Quick Facts State:  OH City:  Kettering Name:  Fairmont East High School Nickname:  Falcons Color1:  Columbia Blue Color2:  Red School District:  Kettering City School District County:  Montgomery Year Opened:  1963 Year Closed:  1983

Fairmont East High School Cafeteria

As the wave of baby-boomers swept through Kettering, OH, Fairmont High School was overflowing its capacity. In 1963, Fairmont East High School was opened and Fairmont High School became Fairmont West High School. For 20 years, there was a good-natured cross-town rivalry between the Fairmont East Falcons and the Fairmont West Dragons. By 1983, the tidal wave was subsiding and the schools were rejoined on the West campus as the Kettering Fairmont Firebirds. When the high school moved out, the Fairmont East High School buildings became Kettering Junior High School and is now called Kettering Middle School. (Interesting note: The Junior/Middle school was originally the Falcons, that was changed to the Wildcats, then, in 2005, they changed again to the Firebirds.)

As a going away gift, the Fairmont East girl's softball team won the Ohio state championship in 1982. The Falcons other two state championships came in Men's gymnastics. In 1964, Tom Sexton won 1st place on the parallel bars at the Ohio State Gymnastics Championship Meet. That was a warm-up for his 1965 performance where he won the All-Around trophy and led the Falcon gymnasts to their first team state title. Tom went on to the University of Oklahoma where he earned All-American honors, then returned to Fairmont East as the gymnastics coach and led them to their second title in 1971.

Falcons Fight Song On Falcons, Victory Win for the red and the blue Always fight and never yield We will drive on through Fight! Fight! Fight! May we forever be Known for spirit true As we raise to the sky Shouts of our battle cry For Fairmont East!

Listen to the Alumni Band play the Fight Song

Remember Eastern Echoes, the Fairmont East student newspaper? Click the sample on the right to view the entire issue from June 4, 1965, which honored the first graduating class from 1965.

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