1974 Forsyth High School DOGIE

2014 ForewordOne of my favorite parts of high school was being part of the Journalism class.The class not only published the annual yearbook, but was also responsible for theschool newspaper (also called the “Dogie”) and all the programs for sportingevents.

The editors for the ’74 Dogie yearbook were Jodi Samuelson and Mark Peterson.Other staffers that year were Dori Truscott, Terry Mitchell, Linda Clark, SusanGoyette, Jane Meredith, Dawn Nansel, Marvin Quinlan, Karlene Heberle andmyself.

Karlene and I were the editors of the paper that year.

High school students of today would probably find the process we used in creatingthese pages hilariously archaic. But, we were innovators even then: To my knowl-edge, the 1974 Dogie was the first FHS annual to feature color pages. This was ahuge “leap forward” at the time. It was expensive to have the color pages (twopages of full color, and six other pages with single color backgrounds) but wethought it would be worth it.

These pages are presented just as they were in 1974, with a few small fixes. Acouple of typos were repaired, and the contrast and color balance were adjusted.Due to a mistake during developing, the picture of Mrs. Nola Rolston on thededication page was reversed in the original book, so that the numbers on theblackboard behind her were backwards; it has been flipped around to the correctposition for this electronic edition.

One thing that’s worth noting: Of all the high school’s teaching and administrativestaff (including the school board) from 1974, there is only one die-hard individualwho still calls Forsyth home: Ed Goyette. He’s now retired, and despite a generalgraying of his hair color, he looks just about the same today as his picture in thisannual. He still attends all of the Dogies’ local sporting events.

Last but not least, a mention must be made of our long-suffering advisor, CharlesR. Sweeney. He was in Forsyth a couple of years ago and stopped by for a visit.He said he enjoyed his years of teaching in Forsyth and had always sort of wishedhe’d never left here. I expect there are a few “old Dogies” around who feel thesame way.

Enjoy!

Mike BlakesleyClass of 1974 Journalism Staff

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