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