Mexico High School - Pep Yearbook (Mexico, ME)

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I ,,.,. THE 1944 PEP PAGE FIVE third of the school buys it. We're restricted on copies this year. Oxford visited us tonight. We had another record dance. Livermore Falls played us here. Our boys and girls played Wilton there. It's just one game after another lately. Today begins the week end that ends our first half year. We'll be seeing some exams that are exams. . The boys and girls went to West Paris-- basketball again. Rumford liked our play, The Little Shep- herd of Kingdom Come. We liked Rumford's play, Second Child- hood. A record dance sponsored by the Student Council ends the first half of our scnool year. The boys are taking school very seriously. They can work at the mill afternoons or eve- nings. Several sign up for evening work. No fair sleeping in school, boys. , A FEBRUARY Rumford won again. I Some of us had an algebra test. We weren't confided in concerning the reason, so Weill just have to wait and see what happens. Broken-down alarm clocks and oversleeping are not acceptable excuses for tardiness. We'l1 have to start thinking upxnew ones. Possibly .getting to school on time would require less effort. Wilton boys and girls played basketball here. The Eighth grade moved in on us. Thats going to complicate matters for next year. Who gets initiated-the freshmen or the eighth grade? Did you notice those eighth graders streak- ing it down the corridors? They'll get over being so eager to get to their c asses when they find out how long an hour can be. We have to go easy on the paper. We've been using too much. Tryouts for A Minuet were held after school and this evening. The other two plays are available for reading. Combs, mirrors, and make up are busy for a few minutes. With no warning, we get our pictures taken. Boys' and girls' teams go to Oxford. The changes in classes seem to be pretty Well settled. Mr. Stowell, Mrs. Mann, and Mrs. Thomas came here with the eighth grade. Meeting of the Dramatic Club. Where are all 'those people who were com- plaining about no orchestra this year? Not many showed up. The boys lost at Gould. Play rehearsal for Eternal Life and Bird on the Wing. Movies about electricity during activity period. Mrs. Norton acted as commentator until one was discovered that went along with the film. Boys' and girls' teams went to Jay. The Eighth grade had a social, in the gym---seven in and seven out or jitter- bugging? No school tomorrow, so we had a record dance tonight. 'l'he half year honor roll was announced. The sophomores lead with seven on it. Gould and we played basketball here. lt took us one minute and forty-five seconds to clear the building in the fire drill today. 'l'he last games of the season were played tonight. 'l'he girls won, the boys lost. '.l.'l'le boys' glee .club did some singing. The girls kept themselves under control-no swooning. Inter-class games this afternoon. The seniors beat the sophomores. MARCH , Inter-class basketball and more play rehearsals. Basketball and Commercial Club pictures were taken for Pep. 'l'he boys sang in the gym while the girls got bawled out in room 10. The seniors spon- sored a record dance. Town meeting day. The eighth grade rates around here. They were allowed to attend. Detention hall started today. There was a good crowd for the opening. 8. Interclass basketball endew with the juniors the winners. 9. The one act plays were presented this after noon for the children. A Minuet wins the one-act play contest. We had a record dance after. The hnan- cial part was good as Well as the plays themselves. If more of you fellows and girls who have been crying all year for an orchestra don't come to rehearsals, it will be discontinued. Some have been complaining, apparently, just to hear themselves talk. 15. It will cost us live cents from now an every time we lose a rank card. A They were given out today. Bring five cents if you didn't get one. Some ignoramus, trying to be a wise guy, took the spout from the drinking fountain. We've got to look busy if we're in the corri- dors after school from now on. Initials being carved on the Wall was responsible for that. It seems like something the one who took the spout would do. I wonder if that's the way he's brought up' or if he's just made that way. We had movies during activity period, Alaskan Highway. Seniors and juniors start dancing school. They're getting ready for the Senior Hop. These boys can sure put on the coy act when it comes to dancing. The seniors have decided not to have the class trip they planned for the coming vacation. Everyone seems restless .today. Our long winter term is over, and we're looking for- ward to our week's vacation. J

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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

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PAGE SIX THE 1944 PEP APRIL Back to classes. Business managers or PEPl' start collecting ads. Typing classes are working hard on the nn-- gerprint data. We miss '? ? ? the seniors. They're out taking the census. One session today. We got a free lunch. Mi. Thomas informed us in advance that tne only drink that would be served was milk, so we came all prepared for a nice quiet party. Seniors and juniors are still learning to dance. Don't you people with five and ten hours detention Wish you hadn't skippeu school last Friday. We had movies about life in the navy and the W. A. V. E. ' It's great baseball weather. Snow about every other day with a little rain in between. The boys are looking forward to a practice or two before they have a game to play. The juniors had a class meeting and.dec1ded to have a record dance. Some of the upper classmen have a little studying to do for a few afternoons after school to make up for wasted time. Mr. Peakes had a surprise when he looked out and saw his car balanced on the edge of nothing. The seniors rehearsed for graduation. Mrs. Peakes and Miss Malley have the privilege of working with them. No school tomorrow. Teddy Whitehouse won the bond at the Red Cross entertainment. The junior class held a record dance'in -the gym. The student council started work on nom- inations for the May elections. . Captain Levi Durepo gave an interesting talk about Australia and New Guinea. Hc also showed us some interesting pictures. Dr. Young gave an interesting talk on English and etiquette. - MAY We took Wilton over in our Hrst game of baseball, 37-3. The boys went to the Arm- ory and to the Institute for rifle practice. Dr. McClosky spoke to us in assembly today on venereal diseases, Girls sign up for softball. Mr. Norton is doing the coaching. IF ATEACHER SHOULD CATCI-l 601, P 61 YOU CHEVIIN6 GUM lN CLASS, Q . 5900i-D Nloo-- gnu 6 A,p, ff swmtow rr AND i' oem we FACT 2 K E3 ' ,rr A Domain! excuse Younsetv l AND TOC! IT NEATLY IN ss sooo. Nemaxaows Mia? g -.......... . ...,.... g so X y 1- I Y ADHIT nie rang THEN T . - ' 4 I sTne.u 'els WAD oN Yoon - '- N NOSE Tb Hake 'me OTHER ,Wa srouem-s mqeag Q sg 5 6 -' -,, WRAP rr NEATL IN A Piece J . or-amor Panera AN! Num. f -me vussute Nr 'tae .WASTE s 'Q ' wipes. essner ? JXP ETIQUETTE QUIZ