Ashland High School - Echoes Yearbook (Ashland, ME)

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1949 ' P Echoes pof 14. fl. 5' r SPORTS Ashland 14-Washburn 10 This year Ashland High School initiated two new sports-cross-country and track. With the coming of the promised gym- nasium, basketball will be reinstituted to round out Ashland's athletic activities. 'I'hese five sports will give every interested boy a chance to participate in at least one activity. In building our athletic program, the girls have not been forgotten. Last year Mrs. Burton Coffin graciously donated her coach- ing abilities and girls' softball was initiated in the school. This sport will be perma- nently continued under the coaching of a faculty member. BASEBALL Ashland High School's baseball record in 1948 marked a vast improvement over the record of the previous year. The 1947 record, three wins and nine losses, was forgotten and the 1948 baseball team de- veloped into a winning team under the spirited coaching of Fred Parker. When the high school baseball schedule had been completed, Ashland had a record of six wins and five losses, and had captured third place in the Aroostook Central League. Although six wins and five losses does not represent an outstanding record, the team played games which were well worth watching. Games such as Ashland's win over Easton, the league champions, in which Leach allowed but one run is worth watching. Our 1948 schedule was as follows: Ashland ll-Fort Fairfield l. V. 14 Ashland 24-Bridgewater 12 Ashland 5-Easton 6 Ashland 5-Mapleton ll - Ashland 9-Fort Fairfield I. V. ' 8 Ashland 9-Bridgewater 5 Ashland 1-Lirnestone 4 Ashland 4-Easton 3 Ashland 15-Mapleton 3 Ashland 2-Limestone I5 Members of last year's squad who are with us again this year are Albert Searway. Forest Ayer. Ralph Chase, Edward Martin. Philip Cunningham, Carlton MacLean. Ralph Baxter, Charles Coffin, Roger La- Belle, and Clifford Cunningham. GIRLS' SOFT BALL The organization of the girls' softball team ended the boys' monopoly in the athletic field. The organization period in an activity is always difficult. So it was with soft ball. The athletic fund of the school did not warrant the purchase of uniforms and equipment. Generous donations by in- terested citizens soon solved this problem. Our first game was at Presque Isle, Wednesday, May 26. Through inexperi- ence and nervousness we lost the game 23-10. Following this defeat we practiced intensely for the return game at Ashland. As a result on Thursday, Iune 6, we de- feated Presque Isle 31-18. In honor of this victory we held a food sale. With the profits we enjoyed a ban- quet at the Northeastland Hotel in Presque Isle. Late in the season our pictures appeared in the paper. As a result we were invited to play an exhibition gameywith the ALL- STARS of Sherman Mills on August 20 during their Farm and Home Week. Rein- forced by two of the town girls we won the game 8-2 and lost a return game at Ashland 7-5. Early in the fall we played a game under the lights in Caribou. We won 15-0. The retum game at Ashland was also a victory 14-9. During the season we played seven games resulting in five wins and two losses. We are looking forward to an even better season this year.

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I gi- z P E Q T Echoes of A. ll. .SY 194 T FRONTROW-left to right: C. Hews, H. Hows, C. Cunningham, P. Cunningham, F. Allen, R. Chase. BACK ROW: B. Bartlett, I. Savory. R. Baxter. C. MacLean. Coach Porter, H. Thibodeau. CROSS COUNTRY The second week of our school year found eight boys reporting to Coach Wayne Porter for cross-country. The first meet was with the U. of M. I. V.'s, at Orono. MacLean placed first among the contestants, but we lost 24-31. Our second meet was at Presque Isle where we met defeat for the second time. 23 to 32. Later on in the season the Presque Isle team came to Ashland for a return meet and won by a margin of 6 points with a score of 25 to 31. Later we were challenged by Lee Acade- my who came to Ashland and won by a close score of 26 to 29. After our second venture to the U. of M. for the State meet. in which we placed tenth, we went to Lee Academy to revenge our former loss. For the second time, the Lee team proved to be too much for our boys and defeated us 20 to 43. Although we lost this meet, MacLean set a new cross-country record on the Lee course by clipping 17 seconds off the pre- vious record. QThis event brought MacLean an invitation to compete in the Annual New England Cross-Country Meet held at Franklin Park in Boston, Mass. Although greatly handicapped by.drlzzling rain and a soupy track, MacLean did his best and placed 27th in a field of 200 runnersj VVhile the over-all record oi the cross- country team was one of defeats, we are proud of our beginning. The season did produce an outstanding star in Carlton MacLean. Because of his excellent indi- vidual record the Ashland Rotary Club sponsored his participation in the New England Cross-Country Meet at Franklin Park in Boston.

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Eclmes of A. M .Si 1949 . . in Ashland as in every community, because ECIIICOTICIIS our most precious asset is our children and young people. They will, in a few years. be the men and women who will carry on WHY WE NEED ,A PARENT-TEACHERS the work of the world. The kind of educa- ASSOCIATION IN ASHLAND, tion that they get will determine the kind Of all the institutions devoted to the wel- fare of children and youth there are two which stand high above all others. These are the home and the school. For parents as well as for teachers the needs and ambi- tions of the young people rank first among all interests. What would be more natural than that an organization of parents and teachers in our community should join forces to work together for their common good. This organization would be a Parent- Teachers Association. Alice McLellan Bimey founded the Na- tional Congress of Parents and Teachers, and to her memory there is erected a me- morial ,on the high school grounds at Mari- etta, Georgia, her girlhood home. This me- morial was erected in nineteen hundred and forty-two and serves as a perpetual tribute to the vision of a great parent-teacher leader. Alice Birney realized that chi1dren's needs will not wait and that many heads are better than one in determining those needs. She also knew, as do we, that the world needs to learn exactly what demo- cracy is, and the best way to learn this is to see it in action in our own small communi- ties. The objects of this association are to pro- mote the welfare of children and youth in home, school, church and community: to raise the standards of home life: to secure adequate laws for the care and protection of our youth: to bring into closer relation the home and the school, that parents and teachers may co-operate intelligently in the training of the child: to develop between educators and the general public such united efforts as will secure for every child the highest advantage in physical, mental. social and spiritual education. We need a Parent-Teachers Association of world we will live in. In this Atomic Age it is more important than ever before that people learn to -work and live together to understand each other's problems. What better way is there for such an understand- ing to begin than .in an organization that is linked with the National Congress of Par- ents and Teachers whose voice is heard in counties, states and in the nation. Charles Coffin NEW EQUIPMENT During the school year Ashland High School has acquired some new equipment. This includes a new screen to go with the movie machine, a recorder and an inter- communication system. This recorder is a very interesting and valuable addition to our equipment. The teachers use it in speech classes to record speeches and to correct speech defects. The eighth grade presented a recorded program for assembly. We think more classes should use the recorder. Recently an inter-communication system has been installed. There are loud speakers in Mrs. Tilley's room. the main room, eighth grade room, Freshman room. the Agricultural Building, Mrs. Bartlett's room and the basement. Any of the teachers who are in the rooms where these are, can talk with Mr. MacLaugh1in in the office. Mr. MacLaughlin can talk to the teachers in just one room or to all the rooms at once. lf he needs anyone in the office he can call them and not have to leave the office. This system is a great convenience in giving notices and in announcing other information.