Farmington High School - Laurel Yearbook (Farmington, ME)

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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.

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ir LAUREL 'A' MARCH 1 We are greeted in the library by the Dance of the March Winds! i' The handiwork of Marie Iohnson and Pat Murray. Thanks, girls. MARCH 2 The Hrst allotment of books arrives from the Student Guild, which we are patronizing this second semester instead of the League. The books seem better bound and the service is much speedier than the League's. The teacher's dividend book is a nicely bound volume of john Masefield's Midsummer Night. Everett Newell takes over as chief reporter for the Frflnklin lournal F. H. S. news column. MARCH 7 The beginning of aptitude tests for the sen- iors under the direction of Mr. Fred Miller, a guidance adviser from Cambridge. The tests are to be followed up U by personal confer- ences. If the plan is sufficiently successful, this opportunity may be extended to other classes another year. MARCH 8 The Greyhound champions are the guests of the Rotary Club together with their coach, Warren Pearl, Principal Iohnson and Supt. Green. A fine supper is followed by films of the I943 VVorld's Series and Oflicers Training School. The Seniors elect a committee to select their class gift, namely, Pauline Phillips, Barbara Ialbert, Don Green, Ieanette Turner, and Bur- ton VVeymouth. N MARCH 13 The General and Commercial groups of freshmen and seniors today received their names from the Letter Exchange Bureau. Cer- tainly some interesting letters in prospect, for .example- Guadalupe Orozco G-16 QGirl, 16 years of age, La Ensenanza San Cristobal, L. C. Chis. Mexico Leo Kynaston B-17 6 Bryntirion Terrace Llangollen, North Wales Great Britain Himie Iones B-18 St. Iohn's Episcopal School Robertsport, Cape Mount County Liberia, West Africa MARCH 14 The Greyhounds are again feted by the American Legion, with chef Alton Bonney serving a line chicken dinner. Coach Pearl re- ports on the Waterville-Portland basketball championship game he attended at Waterville. M.ARCH 15 A tall, strong veteran of three major cam- paigns visits F. H. S. today. This man, Sgt. Morris of the U. S. M. C., is a recruiting ofiicer and spoke to all boys of 17, unable to Hnish their schooling before their 18th birthday, who are thinking of enlisting. The English I-C division attend For Whom the Bell Tolls in a group as a part of their study in Movie Appreciation. They report as follows: it was an extraordinary motion pic- tureg the acting was superior although they think Gary Cooper did not play his role con- vincingly enoughg the lighting, especially the silhouettes and cave scenes, added greatly to the effectiveness of the movie, there was one defi- nite lack-more emphasis on the ideals and reasons behind the Spanish revolution. lVlARCH 16 The Sophomore Hop is held at the Com- munity Center with Gordon Howe and his Blue Romancers providing the music. The class colors of Copen blue and wine are a Hne setting for the theme song, Candle-light and Wine. The F. H. S. faculty are the patrons and patronesses. MARCPI 21 Our Iunior Red Cross Drive closes with vol- untary contributions of 154720. By classes our percents are as fcglows, with the lower classmen leading the list: freshmen, 100225 sophomores, l00fff,, juniors, 95245 seniors, 28'fff,. The school participation was 861. MARCH 23 Over a thousand people pack the Community Center to see the All-Star game and attend the Victory Ball. The Greyhound champions emerge as Hnal victors with a score of 46-26.