Deer Isle High School - Gatherer Yearbook (Deer Isle, ME)

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GIRLS' BASKETBALL rout. row: Mr. Blkll1k'l1ill'Cl. P. Knight. Eaton. R. Billings. P. Spofforcl. and S. Howurm vconfl row: B. Joyfc. M. llurcly. E. Eaton. Hzlskvll. B. Pvrvz. R. Haskvll. N. Colwvll and G. Woodman. CHEERLEADERS Km-L-ling in front. lxl'01ll ll-ft to right: P. l'0w1'1's. :xml R. Billings. Sluncling in lmrk. from lw-ft to right: Y. Billings. M. Damon, E. Small. Miss Pla-x'oa'k. B l'ickL'ring, and Snowclcn.

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28 THE GATHERER The last three games of the season proved unlucky for us. Winter Harbor and Castine both overcame us despite our desperate fight- ing. In both games our guards very suc- cessfully held them down until the last quar- ter when they broke away and pounded on to victory. The last game of the season was on Feb- ruary 1, with Stonington at Deer Isle. Nat- urally this was an important game and we were deeply disappointed when they ran over us by a quite lop-sided score. Despite the fine efforts of our guards, they could not be stopped. The score was 62-24 in favor of Stonington. Janet Eaton was high-scorer for Deer Isle with 15 points and June Snow and Janet Snow were high scorers for Ston- ington with 29 and 20 points respectively. Team 162 47 29.1 1 Opponents 191 59 38.81 SEASON'S SCORING FG F Pts. janet Eaton 83 13 179 Patty Spofford 34 7 75 Mary Hardy 25 11 61 Pauline Knight 19 13 51 Carol Woodman 2 1 5 Regina Billings 1 1 3 Rhea Conary 1 2 Nancy Golwell 1 1 Team 165 47 277 Opponents 218 60 496 CHEERLEADING The cheerleading squad starte their sec SEASON'S SCORES IN BASKETBALL Penobscot 17 Deer Isle 28 Brooksville 30 Deer Isle 25 Castine 30 Deer Isle 32 Brooklin 30 'Deer Isle 27 Sullivan 30 l'Deer Isle 28 Winter Harbor 47 Deer Isle 29 Brooksville 27 l'Deer Isle 37 Stonington 46 Deer Isle 26 Penobscot 23 Deer IS1C 37 Sullivan 37 Deer Isle 18 Brooklin 24 Deer Isle 26 Winter Harbor 40 Deer Isle 19 Castine 29 'Deer Isle 18 Stonington 62 'Deer 1816 24 Home games FOUL SHOOTING FA FM Pct. Regina Billings 1 1.000 Pauline Knight 13 -565 Nancy Colwell 1 -333 Mary Hardy 11 -323 Patty Spofford 3 .229 Janet Eaton 12 -222 Carol Woodman 1 .143 Rhea Conary 0 -000 d - ond season once again under the direction of Miss Plevock. The members of the squad are Virginia Billings, Marilyn Damon, Beatrice Pickering, Eliza Small, and Janet Snowden. The head cheerleaders are Priscilla Powers and Regina Billings. Something new was also added this year, namely a cheerleading mascot, Kathy Weed. At the beginning of the year the girls gave a ham supper and earned about 350.00 to- ward buying uniforms. Since this was not enough for the purchase of complete uni- forms they decided to buy the jackets first and to wear black slacks with them, until they earned more money for the skirts. The jackets of the head cheerleaders are blue with white front panels and the other cheer- leaders have white jackets with blue front panels. This year Miss Plevock made up a new song for us to use on the basketball floor. This is used during the games instead of the slower School Song. It is called On- ward Deer Isle and is really a very effective cheering song. J, ,, iii I H.,

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THE GATHERER THE NEW SCHOOL The idea of building a new school was first considered two years ago, when at town meeting a committee of nine was appointed to look into the possibilities of having a con- solidated high school with Stonington. This committee consisted of Grover Small, Dor- othy Carmen, Elwood Eaton, Alfred Col- well, Augustus Heanssler, Clark Hill, Walter Pickering, Emily Haskell, and Frank Milan. With a committee from Stonington they looked into the situation and decided not to combine with Stonington. These were the reasons for the decision. After investigation they were of the opinion that the needs of the two towns were somewhat different, since Stonington was interested in providing a sec- ondary school only, whereas Deer Isle need- ed improvement in both secondary and ele- mentary quarters. They decided that the cost of building and maintaining a consoli- dated high school would be too great. They learned also that if a consolidated school were established, Deer Isle would be ex- pected to provide about the same amount of money as Stonington for support, but would have less control, since representation on the board would be proportional to stu- dent attendance and Stonington would have about three times as many pupils. At town meeting in 1950 someone moved the building of a new grade school. The vote was carried and a committee appointed. This committee, called the School Planning Committee, consisted of Frank Milan, Walk- er Pickering, Alfred Colwell, Elwood Eaton, Dorothy Carmen, and Augustus Heanssler. They made arrangements to introduce a school district bill into the legislature and, after this was done, it was accepted at town meeting. It was necessary to introduce this bill because there is a state law which will allow a town to go only so far in debt. Our deadline was S35,000, but the School Dis- trict Bill allowed the district to go in debt for S60,000, the amount required. The town had already put aside 323,500 toward the project. This amount came from a surplus excise tax which had been accumu- lating over a period of years. It was decided to build a grade school instead of a high school because the grade schools did not have very good equipment, or much of it. The buildings were much too crowded. If a high school building had