Central Aroostook High School - Arostookan Yearbook (Mars Hill, ME)

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-,-.Y UNIVERSITY OF MAINE TRIP Last June our F,F,A, judging team was outstanding by winning the Grand Champion- ship at the University of Maine. The boys that represented our chapter and the contests they were in are as follows: Roland Foster--rope work, crop and weed identificadon, and potato diseases, Vaughn Bridges--rafter cutting. Ervin Smith--poultry judging, crop and weed identification, and potato diseases. Vernon Delong--cattle judging. Gary Allen--cattle judging. At 7:30, the morning of June 29, five A.C.l, Future Farmers who were picked from our chapter by holding chapter contests left to represent us at the U. of M. for the State F, F,A, convention. We arrived there about 10:30, registered and went to our rooms. By that time dinner was ready in the cafeteria. After dinner the first state meeting was held. It seemed good to see two of our graduates seated in the officers chairs. Gary Bell State Reporter and Gary McCrurn, State Treasurer. After the first meeting the contests started and continued for the next day and a half. The F, F,A. Speaking Contest was held the evening of the first day. After the speaking contest all of the Future Farmers were given all the ice cream they could eat. After all the ice cream was stowed away, Mr. Whitaker took us to Bangor for a while, then we went back to the U. of M. and went to bed as the next day was to be a hard one. After the contests were all over we all gathered at the cafeteria for the annual F,F,A, banquet and were welcomed by President Hauck and Dean Deering after which Governor Muskie addressed us. After the eating and speaking was over, the awards were presented. Our chapter won S100 for farm safety, Vernon Delong and Gary Allen took top honors and brought home the cup in cattle judging, When Dean Libby arouse to present the grand championship. To our surprise and pleasure, we were awarded a large plaque. After the applause and con- gratulations were over we were just about to leave when a representative from the Wirthmore Feeds Company came up to us, congratulated us and announced that we had just won a trip to Boston to see a big league ball game, It was a happy bunch of boys that arrived home about 11:30 that night. It's a grand feeling to be on top when you have done something worth while and through your own efforts and the efforts of the teams. DEEP SEA FISHING TRIP Friday night after the Senior Play at 12:00 P,M. , 33 Future Farmers, Mr. Whitaker, Mr. Thomas, and Mr. Curtis left Mars Hill for a Deep Sea Fishing Trip in our F.F.A, bus. Our destination was Ionesport where we had three boats chartered to take us out in the ocean to fish. The boats were owned by Ieriah Beals whose boys were such good basketball players from there. We arrived at Jonesport at 6:00 in the morning and woke up the restaurant proprietor who soon had a good breakfast for us. We saw porpoises leaping out of the water and Donnie Marcoux said he saw a whale. Gary Allen seemed to be the productive fisherman catching two fish at one time. Richard Caldwell caught the largest fish. We were successful in keeping our seasickness at the minimum with the aid of plenty of seasick pills for all. Ervin Smith was chief photographer and got some interesting pictures of boys sleeping, fishing, etc, We arrived home at 6 P,M, Every one was tired out but agreed that they had a good time and wanted to go again.

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Ari 75 ff T of' fo Q ll I QQ 1,10 , -,' rdf ' I . .N .PRX AR' 'IZ o' '4' F.F.A. First row, left to right: I. Clayton, D. Mullen, T. Tilley, R. Blanchard, A. Smith, D. Collins, E, Smith, V. Bridges, M. Townsend, W. Durost. Second row: Mr. Whitaker, F. Buckley, A. Fletcher, R. Durost, H. Cliff, H. Beals, A. Shaw, D. Larrabee. Third row: R. Curtis, F. Dear- born, A. Smith, C. Burlock, R. Curtis, R. Caldwell. This year we opened our first meeting with the following officers in charge: President ---------- DALE COLLINS Reporter --------- VAUGHN BRIDGES Vice President - - - - ADRIAN D. SMITH Sentinel - - - - - TOMMY 'I'lLLEY Secretary ---- ---- E RVIN SMITH Advisor - - - - C. P. WHITAKER Treasurer ------- ROBERT BLANCHARD This has been a very successful year for our F.F.A. On April 2, .we went to the district meeting at Fort Kent. We bought an F, F.A. bus from the Houlton School Department. On August 10, we had an F,F,A. exhibit at the Northern Maine Fair. Our chapter took top honors on our exhibit. December 3, we attended another district meeting and afterwards saw the Lincoln and A,C.l basketball game, We also won a trip to Boston sponsored by the Wirthmore Feeds Company. While we were there we saw a major league baseball game between the Yankees and the Red Sox. Later in the year two of our members, Gary Allen and Vernon Delong went to Springfield Mass. to the Eastern States Exhibition where they placed 6th in the North Atlantic Region Dairy Cattle judging contest. Gary Allen was the high individual cattle judge for the North Atlantic Region. Vernon Delong is the Vice President of the Northern District and Dale Collins is the State Farmer in Maine, We plan in the future to have a Green Hand Initiation and show a film 'Ma and Pa Kettle Go - to Town' which will be a Christmas present from the agriculture department to the school. Sponsored by SUMMERS FERTILIZER COMPANY

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BOSTON TRIP The morning of August 16, at 6 A,M, , Ervin Smith, Vaughn Bridges, Roland Foster, Gary Allen, Robert Blanchard and Vernon Delong left Mars Hill en route to Boston. At Houlton we met Foster Gordon, local service man for Wirthmore Feeds who was to take his car and go with us. Our first stop of importance was at the State House. Our next stop was Hallowell where we had dinner. Foster Gordon was termed the man with the 'big pocket-book. He said, Order anything you want boys and we sure did, everything from fried chicken to lobster casserole and it certainly was good. The Worcester House is said to be one of the very best places in Maine to eat and it must be, Soon we were sailing down the Maine Turnpike with the little blue Ford of Gordon's leading the way. About four o'c1ock we arrived at the Wirthmore headquarters in Malden. Here we went through the laboratories and circulation departments. We were very much impressed with experiments they were conducting in feeding poultry and some of the equipment they were using. They had scales so accurate that they could weigh a person's name written on a piece of paper. The doctor that took us through the laboratory was very interesting to listen to and we learned a lot. From now on, a young fellow which we liked very much, by the name of Bob Lewis was to be our host for the Wirthmore Co. He guided us to the Hotel Parker where we had the best rooms. As soon as we were settled and cleaned up it was supper time. Bob took us to the famous old eating place Durgin St Parks near Faneuil Hall in Boston to eat, Just as soon as supper was over, we took taxis to Fenway Park to see a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. It was a great game to watch. There were seven home runs and something exciting happened every minute. The ball park was completely filled. There wasn't a seat or standing room anywhere. It is hard for one to imagine so many people, nearly 40, 000 in one group. After the game was over we took taxis back to the Parker House. Some of the boys went to bed, others wanted to see more of Boston so they went sight-seeing. The next morning after breakfast we went to the John Hancock Building and went to the observation floor near the top where we got a real look at Boston. It wasn't until there that we realized the size of the huge city. After that we went back to Malden and visited the very modern and interesting grain mill. We were guided through the mill by the superintendent who was a former Maine man. He did a grand job in telling us about the quality of the feeds, machinery, and their quality control program. After we were there at the mill we started home. We stayed at the Pine Cone Motel at Kennebunk that night. The boys went swimming at Kennebunk Beach. It was the first time some of them had been in the salt water of the ocean. They enjoyed the swim- ming and diving through the huge breaking waves so much they hated to leave. When we arrived at Portland we went down to the wharves. We saw an English Frigate and a large coal boat, They had radar, automatic steering, and wireless telephone. They also had something to tell how deep the water was under the boat, After leaving Portland we drove quite steadily as we were anxious to get home, We had a wonderful time and hope we can be champs again.