Abington High School - Abhis Yearbook (Abington, MA)

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THE. ABHIS 21 SCHOOL DAY TRIBULATIONS School! Boy, do I hate that word! I can never get a night's sleep anymore. After watching T. V. 'till midnight, I stagger into my room, banging my shins, tripping over the footstool, and breaking a lamp. Climbing into bed with my clothes on, I am no sooner asleep than I am shaken awake. There, beside my bed stands a gorilla. Yelling, I duck under covers. Upon peeking out, I see that is only my father. My eyes have deceived me again. Wadda want? I ask disgustedly. Get out of bed and get those clothes off! he roars. O'kay, O'kay, I yell. I'm not deaf. Sometimes I wonder, he says under his breath. Finally I flop into bed for the last time and doze off to sleep. The next morning I awoke to the cheerful voice of my mother quoting an old saying, Rise and shine. Falling out of bed, I stagger to the kitchen where my mother tells me I have fifteen minutes to get to school. I'm off like a shot. Rounding a corner close to sixty miles an hour, whom should I meet but my dear little brother. There is a loud crunch. As I pick myself up off the floor I reply, Boy! Has that kid got a hard head! I get dressed and arrive at school just as the bell rings. During the first two periods I manage to keep myself awake with a struggle. Suddenly I get a brilliant idea and put a package of gum into my mouth and start chewing away. just then the teacher catches sight of my mov- ing jaws and yells, Hey you, take -an hour detention. Of course I can't be impolite, so I answer, Thanks, After a little while longer my gum is good and sticky, so taking it out, I stick it on my eyelids to aid in keeping myself awake. After getting three more detentions I end my school day and trot down to detention. After that ordeal is over I thumb a ride home and start all over again. GEORGE FARQUHAR, '55 GETTING INTO ACTIVITIES I think joining activities is very good for a pupil. It helps everyone all round to know one another. It teaches us to get along with our enemies as well as our friends. Belonging to activities helps the shy ones, by drawing them into a group of other young people. It teaches them leadership and helps them to forget to be self-conscious when speak- ing before a group. Being members of various activities teaches the popular pupils to help the shy ones who are slow at standing up and speaking to a group, but who otherwise, probably have just as good ideas as the popular ones. All in all, I think activities are a very nice thing as long as they don't run away with the pupils. ADELAIDE SPENARD, '55 WHAT DOES AMERICA MEAN TO Us? America, the land of opportunity! As chil- dren we take advantage of the freedom we have. How would you like to spend one week behind the Iron Curtain? I am sure you would be glad to come back home and that after returning you would give the oppor- tunities offered here more thought. As citizens of this great country we have the right to vote and to go to Boston or Brockton without first getting a card signed by the Chief of Police in our town. Editors say what they believe about the rackets in the United States and fight with the Police Department. I am sure if the people in the Iron Curtain could vote freely there would be peace in the world. Stalin wants all of Europe anti then the United States and then all the other coun- tries. He isn't getting enough power. Caesar, Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler all tried to conquer the world. No one will ever rule the world but the one who made it and that is God. The Stalius and Hitlers and other big time operators will never get enough power to suit them. The communists tried to take over Korea in a sudden attack, but when American troops with spirit and the thought of freedom for all fought and died for our country we knew that they were heroes in the eyes of all Americans. If we take advantage of school and freedom and the right to vote we can stop Stalin and his communist friends. Instead of fooling in school we should study and go on to college and make something of ourselves so that people will look up and follow us. Don't let anyone tell you whom to vote for. You have a mind of your own. IfVhy don't you use it? LEO DoNovAN, '55

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THE ABHIS A FORMULA FOR FOOTBALL I wonder il' you fans ever lend a thought To the endless effort and training that brought An ultimate victory to close the season. lf you have not please listen, for here is the reason. The fact, usually lost, amidst the tumult, Is that you miss the work and see, only, the result, The result of experience, plus youth and Ere, Times courage and staminag divide the entire Equation by pride and subtract the mistakes. The difference, my friends, equals all that it takes. The hardest part isn't a savage block Or vicious tackle, blow, or hard knock. Mlhat really spills you ofl your feet Is the withering brand that spells defeat. For, while muscle or brains play an important ' part, Defeat in anything takes its share of heart. Rickman DEVLIN, '52

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THE ABI-IIS COMMERCIAL SPONSORS Menard, jeweler, VVhitman Duval's George H. Tower, Inc. Sanderson Brothers Lynch's Floyd's Hot Dog Stand john XM Coleman F. G. Hale and Sons Carroll Cut Rate, Rockland Bay State Ice Cream Co. Old Town Fish Market Kal's Variety Regal Bowling Alleys M. F. Thayer, Dry Goods Skyway Motors, Inc. Slattery Insurance Agency Skehan's Esso Station john Matheson, Inc. Home Town Cleaners Bickford's Bush's Market Frank's Pastry Shoppe, YVhitman Whit-Bell jewelers, lfVhitman john and Ed Franey Dorothy Ann Specialty Shop Stoddard Oil Service jeanne's Fish and Chips Bemis Drug Co., Inc. Sealtest Ice Cream Damon's Owen's News Leo DeCota Tomniy's Shoe Repair Shop The Golden Slipper Abington Hardware Abington Fruit Company A. C. Freeman, Inc. Five Forty-Four North Abington Public Market E. j. Rourke Coal and Oil Co. Pulver's Taxi - Rockland l9l6 Rockland Hardware and Paint NVee and Teens, Rockland Ann and Gerry Beauty Salon Ferber's, Rockland Allison Beauty Shop Edwin H. Hall, Bernat Yarns Rosen Furniture Company, X'Vh Little New Yorker johnny's Barber Shop XViner's Hardware Store Tanner Brothers George D. Wheatley, Inc. H. Tetreault, jewelers Karl Crook Motor Company Sallyis Dress Shop Reed Lumber and Coal Compa Sunnytield Farms Abington YfVayside Furniture D'.'xlTlHl0yS Market itman nv I Abington Textile Machinery Works PRIVATE SPONSORS Mr. and Mrs. XfVilliam j. Hickey Mr. and Mrs. George E. Goody jennie Mackiewiz Mrs. Louise Reardon Elaine lvelch