Mount Desert High School - Skipper Yearbook (Northeast Harbor, ME)

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LEFT TO RIGHT: Miriam Hews, Jay Scribner, Miss Suzanne Wood, Patricia Jordan, jane Brown, Lester Smallidge, and Helen Cameron. Sllllll l lIBRAHY AUXHIARY The Northeast Harbor Library, in cooperation with the High School, sponsored for the second year, a story telling program for the grade school children of Mt. Desert. The program is conducted entirely by the Student Library Auxiliary and serves some one hundred and fifteen grammar school children. The student storytellers perform an educational service which is recognized and appre- ciated by the school, the library, and the community. In two years these high school students have created in the youngsters, much interest in good stories, good literature, and the enjoyment of reading good books. FRED J. BREWER Sz SON, INC. General Electric Dealer ELITE DRY CLEANERS 26 Cottage Street and Bar Harbor, Maine Bar Harbor Cleaners 42

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J DRIVER IHAININII .X X.. M . gt' H Driver education has been in our curriculum for three years as an elective. It is a combination of road practice and classroom instruction, although the latter is limited because of the time allotted in the school program. It is taught during the activity period, five days a week, giving the twelve students enrolled each semester about fifteen minutes of behind-the-wheel driving. These students have the privilege of trying for a license at the conclusion of the course. Parents must remember that these students are not expert drivers when they finish the course, but they have received instructions leading to the development of proper driving habits and attitudes. When they leave the school car for the family car, they are, in most cases, going to an unfamiliar vehicle. Therefore, they need additional guidance and patience. There should be no night driving until more experience is attained. Most of us, after 100, O00 miles behind the wheel, are not experts. Please don't expect these students to be experts after eighty hours of practice. If we are not turning out experts, then why have the course? our critics ask. Any progress to cut down our accident rate in our 15, Z5 year old groups is worthwhile. The State of Maine records show that less than three-tenths of 1 per cent of all the students trained have been involved in any accident. Even with this record our insurance rates continue to rise. As long as our law allows fifteen year olds to drive, we must do all we can to save their lives and protect our property. The cost of the course is comparatively small. The cost per student will average about S5. A new Ford V-8 is furnished each year by the Morang-Robin- son Co. of Bar Harbor and the general care of the car is given by Manchester Bros. of Northeast Harbor at no extra cost. The facilities of the two establish- ments are available at all times. The course is sponsored by the American Automobile Association with an A.A.A. trained instructor. Compliments of A.E. LAWRENCE THE WARDS INC. Contractors Dry Goods 8: Ready to wear Bar harbor, Maine 41 Bar Harbor, Maine

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EIBHTH GR DE PlAY CAST- BE HDMI BY MID IGHTN FRONT ROW, LEFT-RIGHT: Barbara Bagley, Miss Drummond, Mildred Jeffers. BACK ROW, LEFT-RIGHT: John Grant, Winston Stanley, Crosby Fernald. SEVE IH BH HE PlAY C SI- HIAKE A lUOK AT JUHNNYH FRONT ROW, LEFT-RIGHT: Nancy Freeman, Judy Ellis, Prudence Haskell, Mary Ann Savage. BACK ROW, LEFT RIGHT: Frank Walls, Stephen Coffin, Mr. Snow, Trevett Hooper, Helen Wood.