Graduating Body of Local “Hi” School Given Terms by Fulton for Declaring Study “Ditch” Day
May 20, 1931
Entire Senior Class, With Exception of One Member Ignore One of School’s Most Stringent Rules
Senior Ball Prohibited
All Violators Sign Principal’s Terms After Being Refused Admittance to Classrooms Thursday
Every member of the graduating class of the Lassen Union high school, with the exception of William Ferrari, was blacklisted to a degree yesterday morning by principal R. M. Fulton, for declaring on their own volition, a half-hold-day Wednesday afternoon.
This is in violation of one of the school’s most stringent disciplinary regulations and is popularly know as “ditch” day. A day when studies are “ditched” in recognition of the privileges which, in the student mind, are due them in their last few weeks of the school term.
Fulton presented the guilty ones with his truce terms after they appeared at their classrooms yesterday morning and were refused admittance. They are asked in the terms to make up ten hours additional study before the end of the semester and will not be given the privilege of holding their annual “Senior Ball,” among many other things.
The students all signed their names to the terms, but stated that they would have their annual “hop” as a private party without the sanction of the principal and faculty.
