Dexter High School - Signet Yearbook (Dexter, ME)

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JUNIOR CLASS N. H. FAY HIGH 'SCHOOL

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7 N Vol. XLV1. A June, 1929 No. 1 The Signet Published Annually by the Students of N. H. Fay High School' I N D E X EDITORIALS - - 13 LOCALS - - 20 -LITERARY I 'Memories of Cihild-hood 25 Jimmy and Love - 26 Gardens - - 26 The lRace - - 27 Success and Failure - 27 -My Picture of Pemaquid - 29 Grandmother - - - 29 The Writing of 'Compositions for School 31 Clamming ---- 31 The -Cargo - - - - 32 The Sch-0-olroom Clock - - - 33 :Thomas Jefferson, the Mlaster of Monticello 34 The Biography of a Cat - - - 34 The Accident of Sunshine Ave. 35 Devens - - - 35 A Sacrifice - - 36 'Eve Started Ilt -- 37 Johnny Belmon't's Raid 38 Birthdays - - 39 The War .School of France - 40 Odd lMarriage - - 40 A 'Childhood Adventure 40 A False Alarm - 41 ,Peter's Party - 41 Silver Lake - - 42 Quebec and St. Ann 43 IA Gypsy By Night 44 Night On the Hudson 44 ATHLETICS - - 45 MUSIC - - 53 SENIOR STATISTICS 57 JOKES - - 66 ALUMNI - - - 71 EXGHANGGES 75

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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.