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

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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

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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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10 FLAMSTEAD CHALLENGE BARBARA B. GATES When you see a pair It should make you think of Barbara Gates. Place of Birth: Springfield, Vermont. Date of Birth: September 24, 1931. School Last Attended: Chester Graded. Course: General. Activities: Cheerleading 127, 137: Home Ec. Club 127: Bas- ketball 147: Chatter Staff 147 Band 137, 147. Future Intention: Undecided. GORDON ERWIN GAYNON Cheerful at morn he wakes from his repose, Breathes the keen air and carols as he goes. Place of Birth: Schenectady, New York. Date of Birth: July 26, 1930. School Last Attended: Bellows Falls High. Course: General. Activities: Glee Club 147: F. F. A. 147. HELEN FERGUSON, FeI'gy Oh! blest with temper, Whose unclouded ray Can make tomorrow cheerful as today. Place of Birth: Springfield, Massachusetts. Date of Birth: February 17, 1931. School Last Attended: Windham Graded. Activities: Glee Club 117, 127, 137, 147: Operetta 117: Min- strel Show 127 137: Flamstead Challenge Staff 147: Chatter Staff 147: VA Typist 147: Prophecy on the Prophet 147: Senior Play 147: Librarian 127, 137. Future Intention: Secretary. of roller skates, : Challenge Staff 147: Concert HAROLD ARTHUR GARDNER A soul of power, A well of lofty thought. Place of Birth: Springfield, Vermont. Date of Birth: June 13, 1930. School Last Attended: Chester Graded. Course: College Preparatory. Activities: Dramatics 117, 127, 137, 147: Chester Chatter Staff 147: Flamstead Challenge Staff 137, 147: Glee Club 117, 127, 137, 147: Operetta 117: Minstrel Show 127, 137: Senior Play 147: Class Vice President 117, 137: Silver C 127: Perfect Attendance 117, 127, 137: Seating Manager of Band 137, 147: Address to Undergraduates 147: Band 127, 137, 147: Orchestra 127, 137, 147: New England Music Fes- tival 137: Vermont Music Festival 137, 147: Gold C 147: Prize Speaking 127. Future Intention: Freed-Hardeman College, Henderson, Tennessee. Future Intention: Evangelism. X