Hallowell High School - Venture Yearbook (Hallowell, ME)

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22 The VENTURE two managed to get off duty for a while, so that we could talk. Both girls had taken their training course at that same institution, and after graduation had stayed on. Now Veronica was superintendent, and Yvonne head nurse. We told them all the class news we had gleaned from different sources, and were still talking when the boys came along with the car fixed. We started back to Boston, feeling that the world was but a small place, after all: Though far and wide we roam All,.at last come home. All paths, however, wide apart, Lead through the busy mart, Then one and all unite, To pass beyond our sight. Virginia Hescock, '27, ADDRESS TON UNDERGRADUATES Undergraduates of Hallowell High: To me has been given the honor of representing the class of 1927 in their final words of advice to you, advice of which we know you stand surely in need. During our high school career, we have always en- deavored to uphold the standards of the school, and, whenever possible, to better them. Accordingly, we ex- pect you to keep these standards at the same high level at which we have maintained them. Never let any dis- honor stain the name of Hallowell High. Respect and obey the laws of the school. Laws, Cicero said, Hwerelformed for the welfare of citizens, and the security of states. And what is true of the citizens of a state is equally true of the citizens of that smaller commonwealth, the school. ,When we obey the school laws We learn to rule ourselves and prepare ourselves to be useful citi- zens of state and nation. Freshmen: To you who 'have just completed your first year's work, we extend our hearty congratulations, and with them a word of warning. Some of you may have found your first year rather difficult, but do not think of giving up now. Come back next year, Work harder than before g enter into all school activities, academic, athletic, and social, that you may get as much as possible from your three remaining years. Above all, do not forget to look up to the upper class- men and profit by the example they set. Sophomores : You are now at the turning point of your course. Half your work is behind youg only two short years remain. Do not rest on the laurels you have already won and feel that you may idle through these two precious years. Remember that suc- cess comes only through effortg real- ize the truth of 1927's splendid motto, Labor conquers all. Keep the goal always in sight and play the game. Then, some bright June day, you, too, will sit upon this very platform and will receive that diploma which is the sign and seal of all you have worked for. Take a still more active part in school affairs next year, for in that Way you will be preparing yourselves for duties of Senior year. Juniors: Remember that to you we are leav- ing our most valuable heritage, the leadership of Hallowell High. The class of 1927, whose representative I am today, has led the school the past year in fact as well as in name. Whether the task was the practical one of raising money at Hokey Pokey, lunch counter or ticket selling, or the more literary one of editing and contributing to the Venture, starring in the school dramatics, on the football field or heading the honor list in academic subjects, the seniors have been first. Dirigo might well have been our motto, make it yours.

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The VENTURE 21 classmates might be found and what they were doing. Reginald Trask, after a long hard struggle, had made the Braves' baseball team. College and long training had added to his high school skill, so that he was a valuable member of that famous organization. Margaret Turner had married a tall, good-looking young chap in the insurance business Qthey couldn't seem to remember his nameb. He was a successful young business man, and she a happy young matron. This was rather a surprise to me, as to some of the others, for Margaret, in her high school days, had never shown any inclination towards the opposite sex. Scott Treworgy was a minister, pastor of the First Congregational Church, Lewiston. After graduating from high school, he Went to Bates and then to Bangor Theological Semi- nary. From Bangor he returned to Lewiston, as assistant to the pastor of the First Congregational Church, and when the latter accepted a call to Portland, Scott was invited to take his place. He is very Well liked. Leonard said, and his people hope that he will remain with them in- definitely. Francis Wingate, had, I knew, en- tered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but where he had gone after he had taken his B. S. degree I had never heard. Leonard, how- ever, had had relatively recent in- formation concerning him. He had returned to Maine the previous fall, and with Eugene Arata, Clarence Payson, and a number of other form- er members of Hallowell High, had gone hunting. Leonard learned that Francis had specialized in civil engi- neering, and that the reason why we had heard so little of him was that he had been sent by a New York firm into Brazil to oversee the building of tracks and bridges for a new railroad there. He had been successful in this work, and had returned to America for a short vacation before undertaking another foreign con- struction job. He was now in Mexico. Harold Wiley, we found, was work- ing for the Maine Highway Commis- sion, driving a big truck. We all remembered how short he was, and wondered how he could drive. Leo- nard, with a perfectly straight face, had assured the boys, that his seat had been moved forward because he was too short to reach the clutch and brake. Harold was now a house- holder, with a good-sized family that would later attend Hallowell High. Helen Graves was still at the Worster, and was head Waitress. Her name was no longer Graves, however. Her husband, a travelling salesman, was on the road most of the time. Leonard described her two-year-old daughter as the cutest thing, and looking just like her mother. Joe Cronin was a tailor in Lewis- ton. He had learned the trade from his brothers, but had struck out for himself and had been very success- ful. Leonard told the boys that he was still just the same old Pat of Hallowell High. Geo1'ge Greeley was an automobile salesman for the Marmon Company. We did not need to ask if he had been successful. George could sell any- thing to anybody, even back in high school days. Think of the tickets he used to dispose of! We were talking over all these old friends of school days, when sud- denly something in the car's steering gear gave way, and we shot into the ditch, the car overturning and spill- ing us out. We were all pretty well shaken up, but no one was really hurt except Dorothy, who received some cuts from a broken window. We hailed a passing car and took her to the nearest hospital. The nurse who assisted the doctor in patching her up proved to be Yvonne Beaudoin. She told us that Veronica Burns was in the same hospital. The

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The VENTURE 23 We leave the honor of our beloved school, as well as the practical con- duct of its affairs, chiefly to you. Guard well the trust we leave. Work together, put aside personal consid- erations and desire for individual glory. In all things, put the school first. Hand on to 1929 our splendid example of loyalty. Undergraduates : Again we appeal to you. Support your school in every respect. Coop- erate with the faculty in their effort to keep the school in the forefront of progress. Do what you are asked to do, not grudgingly, but promptly, willingly and efficiently. Go out for athletics. Never mind if your chances of making the team are slight: you are helping the school perhaps as much as its star player, and without his reward of personal glory. Here, again, put aside all per- sonal considerations and work for the common good. In all things work to build up what those who went before you helped to create. If you make mistakes, profit by themg do not make the same mis- takes again. Study to obtain self- controlg he who lacks it, lacks one of life's best agencies, but he who pos- sesses it heads one of the keys to success. Play the game, be square, whether on the athletic field or in the class room. Lastly bear always in mind 1927's motto, Labor omnia vincit, Labor conquers all. Stephenson. THE QUESTION Surrounded by numerous pieces of chemical apparatus, a man attired in a fiowing black robe, gazes at the seething contents of a test tube just withdrawn from the flames of a small furnace, noting carefully the changes as the substance cools. The reddish glowufrom the open door of the furnace, playing upon his sallow features, discloses as many changes there as in the contents of the tube. Now his face in the flickering light looks dull and weary, again it glows with an almost hideous expression of savage joy, as his dreams seem about to be realized. At last, after years of hardship, uncomplainingly endured, after experiment upon ex- perimentg test upon test, made under the most disheartening conditions, he has achieved the well-nigh impos- sible. There is gold-ever so little it is true, but real gold-in the tube. See! See the dull, yellowish gleam! One final test of that precious sub- stance and then- Suddenly, he stoops, gazes intent- ly for some minutes at the metal he holds. His eyes must deceive him! There can't be any further change there, and yet, slowly, very slowly, a new tint is replacing the old. The tube slips from his nerveless fingers, and the man sinks into a chair, im- mobile except for the long white fingers creeping so slowly through his unkempt hair. He is a pathetic figure of disappointment! Failure again, when success seemed so cer- tain! It would not be hard to picture the radiant joy that man would have felt could he only have known the aid his failure was destined to be to mankind in the future years. So it has always been and will always be in the history of the world, the fu- ture rests upon the past. It has taken uncounted thousands of years to build the foundation for the huge, intricate structure of modern civili- zation. There is, therefore, little to wonder at that we of the twentieth century are able to make marvelous discoveries in the field of science. Whereas, in the nast, a man, work- ing alone, under diflicult conditions, attained some unlocked-for result, more or less valuable, as the case might be: today. groups of scientists, specialists, in their particular line, concentrate on the effort to tear