Chester High School - Flamstead Challenge Yearbook (Chester, VT)

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8 FLAMSTEAD CHALLENGE are child labor, and crime and delinquency. However, the extent of this work in each state is governed by the laws of that state. What other career is a more worthy or humane one? What other group of workers think so much of the welfare of others and so little of their own? If you have patience and possess tact, a warm heart and a desire to serve others, why not choose social service work for a career? It's worth a thought! l MAKING DEMOCRACY W0'RK Jackie Stowell We Americans must work to preserve this precious thing called democracy. It isn't easy. It means that brave men must sacrifice their lives to pay the cost of freedom so that we here at home will never know tyranny, hunger, destruction, intolerance, and our children need never grow up in fear. Sometimes someone asks, Is the cost too high, the sacrifice too great? Are we deserving of the rewards? Do we really know what it would be like if we couldn't go to the church we wish, if there were no such thing as a town meeting where every one, regardless of his station in life, has the right to state his opinions, and to vote for whom and what he pleases, if we were persecuted and scorned just because we were of a different color or had different religious or political beliefs? We must prove that we are deserving of the freedom that was bought for us, by being tolerant. Our country will remain what it is only as long as we live together, not as Italians, Jews, Negroes, Protestants, and Catholics, but as Americans. We here at home are all too apt to forget that the sons and husbands and brothers of those we persecute fought and died alongside of our own loved ones. For the boys who crouched shoulder to shoulder in fox-holes asked no questions about any man's color or beliefs. Remember this-the same degree of opportunity can come to you only if you help to keep this wonderful land of ours a free and open field where anybody can get ahead and prosper, and where nobody will lose his business or his loved ones because of his race, creed or color. This is making a democracy work.

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FLAMSTEAD CHALLENGE '1 - But it is not the point to elaborate by examplesa-we can think of many. In our own present-day living, weiface decisions -and icorhe to conclusions that may affect our whole lifepattern. We must surely think now of the time when we are to meet' crises, whena great opportunity is to come our way. 'We can learn to make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. It is now when we realize our ambitions and desires, when we make the most of the chance of a lifetime, or decide what we want most to do for ourselves and our posterity. For whatever we decide to do next year, next week, or even tomorrow, shapes our whole pattern for life. Better still, think of today--remem- ber that There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune, Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. ' On a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. ' - ' . e W. Shakespeare. SOCIAL SERVICE Judith Crossman Social Service is defined in the dictionary as the 'modern study of people and conditions looking toward the betterment of mankindf' in other words, the study of helping people to better themselves and their conditions. The places where this work is carried on are called social settlements. Social work originated in England in the first half of the 19th century. The idea spread gradually to theother countries of Europe and then to America. In the United States, the Neighborhood Guild of New York was the first social settlement, although the Hull House founded in Chicago by Jane Addams is probably the most famous. Now there are over one hundred such places in this country. If you are interested in this kind of work, there are many fields from which to choose. Social service work deals with relations between employers and em- ployees, hours of work, wages, child labor, tax reform, housing, temperance, charity, education, marriage and divorce, defective and delinquent children and the like. Much of the work done 'by a social worker has to do with children. There are dependent children to be provided for, children to be placed for adoption, mentally defective children to be placed in the proper institutions, and medical aid to be given to the physically defective children. Two other great problems

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FLAMSTEAD CHALLENGE 9 ' MARY ELLEN BENTLEY, Ben Whenever you hear a dash through the hall, Mary is usually the cause of it all. , Place of Birth: Andover, Vermont. Date of Birth: March 6, 1931. School Last Attended: Peaseville Graded. Course: Commercial. Activities: Glee Club 125, 1355 Minstrel Show 125, 1355 Silver C 1355 Perfect Attendance 125, 135, 1455 Associate Editor of Challenge 1355 News Editor of Chatter 1355 Managing Editor of Challenge 1455 Editor-in-Chief of Chatter 1455 Girl's State 135: Senior Play 1455 Prize Speaking 125, 135, 145: Class Secretary 125, 135: VA Typist 1455 Town Oflicer 1455 Curtis Campaign 1355 Valedictorian 1 1455 Librarian 125, 135: Gold C 145. Future Intention: Secretary. CARL BROOKS He is truly great that is little in himself, And maketh no account of any height of honors. Place of Birth: Jamaica, Vermont. Date of Birth: July 19, 1931. School Last Attended: Chester Graded. Course: General. Activities: Glee Club 115, 1255 Band 135, 1455 Baseball 125, 135, 1455 Class Treasurer 125, 135, 1455 Chester Chatter 1455 Flamstead Challenge Staff 145: Senior Play 145: Boys' State 1355 All-State Band 1455 Basketball Manager 1455 Operetta 1155 Curtis Team Captain 1355 New England Music Festival 1355 Vermont Music Festival 135, 1455 Band Treasurer 1455 Town Oflicer 135. Future Intention: College. l .- EVERETT M. CROSSMAN, Crossy Crossy had a little car, It used to balk and stutter, And when it acted up that way, You should have heard him sputter. Place of Birth: Londonderry, Vermont. Date of Birth: October 27, 1931. School Last Attended: Thompsonburg Graded. Course: Vocational. Activities: Senior Play 1455 Glee Club 1455 F. F. A. 115, 125, 135, 1455 F. F. A. Officer 1455 Ski Team 135. Future Intentions: Navy. MARILYN ANNE FARMER She's the roller skatin' gal, Who every Saturday sees her pal. 1From Walpole, we believe.5 Place of Birth: Windsor, Vermont. Date of Birth: October 1, 1931. School Last Attended: Chester Graded. Course: General. Activities: Glee Club 115, 125, 135, 1455 Operetta 1155 Min- strel Show 125, 1355 Band 1455 Junior Orchestra 1455 Cheer- leader 1255 Basketball 135, 145. Future Intention: Undecided. 5