Ferndale High School - Reflector Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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Intrusion into the Hive Bzzzz-halt! Who goes there? Friend or foe? Friend! Enter, friend. Although you are intruding into our hive at Ferndale, since you are recognized as a friend, we shall welcome you to a close and careful look at this, the thirty-first annual publication of the REFLECTOR. Appropriately, our theme for this production shall be the Yellow Jacket, a word sy- nonymous with Ferndale. Although our teams were origi- nally referred to without a colorful nickname, some local sports writer began calling Ferndale athletic teams the Yel- low Jackets back in 1929. The name has been adopted and belongs to us. We are proud of it, and we feel that it sym- bolizes much of our life at Ferndale. Since bees are busy creatures, and our students are as busy as bees, we contend that the title applies nicely to our whole ptogram. Your yearbook has been divided into three sections, each symbolizing some phase of the school life of our Yellow Jackets. Emblematic of the workers of the hive, we present a section devoted to the classes and academic life of our school. The activities program is symbolic of the social in- stincts of the swarm, while the athletic section portrays the competitive spirit displayed by our Jackets against the nat- ural enemies. An intrusion into a hive of Yellow Jackets would be an experience one would not be likely to forget. Even though you are welcomed in this friendly intrusion, we trust that it shall also prove to be a worthy and a lasting memory. NI US I'H't ( M ,y V N