Besse High School - Breeze Yearbook (Albion, ME)

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WHO ARE WE TO SAY W to are we to may who are the best? Who are we to say what w1ll happen to the rest? Who are we to say what ts rtght and wrong? Who are we to say rf we ll be happy long? But we are Amerrcans and so we ll say Just lrve and let lrve whrle you may Ahce McK1el SKIING It rs very fun to skr And very stmple as can be Just stand up strarght Wrth head bent low And very soon you ll really go Rrght through the farmpond gate But keep on tryrng Just the same And pretty soon you ll learn the game Of how you turn and dodge and swung And turn the corners skrllfully Oh II s a very easy thrng' Marte Alexander 00 QPubl1shed rn Iwatronal Anthology of Htgh School Poetryy FALL The leaves are fallrng The wrnter wrnds are callmg Soon the snow vull be fallrng Csool september brtngs the fall When school beckons one and all Nlghts so frosty wet wrth dew Color leaves wtth every hue Red and yellow brrght as gold Soon wrll leave Us rn thc cold Mamne Bennett 61 1 1 A 1 . ,.. ' ' '58 r 11 ' ' V I And make the children shout with glee. 4 l

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doesn t mean we love them any more I thrnk I understand answered Joanre rn a small vorce holdrng the lrttle puppy close to her heart Mrs Henderson pard the proprretor and a few mrnutes later a very happy lrttle grrl walked down the street wrth two wonderful presents a lrttle puppy wrth a black button of a nose and a brg lesson rn the meanrng of love Audrey Drake 56 DANNY S TRAGEDY Mommy my head aches' These are the words that Danny s mother Mrs Nelson wrll always remember for they are the words that were spoken by her son the day he was strrcken wrth polro Lrttle Danny was but frve years old at the trme he was taken rll wrth thrs terrrble drsease Danny had always been a healthy lrttle boy for thrs reason when he complarned of not feelrng well he was rmmedrately taken to the doctor Of course Mr and Mrs Nelson felt very bad about therr son s sudden rllness but were told that rt was a very slrght case and that Danny would soon recover However as trme passed Danny became worse rnstead of better and had to be put rnto an rron lung After a long perrod of about seven months Danny slowly began to recover and was removed from the lung to be placed rn hrs home town hosprtal As a result of exercrsrng hrs muscles Danny became much stronger Each day he was lrfted gently rnto a wheel charr and wheeled out to the sun porch of the hosprtal How thrs de lrghted the lrttle fellow' Mom and Dad Nelson were joyous over therr boy s rmprov rng condrtron What a shock rt was when Danny s parents were told that therr son would never walk agarn But look how much better he rs' It can t be true How can we ever tell hrm thrs? These are the remarks whrch the doctor heard Mr and Mrs Nelson were told that rt would be best for them to tell therr son at once So Danny was rnformed that he would never be able to walk agarn He was so young that he drdn t take rt too hard as Mom and Dad encouraged hrm and ex plarned that he must be brave and make the best of hrs handrcap Thrs rs Just what Danny drd facrng hrs handrcaps wrth determrnatron and courage It was only a short trme before Danny was on crutches and managrng them wrth no trouble at all Today Danny Nelson rs a senror at hrgh school plannrng to go on to college thrs fall Danny rs one out of the mrllrons of chrldren who have been crrppled by thrs dread ful drsease For thrs reason I thrnk we should thank God that a vaccrne has been drs covered to prevent polro Chrrstrne Rackleff 59 1 u . u - n - - ' ' - 1 r . u r 1 1 1 n u 1 , . , - 1 Q Q n n , n , 1 . , . . 0 1 U I 9 n 1 ' . g n . - . . . . , . . . , . - n - u u 1 u u a . . . . ,, . . Q 4 . , - . , . . 1 Q , . u o e y ' s . . ,

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BESSE S BASKETBALL BOYS The Basketball Team of Besse Hrgh Won most rherr games wrthout a srgh Htgh scorer for thrs year was Brg Charlre Spearrrn Who from the srdehnes got a lot of cheerrn Guard Ronnre Lee rs next rn srght Who always puts up a very good frght Then there s Robert and Ronald the Lrttlefreld twrns Who drd thetr utmost to he p get wtns Next are the Marks brothers Ronald and Ray Though pretty farr players they seldom get A There s Everett Drake who has two more years To help thrs team have no fears Then there s Cookson whose frrst name s Mayo When on the floor he gets hrs kayo Then there s Raymond George and bcott by name Though rn therr Freshmen year play many a game Our coach rs Mr Audet and though he s only 5 6 When on the floor makes us boys look some stck Last are the managers Roy Ronald and Russell When work s to be done there s qurte a tussle And to us there S none better or so II seems Ronald Marks 5 THE FRESHMEN On the 6th of September last In came our Freshmen Class Before long a rec ptron came our way The Sophomores really gave us a day In lrpstrck red and burlap sacks We went through our paces and put on a good act Now I ll name us one by one You ll know us all before I m done Frrst comes Carleton a wrtty lad Always Jokmg and never sad Next rs Chrrstrne a tall lass Really smart wrth lots of class Then comes Dorothy another grrl She can really grve a basketball qurte a whrrl Now we have George really qurte tall If he should shp he d have a great fall Leota rs a grrl who lrves qurte far But soon makes rt rn her boyfrrend s car There rs also Lynda who rs a blonde Of all sports she rs very fond We have a Marrlyn F and a Marrlyn E From care and worry they are always free Now comes Mary rrght from the start Wrth a smrle on her face and a song rn her heart Well, that's the end of Besse's Basketball Team, ' 8