Barre High School - Barretone Yearbook (Barre, MA)

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GIRLS ' SPORTS The diverting sport the girls of Barre High can boast about this year is basketball. Mr. Dawson gave his services in coaching the girls throughout the 1914 . 9-1950 season. Palma Puliafico was chosen captain with Barbara Mennard acting as co-captain. The season scheduled games included twelve games, and all the girls could do was eke out two victories over North Brookfield by scores of 63-I4.3 and [[ 4 - 30 . Once again the old custom of having supper with the Templeton girls after the afternoon games, were held. Another phase was also added this season. Twice a month the girls traveled to Orange High School and had practices with the Orange girls basketball teams. As the year 1950 rolls by Barre High will lose its three most active forwards, Helen Chakuas, Barbara Mennard, and Palma Puliafico. These girls have played basketball continually for four years and are hopeful that the underclassmen will be victor- ious in future years.

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EDITORIALS OUT OF THE HARBOR- INTO DEEP SEAS In choosing our motto w© chose a simple sentence that told our feelings completely. If you can remember back to the day you graduated from grammar shcool perhaps you can also remember the day you first passed through the portals of Barre High. Deep down behind our cocky grins and timid glances you and I, all of us, wished we were back in the safe waters of the stream The harbor before us looked dark, mysterious, and the end seemed so far away Yet, today, in 1950 we look back and wonder how the waters of time could slip past so fast. Are you one of those v ho still has a short four year bay to cross? Are you one of those who w ill hit those deep waters with a splash and grab for the last ties of the harbor that will keep you from sinking? What do those deep waters hold for you and me? Judging from the reports of those who are already in the deep seas, there ' s going to be rough sailing. Rough sailing means stormy weather, angry winds whipping dark, damp waves over us. Waves that will be attempting to sink us, trying to make us for- get Remember, when you w ere learning to swim--the first panic when you learned the water was over your head? Then slowly every- thing you learned about swimming came back to you. When those waves wash over us, grab hold of those thin frag- ments of memories and principles we learned the past twelve years Don ' t ever let go. There ' s a rainbow after every heavy storm, on the other side of the deep seas. May it shine for us, on our principles of freedom and democracy. WHICH PATH LIES AHEAD? As we, the students of the Senior Class, look back at our four years at Barre High School, we recall the good times and hardships that all of us have encountered together Yes, these past four years have been the most enjoyable and the ones that we shall never forget. The day which we have been anxiously awaiting has now arrived and a queer feeling seems to overwhelm us and somehow makes us feel sad and depressed to leave this school and its memories. Some will enter colleges and still others will enter different vocational fields. But no matter where we go or what we do, we shall always keep in mind that we are now young men and women graduated from school and entering into a life of our own. In these past four years we have learned to think and act as grown- ups. Vie have been taught problems of life and we now have the opportunity to practice what we have learned. We can no longer de- pend on the judgement of others. We must think and act for our- selves, whenever in difficulty and in need. Regardless of what road we shall choose or how hard it may be, may we attain our goal, emerging victorious with happy and eager hearts from the struggle against the storm of life.

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BASKETBALL Th© 1949-1950 basketball season proved to be one of the most successful in many a moon for a Barre High School team. The high spirited team, backed by many hard routing fans, went on to win 10 games while losing 9 which is excellent con- sidering that the team had no regular high school gym in which to practice any time it had the desire to do so. Nine of these games were won in the regular season, one being a play-off with Hardwick for the championship of the Southern Division of the King Philip League, The other two games were accounted for in the Orange Tournament where Barre won one and lost the second game to a strong Brookfield five. In Barre ' s first tournament game it defeated Thayer Academy, which not only pushed them ahead in the tournament, but won them the champion- ship of the entir e King Philip League, This spring a Sports Night Banquet was held in honor of the team. Letters, gold basketballs, and basketball certificates were presented to the members of both the boys and girls basket- ball teams. Looking into the future for a moment, it looks as though next year ' s basketball team will be mighty strong, since only three players from this year ' s squad will graduate in June.