Rockland High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Rockland, ME)

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Innocents Abroad The year, 1950! The day, April 16! The time, 5:25 P. M.! The scene. Rockland railroad station! Forty-eight seniors of Rockland High were starting their Wash- ington trip. Af ter bidding goodbye among tears and parting kisses we boarded the train. As the night train progressed, the once active group began to show signs of weariness. In Portland we were joined by a group of ten students from Denmark. When we reached Dover, N. H., the car be- gan to rock and shake with cheers as we greeted our President Jack Smith. We ar- rived in Boston at 10:25 P. M. and board- ed a chartered bus for 1South Station. There, much to our surprise, we saw a train that had all the facilities of home ex- cept a bed. After everyone got settled and the train started for New York, the more fortunate of the tired group caught a little shut-eye. We arrived in New York at 7:00 A. M. and ate a delicious breakfast at Grand Central Station. From there we took a bus across New York City to the waterfront district Where we took a ferry to Jersey City. Amid the squeals of excitement and the fog we caught a glimpse of the Statue of Liberty. We boarded a train there and arrived in Baltimore in time for a delec- table meal at the Stafford Hotel. After dinner we met our bus drivers, Ernie Fowler and Gordan Poland and mo- tored to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. The grounds were very impressive and the girls thought the midshipmen were. too! The next stop was the Martinique Hotel in Washington where we stashed our gear. The girls were on the fourth floor and the boys on the second. This, however, did not stop communication because the hotel was blessed with a -number of windows. That night was free and while the tired ones slept, the night owls hooted. Bright and early fwell, early, anywayj we greeted our bus drivers outside the hotel. Our first stop was the Bureau of Printing and Engraving where We were dismayed because there were no samples. From there we went to the Mellon Art Gallery where we saw many beautiful paintings. That morning we also toured the capital and had a group picture taken. In the afternoon we Visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Arlington Na- tional Cemetery where we saw the im- pressive ceremony of the changing of the guard. Next we went to Lee Mansion and Mount Vernon both of which were very beautiful and impressive. That night we saw the Lincoln Memo- rial and Congressional Library and the re- main-der of the evening was spent at Glen Echo Park. Wednesday morning we awoke to a cheery Good Morning. it's seven o'clock. We rushed to the bus and headed for the Washington Monument. A few adventur- ous souls climbed a total of 1,796 steps. That afternoon the elevator got stuck half- way at the top and were we glad it wasn't us! The Pan-Ame-rican Building was next visited and all of us were impressed by the inside patio and all the flowers and birds. From there we went to the Smithsonian Institute in which interesting exhibits of every phase of living are placed. In the afternoon we saw Washington Cathedral and the beautiful Franciscan Monastery and saw replicas of the old Ro- man Catacombs and scenes taken from the Holy Land. 31

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ROBERT VAN FLEET will be a soda jerk in the Park Street Lunch. ALBERT BRACKETT will be envied by all Toni users and, therefore, get shot by some jealous female. MARY BERRY will fall for a Dick and spend the rest of her days chasing police cars. RICHARD KING will be a plumber in a brewery. BUDDY HALLOWELL will get stuck in South West Africa because he couldn't start his car. BETTY GAMBLE will model two-piece bathing suits at the bre-akwater. KATHY CURRY will pick so much cauliflower that it will affect her ears. GEORGE KEATING will be known as The Traveling Bar Tender and travel between East Union and Spruce Head. BARBARA BRACKETT will open a day nursery where she'll poison all the little brats. AVERIE EATON, with her improve- ments on the English language, will write a book, but, because she can't read her own writing, will not have it published. DICK TOMKINiS will be one of the best dressed hobos in 2000. LARRY MILLS will buy an Oldsmobile and take Luclille for a spin. DAVE SPILLANE will ldance so much that he will get housemaid's knees. JEANNE MERRILL will be admired by the whole town--when she becomes president of the bank. CEDRIC LONG will take the place of the thin man when the thin man gets fat. JANICE STANLEY will become a Taylor and Don the new clothes that she makes. TED SYLVESTER will revise the slide rule so that you can add, subtract. multi- ply, divide, and do Spanish on it. JACKIE GRISPI will buy the Augusta bridge for two bucks, then sell it to Donny Joseph for ten. 30 DON McMAHAN will peddle clams in Times Square. JOANNE CHISHOLM will manage the Harlem Globe Trotters and substitute when called upon. PAT EMERY will issue marriage li- censes to monkeys in Africa. JO-ANN CHAMPLIN will give parties for the wayward, and serve home made root beer. FRANK CARTER will stay single, after driving all the women he knows to suicide. TONY GUSTIN will join the Foreign Legion and travel the Arabian Desert on a Chesterfield. TOM CHISHOLM will get athlete's foot when he tries to fit Humphrey for sneak- ers. CYNTHIA HALLOWELL will become the youngest mother of quadtriplets. DELORES CASSIDY will join a circus and help put up the tents. CHARLIE SHADIE will set up chairs in the Senate. DOT CHRISTOFFERSEN will go to Knox Business College, then become the wife of an undertaker. RALPH McLAUGHLIN will become a wrestler and will be known as Riotous Ralph. BEATRICE CHAPMAN will bicycle cross country and join a fiea circus in Hol- lywood. HELEN CANDAGE will be a beach- comber and therefore be the only person who eats seaweed fried in butter. BARBARA CLARK will tune organs for the Mohammedan Church. ERIC LIND will distribute slot mach- ines to billiard joints. PAT WHITEHILL will issue pamphlets for Gregory's and later be a saleswoman for them. Appalritions from the broil Have told what you shall be, But we are sure if you will foil, These things will never be. By Humphrey and Fish

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