Fox High School - Ha Ko Yearbook (Arnold, MO)

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Homecoming-joy, excitement, triumph, expectation. Homecoming is a wild weekendg it is, of course, a time of joy and heavenly exhileration, but it is more, too. Homecoming is a time of tension, and a time of feeling that beating Wellston on this one brilliant afternoon is more important than crisis, or flood, or drought. Homecoming is an axis on which the fall swings and the outcome of two hours often sets the remainder of autumn's mood. Homecoming is a period of relifeg it is the joy of first quarter's end and the sadness of football's end and the feeling that nothing should ever end. Homecoming is all the happiness and let down and fun and disappointment in all the lives of all the people anywhere. Homecoming is a release, an emotion. It's knowing that somewhere in the vastness of life are people in exact precision with all your being, an overwhelming number of people, and that in this one moment you stand warmly in the midst of all of them. And Homecoming starts like this: Friday night. On the chat by the new school was a mound of wood. Flitting in the dark, silhouettes, danced around it for hours. They darted and dipped. A scream of pure delight ripped from the throats of many as the leaping, running forms played crack-the -whip dangerously near the warm orange ribbons. A sizzle and odor of hot dogs and marsh- mallows rose as these roasted in the flames till the very last tired freshman turned to leave. Float judgings early the next morning gave triumphant glows to senior faces--At last, and in the most important year, the class of '64 created a winning float. Juniors who had boasted the surety of their win turned away, still muttering, OURS was better. Ours WAS better. Gurs was BETTER! And the tearing thrill of the game, the crunching teeth of mounting tension, movement in spurts, and then stillness on the field. The color of the crowd, the dust of the field choking throats, the roars and lulls in excitement. A close loss, heartbreaking, the 20-19 kind that they call a moral victory but which tears at your heart and brings funny lumps in your throat. In lace and the dimness of a silent sea-setting, r m Queen Cheryl Werner was crowned. The dance was less sad than might be imagined, for the Warriors HAD won a moral victory, and the joys of the sadnesses pass on. Traditional bonfire blazes high to create the mood for Homecoming. Cheryl Wemer, Mary Juhlin, and Linda Warren pose before the beginning of the parade. f 'QS An exciting moment in the Homecoming game. 54

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learning their lines for opening night . Then the day of the game dawns . Excitement, exhilaration, nervousness . The coach gives his pep talk, then leads the players with their gear on the bus . The Thunderbirds arrive, the cheerleaders, and the band . The buses start, then roll down the highway carrying their human cargo . The opposing school looms large through the bus windows . Pile out of the buses, run to the locker rooms, then out to the field for more of those eternal exercises . Now line up on the field. The kickoff! Fight, fight, fight! Forget everything except the game, the all-important game . Block the other team, gain yards, lose ground, make touchdowns . Use all your strength and strategy. The end of the game, won or lost, is a letdown . Relax for a few days, then back to the routine, for another game approaches . The drama begins . Tension mounts, skyrocketing as the game wears on . . . An all-important moment in the battle 53 l Now's the time to relax

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The seniors' winning entry in the float judging contest. Senior maid Linda Warren with retiring Que en Barbara Schmidt. ---Q.-.......,,,1, Spectators examine the junior float, A Whale of a Victory- Gaby Lauer, Jane Floats and class maids-all a part of the I963 Homecoming. Phillips, and Jedda Heinemann enjoy the parade. swf 55 i Sophomores present their float, Who Will Be Queen? ' The freshman float represents hours of planning and assembling.