Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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7. COMPARISON It was Christmas in the U. S. A. The snow was soft and white, And laughter rang from the firesides '.There Yuletide cheer was bright. The housewives hummed a merry tune As they fixed the Christmas meal; And hymns were sung from churches. The Christmas spirit was real. It was Christmas in Europe, too; The snow was wet and gray. And children huddled in shadows to wish the winter away. No Christmas meal had they, Not even a slice of bread, And they cried beneath the icy wind. The Christmas spirit was dead. Jane Gates ’48 FRIENDSHIP'S HAND President Truman made some plans To help feed war-torn Europe a lands. He said, This is the only way. Save a slice of bread each day. Go every Tuesday without meat; On Thursday, not an egg we'll eat. To save a starving child each day;( It is the Christian good will way. So get behind our President s plan To orove the good in American man. So hLove thy brother as thyself. And feed some country's hungry mouth. Kathleen Thibault '49 © HE'S LATE Tick tock, tick tock, Already it's quarter of eight; Maybe he isn't coning at all. Or maybe he's just late. Tick tock, tick tock, The time creeps slowly by. f All right I So he did stand me up. I never did like that guy, Madeline Benjamin '49 SILENT NIGHT The world is almost purple As the trees reflect tne white, Nov? slowly the shadows deepen Till the dusk becomes the night. It is a silent night With the sky an icy blue; And window panes are frosted With shapes of every hue. Jane Gates '48 30 r SCHOOL MINDED Ding-a-ling goes the bell; Uo start Johnny, Sue, and Nell. They sit in the classroom, dumb ana deal, rney an. n ,------ ,n L--------1( ..Thinking, Who the dickens was Lady Macbeth? o. . Teacher calls out in a very sharp tone Telling Due she'd best make known Who Shakespeare was and where he lived.-» - Dear teacher, if you'll please forgive, Last night I sat with myubest beau, n Listening to the Charlie ' McCarthy show. Ife. deline Mes' ier '49

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• - ■ new marche? n u 5:: Cierent oattie front, XL:- onij weapon0 ..hi on vili. halt that march e.r? the weapons of food.- ”r Ca.il lo J.c fal] the Van nont boys who gave their lives foi’ the cause. - j new Ve ncnoei f, help to forge those weapons against starvation and. dictato i.bio by sharing o,nd contributing as much as possible Iraogene Columb '48 POET A POEM FOR TODAY I don't knew what I can find to say, But I gotta write a ooera today. I guess it's meant for the Molecule' Which is the little paper of our school. I try to think of words that rhyme, But some of them I just can't find. I gotta think of something pretty fast, For the time is quickly slipping past. This has to be done at two twenty sharp, Or it's after school I stay 'til dark. I guess I'll close with this last line, For it's all the words that I can find. Carroll Titemore »49 Y WISHES I wish I were across the sea, For this is torture, tis plain to see. This may be a democratic land. But teachers,I think, are out of hand. In this land is pros{ erity- V ithout the teacher's, there would be. Now, if there were no schools at all Boy's wouldn't worry in the fall) Our hair wouldn't turn to grey If there were no work,only play. But if oerchance there were no schools, Would we all grow up as fools? Gordon LaFlame '4 (with revision) MURDER '. . The skirts are longer, The stockings 'most black. There're ribbons in front, And bustles in back. The hips are padded; The waist-lines pinched. Whoever did it Ought to be lynched. Joyce Johnson '48

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v - jy ; Vs '' STORIES RULES AMD REGULATIONS x L - SS 5S?4T?a ni ht. hell°' r°m’ Joe wh0°Ped- 1,1 didn’t expect to see you to- «‘Ws. 2 7oS d°Stra thou£ht!ePHe1reStirLq te-differ8r't from ’',hen 1 there. I™ sanior at Carlton High chool Ho°Sid l”f,yrear? I»0 ’ ”hen he was a and very much a trouble Ser w Pete Lawfo«f a big, husky boy, of high school. rjlJie mauer had been competing since the first days Club . It was the first and Pete and Tom were both lookingefor6the j box° ngf matches 'Vhy, IAtci°hbeat yo ith o Ued ndh£'b3f.V“ 101 TO«ld. Slnce 'hsn? Iom •« « . I'd like to see the day when you were sa ■ wuc u.ay wnen yoi ’Itelndeiaintrhih?°nethlnS and 3°»= pretty rash things though?1 zsvt-'j everyone SSTsWS.40 the ■t- .ore ea tteedtfSniSv° CSoitlntEL eorSrSSS.hUm”inE “d « «• Tden the day of the tournament cane. The air buzzed with excite , nenb and none of the boys could keep their minds on school- ork “£i t-- y thought about was the fight. ll whole thin ithoLb tSen' he •vas very excited about the °‘ e tnin8 aitiiough he was rather scared about Tom.