Freeport High School - Clarion Yearbook (Freeport, ME)

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SCHOOL LIBRARY Miss Wood, our social studies teacher, has been in charge of thc- sc-hoo! library this year. She chose student librarians because there can not be a teacher in the library every period. She student librarians are: Carol Coffin, head librarian, Miriam Bernard, Mary Milliken, Marjorie Basinet, and Ann Haskell. The job of these librarians is to keep the library orderly, check books in and out.. keep students quiet, and help in any way possible with reference work. We have organized our own system of keeping books and cards in order and have arranged to keep the library open for an hour before and after school. The librarians take tums staying to make this possible. In the early winter we had a book drive by which we omtained many good books for the students to enjoy. A new set of encyclopedias was bought. This set is very helpful in doing any reference work. There is a career comer in the library where students can look for information about the future. We hope to make the library a place Where the students can go, not just for work,- but also to enjoy reading. This cannot be accomplished without the co-operation of the whole school, so we sincerely hope the students will give us the help we need. ANNE HASKELL, ,52. LIBBARIAN S Back Row, Left to Right: M. Bernard, Miss VVood, Advisor, M. Milliken. Front Row, Left to Right: A. Haskell, C. Coffin, M. Basinct.

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ORCHESTRA Back Row, Left to Right: M. Milliken, D. Murray, C. Coffin, DI. Fulk. Middle Row, Lt-fc to Right: S. Merriman, R. Profenno, R. Lowell, V. Bertrand, 1. Tibbctts, A. Bryan, Mr. Perry, Director. Front Row, Lcft to Right: I. Chaney, T. Hawkes, N. Bernard, A. Powers, VV. XVarncr, H. Moody, B. Blackstone, I. Marston. - SCHOOL ORCHESTRA '1'he school orchestra was started at the begining of October, 1951 by Mr. Francis Perry. Freeport High School will have a good orchestra just as soon as we get organized. Mr. Perry plans to make this school orchestra a good one. Most of Mr. Perryis spare time goes toward the orchestra. He has over twenty music pupils at the present. There is another music teacher from Brunswick who is taking over half of Mr. Perryis pupils. This is because he 'can not work them all in on his schedule. There are various pieces in the orchestra. Some of them are saxophones, trumpets, clarinets, drums, cornets, piano, trombones, and many other different kinds. Each pupil has to learn the lead part, second part, and third part of the music. That is because they take turns on the different parts. The reason for the school orchestra is to play at the school times instead of hiring some other orchestra, and to give some of them a good start in life. Each pupil meets with Mr. Perry once a week for an hour. VVe all have music books to study from. The orchestra is expected to be playing for the school some- time before school ends this ycar. It takes a long time to learn an instrument really well. If you plan on bcing good, you have to practice three hours a day. Right now some of us are practicing two hours a day which is all right. During the summer we do not have our lessons. But about four of us are going to take lessons from the Music Mart in Portland this summer vacation. The first thing wc had to do was to learn how to read music. That included reading and learning the spaces and lines, what key you are going to play in. what is the time of it, and be sure to study it over and over until you can read the notes right off. Second came the learning of the notes on the instrument. That included learning the basic scale, and giving the right tone to each note. As you went on, you had to learn more notes on the instrument, and where the sharps and flats were. p You had to learn how to clean your instrument after you are through using it. Then comes playing all together. We practice about an hour together. It takes a lot of practicing to play the music really well. ALLAN POWERS, '54.

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Education Going to school is not just to graduate or get a diploma. It is to make you understand the world around you. A lot of people can not sit down and read a newspaper and know what it says. Others want to say something in a letter, but do not know how to say it. People know that something works but do not know why. Things go on around you all the time, so it is natural that you want to find out and know as much about it as you will under- stand. Getting an education is leaming to study, leaming to apply yourself to something and stick to it without being made to. A big education is not necessary for the average person, for he can go out in the world and get an ordinary job to suit himself. Many others are interested in contributing their knowledge to help in improving the world in many ways such as scientists, engineers, and teachers. These require a college education and sometimes more education is needed for that special Held of work. It is foolish for a person who has knowledge to start with to pass up the wonderful opportunity which is his if he is willing to work . . . All this is necessary for your future in business and for a clean and respectable life. It can also be handed down to your children and to others who will profit by it. The world of affairs is also under your guidance in the future, so the world will profit by your knowledge. Don't pass up an education. BOB LOWELL, '52. Why Read Books and Magazines Do you ever End yourself with nobody to talk to? Perhaps Mother and Dad have gone to the movies, Ted is playing basketball, and Barbara is in church rehearsing her solo. After wandering around un- happily for a while, you probably pick up a book. Before long you've recovered from your loneliness, for you are with the characters of the story. Entertaining you, true enough, is one of the im- portant functions of books and magazines. That is not all, however, that worthwhile reading matter can do for you. From the printed page, you can leam all sorts of odd, interesting, and important facts. Between the covers of books lie knowlege that through the ages men have toiled and suffered and even died to gain. Wide reading will help you to succeed now in school and later in business or professions you choose as your life work. Furthermore, reading interesting books will boost your personality, for you will never be at a loss for something interesting to talk about. Before you realize what is happening, you will know, as you have probably heard, that you have a good start toward success. DAVID GALARNEA U, '54, Our Career Corner Have you been in the library recently? Well, if you havcn't, go in and observe our new career corner, made for the convenience of our high school students. A small table was placed in the comer of the room with a shclf on the above wall. On the table and shelf there are college catalogues, literature and registers, information about business and trade schools. A small file box is also on the table and has many leaflets on about fifty-five vocations. These leaflets acquaint the student with the advantages, disadvantages and salaries of certain vocations. If in doubt about what you would like for your life-time career, go into the library and look over all this literature. I'm sure that our career corner will help you. NANCY SARGENT, '52. Education in the United States We, the people of the United States, have more chance to educate ourselves than the people of other nations. In the United States, we have very capable teachers, excellent facilities for the purpose of train- ing in almost any field that a person can think of. The teachers, of which there are many, are well- trained. Many of them are trained in only one Held, but in this one field, they are taught every thing known by the men and women of the age. There are also teachers who have a general know- ledge and teach several subjects. This applies mostly to the grade schools. The buildings used for the purpose of teaching are equiped with the best materials and books of all sorts, and they have good lighting systems, both natural and artificial. We have in the United States some of the greatest educational institutions of the world. Hardly anywhere else in the world is education so active and vital an element in the lives of the people as it is in our country. Our teachers and parents are interested in self-improvement and de- termined that we, the future men and women of America, receive an education. Education requires great expenditures of money, which most of the people in this country are willing to make. Through education our country progresses. We are one of the most progressive countries in the world. Educa- tion is marked by experiments which benefit all man- kind. It is my belief that over a period of years world peace can be brought about through education. Once this peace has been achieved, mankind will prosper through education. DENNIS KELLEY, '52.