Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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classmates and other students, as well as the home room teacher». In most cases if you know how to behave in school, as well as out, you will be well liked and thought of as a nice person. So let's hove some good Home Room Behavior and try to keeo up a good nsme by being courteous to everyone in the home room. Remember, a home room is a privilege. It is given to us to take cere of and enjoy, Patricia Olmstead, 56 CHEERFULNESS Cheerfulness con :e a great remedy for the sad. When jou have been disappointed and are feeling sad, don't you enjoy being with a person who Is cheerful? Other people enjoy being with you if you are the cheerful person. how is it that Betty has so many friends while ;ou have few? Not that the others don't like you, but when sc xcone is needed to fill ..an of- fice she gets more votes then you do. She isn't any better; she doesn't have any nor money; she doesn't have any better qualities, but she has mere friends. Her character must be different, '-'aybe she always has a kind helpful Word, while you speak with an angry tone of voice, trying to get others to work harder or fast. . '-ou can't be easy-going all tho time, but perhaps you' ov -playing the part. With a little cheerfulness added you r t ct better results. Why don't you try it? kindness never hurt anyone. Sheila Columb '55 WHAT .HI, 'H7 'E . GOOD CITIZEN? What is the meaning of citizenship? Fow people really know. Tho real meaning of citizenship has been crippled and changed to fit personal uses and selfish moans. It has been said that the school is the most complete form of democracy. Good citizens make up a democracy. Every year 0 Good Citizenship Girl is chosen from the senior class. That girl is chosen for her good qualities during every year at school. It docs no girl much good to start being extra good during the last year. That is purely selfish, and citizenship cannot be selfish. A girl who has been honest, unselfish, cheerful, co-operative (one who offers her help instead of waiting to be asked), can get along 'well with other people, and not find fault if someone gets a better

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break than she, has a good chance of be coning a Good Citizen- ship Girl. But winning a Goud Citizenship” high school a- ward doesn't mean that 2 ou will be an cxpecially good citizen when you enter the adult world of politics, and it also doesn't mean that girls who don't win this award won't be good citizens either. Being a good citizen doesn't appj-2r just to girls. Boys need to be iust os good, if not better citizens than girls, because boys have a tendency to be more prominent in political life than girls. The present and future stability of the United States de- pends on the individuals. Abraham Lincoln said, united 7 e Stand, Divided We Fall . The United States depends on the in- dividual citizens, but one person working alone can do nothing. Everyone must contribute to the general welfare of a community. Do you call a person a good citizen who sits back, watches everything that goes on, and then hollers at the outcome? Citizenship is a trust. It is belonging and working together for the general welfare of the community. A community needs leadership too, but not a leader who is a boss and a bully. You hove a freedom of choice which should be cherished because in 3oiue places in the world freedom of choice is impossible. Voting also comes under citizenship and is another item not practiced in other places. Voting is practicing freedom of choice. A good wc” to look at community life as a good citizen is the attitude you need everyone and everyone needs you . A person who pretends to be so community minded , who is in everything so people will notice him, is not a good citizen. A good citi on is ..no who will do thin.3 that aren't so much fun and won't brin fame simply because it is necessary to the welfare of a oo aunity. What will lake me a yood citizen? It sounds like a tough question, doesn't it? But it isn't really, unless you're un- usually selfish. Let's r it together and send some good citizens away from F. II. S. into the world. Rite Magnant '55 STORIES A MOMENT OF HAPPINESS It was in. :7c umber that .7anet Martin, the daughter cf Hr. and Mr-. I.eIvin Martin, was taken to the hospita-' rich a minor ho art disease. Janet was only fourteen years old, Sho vvr s