1st Rd lost to Sidell 39-31

                            Sidell lost in 2nd Rd

                            Hume beat Allerton in title game

                 

1948-49               Sidell District Tournament                Season record & coach's name needed.

 

Mary M. (Howard) Ellis (FHS Class of 1941) provided this bit of information about the Fairmount High School yearbook:

 

"The FAIR-HI, the school's first yearbook, was published in 1940.  Eleanor Bjelland, our commercial teacher, was in charge.  Our commercial class typed the stencils, ran them on a mimeograph, and had a company in Danville add picture pages. The company then bound the books in purple leather with gold lettering."

 

In the photo above, Mary (Howard) Ellis is seated at the typewriter.  The information she provided was all accomplished without computers!

 

FUTURE FARMER'S OF AMERICA

HOME EC CLUB

GIRL'S GLEE CLUB

BOYS GLEE CLUB

PEP CLUB``  The idea of this club was to arouse school spirit by helping the cheerleaders at pep sessions with pep talks ... hoping to have a very active cheering section for basketball games.

There was a yearly "Gym Circus" as well.

 

 

The Following memories of Fairmount High School were offered by Arlene (Howard) Jaynes (FHS Class of 1949). Hope you enjoy this as much as I do.

 

"I remember the beautiful marble floors in the halls and staircase.....We had hardwood floors in the classroom.

There was a double staircase going upstairs....the boys had to use the one on the left and the girls the right one......We had to use the correct stairway or we would get into trouble..

There was no hot food program unless our Home Economics class made chili or soup and offered it to the students.  Some walked several blocks to Hucks Cafe or brought their lunch.  There were no pop machines, candy machines or anyplaces where we could get an extra goodie.

The seniors initiated the freshmen.  When I was a freshmen, the seniors blindfolded us, led us into the gym, had us step on a SHOCKING MACHINE for a second, and fed us "worms" which we later found out was spaghetti....This was scary, I thought.

Boys sports were important and had schedules.  Our girls basketball team only played a few games with other schools and could only play 1/2 COURT.  We felt that was a bummer.

The janitor for years was Pete Kizer and he did all the maintenance, all of the mowing, all of the cleaning and in the summer refinished the gymnasium floor and painted the classrooms..  I never saw him with a helper.

In the late thirties, FCHS only had two large cars to pick up the rural students. Later they bought a school bus.  I was one of the first to get on the bus in the AM and the last to get off after school.  I was on the bus about an hour each way.  The state made a ruling that a student could only ride a certain amount of time each day.  Then they bought the second bus.  Was I happy.

An alumni group is planning a reunion this summer for all the students who attended any Fairmount school....Plans are being formulated at this time."

 

Here's to hoping for a great turnout for the Fairmount High reunion...I hope you send us photos!!

 

 

Special thank you goes out to the Howard sisters, Mary M. Ellis and Arlene Jaynes, for their personal stories and researched contributions to this page.