I . -. - I CI I I I . . I I I . ' s . I ' ,I v, I v u u 1 fn. The strangers were divided into a small group called freshmen and assigned to the C x u' n 1 I v n r G C v n 5 E v u . I u ' 0 n , - L . . I I I . O . v u r . n w 1 'r . . y v , Q. I I . .I . . .I . I I . I I . I: I,I I- . II . I , . . I u. 5 y l . b, u - C r v2 I . O . . . EI . I: I I D .I I. II . I. I . I I . . I I . CI I I , , .I I I . . I I 7 I K v 'o , D. I C . . -1 . . I . I . . I .I , . . O 7 . , ' Y 1 5 Ci 1, f'