Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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SCHOOL SPIRIT (or lack of It) TEENAGE ORIVERS 1 Last year when basketball season started we looked for- ward to a good year. The girls’ team looked promising and the boys were do’ng their best. Well, the season was under way anci one of the first games was played here. The visiting team arrived with a cheering squad and an aporeciative au- dience. We had had a cheering squad, but by this time they had given up from lack of en- thusiasm on the part of spec- tators. Our supporters num- bered about ten, all of whom were in the lower grades. We wculd like to thank them for attending. '■'here were the rest of you? Oh, I know, some of you are saying, and I quote from re- liable sources, There's never any fire in the hall and we always freeze if we sit near those drafty windows. This year we hope arrangements will be made to have f5re at all our school functions. Another argument might be, They never win anyway sc why mo to the games? In answer to that I might say that a little sup- port on your part wouldn't hurt our chances of winning. It’s very discouraging to walk onto the floor and see a row of emptv seats staring back at us . This year when the season starts let’s see a few of you television fans on the side- lines. We need your support. And re member--THIS M'-AITS YOU I] Carol Sweeney ’6lj. You may not think I have any knowledge about driving, because I haven't obtained my license as yet, as you all know. But I have been with as many different teenage drivers I think, as any student in this school, and I have a rea- sonable understanding about the way they think and drive. In my opinion, the Ameri- can Teenagers (I am referring to the male sex of course) are some of the best drivers of automobiles in the world. Most of them have sharper vision, better coordination, and quicker reflexes, than say, a person twenty-five years older than they. Some of them, not all, have had special training for the exact purpose of driv- ing a car, which their fathers might not, in fact probably did not, have access to. They have, in my opinion, much greater insight as to the speed in which their car will go, which is sometimes just the opposite. But the teenager also has the tendency to travel at such a speed that, even with his greats!’ abilities, makes it harder for him to drive a ccr as well as his older predec- essors. He also tends to disobey traffic laws, not ex- cluding hitting one hundred miles an hour n a fifty mile per hour zone. He loves to brag about his car to others on the speed it will go, and to prove it, he either bcmbs a- round by himself or drags with the others. In short a teenager likes speed. He likes to be bet- ter than other people, and when

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2 he gets behind the wheel of a car he has tho power of being better than' they are or, to put it bluntly, deader” than they are. When a 130 pound teenager gets behind the wheel of a 2700 lb. car, it is in my opinion, like a man ready to push the detonator connected to an atomic bomb. I'm a teenager and I can't say that I don't like to travel fast in a car, but I think that if the teenagers I ride with would drive at the same rate of speed as their older predecessors, they would not only be the best drivers in the world today, but there might be more of them living until their 21st birthday, Robert Kagnant '63 WHY STUDENTS LEAVE 3CTT00L In today's world you need all the education you can 'ret and yet, there are hundreds of boys and girls leaving school each year. As many as seven- ty-five per cent of these youngsters are going to lead hard lives and all because of the faqt that they left school and did not graduate. In some cases the teenagers have good reasons for leaving, but these are few. Host of them quit school because it costs so much for bocks and clothing that they just can't afford to go. This is really not a good reason because some towns and cities have funds which pay for the youngsters who are too poor to attend school. In doing tiis the towns are giving their future citizens a better chance fo-1 a better living in the fuere. Other teens quit because they just like trouble, and they cannot be bothered with such things as school and school work. So they drop out of school, but they usually terminate b'r getting their ed- ucation in a state reform school. Some teenagers just don't have the mental ability th.:t their classmates have and gen- erally end up two or three years behind the children with whom they started school and they quit because they think they're being ridiculed. And still there are others who ac it just for kicks . They quit and go into a branch of the armed forces, but even here they fsnd it necessary to have an education in order to get anywhere. They usually finish their education in the armed forces. After this they have a more promisin'- future ahead of them. Donna Peaslee '65 HUNTER'S SAFETY COURSE Many states have passed laws compelling young hunters to take and to pass a hunter's safety course before they are issued their hunting license. In these states hunting acci- dents have been cut down as much as half. These lessons teach the youno hunters how to sbeot and use t eir guns care- fully. After a certain number of lessons they have to take a final exam and pass it; then :.hey aro issued their hunting licenses. They learn to psk six basic questions before they shoot