Bridgton High School - Corona Yearbook (Bridgton, ME)

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DEDICATION It is with grvat plaaszrrcf that tlzv stmlazzts of Bridgton High School dvdicatc the 1911 FlI'I'fl.0ll of THE CORONA to Miss Laura Baker, our Iauguagv lf'l1l'flt'?', who has been with ns for cz great 1llllllI71'I' of yvars. IVF fra! that this is tha Icast we ran do to show our app1'm'iation and gratitude for tha things 5110 has Ul'l'0lllf'I1'S1lt'd for us.

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M Cfiahlr nf Glnnivntn Dedication Editorials : The Need of Education in War Time ....... Post-War Educational Planning ......... Senior Section . ....... ...... Literary : Smugglers ................ Scrappily Married The Night Before Marooned ..... Exams ..... Double Death ....... Short Poems ....... Sports .......................... Bridgton Service Men School Notes .............. Jokes ........... Alumni , .......

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THE CORO A Vljzclzlislzcrriilvyije7SI1lde1ztsifTfIBii1gtgo2iWIffighrbfrlzohlW9 H Egidgtou, Maine 1 june, 1944 gpg g Vg g Price 35 Cents THE CORONA STAFF Ed1'tor-in-Clz1'cf DONAI.D I . GAMMON, '44 BIISIIJIFXS Manager ELAINE CRAIG, '44 . fS5I'.Yf01If Editor VVYVERN SMITH, '45 Assistalif BIISIIIZFSS Jllanagcr THOMAS SKELTON, JR., '45 Associate Editors EIARGARET XVENTWORTH, '44 TDONALD COCKBIIRN, '44 ELI KROOT, '45 LAURA DRISKELL, '45 CONSTANCE CROssMAN, '46 LLEWELYN lX'IOl'I.TON, '46 MELVIN HOIITILIER, '47 VVINIFRED HILTON, '47 4 hitnriztla gg THE NEED OF EDUCATION IN WAR TIME The education of boys and girls in war time is very essential. They should learn to get along on less than they are now, in other words, learn to economize. Some of the boys who are graduating will go directly from school into the serv- ice: Others will probably go into war work. The more education you have now, the better chance of getting ahead in your work you will have later on. The parents should encourage their children to study more and do less fooling, to make sure their child's school work is done before considering whether he should go to the movies or not. There are many young men aIId women who have not yet finished school who are leaving and going into war work. I think something should be done about it. Boys and girls should not be allowed to leave school and go to work, unless it is abso- lutely necessary. The young people are seeing how much money there is to be made in the war plants and they leave school to go to work. Then there is the question of the par- ents who work on the night shift in war plants and leave their children at home to run loose up and down the streets. Sooner or later the child is going to get himself into serious trouble running wild the way he is. There should be a stop put to all of this. There should be some recreational centers in the cities and towns to take up the young people's mind, but if the par- ents must work on the night shift, they should leave their children in good hands. lVhen the young people get so that they are earning a lot of money, they feel that they can do just about as they want to do. They begin to go out. They go to night clubs, dances, liquor joints, and the like. After a short time of this kind of life the child's mind becomes weak and helpless and they begin to do things that they ordi- narily wouldn't have done if they had been properly watched over by their parents or guardians. After this war. it is our generation that will be running the government. XVe have got to make sure that we are prepared to take over this task. Some of us students will go farther on in school and get a wider knowledge of the work that we will have to take Over. In future years there will he the prob- lem of re-building the war-torn countries. It is our duty to help them. If it wasn't for those countries we would have QQ