Fieldale High School - Fieldcrest Yearbook (Fieldale, VA)

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WITH FALL COMES BLOODMOBILE AND TESTS The senior class of Fieldale High School sponsored the bloodmobile. Our students com- bined their efforts with Fieldcrest Mill's in an attempt to serve the County by obtaining blood donors from the s u r r o undi ng communities. 'Several of our own students, who were already eighte e n years of age, gave blood. We were very proud that We exc e e de d our quota. The blood was supplied to the blood bank of the Roanoke District. In late September, Fieldale students took three tests: Schools and Colleges .Aptitude Test KSCATD, Sequential Test of Educational Progress CSTEPJ, and the Differential Aptitude Test QDATJ. The members of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh grades took the SCAT and STEP, and the eighth graders, the DAT. SCAT tests measure a p e r s on' s ability to solve p r o ble m s of a mathematical nature, to give m e ani n g s of Words, and to understand Our community physician, Dr. G. W. Curwen, gives Frank Bossart his okay before Frank donates his pint of blood. sentences. The STEP tests include math, science, social studies, reading, listening, and writing. These tests measure how well a person is able to use what he has learned and not what he remembers. DAT includes verbal r e a s o ni n g , abstract reasoning, language including spelling and sen- tences, clerical speed and accuracy, mechani- cal reasoning, and space relations. Concentrating to make their best scores, Wayne Lackey, Eric Tipton, Earnest Edwards, Ralph Tur ne r , and Larry Sharpe struggle th r 0 u gh the SCAT test. 97

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'FEATURES OF YEAR AREtWELL-REMEMBERED EVENTS From the beginning of school, one event after another burst upon us in rapid sequence. The events not only included working and learning together, as pictured on the preceding pages, but 'laughing and playing together. We have recorded in this section outstanding events of the year. It was felt that recognition for achievement should be given to whom it was due. Fieldale High School certainly always has its just share of beauty, talent, personality, and scholarship. Therefore, the FIELDCREST inthis section has honored those who received awards, also. - No student knew who the recipients of these awards were until May, immediately before the Hi gh li gh t i n g the year was the long-awaited and festive junior-senior banquet and prom held at the Lynwood Club. With their backs to the camera are, left to right: Joy Smith and Iva Jarrett. Across the FIELDCREST was to be distributed. During the awards program, c 0 pi e s of the FIELDCREST were presented to these students first in order to further honor them for their accomplishments. As we finger through these pages, we may linger on one special page. For there we may live once more a happy moment of the by- gone year. Whether it was the v e ry f i r st opening assembly in the auditorium, the harvest festival, the beauty pageant, the banquet and prom, a- wards day, or the night of graduation, we re- member it all. It was ours--a time of enjoying life to the fullest, a time we never had before and shall never have again. table facing the camera are Janet Smith, Mary Ann Shires, Audie Turner, and Jeanette Setliff serving tea to Jean Plaster.

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HARVEST QUEEN AND POMPON GIRLS ARE Cl-IOSEN The Harvest Festival of Fieldale was the most colorful affair during the entire autumn season. The festival was sponsored by the P. T. A. and was held in the cafeteria. Members of the organization, the facultie s of the ele- mentary and high school, and the students all combined their efforts to provide entertainment for several hundred people. Various concessions were held including bake sales, cake walks, the country store, dancing, fishing, bingo, bobbing for apples, rummage sales, movies, and other games suitable for the occasion. The main feature of the eve ning was the crowning of B-Anne Merriman as Harvest Queen by the assistant principal, Mr. Eddie Rakes. B-Anne Merriman Harvest Queen, 1960 The high school band had an added att r a c t i o nof sixteen high-s t epping girls who led the band on all occasions. The director, Mr. Paul Z i m m e r m a n , chose as finalists those girls who had poise, marching ability, nice appearance, and an ability to get along with others. Best in the C ounty , our Pompon girls were, left to right: Lynda Hagood, Fran Dalton, Eug- enia Barnes, Barbara Wyatt, Connie Shelton, Mary Jane Lawless, Peggy Beheler, Pat Poindexter, Diane Gilbert, Sandra Turner, Judy Tilley, Connie Tilley, and Jenna Lou Compton. 98