Deering High School - Amethyst Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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mothyst Ihome Deering High has as great a tradition as scholarship to maintain. She is one of many hundreds of high schools that represent the shield of Democracy's defense against Communism and Fascism. This shield of defense is forged of the attitudes, the beliefs and the hopes of all young high school Americans. It is compounded of everyday school living, of respect for one another, of sportsmanship, of hard clean play. Deering specializes in this. Her students are organized in nearly all sports playing in High School. Her clubs and activities range from the hobby of taking snapshots, to the fabrication of bows and arrows. Her students bowl, swim, broadcast, collect stamps, debate, issue newspapers, publish books, drill, sing, play musical instruments, ski, paint, ride horses, go to Washington, write, dramatize, choral, and serve in the Cafeteria. This is the material that will make the future America. Of this material is the theme of our 1948 Amethyst. The best defense against foreign idealogy is not a gun or bayonet or atomic bomb, but a stronger, more powerful idea. Deering tries to teach this idea. Democracy through action is that idea. It is learning how to live and play democratically by actually living and learning the process. To show how Deering does this, we dedicate this Amethyst. This is the theme of our 1948 boolc. Turn the pages and see for yourself. l D . 4

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i MRS. HERBERT PAUL D The class of 1948 dedicates this volume to a teacher who has been a member of the faculty of Deering High School for seventeen years, first as Miss Margaret Abbott and later as Mrs. Herbert Paul. She is a graduate of Colby College and has completed work for an M.A. degree at the University of New Hampshire. Her record provesher success in her profession. Her vivid delineations of characters . in literature have made fictional people like David Copperfield live for her students, her patience has helped many perplexed boys and girls to gain the ability to speak and write more clearly, her respect for youth has given the individuals in her classes that confidence in themselves which is so necessary to happiness in school worlcg her pleasure in student activities is attested by her chaperoning excursions to Washington and her guidance of the staffs of Ram-Blings. Though she has been valuable as a sincere, witty, capable instructor in English, Mrs. Paul will be best remembered as an understanding friend to students and faculty alike. We wish Mrs. Paul a very happy future in her new home in Philadelphia. EIDICATIID

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I3rincipal's Message To Class Of 1948 Ac no time in the history of our country has there been greater appreciation of the value of an education. There is always a need for technical skills and education aut0- matically supplies the demand. However, the paramount present concern of thinking people has to do with human relationships. Here again, the citizens of this country look to education for help in a time of trouhle. It is my hope that your experiences at Deering will serve you in your chosen career as well as remain among your pleasantest memories. It is an even greater hope that here you have begun the development of a personal set of values which will not only guide you well but will also enable you to make your fullest contribution to the betterment of society wherever you may he.