Lincoln Academy - Lincolnian Yearbook (Newcastle, ME)

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THE LINCOLNIAN NEWCASTLE Ah yes Newcastle One of those little one hoss towns that you see tucked away ln the tall tlmber throughout Maine I say that we call lt one hoss that doesnt go for the tourists they call it qualnt Just the other day I saw a tourist of the New York specle He was dressed appro prlately iso he thoughtj for our rather ver satile climate beginning at h1s toes and extending to his rather skinny knees were a pair of rough cowhide boots my astonished eyes upon climbing stlll farth er encountered a pa1r of creamy r1d1ng breeches puffed out at the S1d9S a polished black leather belt at least four inches wide and a dazzllng red shirt topplng off this optlcal blast was a long black 5c clgar horn rimmed glasses and wonder of won ders a blue beretl' Truly a diamond a mong cut glass' Following this seemingly optlcal 11lus1on there came a half breed negro dressed in the full regalxa of a Sloux Indian chief on the warpath feathers beaded moccaslns Wampum belt and quiltwork were all to be seen in their prop er places In h1s arms he carrled an assort ment of small reed baskets which h probably bought from Sears Roebuck for S150 and would most certainly sell for S15 00 Although he was a half breed negro he would solemnly swear that his father his grandfather and his great grandfather were all great chiefs of the Sioux tribe Yes Newcastle IS a beautiful place Even now as I gaze from my window at the wonderful scenery fconslstlng mostly of gasollne storage tanks a gram elevator and the sprawled stock in trade of the Diamond Match Companyj I cannot but reflect upon the xntrlcacles of nature Even the old sway backed cow who dlnes off the luxurious grass 1n the field each day has beauty if you can see xt Of course the cow does have beauty the reason you cant see it IS because she doesnt have a staln less steel body grilled radlator and sealed beam headlights Occaslonally a new blt of scenery will appear ln our llttle hamlet and the Don nelly Advertlsmg C antlclpatlng the rush of plcmckers and always willing to be helpful w11l erect a most glgantlc pla card bearing the picture of a slim young thing who IS apparently provlng the good ness of Three Ring Beer or IS It El Ropo c1gars'7 At any rate they believe 1n that firm old adage Theres a sucker born every mlnute and two to catch him Yes Newcastle IS Vacatlonland w1th all 1ts much talked of trimmings The touristers are astounded at the absence of moose and bears roamlng through the streets They are an ,ized to find that more of them do not get shot by us pr1m1t1ve Mameiacs They are stunned by the fact that they cant catch whales 1n our lakes and astonished that we receive mail own cars go to school and have a Christ 1an religion And still next year they ll be back for more Yes and somet1mes even now as upon some cold winters morning I climb Stag Hull on the Summlt of which stands that noble institute of learnmg and feel the cold wlnd from Mosquito Valley and the W1ldS beyond upon my cheek I cannot but reflect There ll always be a New castle Worthen Lewis 42 AN EVENTFUL SUMMER Dear Johnny I was glad to receive your letter the other day I had asked several of the gang lf they knew where you were but no one seemed to know I can t 1mag1ne your sell ing Fuller Brushes but Ill bet youve done a good Job at It I was amused by some of your salesmanshlp speeches that you wrote me about Ive had a great summer I couldnt find work so I had a card prmted as follows FRANK ITOO fCollege Educatlonl Services I can render Terms w1ll write letters for you AppllC3t10US for appomtments S5 00 Love Letters 0 Discreet just to get acquainted letters with some warmth yet noncommlttal 3 00 Love Letters Fel vent 4 00 wxll listen sympathetlcally to those who desire to talk about d1S68S9S aches palns ln general and operations Per hour 200 , . . . . ' 1 - . . , ' ac 1 . . - , - ' - 11 - , 1 , . ' ' 1 It 1 yy Q . . . , .I - 11 , . . . . sa - - 93 1 1 - , ' . . . . . ' , . 1 1 ' , . . . . . . . . , 7 9 1 l , , 1 1 1 ' . , . . - , , - 0 1 1 , .. - ' 1 I . I - . 1 1 . I 1 1 . . , so 1 1 1 1 - 11 1 1 ' ' I y -- Q ' 1 - 1 . . . ' 1 , . , 1 . . . 1 - - , ' 1 1 1 , . . . . , . ' . y 9 1 0 I u 1 1 - ' 1 1 ' . , I . . . , . , , 1 1 ' ' ' ' 1 . . . - 1 . ' 4 ' . . . ' - , . I 1 1 1 . I ' ' 0-1 I 7 I . . ' Y 1 7 . . 1

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THE LINCOLNIAN pendent on each other for each had suc ceeded in findmg blgger and better mater 1als to supplant raw materials wh1ch were once consldered necessary It was one brlght and cheerful day 1n 1980 that I dropped 1n on Presldent Phll Parker of Intercontinental A1rl1nes in hlS huge office atop the great glass skvscrap ers of Damariscotta Even though the traf fic tourists flying to their summer homes was thlck no sound of motors penetrated the walls of the spacious ed1flce As I stood gazlng out over the distant hllls and fields wh1ch I had known so well 1n my youth the door behlnd me opened and out of h1s prlvate office stepped a tall sllghtly bald man whom even though I had not seen h1m for years I recognized to be Ph1l He 1nv1ted me 1nto his lnner office and asked me to be seated After talklng over old tlmes and recall mg to mlnd several thr1ll1ng experiences that we had shared 1n the 1nvas1on of Jap an QI suppose you all remember that it was Phil who gamed fame bv droppmg the first bomb on Tokyo and scorlng a dlrect hit on the M1k3dO s Sacred Palacel I suggested that we talk oy er the lmport ant bus1ness for .vh1ch I had come The purpose of my v1s1t was to interest Phll IH usmg the new methyl taulullne gas wh1ch I Wlth the a1d of my worthv HSSISI ant Dr W James Lewis had recently de veloped W1th th1s new gasol1ne your dally fllght from Round Top Field to Ber l1n could be made 1n two hours less time thus maklng it posslble to run two flights a day So ran my sales talk When the usually conservative Mr Parker seemed greatly excited oxer the future of my new product It was indeed a compllment The only fefflalfllllg step was to get the O K of the Federal Got ernment for as Intercontinental carried almost all European and AIFICHH mall the government s consent was needed Immed lately Phil snapped on h1s long range phonovlslon set and contacted the com pany s lobbylst 1n Wash1ngton Mr Griffin and told h1m to get a bill through Congress ratifying the sudden fuel change Several days later I recelved word from Washington that Mr Grlffin s b1ll had passed both branches of Congress and that the now famous scrawl of our President C Albee Page had Just been affixed F1nally it might be here mentloned that w1th the help of th1s new super methyl tauluhne Professor Robert C Bryant of M I T safely made the first V1Slt to our satehte the moon Not1ce the characters 1n th1s story are not purely colncidental and therefore the l1kel1hood of thelr not referring to persons l1v1ng or dead IS greatly 1mprobable Parker Gray 42 GETTING FUN OUT OF LIFE Due to the wave of pessxmlsm this com position to some people may seem out of place others yet will welcome and ac knowledge its thought Concentratmg on our national and 1n ternatlonal troubles We have taken on a great mental burden wh1ch IS added to our personal troubles There IS llttle room left 1n the mlnd to thlnk of the wonderful Joys of life One prefers to look at the headhnes of h1s newspaper rather than at the first robln wh1ch has appeared on the lawn One prefers to l1sten to a news broadcast rather than to the chlrplng of the spring blrds One cannot dwell on his troubles for they are too petty ln con people outslde our land Then must lt be that we must forget the beauty of our natural envlronment that we must keep our mlnds open to nothing but war news and that spring summer and fall must pass wlthout havlng 1nsp1r ed the least of us I denounce It as a waste of good l1v1ng' Open your 1mag1nat1ons to v1sual1ze a st1ll blue r1ver IH the early morning It IS surrounded by rocky shores wh1ch are guarded by tall green pine trees R1s1ng in the blue sky IS a big yellow sun wh1ch IS drying the morn1ng dew How much bet ter this thought IS than a bloody battlefield llttered w1th the corpses of mangled men who are al1ke under the eyes of God but are deadly enemles ln the estlmatlon of nations and their peoples We must re member the pr1nc1ples of oppos1t1on which are to msure the freedom of the in d1v1dual Cast off ev1l and sorrow as quick ly as It comes to you Dlscover beauty in everythmg and I beheve you have dis covered the way to perpetual happiness Cleveland Page 42 21 r I ' , ' . . . . - , I I . ' , I - ', 7 . I . v I . . , . - ., . I Q ' , 1 . 9 a ' , - I - . I . . 7 . . . , ' ' ' D . ' - G A ' ' . , I I -I ' - . . . trast with the grlefs of the oppressed v Q -I - I ' L , - - . I v . . ' I 'I . - I . l ., . . , , , . , U - . V- 1 I , b 3 7 . l . . . D . . , . . ,, . . 2 - . 9 ' ' ' ' . . ' . . - 7 ' 9 H , . , . . I I . . 1 - J 1 . - . , . , -

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THE LINCOLNIAN W1ll help vour chlldren with homework Per hour W111 correct and touch up the poem you wrlte 10 00 W111 outline speech for your club W111 coach you for that exam 0 W111 plan your VHCSIIOH tr1p W111 check up on your breath before you go out for the evenmg W111 suggest what you should wear 0 Well Im telllng you I had quite a sum mer I got more fun out of It than as lf I had loafed all summer I made over two hundred dollars I will tell you some of my amusing exeperxences A woman came 1nto my office the first week that I opened lt She wlshed me to wrlte a letter to her mother 1n law mak mg belleve that I was a frlend of the mother 1n law and tell her how silly she was to lnterfere w1th her sons and hls w1fes household Oh I wrote a very frlendly letter to mother 1n law but mother 1n law didnt budge I had my five dollars lus a ver sarcastlc letter from 50 P Y mother IH law telhng me to take care of my own HITHITS Oh Johnny you would have yelled at the letter It was a r1ot One day a g1rl about twenty years old came in She told me that she wanted to become beautlful She asked me to make appolntments for her on any lmprove ments that I thought were necessary while looklng at her for the first tlme Well I managed to keep a sober face and told her I would make the appointments She pa1d me five dollars and left When she went out I felt helpless I didnt know whom to call first The poor glrl was cross eyed and had four buck teeth and long stralght black greasy ha1r that had never been washed fby the appearancej She wore no make up F1rst I called the eve specxahst then the dentlst hairdresser and then a make up artist and last a wom an who knew the correct styles for women of all types The girl came 1n to see me after she had been remade She looked beautlful and her clothes were the correct style for her This was my most success ful experlence A young fellow came in and asked me to wrlte a letter to a glrl whom he had met Saturday nlght at the dance I never realized how Sllly you and I must have appeared when we were slxteen and had new loves Do you remember Sally Wall ace and Jacqueline Brown We thought they were wonderful I don t suppose there were two homeller glrls ID our State I wrote the letter for the young fellow but I never found out how he came out I truly d1d my best for h1m I knew just how he felt Then very soon afterwards another young fellow came in When he came he sat down on the arm of the chair instead of in lt as he had mtended to do He was shakmg fiercely I thought of the day when B111 got thrown over by that dlzzy perox 1de blond Well th1s boy wanted me to Wflte a fervent love letter He paid me even before he told what he wanted I wrote one Jlm helped me and we got a b1g kick out of 1t It was a harder Job than we figured on I often wonered 1f the g1rl was thr1lled when she recelved It We told her how beautiful she was I hope the boy was correct when he described her to me A woman who looked as 1f she had lost her last frlend came 1n She wanted to talk over the chlckenpox with me She had a beautlful daughter who had the chicken pox She asked me lf I knew how her daughter could remaln beautlful I told her not to let her daughter scratch her face not knowing what else to say She pald me S130 for that Can you xmaglne that I never got a client to talk over an oper atlon with Perhaps that IS my good luck This fall a Jewish man came in He passed me an algebra problem He explain ed Un a hurried fashlonj that lf h1s son dldnt get the problem finxshed he would have to stay after school and never had a son of his had to stay after hours Luckily I could do the problem and I explamed lt to the proud father He pald me S150 A fifty cent t1p whlch was my first and only t1p I havent touched up or corrected anv poems yet Remember the poem I correct ed for you at h1gh school You got It pass ed back to you with a D and a note on poor punctuatlon One mornmg a woman came rushlng 1n and wanted me to make a short speech but an mterestlng one It was to be about Defense Bonds and It was for her to g1VC 23 A 0. . 1.00 . I - ' . 2.0 , 1 ' A 3.00 I U p . . ' . 2.00 s . ' ' . 3.0 , y