Farmington High School - Laurel Yearbook (Farmington, ME)

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LAUREL 'Ir Oh wad some power the giftie gie us, To see ourscls as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, 17 An' foolish notion. - To a Lame by Robert Burns

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LAUREL 'A' WEYMOUTI-I, BURTON RICHARD College Preparatory HURT Molto: Major rcrnnz mihi nascimr ordo, Majus opus marco. A greater main of events springs up before meg I undertake a more diiicult task. I Basketball l, 2, 3, 4g Track Z, 3, 45 Student Council, Vice President 39 Iunior Prom Committee 35 Sophomore Hop Committee 25 Assistant Busi- ness Manager, LAUREL 35 Business Manager, LAUREL 43 Assemblies 2, 3, 49 Senior Play Cast 43 Air Raid Warden 25 Phys. Ed. Exhibition 25 Public Speaking lg Freshman Reception Committee 3: Winter Sports 3, 43 Tum- bling Zq Nominating Committte 2g Ping-Pong Tourney 2. S' High aims form high character, and great objects bring out great minds. CLASS OF 1945 President .,,.. ........ M ilton Henderson Vice President . . . . , Barbara Ialbert Secretary .... ..,. F red Kenney Treasurer ,,.... . . , Maurice Walker Student Council . . . . Frank Kenney Barbara Ialbert Irene Paradis Iohn Gagne Class Colors-American Beauty and White Class Flower - Peony Class Motto-The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness. 16

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af LAUREL ff IUNIOR DAZE Some of Our Days This morning at seven o'clock sharp, my alarm clock rang as usual, and, as usual, I turned over and shut the alarm oh' and went back to sleep. At quarter past seven my father calls, Al--, Al--, Alan Keith! Gel out of that bed. I 'K cheerfully get up at fifteen minutes later Cmore or less, usually morej and dress and drag down the stairs. Then I eat breakfast in three or four gulps and make a Bumstead getaway. I arrive at school a min- ute or two before the tardy bell Qif I'm luckyj and my school day begins. Alan Keith Played the ouija board this noon. It told me who would take me to the Prom. Every 'time he passes I try to smile prettily at him. VVhen I came down from Dramatics, the freshman boys were gleefully passing around my glasses and making like they had machine guns. I'm getting used to it. VVent to basketball practice this afternoon. Mr. Pearl asked me when I was going to start eating wheaties like Marie Derocbe. Priscilla Frary This morning was the usual Saturday morn- ing. I got up quite late and called Prillie. We talked over everything from last night's basket- ball game to the picture of some orchids in a magazine. Finally we arranged to meet in Mac's at eleven. Actually I met her somewhere near the Old North Church around 11:15. Ethel made us a couple of chocolate milks in Mac's and we exchanged detailed accounts of everything we hadn't been able to say over the phone in front of our mothers. After a while we went to the drug store and tried to get a Film. No luck as usual. I guess we'll never get u .those snapshots: Ioyce Streeter VVhen I got home from school I found a nice note on the kitchen table from Mom saying that she and Dad were at town and that I could do the chores. Happy thought, but oh so true in reality. Not even time to decipher a letter from my aunt and read the paper. Reluctantly, I trod to the barn and toughened up my already aching muscles fPhys. by pumping a meager 75 gallons of water for the cattle. Then, last but far from the least, I fed the corn to about 800 hens and gathered the eggs. Happily I made my way to the house with a pail of eggs only to slip on the ice and create a new fashion in scrambled eggs. Ioyce Foss At the close of school I went home and came to the decision that I would like to go horse- back riding for a while. I rode until 5 o'clock. It was a glorious ride with the brisk wind mak- ing the trees sing to us as we passed. What better place to enjoy a sunset than riding horse- back? I came home and delighted myself with a vegetable salad and a piece of graham cracker pie. After washing the dishes I walked down to the basketball game. I sat with some of my friends and we cheered until I had hardly any voice. Our boys won the game -- defeating Wilton by three points. Corinne Hardy The plow was out over Mosher Hill so we are no longer snowbound. I took Ioy for a horseback ride along the snowy road this after- noon. Little roguel He was frisky and so eager for a canter. I took several pictures of the Percherons in the yard and my brother on skiis. Hope they come out well. A letter from my pen pal, Nancy Wood, in Connecticut. She sent some swell pencil sketches of her horse. Rachel Luce The afternoon lags but is finally over. All the girls are going home this afternoon so we are all going together. Madge sits with the peanut bowl in her lap and looks reproachful if anyone takes one. I get my share though. They all leave around five o'clock. Then I have to start my homework, 1 stop for supper, and then start again, muttering to myself if the teachers in Farmington assign homework like this, so help me, Illl quit school. Patricia Murray Saturday morning I cleaned my room which had been a complete mess all week. Went up