Erskine Academy - Pinnacle Yearbook (South China, ME)

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THE PIN-NACLE Best Remembered For GRACE ALTHENN 5 Chubby MARJORIE AMES -5 her kissproof lipstick ELLEN AUSTIN 5 being late PATRICIA BECKIM 5 her telephone calls PHILIP BRADFORD 5 That's what I like about the South FRANCES BRANN 5 her uncles LOIS COOKT her fiery disposition MARION DUFOUR- showing others how LOIS EARRINGToN5her story telling WILLIAM GRAY5 his wolf howl LLOYD HALL- Chop Chop Cheela CHARLES HASKELL 5 his 'Kshiner ? JEAN 'HATHAWAY 5 using her eyes MARION HOPKINS 5 jitterbugging CLINTON JENKINS 55 his Eickle Eye LARRY JOHNSON 5 his unscheduled vacations FRED KOFMAN 5 getting around ROBERT MARR Ythaf hard to get smile PI-IYLLIS MCKENNEY 5 basketball EVERETT NOWLAND 5 giggling ORVILLE PAGE 5 lf you're ever in a jam, here I am. ERNEST QUINTAL -5 his contradicting MYRTLE REED 5her corny jokes ELEANOR SCATES 55 her pocketbook LUCY SCHOPPEE 5 for her dancing STEWART STUDLEY 5 his shyness PEARLEY THOMAs5his dimpled grin RAMONA TOBEY 5 her retiring nature SHELDON TRAcY5his apparent innocence ERNEST WATSON 5 his hairdo PRISCILLA WILLOUGHBY 5- her brother

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16 THE PINNACLE EDUCATION CAN CONTROL PEACE THE DUTY of the school is to teach more than the three R'S. There is a fourth R, the R that stands for relationships -personal, religious, racial, and most important of all, just plain human relationships. As yet we have not learned how to live happily and with mutual respect in this world of nations. Our best hope is in education, especially education during the early years. Our hope lies in being able to grow a generation which will be big enough to live fairly and decently in these tremendous times. Unless children are trained in the process of judgment-making and methods of reasoning they will not be equipped to face the future. In school a child should be taught to follow the Golden Rule of doing unto others as he would like them to do unto him. He will form the habit of taking the other fellow's interests into account, thus contributing greatly to the happiness of those persons with whom he comes in contact. He will be doing more than that. He will be helping to solve the problem of his country and the world. Most of the problems which afflict us would melt away if more people considered the welfare of others as well as of themselves. The children must be taught to have more of the spirit of brotherhood and understanding and cooperation if we are-to prevent national discord and international strife. We must have more of it if civilization is to be preserved. They must be taught to respect their fellowmen as brothers, but they should take proper pride in the glories of their own heritage. Barriers of intolerance can exist only in the presence of ignorance and prejudice. This intolerance must not control the atomic age. Ignorance and prejudice must be eradicated. There is no time for resting. The future is too urgent. There is too much chance that the World in madness will destroy Civilization. Students should study issues which have divided nations and which have resulted in wars. It is necessary to study the foreign poli- cies of our own nation. Much time should be given in the school to the study of the people of other nations, their problems, their needs, and their foreign policies. Suspicions and mis- trust between the peoples of the world through their differences have all too often resulted in war. Therefore, since war begins in the minds of men it is in the minds of men that the de- fense of peace must be constructed. -Jean Hathaway '47, Co-Editor-In-Chief WOUI,DN'T IT BE SILLY? DID you ever stop to think what a silly world this would be if things were just as we wanted them? It's really quite amazing when you come right down to brass tacks, so to speak. Hardly ever a day passes that we don't hear someone complaining about some thing or another. Take the person who despises winter, for example. Nothing would make him hap- pier than to have summer all year round. No doubt each one of us has wished that same thing on numerous occasions. But wouldn't that be crazy? Think of all the people who might be jobless just to satisfy that one man's longing. First of all, the snow plows would be abandoned. This would not only put the drivers out of jobs, but also the truck manufacturers, or at least the people who make the plows.- Where would we go skiing or ice skating, and that brings to mind the manufacturers of skis, ice skates and various other winter sports equipment as well as the people who make and sell winter clothes. And where would we get ice to preserve food if the lakes never froze over? We're now not only sweltering away in the sticky summer heat, but food is going bad and thousands of people are out of jobs. Bugs are breeding by the billions, big ones and little ones, fat ones and skinny ones, slimy ones and fuzzy ones, and they bite, sting, and keep you awake at night. Aren't you glad you're not the distasteful character who wished this awful fate on us? See what just one hasty wish can do.