Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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11 to bring our on bedding to ooiae prepared to play baseball, basket ball. And tennis; to bring some kind of musioal Instrument if we had one, ao that we night play in the band On Sunday„ June 18, we started, reaohlng Norwich about three in the afternoon., m aoon as we arrlred we registered in the iiorwloh Armory and were aa signed to our rooau. After undergAinj a medical cxtraUUtion we were given green oapa,aoaething like those the Aaerioan Legion asa- bers wear, with Orean Mountain Boys' State printed on them in gold lettersoAbout an hour later, when wo finished at the Armory, w« found our rooms we weren't fortunate enough to get three rooms together. The two boys fro nosburg were in the cane building, but my room was in an- other building across the oaapua from them. I thought that wasn’t going to be auoh fun. but I found ay roan to be largo and equipped with furni- ture for two, A follow from Burlington was already there. Supper was served at mix in the Harwich Mese flail,whieh was a large plaoe seating a hundred and fifty people, 1e couldn’t all eat at onoe, however, because there were over four hundred of us; so we were divided into groups which were named by counties and towns, and a few oounties would oat at a time. After supper, we went back to tho Armory where we ware introduced tr the QMp directore and off leers of the Qreen Mountain boys' State, Thor were all friendly and told us they were going to try to give us one ef the fioet exalting weeks of our lives, and in my mind there is no ques- tion hut what they did. ttovenor Aiken gave a interesting speech,that night,telling what he thought of Boys9 State and what a good time he thought we could have If we took part in it. After the governor spoke the camp directors and officers explained the aim of 3oys Stats, and told uo what wo wore going to do while we were there. that we did was to earry on a form of government, with each town sleeting lfrs own town offioere, and with a govanor Oosttat «»o «govern»» would see eons boj lng so aeon e s bee. boy disobeying ed with eoraflj ; the rulea or playing a prank - like fill- nkee or tearing a re to pleoes- and would