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

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 arreet hia. Then , when the court was In secslon he would bo tried., A man froa Montpelier oxplalnod sobs of the foots wo wsntod to know and acted. as judge for us A jury was appointed» and oaoh follow that was brought to tho stand had plenty of witnesses to book hla» If he were found guilty aomm punlshaent was provided „ One fellow had to run around the campus in his nightshirta When Owsley County Court ( that was ths one I was in) «et» three fellows were brought In for doing soae thing wrong» On of then was found guilty» and we had a lot of fun asking hln alean our rooraa At ten o clock every night the lights went out h and an inspector cane through » checking to see if everyone were In» We were all supposed to be in bed but soae versa0t» Uj rooaaate and I used to open the win- dow wide and :Jt in It after the lights went out,, Sometimes we could hear the boys having pillow fights In the building across froa us There was a eounseler te look after each group of boys. These oounselora were buoy aoat of the tlae» especially after the lights went out»At the end of the week,- prize was»given to the groupethavbehaved the best and obeyed orders» Oweely County» the group which I was in» won aeoond prize0 Every afternoon » for about two hours» we net for aperta - general» ly baseball or basketball. About twenty-eight of us played in the bead, After we had practiced only two or throe times » we played at ths evening aeetlngufc the Armory and broadcasted over WDEY 0 waterbury, The oounties took turns providing entertainment for a while in the evening» and then we always had an interesting speaker on government affairs,, The most in- teresting speech of all was given on Saturday night by v0 w., Peterson» apeoial Agent in charge of the Boston office» Federal Bureau of Inves- tigation» He told of «any oases where boys or sen started with small crises which led to bigger ones » and finally to thslr arrest .He also told how many of the w e caught,, (criminals) On Sunday we went to Shurohj' this was the first time we had been down town After Ghurqh the prises were awarded and eaeh member of the band received a certificate with the gold seal of the Aaeriean Legion» on It n After dlnnertsimday ay folks cane for as,. To me this was one of the happiest and best spent weeks of ay life» Wayne Mullen ’AO •Love Thy neighbor as Thyself One Sunday afternoon» Lee Stewart curled hereelf up a little more and snuggled down In her deep chair with a grand book. She was all alone in her big beautiful room with its luxurious chairs and studio eouch» with its ehlntt curtains across ths bay window, with Its beautiful rug that one9s feet sank in almost to the ankle, and Its great big bookcase fill- ed with the best books. Here she stayed end read or did whatever she lik- Lee was an orphan» Her mother and father had both died in the flu epidemic when she was only three years old» They hem left her plenty of