Abington High School - Abhis Yearbook (Abington, MA)

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THE ABHIS 15 ABOUT CHRISTMAS SANTA CLAUS If someone were to stop you on the street and ask, Do you believe in Santa Claus? you would probably do one of two things: drop dead from surprise or just stand and gape at whoever was fool enough to ask such an absurd question. My answer would simply be, Yes, I do believe in Santa Claus, for without believing in this immor- tal old man there just wouldn't be any Christmas as we know it. CAROL OUELLETFB, '51 The Kind of Christmas I Should Like to Have I should like a nice white Christmas with a beau- tiful Christmas tree decorated 'with lights, some colored bulbs, and candy canes hanging from the green hemlock boughs. g I should like to find a lot of presents under the tree, including checkers, a baseball glove, ice skates, a toboggan and an electric guitar. I should like a big turkey dinner with stuffing and gravy and a big bowl of fruit. I should like to help Santa Claus the night before Christmas as he delivers many toys and fills stock- ings by the fireplace with candy and fruit. I should also like to help him wrap presents for poor orphans who have poor Chrisrmases. I wish I had a shop in which to make toys that I could give to poor crippled or homeless children who have never known a Christmas or Santa Claus. I would like to make every poor child in the world happy. That's the kind of Christmas I should like to have. CARROLL MAY, '55 WHAT CHRISTMAS MEANS TO ME To me Christmas is a day of joy and happiness. It is the day when we are rewarded with thanks for all our pains in selecting and wrapping gifts. It is the day when we all go to church to thank God in our way for His blessing. Christmas is a day of peace and love. On this day one forgets intolerance, hatred, and war. One wishes everybody he meets a Merry Christmas. He forgets the recent arguments with his neighbors. All he remembers are the good things about him. Christmas means a'tree all decorated in tinsel and beautiful lights. It means little children writ- ing letters to Santa Claus. It means putting pres- ents under the tree on Christmas Eve and waking up very early the next day to open them. KATHERINE EDSON, '51 The Kind of Christmas I Should Like to Have I should like to have the kind of Christmas for the whole world that as far as I can remember has never been. I should like to have the world as nearly completely peaceful as possible with no countries occupied by any other people as a mili- tary movement. I should like all the fellows and girls who are now in the services to be at home so that everyone in the world could enjoy a real old-fashioned Christmas. Instead of having everyone in the country sending presents to their loved in far-off countries, I would have them all sitting around the Christmas tree enjoying what the little children and they themselves were doing. h Perhaps this is a lot of dreaming on my part, but it surely would be the perfect Christmas for every- one. JANET HUNTER, '51 MY HAPPIEST CHRISTMAS One day before Christmas when I was about five years of age, I went to Boston to see Santa Claus. I wasn't sure about himg that is, I didn't believe in him. My mother bought the tickets and we went in. There were hundreds of children in the store. When I got up to the place where Santa was, I told him what I wanted, but a little thing hap- pened. I took a pull at a part of his whiskers. That was the end of me and my visits to Boston for a little while. MARK LYDON, '55 The Kind of Christmas I Should Like to Have I should like to have Christmas this year a happy one for everyone, with snow and plenty to Cat and presents for everyone, and a big bright tree in every home. I should like to have everyone in my family gather at my house and all go to church, then return to my house and sing Christmas carols. Then the elders would put the younger children to bed and let them dream about what they would like Santa to bring them. After the children had gone to bed the older folks would wrap presents and get the tree ready and prepare the turkey for the next day. I would like to have one of the older men dress as Santa and distribute the gifts. The best present in all the earth would be to have the war stop and have all the boys return home and have this world a peaceful, loving one. BETTY MCKENNA, '51 inc f ,