Dexter High School - Signet Yearbook (Dexter, ME)

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SOPHOMORE CLASS N. H. FAY HIGH SCHOOL

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JUNIOR CLA SS HIS TOR Y Chapter I On September 13th, 1926, we, the present members of the junior class, boarded a 1-arge green -ship which, we were -told, was bound for a distant port, called Success. I-t was on this is-hip that we received our first instructions in what we would nced if we wished to corutinue our journey. At first the seia was rough and evil but we soon learned the ropes and ithi-s greatly helped us to keep our feet wh-en some unexpected wave struck u-s. After saiilng for some time under rthe guid-an-ce of -our brave captain -and hi-s -offi- cers, we decided to elect members from our own crew to direct u-s when we wi-shed to do something special. So desiring, we elect- ed Duke Ambrose, Bob Buck-nam, Dicky Sanders, and Maya Knox to hold down this position. These mates soon proved useful because our captain decided to am- chor and we were -allowed to- go ashore -and have a supper. This port happened to be Ripley, -and as it was the home ft-own :of one of our shipmates, Dot Wo-odcock, we spent an enjoyable evening aut her home. After leaving this -p'ort the fist lap of our voyage was interrupted only twiceg once by a terrific -storm which, for those wh-o had been -good -sailors during the first part of the voyage, las-ted only two days, but for the others, who -had shirked their first duties, it lasted several weeks. This was -our first -Mid Year Storm which all ships, bound for the port -of Success must p-as-s thno-ugh. The other interruption was the Freshman H-op aft which all had a -good time. Shortly after rthis we arrived at a port called June, where we were given in- structions as- .to where we -should go if we wished to continue -our journey to -Success. Chapter II September 12th, 1927, we found ourselves gathered on fthe decks of a red s-hip slight- ly smaller than -our first because, we found when -the roll was -ca-ll-ed, -several of our .shipmastes had left u-s at various ports in which we had anchored. -Some -of .these had be-come discouraged with the hardships and had given up' lall hopes of reaching the des- tination for which they had started, but others- had left us for various reasons- and boarded oither ,ships headed in the same direction as ours. We also found th-at our -Captain had -several new officers. While sailing on this -ship we had good luck until we ca-me lin -contact with another one of the Mid Year Storms. For the great- er part -of -the crew this was less violent but there were still ra fw who couldn't seem to set their -sails in the right way to meet these -gales. We had scarcely finished ba-t.tl.ing thi-s storm when we encountered another which, however, w-as a little l-ess violent. Thi-s -storm concerned cl-ass rings. I-t was a hard -struggle, but finally by the guidance of Maya Knox, Bob Bucknam, Zeb -White, and Jerry Tate whom we had elected for -our Emergency committee on .this ship, w-e over-came th-e -struggle. Only one more -storm was encountered by u-s whi-le- s-ailing .on this ship. As. it was a very severe gale we decided to anchor in a friendly port. It was fart thi-s spot that we had our second class dance, -and earned a little in-ore money for -our strong-box. From that time on we had -good weather and it -seemed only a -short time before we reached the Port of June -on -the Island of 1928. Here as at the previous port -of the same- name we were given a few final in- structions before we deserted our ship. Chapter III Wh-en roll was called -Sept. 10th, 1928, we found ourselves -on -board a brown .ship which was even -smaller .than the red 0119 which had borne us- -so successfully from Port June, 1927 to 'Port June, 1928. A few of -our .shipmvates had left is but the larger part of the old crew -still wished to -continue the voyage. Aboard this ship nothing happened, with the exception -of the purchase of cl-ass ring-s until our capitaifn decided to anchor at Cam- bridge, where Bob Bu-cknam, Bunny Irvin, Ken Crawford-, and Jerry Tate, the mem- bers elected by the crew to -hold the offices for the third lap of our voyage, prepared for us -a light supper and also made -ar- rangements for a dance. Ea-ch sailor who attended this greatly enjoyed himself. As this ship was built more -sturdily -we endure-d the Mid-Year S-torm and a few -others with less mental agony. We -are at pre-sent .s-ailing smoothly -over our course which we admiwt h-as been hard and even doubtful to some -of us at times. But not -one -of us regrets having put his time and energy to -a cause which will in the end carry us to a saf -anchorage, -Success. Franklin Titcomb '30.

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SOPHOMORE CLASS HISTOR Y As one turns b-ack -the page-s of hi-story he discovers that in the year, 1927 A. D. six-ty-nine students entered that institution of learning, N. H. Fay High. We -all had different ideas of what it was to be like. 'S-ome thought ithey were ,going to be 'treated roughly because they were Freebie-s g -othens believed thart their stud- ies would prove to be difficulty 'a few were going to take is easy and enjoy themselvesg but nobody was entirely right in his con- ce-pti-on. What a green bun-ch we :must have been those first few days! They had to show u-s where to sit in fthe- main room but then some of us fqilgot the very 'next day which rooms to :go to and at what perilodg also we were given books which we were to- use that whole, lon-g year. The next few days proved to be more diiiicult than the afirst had beeng everybody had trouble trying to find fthe right room, we would find our- selves in a Science class when we should hwave been in 'an Algebra class, or in fthe main room figuring -out -our 'troubles when we should- have been in the English class. Our mistakes were made harder by the upper-cla-ssmien who enjoyed the misery of the Freshmen. Every time there was a crash and -something came tumbling down stairs, our elders would laugh and say that there was another one of those Freshies who had not learned rho walknyeit. These were not our only .troubles be-cause the upper-cl-assmen were falways waiting for ia chance to mlake it disagreeable for us. If we were not looking for trouble, it was better for -our health to keep away from our elders. One thing -that pleased the class was rth-aft the 'Freshman reception could not be held. The next event .on 'our yearly pro-gram was the election of class officers. This was a s'afe- and sane election- with no -spilling of bl-ood and- none of the caandidates were shot. It took but -a short -time to get the returns which were :as follows: Pres-idenft, Elmer Fortierg Vice-president, Clair Wilkinsg 'Sec- retary, Bernice Rileyg Treasurer, Helen Hale. The first class supper was held at Maude Raymond's in Ripley, a small city mot far from Dexter. After a few difficulties the class 'arrived at its destination. Everyone seemed to have enjoyed himself 3 if he didn't it must have been his town fault. We entered 'the next fall after la long sumimer vacation with a class- of -sixty-one strong. Freshmen were to be our names no longerg we had now reached an equal foo-ting with the rest of .the school, as 'S-ophom-ores. The troubles of the Freshmen were now -amusingg they had not been so ,amusing ia year ago. Things were made as warm as lpossible for the Freshies by us. Our class officers had -grown old and 'gray from the burden they had sh-ouldered, -so another election was held in to-rder that they might be replaced. Hele-n- Hale received the ofiiee of President, Fred Crowell :gained the honor of becoming Secretary, and Beatrice Thompson was presented with the office of Treasurer. The .second supper of .the class was held at the home of Florence Avery, a new mem- ber of our class. It Weis :as good as the first one we lhad held, thanks. to our new member. But even though we wish it, life cannot :always be happyg it must have its sorrows. The passing of one of our best friends, Ber- nice Riley, was lone of the sorrows in our class life. She was well liked by 'her class- mates and will ,always be remembered by her many friends. Our stud-ies we found depended much up- on what we had leanned the year before. There were new members in our class roomsg some who 'had entered :at the begin- ning of the year and others who had failed the year before and were rbaking again the studies they had failed to pass. This brings our class history up to the present date. We fall have 'a class of which to be 'proud -and we should try to keep its record clean. Elmer Fortier '31.