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

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6 FLAMSTEAD CHALLENGE EDITCDRIALS A SENSE OF HUMOR Phyllis Whitcomb What is a friendlier sound than a good hearty chuckle? Everyone likes to laugh. This is proven by the popularity of comic books and cartoons, which mom and pop enjoy also. i A sense of humor is a sort of shock absorber. That is why people like to joke about things like high prices and scarce commodities. It is being able to laugh that makes lifeis unbearable moments bearable. We feel much better if we can laugh off an embarrassing mistake and forget about it. If we just have to say that ourbest girl friend's hairdo looks like a hurricane hit her, or that Joe's new tie looked like someone spilled the paint can, we can relieve ourselves and still no one's feelings are hurt if we say it in a joking way. A Having a sense of humor doesn't mean that we go around making wisecracks, ringing door bells, and, playing practical jokes 365 days a year. Having a sense of humor isn't just laughing our way through life. A person who can smile when he feels 'blue and can look on the brighter side of life is the possessor of a true sense of humor. He is the fellow who is liked by everyone because he is cheerful and understanding. V Remember, Laugh and the world laughs with youg cry. and you cry alone. Keep a smile on your face, don't let life get you down. THIS IS IT Lois Mansur What are the greatest moments in history, in people's lives, in our very own? We think of George Washington on his inauguration to the presidency. Perhaps he sensed something beating within him, This is it, this is the beginning of American government. It is improbable that George had such an experience, but his career did launch the ship of state. It is less probable that the primitive man knew of evolution or art, yet he would have been happy to know that his scratchings on the cave were the first record of 'human thought and expression. - ' '

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KDEDI CA TI ON to 020' TARENTS For their untiring interest in our welfare, for their counsel and assistance down through the years, for their patience, sacri- tice, and love, and for their steadying in- fluence in our lives, we, the class of 1949 of Chester High School, dedicate with loving devotion this volume of our yearbook.

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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