Brooksville High School - Breeze Yearbook (Brooksville, ME)

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4 THE BREEZE F112 Srnrnr 0112155 SENIOR CLASS Front row Bernez Black Beulah Black Avls Dow Eunice Grindle Middle row Merle Orcutt Phyllis Grey Clair Kennedy Back row Donald Blodgett Richard Howard John Bakeman JOHN BAKEMAN Johnny Class W1ll Baseball 1 2 3 4 Basket ball 3 4 Semor Play 3 4 Class PYGSI dent 1 2 3 4 Edltorlal 3 4 Track 4 BERNEZ BLACK Bernez IBEULAH BLACK Beula Prophecy Senior Play 1 2 3 4 Secre tary and Treasurer 1 2 3 4 DONALD BLODGETT Don Hlstory Senlor Play 4 Baseball 2 3 4 Basketball 3 4 Ed1tor1al 4 Student Councll 4 AVIS DOW 'Avls Hlstory Senlor Play 3 4 Edltorlal 4 PHYLLIS GREY Tlllle Prophecy Semor Play 2 3 4 Basket ball 4 Glee Club 4 EUNICE GRINDLE Peggy Salutatory Senior Play 3 4 Edltorlal RICHARD HOWARD Duck Class Wlll Baseball 2 3 4 Semor Play 4 VICE Presldent of Class 1 2 3 4 CLAIR KENNEDY Clau' Va1ed1ctory Ed1tor1a1 4 Student Coun c11 4 Glee Club 4 MERLE ORCUTT Merle Presentatlon of Glfts Basketball 4 Track 4 Glee Club 4 Merle Tapley Class Ed1tor o 5. - I . 1 4' . .M ,A 4 1 1 n 1 1 - T Y 1 A 1 I l ' sc 93 u ' ' 9: 1 s y a s ' 7 9 1 '- , y Q , Y 1 , I - 1 - Y Y Y Y 3 Y Y Y Y ' sc sn U 9' 7 v 2 Presentation of glftsg Senior Play, 1, 3, 45 ' ' sa ' as U hn . 9 , , , 5 J J v r y 1 ' - ' - ' Y Y Y Y Y Y ' Y Y Y Y ' rc ' n ,, n a p Y Y Y - Y y 3 1 v 1 'y y - I y , Q , 1 ' ' H as I , S A ' as . 7 1 y - 2 , y 2 y - - , .

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THE BREEZE Publ1shed by the Students of Brooksvxlle Hlgh School SOUTH BROOKSVILLE MAINE JUNE 1937 1 I2 ll in ll EDITORIAL BOARD First row Madeline Babbld e Assistant Editor Avis Dow Exchange Editor Eunice Grindle Alumni Editor Second row Malcc m Blodgett Personal Editor Merle Tapley Class Editor John Bakeman Business Manager Donald Blodgett Assistant Business Manager Clalr Kennedy Editor ln Chief EDITORIAL We the edltorlal staff of The Breeze the magazlne of the Brooksvllle Hlgh School wlsh to thank teache s frlends students advert1sers and all those who have assxsted mn the publ1cat1on of thls 1ssue of The Breeze We feel that this year has been suc cessful both ln scholastlc matters and ln school act1v1t1es Several new orgamza t1ons have fbeen formed namely The Glee Club the Gxrls Basketball Team and our organ1zat1on for student govern ment The Brooksvllle Cooperatlve As soclatlon Our teachers have aroused mterest and cooperation of students to take part 1n many ex ra currlcula act1v1t1es Our school was represented ln the Spear State Speakmg Contest at Ellsworth and ap proxlmately fifty per cent of the stu ldents were ln competltlon with other schools at the Bestocca The new courses Home Economlcs and MUSIC Appreclatlon have proved very successful and also beneiiclal Students who have taken these subJects feel that thelr tune has been well spent We wxsh to thank the school commlttee and the taxpayers for makmg these courses pos slble 1 v 1 5 fx, , is ul? L 2 4 ' A , t A l , Q - A T 'fa , ,- ,. ,L - S , I , I , . - '1 . 2 , I , I , 1 , - - . , . . A V . M - ' - ' L . . . . A. - Q . A -W . . r L v 1 1 1 - , . ! . ,, M. . . , . , I ' . , . ! , - .

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IIIF BIN III Qlttrrnrg HURRICANE ISLAND The smoke now hung 1n clouds and all that was V1Slb16 of the Old Shop was the brrghtenmg glow of old Eds p1pe as he brlskly puffed away on It Now as a rule the even1ng was started off by a nxce horrlble ghost was drfferent for after hlS contmuous blasts on h1s old p1pe blasts whlch caused the bowl to fa1rly glow he began tell 1ng of an rsland rn lower Penobscot bay that only forty years ago was the s1te of la huge granlte mdustry The rslancl he Sald had a populatron of over five hun dred people a church and two large hotels but now not a smgle buxldrng IS story but tonxght lt The strange tale settled on the mlnds of everyone and before we left that evemng It was declded that We form a party ln the near future for a boatlng tr1p to thrs strange place The tr1p to the lsland was all of thlrty m1les but lt was new and lnterestlng and we were soon passrng through Leadbetter s Narrows Wh1Ch are but a short dlstance from the lsland As we bore down on the xsland we could see hundreds of cellars and ruins and as we came to a stop 1n front of the huge wharf of gran1te and trmber that could easrly have served for some of our larger ocean golng vessels we were greeted by some fisher folk who offered to show us a moor1ng place and to help us ashore Immedrately after land1ng we had lunch and then wrth shouts and laugh ter we all set out to explore the lsland Slnce there were about thlrty tive of us ln the party we broke up mto small groups and attacked the lsland from all sides The first thlng my cousxn Fred and I saw were the rums of the town We stood there and wondered what could have been the cause for such a complete deser t1on of such a flne lxttle town Some of the cellars st11l bore sta1rcases doors plaster and odds and ends of furnlture 1n fact one member of our party found a broken v1ol1n As we strolled through the lanes and streets now grown up w1th grass we could v1sual1ze the town as It must have looked not many years before w1th 1ts came upon the foundatlons and cellars of the two hotels the smaller of wh1ch measured at least thlrty by one hundred and fifty feet These burldmgs must have been made of brrck for the rulns consrsted chrefly of thrs materlal After carefully explorlng these my cousm and I cllmbed he huge granlte cllffs that rose maJest1cally from the waters edge On reachmg the top we could see the surf poundlng 1n on the ledges below and amld the norse of the w1nd and surf one could almost hear the vorces of the men that worked there so long ago Then we slowly descended to the quar ry and were gazlng at 1ts beautlful huge pure Whlte granlte Walls r1s1ng abruptly from the depths of the cool blue water that now fills lt when my cousin spled a small granite slab that through all these years had held up a pile of 1tS brothers f ' u 5 z , J 5 r . . . , . I ' ' ! 7 7 y . 1 . t- . ' I , , . in - ' y - 7 . 9 7 left standing. many houses and its church. Then we , s . . . ' Y ' , - . y . , v f , - , . . I