The group who showed up at the Fayetteville Hilton for the 20th anniversary reunion.
Tag: Harold Hutton
Grade 4, Washington Elementary
Mrs. Phelps’ fourth-grade class during the 1967-68 school year at Washington Elementary.
Front row, from left: Emmitte Watson, Stephan Trachant, Sam Featherston, and Michael Jackson.
Second row: Genie Gunn, Kathy Bell, Ada Atha, Michael Vanderlip, Jennifer Jacks, Jackie Audrain, and Selina DeForest.
Third row: Jerry Gilbow, Becky Riggs, Harold Hutton, Melissa Upchurch, Nikki Kirkton, Debbie Drake, Mark Bassett, Randy Schmidt, and Mrs. Phelps.
Fourth row: Billy Cunningham, Regina Smith, Barbara Lacey, Michael Buchanan, Kathy Wagnon, Eddie Logue, Chris Reynolds, and Matt Holtzen.
Courtesy of Becky Riggs
Poetry in the Schools
During the 1975-76 school year, university students in the creative writing program at the University of Arkansas taught elementary and secondary students across the state about poetry and various approaches to writing poems. The outreach program was known at Poetry in the Schools, or PITS for short.
From the writing, several poems from each school were chosen for publication, including more than a dozen written by seniors in the Class of 76. The attached PDF only contains the forward, introduction and poetry from FHS and the PitStop School in Fayetteville.
Today, the program is known as Writers in the Schools, or WITS, and continues to foster creative writing in schools across the state.
Awards and Scholarships, 1976
Along with the Fayetteville High School honors and scholarships listed, we included the Livestock Report, illustrating the difference between Fayetteville and Springdale in terms of what the Northwest Arkansas Times deemed worth reporting.
Hess to Jones
Clicking on a classmate’s senior portrait should take you to any other posts that include a mention of them.
Fayetteville Class of 76 