Farmington High School - Laurel Yearbook (Farmington, ME)

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FC JOTBA LL Front row Lleft to rightjz Ii. Gray, I.. Churchill, R. Morrill, G. lit-sson, U. Green, Scot Kendall, D. Rich ards, R. Hodgkins, R. Green Second row: G. Stowe, Ii. Goodspeed, S. lillsworth, M. Iohnson, VV. Richards, I. Bell, I.. Gray M Towle, C. Kendall, A. Keith , E Back row: H. Wing, L. Hrooks, Couch Warren Pearl, I.. Davis, G. Farmer ORCHIQSTRA Seated lleft to riglltlz H. Gage, I. Fortier, C. Huztrt, M. Luce, I. Craig, li. Roberts, ll. Blanclmrrl Second row: R. lirvant, E. Prescott, S. Richards, I. Foss, R. Chittick, Ii. Dickey, M. Hufl, B. Farrington Third row: H. Blanchard. I. lirackley, M. Gaskell, A. Deering Back row: S. Ellsworth, G. Berry, R. Towle, M. Henderson, IJ. Stanley, VV. Gile, I. Gordon . 29

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i' LAUREL 'A' DEC. 14 The Senior Class present as their annual play, Old Doc, the immortal story of the small town doctor, and thereby httingly dedicated to the late Charles, W. Bell, who was in reality the Franklin Old Doc of Farmington and County. Iohn Gagne plays the lead, with Mil- ton Henderson and Iune Taylor in the major supporting roles. Profit to the class, 35100.55 DEC. 15 At the Christmas assembly, the radio sketch given by the English 3-A class is just what we need for the cheery Christmas spirit. Dick Hodgkins is Old Santa, Christmas tree and all QThanks to Mr. Iohnson and Richard Lidstonej and Alan Keith and Yours truly finish off with Super Sudsf, Two weeks' vacation and Merry Christmas to all. IAN. 1 Here we are right in step with the little New Year. May he grow in stature beyond the Old One. The cafeteria reopens and hot lunches are again being served to a larger group than ever, approximately 40 students a day. Miss Skillin plans thenourishing menus enlarged this year to two dishes. Our Home Ee. girls prepare and serve the lunch with Mrs. Linnie Hawes at the helm. A sample menu for a week looks pretty good, eh? Monday-Scallop potato, fruit juice Tuesday - Vegetable casserole, carrots Wednesday-Corn chowder, raisin salad Thursday- Macaroni Sz tomatoes, fruit jello Friday-Vegetable soup, fruit juice IAN. ll The Home Ec. girls are the cynosure of all eyes today in their new dresses, wools for those who have had sewing before and silks or cotton for those beginning. Very good-looking were an American Beauty wool with white an- gora buttons, hand-made, a twopiece yellow wool, a two-piece navy skirt and jerking a black wool jumper with white ship motifs on the pockets. I IAN. 12 Five more cheer-leaders added to our troop :along with Iohn Bell, Frank Kenney and Curtis Berry. They are Eleanor Stevens, Ieanette Thompson, Anne Deering, Shirlie Richards, and Ioyce Streeter. And with Tournament Time coming two especially peppy new cheers: Victory Cry Victory! Victory! That's our cry! V -I-C-T-O-R-Y ! Will we win it? You're doggone right! Farmington! Farmington! Fight! Fight! Fight! Go Back Go hack! Go back! Go back to the woods! You haven't! You haven't! You havenit got the goods! You haven't got the rhythm! You haven't got the jazz! You haven't got the team that Farmington has! IAN. 13 The Seniors repeat their performance of Old Docv at the Forster Memorial Building at Strong on a 50-50 money basis. Net profit to class is 2525.00 Several voiced the opinion also that several of the cast did an even better job than in their initial appearance. The gift of the Class of 1944 arrives from the shop of our local carpenters and builders, the O. P. Stewarts. This is a long-awaited maga- zine rack for the library that will relieve the congestion of the former combination maga- zine-catalog shelf. It is good-looking, complete with name plate and a practicable addition to library equipment. IAN. Z3 The Greyhounds, after a previous win over their arch-rivals, the VVilton Eagles, go over to Wilton and defeat them again 38-35. This puts the Greyhounds leading contenders for the tournament as the Academy boys are the de- fending champions. IAN. 24 Approximately 30 high school students are at- tending a weekly dancing class conducted at the North Church by Miss Maloney of Port- land. These classes are held each Wednesday at 8:30 when ballet, ballroom and tap dancing are all taught. This opportunity is one long

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FEB. 16 'lr LAUREL 'A' awaited by many high school students who are making the most of it. IAN. 30 The General-Commercial Senior English class participates in the National V-Mail Letter Contest sponsored by This Week magazine. The letters were written to an overseas friend on the subject- What we here at home are doing to bring you back sooner. A joint student-teacher committee selects the letters of Wilma Kyes, Alice Skwara, and Morna Huff to be sent. IAN. 31 Oh! Oh! Ranks again. And this time for the first semester. Good news or bad? Well, anyway, here are those 'L tops 1' on the beam: Seniors 5 Honors Alice Skwara 4 Honors Iohn Gagne, Burton Weymouth juniors 6 Honors Rachel Luce 5 Honors Madelyn Luce, Ioyce Streeter 4 Honors Mavis Grant, Corinne Hardy Sophomore: 5 Honors Norman Ferrari 4 Honors Stanley Ellsworth, Ioan Fortier Fresh men 3 Honors-Rowena Hammond, Doris Hardy, Marcelle Tardy, Adria Adams, Barbara Blan- chard, Eleanor Compton, Iean Whitney FEB. 3 Although the Greyhounds have no organized winter sports team several of the boys made up a team for the Iay carnival. Don Green takes lst place in the 100 yd. snowshoe dash and Znd in the cross-country snowshoe race. Lawrence Whitney is 4th in the dash. FEB, 9 Stamp and Bond Sales today are 153036.45 FEB. 10 Wilton carnival and our boys place 2nd in the meet. Don Green wins first honors in both snowshoe! dash and cross-country. Richard 'Green places 2nd in the 100 yd. ski dash and four of the team get 2nd in the medley relay. Boys competing in the winter sports are R. Mor- rill, R. Green, D. Green, S. Ellsworth, R. Hodgkins, B. Weymouth, L. Whitney, and W. Gile. FEB. 12 We congratulate Herbert Wing '47 on his successful and thoughtfully mature essay sub- mitted in the Anti-inflation campaign sponsored by the Price Panel of the local Ration Board. Herbert's First prize is 33. Three other sopho- mores and two juniors also wrote essays. Mad- eline VVilliams '46 wins the second prize of SZ. The Iuniors get their class rings and are they a proud-acting lot! How Blue the Night! is the theme for the Iunior Prom, the most important social event of the Class of 1946. Romantic setting, Ed- ward Little Swing Band and all provide the atmosphere for this gala occasion. Guest patrons and patronesses are Prin. and Mrs. Mel- ville H. Iohnson, Supt. and Mrs. I. Arthur Green, Mr. and Mrs. Emery Mallett, and Miss Elizabeth Caldwell. FEB. Z1 Iune Taylor of the Senior Class is chosen to represent her class and our school as candidate for the 1945 D. A. R. Pilgrimage to Washing- ton,- D. C. These candidates are all chosen on the basis of their qualities as good school citi- zens, i.e. loyalty, honesty, reliability, and coop- eration. Congratulations, Iune. fln our school this choice comes three ways-Faculty, Stu- dent Council, and Senior Class.j FEB. 23-24 The Greyhounds sweep through the annual Franklin County Basketball Tournament in great form and ability to take top honors. The boys won over Stratton, Strong, and Kinglield by good margins. Coach Pearl's tireless effort in producing this team shows plainly and he deserves much credit as well as the boys for their deserving record of 18 wins against 3 losses. FEB. 25 ' Rachel E. Luce '46 wins the first prize of 153.00 for her poem, Winter's Austere Song, submitted in the First contest for Maine high schools sponsored by the Poetry Fellowship of Maine. This entry was one of 60 from 14 Maine high schools.