Freedom Academy - Echo Yearbook (Freedom, ME)

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9 up their courage and we pulled through the year coming out on top. We elected our class officers as follows: President, Shirley Nutt, Vice-President, Theodore Knowlton, Secretary Arlene Clark, Treas- urer, Hazel Clark, representatives to the Student Council, Ruth Grass and Clayton Thompson. Our class can easily be rated as A in dramatics. Two of our boys, Ernest Tweedie and Theodore Knowlton took part in the Senior Play. Many of our members were in the one-act plays put on by the dramatics class. Four of our boys are lettermen in basketball. So even though we have not as large a class at the end as at the beginning we can support the school activities in a big way. Ruth Grass '44 Seniovs Our class numbers only seven, the smallest in the school. At the beginning of the year we elected our class officers as follows: Presi- dent, Vivian Voseg Vice-President, Raymond Stevens: Secretary, Sarah Waterman, Treasurer, Thelma Benner. The representatives to the Student Council are: President, Fred Drake, Vice-President, Sarah Waterman, Treasurer, Raymond Stevens, Senior Class representatives, Thelma Benner and Erwin Nickless. In the fall we had our Senior drama DUMMY, which was patron- ized very successfully. February 12, we went to the Preble Studio in Waterville to have our pictures taken. Mable Raven '43

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8 Elfmhman There were twenty-three Freshies when school started last fall. Ella Tyler, Sherman Fogg, Kenneth Giles, and Edward Albert left dur- ing the year which leaves us with nineteen. A few days after school started, the Sophomores had us march down to the corn factory with the girls wearing one long and one short stocking and their cloths wrong side out, the boys wore skirts with one pant leg rolled up. On October 9, we had the much dreaded Freshmen Reception with stunts and a social afterwards. The Class Officers for the year were elected as follows: President, Marillyn Hamel, Vice-President, John Ingraham, Secretary, Louise Tyler, and Treasurer, Erdene Knight. About all of our class went out for Basketball with most of them making the team and taking part in the games. Because of the war, we had no prize reading this year, to the relief of most of us. ' Il. ' Erdene Knight '46 ix ' V .,9 i 2, Qxxt-1' Sophomote X, - illfxfl ASW On September twenty-eighth this year our class began school with twelve members. The last of the year one member, Paul Hamel, left us. Sophomore Class Officers were elected as follows: President, Jean Fowler, Vice-President, Janet Currie, Secretary, Ruby McLellan, Treasurer, Helen McFarland. At the beginning of the year, we gave the Freshies a hearty reception, we also dressed up the Freshies and took them down to the corn shop. Sophomore boys and girls taking part in basket-ball are: Mildred Stevens, Janet Currie, Helen McFarland, Thelma Raven, Paul Flye and Wendell Glidden. The only Sophomore cheer leader is Jean Fowler. Ruby McLellan '45 guniofzs We started our Junior year off with a crash and ended up with a bang, having twenty-two members in all. During the year the fol- lowing five members of our class left school: Calvin White, Donald Spaulding, Marshall Rhein, William Nutt, and Clayton Thompson. This left us only five boys. Although we missed those boys, the girls kept WWW'

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10 ofifefzaiwze NSHEP HOYT'S DOG It was a dark night in July. I was coming along a mountain ridge from Fredericton where I had been earlier in the evening. As I got to the end of the ridge I saw a large form loom up in front of my horse. It frightened himg he began to gallop along towards home. The shadow was of a large dog, larger than my horse. It seemed to float along beside my wagon. I was startled for a momentg I craked my whip at the shadow and the whip went right through it. As I neared the end of the mountain, the shadow of the dog departed slowly up the moun- tain side. I stopped my horse and watched the dog disappear down the other side of the mountain. When I arrived home I told my father of the strange shadow of the dog. He told me that it was what was called Shep Hoyt's Dog. It was said to have been Captain Kid's dog which he left to guard his treasure which had been buried on the mountain. The dog had been seen many times, going down one side of the mountain and coming up the other side. It was just a large shadow which appeared there every night around midnight. Janet Currie '45 WHAT AMERICA MEANS TO ME To me America stands for everything that is right, and now is the time for every patriotic American to be thinking just what Amer- ica means to him or to her. If America means anything at all to them, they will want to be doing something to help the war effort. If you are not old enough to join the armed forces, you can work in a war plant, if not that, plant crops, if you havn't much ground, you could have a garden, or hire land. The American people are made up of every nationality in the world, and the Germans that have lived here any length of time would, I think, fight for America. I read a story in a magazine about a Jap-A anese fellow that tried to enlist and the men at the recruiting office asked him which side was going to win, and on which side he preferred to fight. He replied that the Americans would win the war, and to the second question he answered, If I wasn't for America, I wouldn't be enlisting. All in all, I think that America is one swell land, and it will give anyone a fair chance to live and be happy. In a few simple words, I can write what all Americans are thinking: Thank God that I am an American. Ernest Tweedie '44