Camden High School - Megunticook Yearbook (Camden, ME)

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4 THEMEGUNTICOOK over today's international problems. They are the thinkers of the world and they are the leaders. Thought once awakened does not slumber. Once you have learned the process of thinking for yourself you will never be satisfied to let someone else do it for you. You may not be a leader, but you can show that you can think for your- self by choosing your leaders wisely. Before deciding what man you will follow, give serious thought to itg and choose the man that is the deepest thinkerg for he is the leader. Carlyle says, In every epic ofthe world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a think- er in the world. -Mlilton Christie, '51 WE CAN WIN Look what we have! We have a strong peace-loving na- tion. We have a strong people's gov- ernment. We have a competitive nation which is waiting for each and every one of us to show what we can do and do well. We are worth what we want to be. We can get out in the world and buck- le down and do something or we can lie around and be parasites off the work of others who are what we should be. To buckle down and work is very easy to say. It takes more than just talking about success to accomplish it. It takes determination and a true will to win. It takes a lot of courage to stick to a goal and obtain its divid- ends in full. Life will be tough for all of us if we really want to accomplish things worth whileg it will be even tougher if we try to accomplish these things in a dishonest way. In this great country of ours, work pays 05. It is not done in vain, and in the end the reward is great for a person with determination and the will to win. --Gilbert Laite, '50 pl ,iq X2 ' QR

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HEMEGUNTICOOK 3 - . .. . MEGUNTIICOOK BOARD Seated: Dirk Brown, Milton Christie, Lucille Talbot, Karen Hein, Carole Thomas. Standing: Alfred Eaton. Charles Dudley, Charles Masalin, Mary Connelly, Betty Thurston. basketball team is. If you lose a game you don't go crying in a corner, Knot if you are a good sportj so Why should you when things go wrong each day 7 After your school days are over and you are out in the world working for a living, you're going to run up against all kinds of people and condi- tions. That is when good sportsman- ship can be greatly measured. You can begin preparing for that day now. A truly good sport follows all the rules: basketball, baseball football, cards, studies and above all, life. -Lucille Talbot, '50 THINKING The slogan of one of the largest cor- porations in the United States is think,'. Placards on which are Writ- ten this Word confront employees at every turn. lt's a small word, but when we stop to realize how orten we use this word in daily conversation its significance looms large: I think begins many a sentence or 'tl clon't think , bold phrases, more often than not used unthinkingly. To train children to think for themselves is the chief aim of educa- tion. Many times throughout our schooling we have been given assign- ments of problems and writings and have wondered what ever prompted our teacher to give us that. Many times We have asked questions of our parents and we have received the an- swer: t'Use your own judgment. This is all part of the game of grow- ing up and learning not to be depen- dent on someone else to do the work for us. It's the thinkers of the world that are the leaders. Today's leaders did not attain their prestige by someone else doing their work. Everyone has seen pictures of men of all nations seated around long tables arguing

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THEMEGUNTICOOK 5 f .X ff .f ' 791 .fy ' Y Wagvz ff X . if .QL 7 I , f 'Q i' 13' Nearly four years ago ithirty-six months, to be exactl a strange. awe- ful group of children entered Camden High School. After a few weeks of getting adjusted, the mighty seniors invited us up to the main room. They taught us the school song and in- formed us that during our two-day initiation we must be able to sing it to any senior who so requested. This was only the beginning! When it was all over, though, we felt much more a part of things and the seniors were really very understanding. Somehow we d'idn't seem to accomplish much, except for having fun, the first year. We did manage to have a picnic dur- ing graduation week, however. We had big ideas the next year. We looked down from our domain, the main room, at the poor freshmen and were thankful we had passed that stage. A class meeting was held to elect two new class officers and ano- ther student council representative. Later an Intramural Council was formed and we contributed four able members. The Snow Bowl was the scene of a wonderful party that win- ter. It was the sophomores finally be- having themselves and accomplishing something. We were juniors! The back of the main room was all ours! Would we go to Washington? We certainly would! We had food sales as often as possible and in October we had a x7bi,DLf?f Hayseeders' Ballu which was such a success that we said we would have another the next fall. Then, of course, our Junior Prom. Another success! What if we did make only 3518.05- we had fun! Always ahead of us was one goal, a Washington trip, and al- ways behind us was Miss Keating, pushing us on. Oh, that glorious day in May when we chose our class rings! We didn't see how we could possibly wait for them until October, but it was well worth it. Soon came June and graduation. How wonderful to march with the seniors! And as we sat in the front rows of the Opera House watching our good friends, the '49ers, receive their diplomas, we all felt a strange sense of realization come upon us. One year from now are will be up there doing the very same thing! We will be graduating! September 1949 came at last. Se- niors! Oh, those poor little freshmen! Did we actually ever look so small and insignificant? Although we weren't allowed to give them the same sort of treatment we had received, the fresh- men proved to be wonderfully good sports and we all had lots of fun. Our first real excitement came with Jack- son-White who took our pictures. Then our rings came, and also our proofs. VVe were really living the busy lives of seniors. Gosh, it was fun! We carried out our plans re- garding another Hayseeders' Ball