Besse High School - Breeze Yearbook (Albion, ME)

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EIGHTH GRADE Flrst Row Left to Rlght Harvey Quimby Angle St Amand Joyce Dudley Shlrrell Splller and Floyd Blalsdell Second Row Ora Bennett Leon Powler Mlss Mltchell Karl Keay and Rodney Rey nolds Thlrd Row Kelvln Hxgglns Norman Dow Mllton Hlgglns Herbert Shores and Arthur Rood The Elghth Grade of fifty one Never glves up tlll they re done They start IH the mornmg to do thexr best But ere mght falls they need a rest Here s just a brlef of everyone So read lt please to have some fun Fxrst comes Rodney who s tall and stralght Wlth all he ranks first rate Then comes Karl the one who s smart And always has been from the start Now comes M1lt0D shy and new Dreads hlS lessons and s always blue You ll now meet lf loyd smallest of all Always hopmg he ll soon grow tall Next comes Herbert whose face turns red When somethmg to hlm the glrls haxe sald Now meet Leon wxth brown curly halr Though to a Beauty Parlor he s not been there Then comes Arthur a fme young man Maklng the best of all that he can Along comes Ora wlth haxr auburn red Wouldn t trade It for a mllllon t1S sald Followmg now IS Kelvm so great and SPGCIHC His one ambltlons to swlm the Paclfic Please note Harvey who IS new thls year Wlth all the girls he s qulte a dear We now have Joyce who from Benton Falls came Qhe 11 team wlth us to w1n some fame Fhen comes Angle who came ln forty hve Wlth all her pep and x lm we are more ahve l ast IS Sherrlll who to us lS well known As her ab1l1ty ln thls poem has shown x - 1 - 1 9 , . , . . 1 1 : 1 r ' s 7 1 r 1 - I r v ' 1 . ,. , s 1 , . . , . V . ,. . . . ' y . , . .. ,. . a a ' r . . , . . . 1 x , . . , . . . , . x a x - y - 1 , w 1 , . . , . L . . , , . . . - v ,' 1 'I . V. . 1 y 1 ' . A t , .

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Q FRESHMAN CLASS n Flrst Row Left to Right Arthur Blalsdell Walter Gordon Charles Scribner Carroll Hardmg Jr and Faxth Hendsbee Second Row I eft to Rlght Lloyd Pottle Barbara Knight Ralph Fuller Mlss Elwell Ernest Woodbury Thelma Woodbury and Ralph Meader We the Freshman Class of eleven students started our first year of h1gh school by electmg the followlng puplls as our officers Presldent Carroll Hardmg VICE Presldent Walter Gordon Secretary Arthur Blalsdell Class Reporter Barbara Knlght Class Advlsor MISS Elwell A number of our class took part ln many of the school act1v1t1es Ralph Meader and Charles Scr1bne1 were ln the Bazaar Play Barbara Kmght Charles Scrlbner Lloyd Pottle and Walter Gordon took part 1n Prlze Speak 1ng Thelma Woodbury Charles Scrlbner and Barbara Kn1ght were three of the cheerleaders Barbara Kmght was chosen as one of the glrls to play ln the All Star game at Brooks We sold refreshments at the Umty and Freedom games thereby gettmg a llttle money 1n our treasury We the Freshman Class hope to do our part ln keepmg up the school sp1r1t of Besse Hlgh , ' r ' , , - ' , , 1 ' 1 , ' ,C , ' , 7 7 Treasurer .......... Charles Scribner ' . 1 . , . , v . . - ' 7 7 7 7 7

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E LITERATURE THE STR ADIVARI VIOLIN One dav when h1s father got home from work thls l1ttle boy asked h1s father who Stradlvarl was Then h1s father sat down and started to relate th1s story to h1s son Long long ago there was a boy named Tony h1s blrth name was Antonlo Strad1var1 Th1s llttle boy day after day would practlce h1S v1ol1n lessons so he called them Hls hands would be empty but lf anyone asked h1m what he was dolng he would say he was practlclng h1s v1ol1n One day h1s mother sald But Tony there IS no such thlng as a v1ol1n I know mother Sald Tony I have not lnvented It yet Hls mother sald Why do you practlce on somethmg you haven t got' Well 'I ony replled I want to be able to play It when I do make It The years roll on and when ever 'I ony went out walklng everyone would polnt and say there goes that nutty Stradlvarl k1d One day Tony s father asked Tony what he was golng to make thls v1ol1n from and Tony told hlm From some wood a horse S tall and a cat Well one day when everyth1ng was qulet 'Iony started Ulaklllg h1s v1ol1n He cut the wood for the v1ol1n out of the door panels and glued It together Then he was gone a l1ttle wlule When he came back he had a horse s tall and some cat gut He put some of the halr from the horse s tall on for bow halr then just as he was usmg the cat gut to make strmgs he heard h1s mothel call Kltty kltty Then Tony ralsed h1s volce and Sald No use calllng her mother she won t be around any more Well Tony flIl1Sll6d h1s v1ol1n and made beautlful muslc w1th It Every one pralsed h1m for hlS VIOIIH Well Sonny sald the little boy s father you had better go out and play nov After the boy had been out of doors a few mmutes the cat cwhlch was outslde gave a howl 'I he llttle boy s father went out and asked h1s son what had happened and the llttle boy said as he stood at the chopp mg block axe 1n hand and crymg as he watched the cat jump over the fence I wanted to play v1ol1n maker but kltty wouldn t let me Maur1ceScr1bner 02 IHE MERCHANT AND THE BOOK -XGENT Once upon a tlme 1 book agent came to the town of Vvatel v1lle Malne to sell a book called Wuther mg Helghts He stopped at a house on Water Street and knocked upon the door A 1 1Ll1 merchant M1 James Watson answered The book agent told Watson about the book and 1mpo1 tuned h1m untll he bought Mr Watson dldn t want the book but he bought It anyway perhaps to get r1d of the book agent Tnen takmg It under h1s arm he started back Into the l1V1Ilg room to look at the bloomlng thlng Soon 1n came Mrs Watson She had been v1s1t1ng a I19lgl1bOI' The book agent had , I , ' 1 1, 113 , ,1 ,QL - 7 I 4 Y . . . . .1 6' v . . . 1 1 1 ' 1 rf ' sa ' I - ' - 1 11 as 11 ' 1 1 ' 1 as ' 1 11 ' ' cs - 1 - 1 ' 1 111 as 11 1 ' as . , , . . ,, , . as 7 ' cs ' ' ' 11 , . an 1 ' - ' ' ' ra 1 ' 11 1 , , . . . , . . . . Q , . . . i V , . . , . 1 1 , as ' ' 11 ' ' ' ' cc 1 1 - v - , 1 11 9 1 - N . . . . . . . . . 1 - ' . . . . . ,, cc 11 ' ' 1 sc I Q 1 1 11 ' v 1. 4 C c , . . h , . , , - . . I . x . 1 f 1 A. I ' ' ' 1 11 , ' . ' ' 11- r1 X ' - I . . Y . . 1 1 --f f . - 1 f 1 1 . 14 .' ' - 1 . I ' . , . , ' .Ac . . . Y . , . . . , . , . . . - - . v . . . 5. . . ,, .