Crosby High School - Keystone Yearbook (Belfast, ME)

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DI Lu Hey Dilly, hi Dilly, ho Dilly, oh, Hey Dilly, hi Dilly, Dilly Monroe. on ---- The notes that you wrote and then threw on the floor, That algebra quiz that you flunkedg The wrappers of candy you ate on the sly, The stub of a pencil you junkedg Oh, Dilly will sweep them and gather them up, And carry them off to destroy, He'll brush up that spitball and chalk that you threw As your neighbors you tried to annoy. Oh, some men may work on an overtime shift, To finish an airplane or gun, u And house work is famed for its phoenixlike traits, A woman's work never is done. But D11ly's far worse off than any of these. For they've got some limit, at least, The extra shift ends when the whistle is blown, At evening the housework is ceased. But Dill has a gang of 500 or more, To clean for and sweep for. And then As soon as he's finished, the kids come along And he has to start over again! So ---- Sing hey for our Dilly, his straw hat and broom. Sing hey Dilly, hi Dilly, oh, Sing hey Dilly, hey Dilly, yea Dilly for Theodore nDil1yn Monroe! Priscilla Bryant '44 THE JANITOR'S POINT OF VIEW The janitor of a school is like a ship on the ocean, in it but not of itg so his viewpoint must be a little different from the average. But on one subject we all agree and that is the ne- cessity for a good education. Now, maybe if we stay in Belfast, we can get along all right without it, but we probably won't stay in Belfast. I have seen four classes graduate while I have been here, fine boys and girls, but I don't know where they are now. They've gone away to work, and so will you. So every one of you ought to be on the honor roll at least once a year. I know you could if you tried, and you would if you knew how much it means to you--don't be a- fraid of knowing too much--If you learn all that Mr. Jellison can teach you, you won't be an Einstein. And if you want to be a second Eddie Rickenbacker you will have to know more than Mr. Rhoades' course in pre-flight aeronautics. THE KEYSTGNE

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TO THE CLASS OF 1943 For thirteen years we have been traveling along this educa- tional road. The hope has always been present that you have been gathering all the opportunities that have been set before you. It has been hard at times to make you realize the importance of this. But to make a very delicate machine requires precision and much pains. This will be admitted as a fact by all. But what can be more delicate than our control system that governs every act that we com it and every thought that we express? This has been your task for the first steps of your education, and I hope that you will not be found wanting. Now! my wish is that you will make good! Don't explain! Do the thing that you are expected to do! Don't waste time in giving reasons why you didn't, or couldn't, or wouldn't, or shouldnft. If I hire you to cook for me I expect my chops and baked po- tatoes on time, done to a turn and appetizingg I am not interest- ed in thc butcher's mistake, nor the stove's defect, nor in the misery of the left arm. I want food, not explanations. If I hire you to take care of my automobile, or factory, or shirtwaist counter, I do not want to hear why things are half doneg I want results. This is cold, cruel, heartless talk. It is -- to all second-raters and shirkers. But to real men it is joy and glad- ness. They rejoice to make good themselves, they expect others to make good, and they like to hear preached the gospel of making good. Remember the story of the three servants that received their talents, five, two and one, respectively. On their master's re- turn they all rendered account of their stewardship. The first two had doubled their capital. Each of them said so in fourteen words, and their work was pronounced, uwell done, good and faith- ful servant.n Servant number three had accomplished absolutely nothing, but he made report in forty-two words, three times as long as the others in their report. There you have it. The less you do the more you explain. EFFICIENCY-- Learn the word by heart. Get to saying it in your sleep. Of all the joys on this terrestrial sphere, there is none quite so soul-satisfying and so one-hundred-per-centish as MAKING GOOD. Do your work a little better than any one else could do it. That is the margin of success. nMaking good needs no foot-notes, Failure requires forty-two words.n SUPERINTENDENT H. s. n READ I I THE KEYSTONE

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It's a lot of fun for me to be here among you even if you do make a lot of unnecessary work for me at times, but you just try to get on that honor roll, and the more times you make it, the easier it will be for me. Well educated people don't make extra work for others. The expense of carrying on our school is a heavy burden on your fathers and mothers, but it is money well spent if you boys and girls take full advantage of what Crosby has to offer--that means get on that honor rollg otherwise it's good money wasted. As I come in contact with you every day I can't help knowing that you are smart kids. So let's try to make Pa and Ma, the faculty, Mr. Annas, ourselves, and the janitor happy. How? By getting on the honor roll, that's how--you know how Ma is, she meets Mrs. next door neighbor in the A. R P. and says, nGeel Bill's doing awful good in his studies. He's on the honor ro1l.n You bet she's proud. She knows you're smart. All you have to do is prove it. That's the way it looks to your Janitor Dill. SERIOUS THOUGHTS We of Crosby realize there is a war going on, we realize that in order to win it, it is necessary for all of us to work and sweat and make huge sacrifices. We have realized this for some time, but mostly with a sense of vagueness and confusion. Somehow or other with the battlefields in far off lands, it is hard to conceive of our home and school life as a field of action as important as North Africa, Wake Island, and Guadalcanal. We have been buying war stamps, helping in the scrap drives, vol- unteering for messengers and airplane spotters--but still the war and our part to help win it has been far off. That is, far off until the bombshell exploded in our midst. Mr. Annas, our beloved principal, teacher, and friend was leav- ing--resigning from his office of seven years to go elsewhere. we were somewhat stoned, however, by our fortune in bovfno Mme Lawrence Stuart as our new principal. He is a man who has had e- leven years of teaching experience and has come to Crosby well recommended in his profession. Before coming to Crosby, he was principal of Pemetic High School in Southwest Harbor. He has been active in many organizations and held many offices, among them the presidency of the New England Drama Council 1942- 45, vice-president of the Hancock County Teachers' Association 1942- 45, and a member of the New England Council of principals from the Maine Principals' Association 1942-44. With this as his background, we feel sure that Mr. Stuart will prove an apt successor to Mr. Annas and will go a long way in making Crosby one of the finest schools in the state, if all of us will lend a hand in easing Mr. Stuart over the rough spots which all unfamiliar positions develop. By doing thus we stu- dents shall be helping win the war, for a smooth working educa- tional system is an important part in keeping faith in our gov- ernment. So to you, Mr. Stuart, we say, nwelcome to Crosby.n Your Editor '43 THF KEYSTONE