Mexico High School - Pep Yearbook (Mexico, ME)

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THE 1944 PEP PAGE THREE ,BRI-EEZES SEPTEMBER We're off, with one new superintendent, one new principal, three new teachers, lots of'- new freshmen, and a few new faces in the three upper classes. We've discovered the third new teacher- Miss Tozier isn't a freshman. We gotytold 011' about all the noise we make in the cor- ridors. Mr. Thomas did the telling. I guess he likes peace and quiet. Nobody said anything, so we must have been quiet enough. We still have the same traf- fic system as last year-the longest way 'roun to get to the nearest point and not much time to get there in. According to the lessons we've been having in English lately. it should read in which to get there. That's O. K. for English class. We're having all our classes every day this year-no rotating schedule. Speeding up production. The last of school for this week-only thirty-five more weeks to go. Drive on assembly duesg three dollars on the install- ment plan or two-fifty cash. Dorina Martin is the new cheerleader. New cheers are wanted for the coming football games. Practice has been going on every day. - Football boys excused for physicals. Football boys excused for dental exams. lt 'looks as if these games were going to be rough. No fair biting your opponent, boys. Of course, if those Panthers bite first, that's another story. First string and pick-ups have scrimmage. The magazine men and we had an assembly. He told us some good jokes and mentioned something about selling magazines. Another assembly. This time for a rally to get us pepped up for tomorrow's game with Wilton. The cheering wasn't so hot. but this was our first try at it and maybe the fresh- men are still a little shy? ?? Our first game was a victory over Wilton. For scores refer to the football section some- where in this book. The magazine campaign has started. The Student Council is han- dling the sale of defense stamps again this year. The boys get all the breaks. A good-looking lieutenant talked to the junior and senior bovs about the Army and Navy Air Corps. while we girls carried on in classes. Admissions to all school activities' going up. Ther-e's a new tax this year. No fun. no nothing! Just study and then study some more. , OCTOBER If noise 'means anything, we should win the game against Rumford tomorrow. We made plentv of it at the rallv todav. The Commer- cial Club had a meeting. They didn't sav what for-maybe to elect officers. That will be all written up somewhere else, so I won't bother to put it down here. Rurgford tied us Saturday. They're pretty goo . We went home early today while the teach- ers had a meeting. I bet we get talked oxcr plenty when we're not around. Commercial Club members go bowling. There was no boasting about the scores, so they probably weren't very good. Boys take Aviation Cadet Military Exams with Jean Robinson getting the highest rank. David Durost, John Crosby, Daniel Fowler, and Paul Michaud also passed. No excitement today except that there's no school tomorrow because today is Friday. Friday is really the best day in the week, better even that Saturday, for we have two days to look forward toy Saturday we have only one. Milk has gone up-two cents this year in- stead of one. We don't have to go to school tomorrow on account of Christopher Colum- bus was a great man, and it's his birthday. The sophomores set the freshman styles for Friday. They must have spent their holiday just thinking up Ways to embarrass the poor freshmen. ' We're informed that we must get our work made up on time or lose two percent for every day absent. Those two percents can make a C mark look pretty sick if there are enough of them. The freshmen came to school all dressed up today. All except two were good sports about it. James O'Leary looked pretty chic in that dress. Omer Caron looked cute..Thc evening performance was good. Madison took the game from us Saturday by one point. Orders for magazines are still coming in even though the contest has been over a week. We went way above our quota. We had to get out of school early today-quarter of three. There's a meeting going on about War Ration Book 4. I bet our mothers will be glad to hear that they're going to get another nice new ration book to carry. Only one session of school todayg the teach- ers are giving out Ration Book four in the afternoon and evening. . Again, one session. That doesn't mean we don't get our six week exams though. We've been having them all through the week. Are the answers to all those qusetions in our books? Our third one session day in a row. Exams are over, and ranks closed today for the first ranking period. Now, we'll just keep our lingers crossed until those rank cards come out. George Fogarty's birthday. Some of our exams came back to us. We still have a little hope. They coun.t only one third or one fourth on our Iinal marks.

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L DEDICATION EVERETT DGSROCHES ARTHUR ALLEN HUBERT MORIN Novi 29, 1921 June 3, 1923 Jan. 28, 1921 Aug. 23, 1942 A Nov. 28, 1943 Dec, 15, 1943 In loving mefmory, the class of forty-four dedicates this yect'r's book to EVERETT DESROCHES ' ARTHUR ALLEN HUBERT MORIN who sa.cfri,hcect their lives while serving their countfry.

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L PACE FOUR .THE 1944 PEP 27. 1 2 3 4 5 8 91 10 12 13 15 16 17. 18. 19 4- 42 23 24 29 Teachers' Convention at Bangor for the rest of the week. We have one session and no more classes until Monday. NOVEMBER We took Berlin over in football last Satur- day, 39-0. 'We're doing all right. Some of us are happyg some have felt better. We got our rank cards. - Ten hours, five hours, eight hours-deten- tion! Mr. Thomas has been playing truant olhcer. What ever made him suspect that any of us would skip school? Miss Malley has the cast picked for The Shepherd of Kingdom Come. It looks like a good cast. We play Gould tomorrow, so we pepped up ourselves and the team with a rally. Gould beat us Saturday by two touchdowns. Rain came in torrents. We held one session of school. We were served a lunch of sand- wiches to keep us going. Army-Navy test given this morning. Therefs a chance for the equivalent of a college edu- cation to successful participants. Rally for the Rumford game tomorrow. Lots of noise and some good speakers. Sergeant Jack McLeod still likes to tell jokes. Robeit Fogarty sent us a record wishing us luck. Several of the boys in the service sent telc- grams and letters. Mexico High can't be too bad a place when its alumni take that much interest in it. Everybody looks happy and proud about our victory over Rumford yesterday. We cele- brated this afternoon. The Commercial Club sponsored the feed for the boys after the game yesterday. Lots of potatoes among other things. Saturday, and we went to school until 12:15. We had to in order to have off the Fridav after Thanksgiving. It's all over with now and wasn't too bad. Every home room joined the Junior Red Cross. Junior and senior girls attended a meeting at thc Municipal Hall this afternoon. It was about the nursing profession. We signed up for Glee Club-boys as well as girls. Practically evervone in school is going in tor singing. Mrs. Peakes is going to have her hands full. Dinhtheria toxoid and vaccination for typhoid can be had free of charge. All that's neces- sary is permission from our ,parents Signed slips are due tomorrow. Record Dance tonight. Remember those days when high school pupils used to be so narticular about which orchestra thev had? Now, we have a good time with records. The Scientific Society is carrying on this vear under the sponsorship of Mrs. Norton. We plowed to school today in about a foot of snow. It seemed like that much. Anyway, there was a lot of it. - We celebrated the eve of Thanksgiving with a Record dance. No school tomorrow, so Mr. Thomas let us stay up late. The scrap drive was postponedg too much snow. Those exams are here again. One third of the school year will be over after this week. A tooth ache is no excuse for missing school -not after it has been used for weeks and weeks anyway. Is the toothache better, Pauline? 4 DECEMBER Hot lunches are being served again this year. We get plenty for our money. Play rehearsals have been and are still going on nearly every evening at seven o'clock. Lucky cast. They can be out after eight o'clock. The others have to be in by eight o'clock when the curfew sounds. How about that? We can't have a band and orchestra this year.. There's no one to direct it. Edith Smithywas chosen as our D. A. R. candidate. Ping pong in the gym at noon time is very popular. It's better than trying to study in room three We did well in the waste paper collection. Mr. Thomas said so. Rank cards given out today. The honor roll was announced for the second six weeks. We lost to Farmington in our first game of basketball. That didn't stop us from having a good time at the record dance that fol- lowed. There'll be other games coming that we can win. We took home announcements asking our mothers to save fats in exchange for two red points and four cents per pound. The advanced ticket sale for the play indi- cates that the attendance will be good. Rosalie gave us some cute little pep talks. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come plaved as a matinee for the grade school children Good Play. Good Crowd.fGood Record Dance. Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year. We'l1 be back in two weeks. - JANUARY Rehearsals start once more on The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Comet We're going to present it at Stephens High. Basketball practices and rqlnay rehearsals seem to be taking up most of our spare time. The Dramatic Club, with thirty-one mem- bers, is organized. Big snow storm. Only one session with sand- wiches, grapefruit juice, and milk served to us. -We heard that no school signal but paid no attention. That doesn't apply to the high school now. Barbara Durost got here even though no school bus was running. Rumford beat us by thirty-three points tonight. We scored 11 points. General math students, how many points did' Rumford score? Our boys went to Farmington. We didn't stop them from winning when they visited us, but they didn't return the favor. The fire drill we had today was done just about as it should be. Jay played us here-both boys and girls. The Reader's Digest seems to be taking the place of funny books in school. Over a