Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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THE MUSIC FESTIVAL Each year a Music Festival Is held in Burlington. Schools do their test in full , No matter where they're from. Early in the morning , At about half-past ten , The big parade starts forming, Four thousand strong, and then - The drums begin to sound, And majorettes to strut . It's heard, the city round - The big bands' rut -a - tut . Early in the after-noon. The glee clubs start to sing. Within a Y.M.C.A. room Their voices clearly ring. At eight o'clock on Sr.ture.ay night The concert starts to play, Within the great Memorial Hall. So ends a wonderful day I . Kathleen Thibault '49 A CONFESSION I'm about to make a confession - Poetry writing's not my profession; But I'll try with all my might A very simple rhyme to write. Our teacher put us on the spot - A poem, by Monday - on the dot. This is getting very confusing. But to my mother it1 s quite amusing. My thoughts, dear friends, are in a huddle. For my mind is in a muddle; So I rues I've reached the endj While I'm still on the upward trend Robert Cyr '49 SPRING IS HERE Soring is here and time for fun. Time to get the spring's work done. The birds arc here, the buds are oi Things are growing, all about. It's time to rake the lawn up clam No time for pranks or actions mean. No time for play when there's work to do - Tasks for each one - me and you. Joyce Johnson '48 . •. . ••a:- ■ » . .3. V v '--to- -'■-a tV.-vu STORIES •if. '!• ■!-- RESERVED SEAT The Vermont Music Festival was I hold again this ye?.r on May the f• f:,hr 3ixth , and seventh. Through the years it has grown to bo a ’’. ,ryp,- [Vre affair with big numbers of high school students participata

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MUSI VERMONT They say that youth is an organ - Its chords resounding and strong But haven't they ever been sixteen? Don't they know that they arc wrong? For youth is like a music box; Each silvery tone is measured By a laugh, a smile, a silent tc-ar, And tucked away and treasured, Jane Gates '48 IT'D A CRIME Oh! How I hate to mar tlis -white sheet of papci’. If on the morrow it were duo I'd wait z little lator. Rhyme, reason, and I have nothing in common But the fact that of them I am often wanton, A poem for assignment is the cause of this sorrow, dr. Browning, please, one of your3- may I borrow? Sally Gates '49 THE COMING OF SUMMER Summer now is on her way, Drawing closer every day. With her come the- buds and flowers, •«•Iso many warm rain showehs. Everyone is blithe and gay, As the warm, bright 3un shines all the day Bctty Benj amin ' 48 Vermont,they say, is the four- teenth state. It has wondrous sights to behold. It has mountains, rivers, and crystal clear lakes. It has marble, and sugar the color of gold. It's truly a state that's worth its salt, This grand old state of Vermont, It has its troubles and its faults, But here we're always free from want, Guy Towle '49 CLOUDS Most people like the bright, warm sun, And ne'er give the clouds a pleasant thought But without them there would be no fun, For there would be just one long drought, Some clouds arc fluffy, light, one 6 y, And never bring us storms, as snov or rain, But chase about the sky, as if in play With tho sun, which tries to shoo them off in vain. The clouds which are close, and dark .and grim Seem to shut off the laughter and the mirth. The earth grows dark, the sky gro dim. And the life-giving rain comes down to earth, Alton Lothiai

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and has become widely known to musit lovers. WCAX, a radio station of Burlington, Vermont, has broadcast the Saturday evening concert for some years, This concert consists of the all state orchestra and nixed chorus On Friday evening the all stato band has its concert. Mr. Marble, a very young looking nan for his early sixties has listened, for 'several years, to the concerts. So this year he decided that he would go to see as well as hear the concert at first hand. Thus,when Saturday night came, Mr. Marble found himself progressing in- to the auditorium along with the crowd, as he didn't hurry abai t get- ting his ticket the only thing he ’ able to buy was a rush seat ticket. The rush seats were the bleachers which ran the length of the auditorium on either side. As he walked down the aisle, looking all the while for a vacant seat, he finally spotted one on the last bleacher, which was right next to the stage Well , he thought, I couldn't be any luckier about getting a reserved: seat. Then he maneuvered himself up to the vacant spot and sat patiently to wait for the concert to begin. When theJcurtains of the stage opened he could see very distinctly the members in tin orchestra. Feeling very contented, he listened to the first two selections which the orchestra played. After a big ap- plause had subsided, the conductor of the chorus took his stand and gave a motion for the singers to arise. Suddendly everyone around him stood up. So he stood up too, only to realize that no one except tho boys of the chorus were standing and that he was sitting among the performers themselves. Feeling ashamed and shocked, he sat down, partly frpn weakness and ment?.l disorders that we re creeping upon him. Not knowing how to got out, he remained through the two pieces which the boys sang, all the while trying to gather himself together.When finally their singing was over tho orchestra cone forth with more music, nearly putting him to sleep. Then the girls sang out in bril- liant feminine melody. But this peace wasn't to l?.st long. Next, both th boys and the girls of the chorus arose to sing; and Mr. Marble, by this time,.judged he would be relieved by a different seating plan. Realizing that the plank directly in front of him was vacant,he started 3lowly to maneuver himself to the edge , where he let himself down to the floor. Then he clawled behind tie bleachers to the hack of the room. From here Mr. Marble, with comfort of mind, took in the beautiful = ight of tie chorus and orchestra of both boys an A girls from call over the state of Vermont. The boys wore suits while the girls had on long evening iressea, ranging through all colors of th. rainbow. The violinists were'seated across the front of tte stage; so when they played the harmonious movement of their arms was an amazing sight to 3CC. x Next year it would be a reserve scat fer him. Sally Gates