Morenci High School - Copper Cat Yearbook (Morenci, AZ)

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POR I RATI of JosephH. Fairbanks, whowas superintendent of Morenci Schools from 1939-1961), is displayed at the first open house. The picture was painted by Mr. Roland Olney, a local artist. Arrival of Spring Summons Restless Feelings, Encourages Relaxed 18 Inability to concentrate, yearning for a broken-in pair of cut-offs and a sweatshirt, and making eyes” at an attractive classmate are often characteristic of an ailment we welcome and our teachers despair..........................Spring Fever. Articulate orators vied for first place, and the AFS committee traveled to Globe for a foreign exchange program. Tracksters hustled up and down the winding roads dreaming of the first track meet, while baseball enthusiasts crossed their fingers each time the team was cut. Frantically memorizing lines, the junior play cast performed before a complete set of new flats. The Copper Cat was finished, and a relieved staff caught up on Saturday sleep. GET THAT SNAKE out of the house!” storms Father Montoya at nuscltievious son G. Rains, during play.

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Complicate Life for All February’s gray days again brought a frenzy of activity. laughter and solemnity intermingled as initiates were admitted to both Spanish Club and National 1 lonor Society. Confident students competed for oratorical honors, and light-footed tracksters prepared for their first meets. Long-awaited class rings arrived giving juniors their full-fledged upperclass standing. New fashions on campus turned male heads when female students appeared in shorter skirts, go-go boots, and total looks”. Scraping together extra change, we purchased slaves on auction day to clean our lockers, haul hooks to classes, and in some instances serve as escorts for the evening’s dates. An appreciative audience, we enjoyed the pause from classroom routine provided by National Assemblies. SWINGING SAM, the Slave-Driving Man. Auctioneer Sam King encourages students to increase their bids.

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A HIDDEN CAMERA CATCHES junior biologists,John Aker and Alan In tultin. deeply absorbed in interesting film. Study Habits DANCER P. Chavez gy rates wildly duringpep assem- bly Iy ‘ft PROCLAIMING a short-livedJad. R. Sar- tin sports baltl” head. Below NERVOl Syoung ac- tresses try out for parts in The Mouse That Roared. ”