Caribou High School - Reflector Yearbook (Caribou, ME)

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NVTRITION CLASSES

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THE REFLECTOR 23 BOYS' BAND The Caribou Boys' Band was first organized in October, 1925, under the sponsorship of the Rotary Club. About fifty enthusiastic boys attended this meeting. The first few meetings were presided over by members of the Rotary Club, as the band had as yet no instructor. Instruction books were ordered, and ways of making money to pur- chase instruments were discussed. After much discussion it was de- cided that the band should collect old tires and sell them. Mr. Hendershot, who organized and perfected the Presque Isle Boys' Band was secured as instructor. He immediately had the band begin practicing exercises. In March, 1926, Mr. Samuel F. Parlin of this town took Mr. Hen- dershot's position. Under his direction the band began to play real music, and pro- gressed so rapidly that it was able to play for the Memorial Day ser- vices. In August they went for a week's outing to Mr. Parlin's camp at Bog Lake, near Machias, While there they practised every day, and on the way home they played at Machias, Eastport, and Calais. As a result of their visit, bands were organized in these towns. The following winter a high school band was organized from the Boys' Band. This band practised diligently during the Winter and spring, having morning rehearsals in addition to the special rehear- sals. The boys progressed so rapidly that they were able to enter the band contest at the New England Music Festival held in Boston. From this contest they brought back a silver mounted baton, a drum case, and a music case filled with music as prizes for the band making tho best appearance, conducting itself with the best behavior, and 'trav- eling the farthest to reach the contest. This spring the high school band entered the Maine State Music Contest, at Waterville. The boys received a silver cup for second frize in Class B. While in Waterville they stayed at the fraternitiy houses of Colby College. Q, During its existance, the band has been financed by the Caribou Rotary Club. This money was used to buy music and the less popular iastruments and to pay expenses. All the progress that the band has made is due to the direction of Mr. Parlin, who is directing the boys out of an unselfish spirit of service, for the money payment which he receives is too small to be of any account. Mr. Parlin does not commercialize his talent, but uses it for recreation purposes only at present, though in the World War he plavcd in an army band.

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THE REFLECTOR 25 NUTRITION CLASSES The nutrition work, introduced into Caribou schools last spring by Dr. Wm. R. P. Emerson of Boston, Mass., has been continued with good results in the high school this year, Four nutrition classes were organized on April 12 with an enrollment of thirty members in the Senior High and five members in the Junior High Shcool. The aim of the classes has been to make physically fit those who, through faulty food or health habits, sickness, continued over- fatigue, or physical defects, have fallen below their weight for height and have become physically unfit for their present tasks or future careers. In the classes, has been stressed the importance of regular habits of living, and at the weekly meetings, charts, showing the gains or losses made and the individual's food or health habits, have been discussed with the students and their parents. Each boy and girl was asked to have mid-morning and mid-after- noon lunches, rest periods before dinner and supper, and to hand in each week a two-day list of food taken, of which definite records were kept. Other suggestions for gaining included early bed hour, late rising 17:00 A. M.J, prevention of overfatigue due to overwork, overplay, worry over studies, etc., social activities. Arrangements were made whereby all those in the Nutrition Classes have had their lunches, and those who remained at school at noon, their rests at school. Those who regularly went home were excused from clafses twenty minutes early to go home for the morning rest. Very good co-operation from the students in carrying out the nutrition program was evidenced throughout the duration of the class, and their interest in gaining was sincere. Acknowledgement is also made of the splendid eiort and interest of those in charge of the classes: Senior High School, Miss Farrington and Miss Keating, Junior High School, Mrs. Thibideau. Although the duration of the class has been too short to permit as detailed a study of each case as is necessary to obtain the best re- sults and consequently there have been some net losses which lower the averages for the classes, if we are to judge by the improvement in the appearance of the majority of those enrolled, or by the ex- pression of the students or parents of benefit received, then we may call the classes successful.