Fort Kent Community High School - Warrior Yearbook (Fort Kent, ME)

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was the result of his discovery. and is now being used is ll-235. Once this process is started it accelerates and releases a tremen- dous amount of energy. This is what is used in the atomic bomb. lly this short history of atomic studies you arc able to see the enormous amount of work and research that was necessary. direct- ly and indirectly for the construction of the atomic bomb. l urthermore. buildings with very thick concrete walls lined on the inside with thick sheets of lead had to be constructed. Peace timc use of atomic energy' is still a matter ol theory and conjecture. Maurice ,Ialbert '48 Remembering Where arc you? l fear you not Where are you. have you forgot? 'l'lw years have passed since last wc met, But still your memory lingers yet, I feel your presence near to me Yet. when l look l cannot see. Your very thought fills all my speech liut words of you l cannot reach To tell of pain you caused to me. Still in my heart and mind you'll always be. By Theresa Jackson Adieu Seniors To the Seniors of nineteen hundred and forty-eight. the last graduating class of Fort Kent High School. we. the Juniors. bid a happy journey through the obstacles of life. May you go out into the world and use the knowledge and characteristics you have acquired here. You are leaving this school and entering into a troubled world, a world of political, military. and social disruptions. lf you have acquired proper knowledge of world affairs during your years of schooling. you will und- erstand these conditions better and try to help correct them. Those of you who are going to college will carry the trade mark of your school with you. Your character. most of all. will prove the ability and training that you have ac- quired in high school. Wherever you go, whatever you do -- you will always remember your high school days as the best period of your life. Next year. we. the first graduating class ol Community High School No. 1, shall go forward into the world and strive for achieve- ment. as you are now planning to do. We will remember you always, as great classmates -- yes. this class of 194.8 is in- deed a great class -- may your future be just as successful. Patrick Babin '49 Meteor Staff , First Row, tLeft to Righty: Theresa Cote, Gloria Hagibes, Rinette Daigle, Irene Babin, Ther- esa Madoro, Theresa Murphy, Nancy Cousins. Mr. Bridges, Mr. Willey. Second Row: Mrs. Crocker, Dawn Savage. Jeannine Pelletier, Thomas Clavetie. Mona Jal- beri. Patrick Babin, Randall Pinkham. Claude Voisine, Robert Savage. Bernette Michaud, Norma Irish. Lucille Pelletier, Ronald Labonty.

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her's, she had developed an inferiority com- plex about them. Sue's case is just a simple example of the many things about which people can be self- conscious. Her case shows how self-conscious- ness can become a handicap for a girl, a handicap in work, in love, in social ability. Such a self-conscious person goes through life in constant fear of people, a fear of what people might think, what they might say, or how they might treat her. The dread of be- ing made fun of or being laughed at is con- stantly on their minds. They fret about little things as well as big things. At a little distance from the abyss, some of the warriors who were suffering from sheer exhaustion were awakened by the roar- ing noise of the falls. They asked the young girl the meaning of the dull sound. She told them it was only another branch of the riv- er. It was only a few hundred feet distance from the abyss, when a deadly current was drawing them to the precipice that they real- ized the trickery and jumped out of their canoes but it was too late. They disappeared in the foaling cataract, yelling curses, they could still hear the triumphant shrieks of Malobiannah in which mingled the names of her betrothed and her avenged nation. The Malicite heroine has been celebrated in verses in the Abenakis, French, and Eng- lish languages. Greek History offers nothing greater nor more sublime than that simple and ignored self-sacrificed of this unknown girl of our forests. Theresa Murphy '48 Unraveling The Atom The study of atomic power might be re- garded as something very new, because of its much publicized and sudden appearance, but actually the atom is something which has puzzled and confused such learned men as the philosopher and scientist Aristotle and his student, Galileo, who lived in the 4-th cen- tury before Christ. The atomic bomb is the results of the work of men and women of many different nation- alities who have indirectly contributed to its perfection. For example in the late 17th cen- tury William Crookes discovered that when he sent high voltage -electricity, through a vacuum tube a peculiar set of rays were gen- erated which he called Cathode Rays. I. J. Thompson of Cambridge University studied of negative electricity which he named elec- trons. They are the lightest and most active particles in an atom, by what we know to- day. The next century Roentgen made X-Ray light move by using these electrons to bom- bard metal tragets in a vacuum. Bacquerel. a Frenchman was prompted by that discov- ery, to investigate the physical properties of elements that glowed in the dark. He found that Uranium gave off radiations similar to the X-Rays. All these discoveries started oth- er scientists going, particularly such a famous man, in the scientific field, as Ernest Ruther- ford. He formulated a model of the atom which is surprisingly similar to our present concep- tion. He described the atom as being made of a very small, but very heavy, nucleus carry- ing a positive charge and around this nuc- leus the negative electrons are spaced in var- ious formations. Bohr, a Danish, added to Rutherforifs theory and, said that the electrons revolved around the nucleus of the atom, like the plan- ets revolve around the sun. Rutherford suggested that if the nucleus could be hit hard enough to fracture it, dif- ferent kinds of atoms would be produced. A few years later, he actually accomplished that first artificial transformation. After this first experiment, his only move was how to get a more powerful hammer or projectile with which to strike the atom. Twenty years later Dr. Lawrence of the University of Chicago, invented a cyclotron which is able to acebrate positively charged particles or high as 10,000 miles per second. The Curie family then dis- covered with the help of Chadnick, a new type of particles which had the mass of H2 but carried no charge. Chadwick gave it the name of Neutron. The existence of the neu- tron had been announced by Rutherford 12 years before. A professor at University of Chicago, us- ing a mass spectrometer, something like a Wilson cloud chamber, detected a rare atom of Uranium with the atomic weight of 235, the common had the weight of 238. All radioactive particles disintegrate and while doing this, they give off energy and consequently lose weight. All radioactive ele- ments are recognized by the time it takes for them to disintegrate, this is called their half life. A German discovered a new type of dis- integration which is a complicated process and it is started by bombarding the nucleus of the atom with slow moving neutrons. The substance which corresponds to one which

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I 1 ii Student Council First Row, lLett to Rightlz Lionel Dube, Lillian Levesque, Nancy Cousins, Patrick Babin. Irene Babin. Second Row: James Toussaint, Sandra Bowers, Mrs. Bridges, Normand Lizotte. Officers of the Student Council: President, Nancy Cousins: Vice-President, Irene Babin: Sec- retary, Patrick Babin: Adviser, Mrs. Lois Bridges. Science Club First Row, iLeft to Rightl: Mr. Lawlis. Maurice Jalbert, Nancy Cousins, Irene Babin. Patrick Babin, Delcy Voisine, Richard Pelletier. Second Row: Albert Lozier, Gloria Hagibes, Jeannine Pelletier, Kathryn Jalbert. Richard Pinette, Thomas Clavette, Randall Pinkham. Third Row: Mary Ellen White, Esther Theriault, Albertine Theriault, Marcella Vaillancourt Dolores Bouchard, Mona Jalbert, Betty Dube, Gil man Dube. Officers of the Science Club: President, Irene Babin: Vice-President, Nancy Cousins: Secretary Patrick Babin: Treasurer, Delcy Voisine: Adviser, Mr. Richard Lawlis. 1