In addition to including a rare James Dean autograph this year book is valuable for the insight it gives into the teenager James Dean's life at Fairmount High School, Indiana. He is revealed as being an active participant in numerous sporting and dramatic events. His acting abilities were already obvious causing him to be President of the Thespian Society and to be State Contest Winner of the Dramatic Declamation with a reading from Charles Dickens entitled Madman. Dean was also an important member of the school Basketball team and in a section headed Footsteps on the Sands of Time Dean has been credited for stating his most memorable trait as being My short temper...