Farmington High School - Laurel Yearbook (Farmington, ME)

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C The LAUREL 0 DATE EVENT May 18 County One-act Play Contest 18 Iunior Prom 19 Bates Relays at Lewiston 21 Career Day 21 1951 Laurel 22 Baseball 23 Championship T rack Meet Jayvee COMMENT Night program. This play. The Road to Hap- piness. offers roles for a CLISI of 20. The Iunior Play Cast went to Strong to the County One-Act Play Contest. They received a rating of very good. N. Folger received special recognition. The Iunior Prom was held at the Community Building. Profit 151100. Theme: Candlelight and VVine. The following boys placed in the meet: K. Bailey, R. Rackliffe, D. Turner, P. Hobbs, B. Rackliffe, E. Farrington, D. Patriquin. Other boys to make the trip were D. Ellis, R. Beedy. K. Alexander, G. Alexander, R. Eaton and D. Haney and Coach Richard Gould. F.H.S. placed Sth with a total of 10 points. Sponsored by The Franklin County Schoolmen's Club for all Franklin County High School jun- iors. Held at Farmington High School. 20 conference speakers gave their ideas about the different occupations. Dinner was served at the cafeteria by Mrs. Linscott. 500 1951 Laz1rc'I: were distributed to an eagerly waiting student body and advertisers. I. Rounds '51-Editor-in-chief, R. Marquis '51-head of Business Staff. VVilton Academy defeated F.H.S. in a Sandy- Andy League baseball game 4-3 at Wilton. F.H.S. won the Franklin County Schoolboy Track Meet by defeating XVilton with 34 points, Kingfield with 17 and Rangeley with 1492 points. Farmington had 71212 points. Cheerleaders

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The LAUREL 0 DATE EVENT COMMENT hilly C5151 Phelie Dargan ................... ........ N . Folger Essie Caraway ........ ......,....... I . Flint Ambrose Dargan .........,......,.......,.,..... D. Turner Ebie Dargan ........,...................,.......,... C. Murray The juniors were chosen to represent F.H.S. in the County Contest. 8 Baseball The Greyhounds opened the Sandy-Andy League by defeating VVilton 7-5 at Wilton. 9 Hearing Tests Miss Elizabeth Kettel of the Farmington Public 9 10 11 12 15 16 17 18 A Triangular Track Meet Baseball Spring Concert State Music Festival Baseball Track Meet Baseball Commencement Program Plans Health Oflice conducted the tests at the high school. . Held at Hippach Field. Scores: Gould-81M pointsg Farmington-SQSQ pointsg Kingfield - 2 points. 1 Farmington won its second League game by edging Iay 8-6 at Iay. Farmington is now tied for First place with Livermore Falls. The Spring Concert directed by Miss Iola Per- kins featured the Orchestra, Girls Choir and Mixed Choir with many vocal and instrumental soloists. P. Edwards was named Miss Music of F .H.S. The Girls Choir and Orchestra went to Brewer by bus to participate in the State Music Festival. lay walloped Farmington 14-3 at Colby Field. Farmington outpointed Rumford 70 to 48 at Rumtord. Livermore Falls gained a win over Farmington in a ten-inning duel 12-11. The Class of 1951 voted to follow the traditional Class Night program of Class Parts, but to present a morality play for their Graduation Band Ma orettes

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I T h e L A U R E L DATE EVENT COMMENT May 24 Baseball Farmingtorfs baseball team ended its League 25 30 Iune 1 1 2 12 17 18 1951 Graduation Committee Exhibition Baseball First Annual Color Day Maine Poetry Fellowship Contest Award State Track Meet Baseball Season Closes' Baccalaureate Service Class Night play in last place upon losing a 9-1 ball game with pennant winning Livermore Falls. For the Faculty: Prin. Charles Diehl, Senior Advisor Richard Gould, Graduation Director Mrs. Marion Bryant. For the Seniors: Presi- dent D. Ellis, R. Eaton, A. Frary, A. Staples, I. Hosfelt, P. Edwards and R. Roux. An exhibition Memorial Day baseball game with Dexter ended in a loss for F.H.S. 16-9 at Dexter. All schools in Farmington participated in com- petitive games after a lengthy parade through town. The Blues captured the pennant by a narrow margin in the last event. All schools were divided evenly into Blues and Greys, which colors they will hold until graduation from.F.H.S. Leaders of the Greys were M. Welch and P. Heath. Of the Blues, P. Ed- wards and D. Ellis. Mrs. Althea Fortin '51 was awarded Hrst prize in the state for her poem Arctic Owl. In this contest 18 high schools competed, with 150 entries. Mrs. Fortin has several other poems in the 1951 Laurel. Held at Colby College where Farmington made a good showing against stiff competition. Farmington ended its season with 7 wins and 5 losses. Captain P. Heath and F. Pillsbury have been leading hitters for the team this year. Held at Henderson Memorial Baptist Church, Rev. Eben Chapman of Old South Church spoke on the theme Character in 3 Dimen- sions. Seniors furnished musical numbers as follows: Vocal quartet-P. Edwards, I. Hosfelt, I. Legere, I. Rounds. Vocal Solo-I. Sargent. Violin Obbligato- E. Mosher. Held at Community Center. Class Part: Will: F. Cole History: I. Legere Prophecy: I. Rounds Class Gifts: R. Langen, L. Violet