Farmington High School - Laurel Yearbook (Farmington, ME)

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i' LAUREL 'A' work in church choirs and private study in music. OCT. 21 The annual Farmington - Wilton football game. Score - Q Censoredj. OCT. 31 During the month, Prin. Iohnson, Mr. Gould, Mrs. Bryant, and Miss Caldwell have planned a system whereby the students of our school will receive point or credit awards for participation in extra-curricular activities. Nov. 10 Mrs. Pearl has offered to coach girls' basket- ball this season. 46 girls have signed up and practises will commence soon for the initial game with lay. News reporters for the Franklin lournal F. H. S. column were chosen this week. These girls are to keep the townspeople posted on the doings at F. H. S.: Dorothy Comstock, Pauline O,Shaughnessey, lean Carter, lean Rob- inson, Elsie Currier, and Alice Skwara-Elsie Currier to he chief reporter. Nov. 11 Farmington ends its football season by win- ning its last two games. The Greyhounds edged Winthrop out 12-7 and swamped Kents Hill 45-0. Final standing-Wins 2, Losses 4, Tie I. Nov. 15 Are your fingers crossed? Rank cards, no, rank sheets, out for the first quarter of the new ranking schedule. What'd she say on yours? Aw, lemme see. Nov. 16 Parents Night. Mom and Dad note our im- 'provements and chat with the teachers. A pro- gram at the Community Center is topped off by the one-act play, H Elmer and the Lovebugfi starring Earl Goodspeed, Ruth Gile, Ioyce Streeter, and Marie Iohnson. Nov. 27 Corinne Hardy and Rachel Luce, both jun- iors, win the awards in the Nutrition Week projects-Corinne the best essay and Rachel the best poster. Nice going, girls. And right handsome fand healthfulj baskets of fruit. Nov. 28 Mrs. Erna Howard as faculty sponsor organ- izes the weekly Stamp and Bond Sales with Lawrence Brackley flater succeeded by Frank Kenneyj as general manager. Solicitors for the various classes are: freshmen-Elden Churchill and Beula Blanchardg sophomores-Maynard Towle and Herbert Wing, Marie Iohnson and Iohn Cutler, juniors-Richard Hodgkins and Ioyce Streeterg seniors-Barbara Ialbert and Alice Skwara. Ioyce Foss handles the ordering and checking. Sales for this first week get off to the start of 152054.70 DEC. l Some of our Commercial students have al- ready achieved awards in their work. For Complete Theory Certificate for knowl- edge of shorthand principles-Miriam Koh- tala, Pauline Phillips, Beverly Plaisted, Irene Paradis, VVilma Kyes, Ieannette Turner, Maurice Walker. For Order of Gregg Artists for shorthand penmanship-Dorothy Davis, Genella Moore, Pauline Phillips, Rachel Luce, Beverly Plaisted, Mavis Grant, Virginia Tardy, Maurice Walker. For Order of Artistic Typist: for accurate set- up of official Gregg test-Beverly Plaisted, Maurice Walker. Dae. 8 F. H. S. opens its basketball slate by winning at Livermore Falls 37-30. The team looks good and Coach Pearl looks forward to a champion- ship team. Miss Ruth Griffiths of the Normal School presents the orchestra and glee clubs a Distin- guished Service citation from the Music War Council of America. F. H. S. and W. G. Mal- lett School share honors as the first schools in the state and among the first five hundred in the nation to receive such an award. DEC. 11-15 All students, in order of classes, are invited by Mrs. Bryant to the library for Activity Peri- ods to hear the Old Carols of Christmas and Dickens' A Christmas Carol from RCA Victor recordings. Quite a Christmas-y week! Marie Iohnson, under Mrs. Webster's direction, decorated the boards with a border of Christ- mas bells and a Christmas scene.

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