Crosby High School - Keystone Yearbook (Belfast, ME)

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Che Keystone dditorials EDITORIAL BOARD Editor- in-Chief Assistants Business Managers Activity Editors Sports Writers Alumni Humor Senior Editors junior Reporter Sophomore Reporter Freshman Reporter Natalie Harding Laura Rogers Belle Vose Donald Barnes Edward Stone Shirley Vaughan Perham Amsden Florence Young Edwin Merrill Nell Doak Priscilla Bryant Robert Blanchard Grace Davis Albert Weymouth Lydia Dulfer Lois Weymouth Joyce Smith Eighth Grade Barbara Wentworth Wayne Webber Seventh Grade Hope Tower Erwin Clements Typists Shirley Johnson Arlene Tweedie Anne Piper Louise Douglass Advisors Mrs. Erma Fletcher Mrs. Annie Brown F. Lawrence Stuart wk ik lk REFLECTION Gradually, as we near maturity, we are likely to rouse more frequently out of the morphia of adolescence to see how the world is coming along. The sad part of it is that we very 'often are unable to awaken so thoroughly to the problems about us as to accomplish any worthwhile end. Such was the case of one of our nearby student editors a few years ago. The editor had chosen as a topic the cause and effect of this wardat least that seemed to be the idea at firstdand I was immediately interested. However, as the article neared its close, the writer suddenly paled in enthusiasm by presenting a rather superficially factual resume. Right now, since I think the matter is one of vital importance for people in our generation to consider, I would like to pre- sent my own conclusion. This war is said to be based on the idea that, although we won the war tin 19183, we did not win the peace. The theory has its points, but in view of the events of the last five years, I hardly see how any intel- ligent person could give them particular credence. We did not win anything, if by saying we, we assume to be speaking of the U. S. A., but we helped our allies-mater- ially, financially, and physically-to win the fight and then we allowed them to take the peace and either keep it or throw it away, while we retired to our comfortable isolation- ism feeling sure that the war to end all war had been successful, that our posterity would be secure. Actually, we had helped, at Versailles, to formulate a monster which, a generation later, was strong enough to rise against us, merely because we were duped by the notion that words and wishful thinking could make eternal and universal Liberty a fact. All right, we have seen now that world conflict and mass slaughter of humans can be repeated when people lax their vigilance. So it is your job and mine, when this war is over, to make certain that we remember why we had it and the terror of it, that it may never happen again. Let us never again sink into that lethargic state of complacency which so often blinds us to reality, for truly, Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty. Seven

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fC'57ze Keysfione 60 the Service Men of '44 Our class is proud to have so many boys in the service of our country. It has been a great loss to us in number, but we feel that no other loss would be for such a worthy cause. Therefore, we dedicate this page to those of our class who are now serving in the armed forces of the United States of America, both here and abroad. , We don't know what to send youg i We don't know what to write, We do know that it's very hard , When lads we love must fight. We're with you all the time, Though this may seem untrue, In mind, if not in body We're very close to you. We try to picture where you are And if you're strong and well, So many things we'd like to ask, But realize you cannot tell. Though you're a Sailor or Marine, Infantryman, or Bombardier In a country,--God knows where, We hope that He is watching, And plans your life with care. And when this war is over, As we pray it soon will be, You know that we'll be waiting Your smiling face to see. -Grace Davis '44 Our sailors are Frank Willis, Daniel Small, Mac Vaughan, Harold Young, Horace Bailey, Gilbert Bird, Malcolm Carver, Kenneth Mc- Leod, and Halson Thomas. Our soldiers are Walter Gee, Anthony Smith, Raymond Bachelder, Jack Stanhope, and Barbara Hichborn, a W.A.C. Walter is with our forces in northern Ire- land. We remember him as one of our most efficienthphotographerseFrank has finished his boot training and is serving on board ship -Buckwheat, our favorite football player, is in EnglandfDaniel Small has been in the hospital but isilnow well, and has been home on leavefMac is somewhere in the Pacific area-Gil and Malcolm have been training at the Castine Maritime School and are now on their cruise -Harold Young is overseasw Ray, our Gene Krupa, is in the Army. We wonder how many times he's been on K.P.e Horace Bailey has been in the European area for some time-At midyears one of our girls, Barbara Hichborn, joined the W.A.C.'s. We also have five senior boys in the ser- vice attending school untilgraduation. They are Donald Barnes and Eugene Grant of the Army Air Corps, Albert Weymouth, Jr. and Thomas Wight in the U.S. Navy. Allen Horne has passed the exams preparatory to entering the Maine Maritime Academy at Castine which he will enter upon graduation. 511'

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fC'57ze Keystone Keystone 'Board ' 11- .wx is. if Seated. left to right, Anne Piper, Louise Douglass. Donald Barnes. Belle Vose. Natalie Harding. Laura R ogers Edward Stone. Shirley johnson, Arlene Tweedie. Standing, left to right, Shirley Vaughan, Mr. Grindle, Lydia Dulfer. Albert Weymouth, Florence Young. Joyce Smith, Lois Weymouth, Nell Doak, Priscilla Bryant. Robert Blanchard, Grace Davis. Perham Amsden. Mrs. Brown. YOL' AND YOUR RECORD The office girl has just sorted the morning mail and deposited the usual stack on the corner of this desk. As I hastily sort it, com- mitting a good part of it to the waste paper basket, I have several first class letters that need immediate attention and should be of interest to you. The first letter I start to answer sends me to the safe to the record book of the class of 1928. It appears that John Smith, who graduated with that class, entered military service shortly after Pearl Harbor, saw ac- tion in several major battles, and received wounds necessitating his discharge. He has applied for further educational training at the government's expense and this letter calls for a copy of his High School Record. Not only is it a pleasure to state that John graduated near the top of his class with a good four year average, but that his teachers had reported him as being serious of purpose, self-reliant, and conscientious. Other things being equal, John will be allowed to take that training program at government expense. The next letter calls for information about Mary Jones. She is now in Connecticut and has applied for work in a defense industry. I have received so many of these forms the Iz'1'ghI