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Ue Megunticook PUBLISHED BY STUDENTS OF CAMDEN HIGH SCHOOL “The School first; personal honors last” lutentq, Annual Zdltlan CAMDEN, MAINE MAY, 19si MEGUNTICOOK BOARD Editor-in-chief............ Senior Assistant Editor . . . Senior Assistant Editor Senior Assistant Editor ... Junior Assistant Editor . .. Sports Editor (Girls)..... Sports Editor (Boys)....... Art Editor................. Alumni Editor.............. Exchange Editor............ Business Manager........... Assistant Business Manager ... Milton A. Christie, . .. .Betsy L. Wooster, .. .James F. McGrath, .Donald A. Laliberte, . .. .Ellen L. Donovan, .......Grace Galanti, . . . Albert B. Bennett, Christine 0. Plaisted, ....Parker S. Laite, .. . Doris M. Hopkins, ..Charles E. Masalin, .....Ronald F. Banks, ’51 ’51 ’51 ’51 ’52 ’51 ’51 ’51 ’51 ’51 ’51 ’52 EDITOR’S NOTE The staff of the Megunticook wish to thank the members of the faculty and the students of Camden High School who have contributed towards the completion of this yearbook. We also want to thank the mer- chants of Camden and neighboring towns for their loyal backing. We hope that you will enjoy the work of many C.H.S. students in this twenty-fourth edition of the Megun- ticook. DEMOCRACY What is democracy? Armies claim to “bring” it to nations. Politicians promise it. Communists denounce it as the “old, formalistic, common-per- sons” democracy of the West and pro- claim the “new people’s democracy” of the East. Everyone has a definition for a word that altogether too many of us take for granted. I believe that democracy is a word that all persons use and very few un- derstand. In the month of an election, to a candidate, it means his own par- ticular party or personal views, if he has any. In the United States it means government of the people, by the peo- ple, and for the people. It is the ideal of the plain, humble man who goes off to fight for his country when it is in trouble, goes to the polls at the appropriate time and places his cross on the ballot paper. Democracy is respect for the indi- vidual soul. It is the right of the ma- jority to rule and the mino u” criticize. It is the freedom men and women to learn f( selves and to act in cooperat others for the benefit of all. Many centuries ago, in the time of Plato, people saw democracy dying, totalitarianism gaining. But in the long run, history has proved dictator- ship is self-destructive.
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2 THE MEGUNTICOOK CAMDEN, MAINE MEGUNTICOOK BOARD Seated: Christine Plaisted, James McGrath, Betsy Wooster, Milton Christie, Ellen Donovan, Donald Laliberte. Standing: Grace Galanti, Ronald Banks, Charles Masalin, Parker Laite, Albert Bennett, Doris Mae Hopkins. One must have great respect for democracy and not use the word too indifferently. Our future jobs, our progress in the world—all these are endangered by the threat of Communism. Lest we descend to the level of Communists, do not let us rate democracy as if it were merely grabbing power and shooting those who do not agree with us. This is the antithesis of DEMO- CRACY! —Milton Christie, ’51 OUR GREATEST INHERITANCE Every day we take for granted one of the greatest inheritances fortune can bestow on us. That inheritance of which I speak is citizenship. I say we take for granted; I can easily say too, that we take advantage of this inheritance. We don’t realize how im- portant it is to our daily lives, but just let anyone take it away from us and we’d soon know it. Many of us would appreciate our citizenship more fully if we knew what is meant by this word. How many of us completely understand the wide scope this word covers and the great benefits we are entitled to because of it? In other words, what is citizenship? Webster defines it as “the status of a citizen with his rights and duties.” Now we must find the definition of a citizen—“a member, native or naturalized, of a state or na- tion.” Thus we learn that a person, native or naturalized, of a state or nation is a citizen and because of this he is entitled to certain benefits; he, in return, is expected to perform cer- tain duties. These benefits and duties are his citizenship. We have very few duties to perform for our country compared to the great privileges we have because of this citizenship. We automatically become citizens of the state in which we reside once we be- come a citizen of the United States; we shall have to find out how to be- come a citizen of this great nation. Most of us are lucky enough to in- herit this gift of citizenship and be- cause of this we don’t appreciate the
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