Gardiner Area High School - Quill Yearbook (Gardiner, ME)

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Z0 THE QUILL such as plays, freshman reception, various outside social events, and lastly graduation. The orchestra is losing many senior mem- bers, who have enjoyed their part in this organization very much and regret leaving. The orchestra, like the band, is under the supervision of Miss Eva M. Towne. THE GARDINER H1-Y CLUB A This newly formed organization is a branch of the National Hi-Y Fellowship, in which there are 6,500 clubs, 35 of which are in Maine. The stated purpose of these clubs is to create, maintain, and extend through- out the school and community high stand- ards of Christian character. Under the guidance of Principal O. C. Woodman, a group of seven boys met, elected officers, and drew up and adopted a constitution. In this group of charter mem- bers were Richard Danforth, james Brown, Robert Foye, Charles Storm, Max Andrews, Perley Leighton, and George Cottle. The first officers of the club are George Cottle, president, Robert Foye, vice-president, Per- ley Leighton, secretaryg and Max Andrews, treasurer. Three members, james Brown, Richard Danforth, and George Cottle, at- tended the first State Hi-Y Clubs. The club conducted a regular meeting in assembly April 13, with Edwin E. Boud, Secretary of the Maine Y.M.C.A., as the speaker. He spoke on the aims and activi- ties of Maine Hi-Y Clubs, and presented our club witha Certificate of Affiliation with the National Hi-Y Clubs. Meetings are held in the High School once a week. New members and officers are elected in the spring. G CLUB MINSTREL The setting of the minstrel show this year was a circus with the end-men as clowns, front row maidens as peasant girls, and in- terlocutor as ringmaster and leader of the, show. Of course, our ringmaster was none other than Charlie Hinds, to us the best interlocutor possible. The end men were Perley Leighton, Tom Demers, Gilbert Cole, Paul Fleming, Carroll Newhouse, and Muri ray Shepard. The front row was made up 1 of twelve senior girls, a few veterans buf' mostly newcomers to the minstrel staff. There were many specialties in the show, all members of the student body of Gardi- ner High. With dancing, singing, readings, and the usual minstrel performances the show was most pleasing to the audience. I The show this year was earlier than usu'al,' being put on December 15 and 16. A dance followed the minstrel, with music by a local orchestra. The whole thing was not only a social success, but also a financial one, the proceeds going to the athletic fund. ' We owe much of our success to Mr.' David F. Kelley, director and pianist for the show. We appreciated his great help very much. ATHLETIC FAIR The annual Athletic Fair was held April 28, 1939. The gymnasium was attractively dec- orated in the four class colors. There were no booths this year, but at the further end of the hall were two tables, one having ice cream and a few novelties and the other, candy. These were presided: over by members of the junior and senior classes, respectively. ' Those on the decorative committee were Kay Goggin, chairman, Everett Ellingwood, Gerry McGrail, Harry Foss, Kay Buckley, Rita MacDonald, Perley Leighton, Charles Pickering, Louise Purdy, Clayton Ward, a 1

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THE QUILL 19 gm, Y . .. .. DEBATING This year our debaters had a very busy sea- son, participating in two debating leagues, a debating clinic, a practice debate, and a mock debate in assembly. Eighteen signed up for debating in the fall. A debating class, taught by Mrs. Mil- dred Snyder, our debating coach, was started. This class, which is to train stu- dents to become our future debaters, is held one period each week. Perley Leighton, David Nivison, Richard Danforth, and Mrs. Snyder attended a de- bating clinic at Bates College on Oct. ZZ. Perley Leighton and David Nivison took part in a demonstration of extemporaneous speaking. Perley Leighton and David Nivison also debated in the Bowdoin interscholastic League debates held at Bowdoin College, Dec. 10, on the question: Resolved, That Section 1 of the Neutrality Act of May 1, 1937, furnishes a satisfactory permanent policy for the United States. The teams selected for the Bates Inter- scholastic League debates were as follows: affirmative, Frances Lombard and David Nivison, negative, Perley Leighton and Thomas Demers. Practice debates were held with Lincoln Academy and also with Winslow. In the league debates our affirm- ative team was defeated by Lewiston, and Mechanic Falls forfeited the debate to our negative team because of a death in the fam- ily of one of their debaters. The question this year was: Resolved, That the United States should establish an alliance with Great Britain. On May 3, a humorous debate was put on as an assembly program. Thomas De- mers and Emery Malcolm upheld the affirm- ative, Perley Leighton and David Nivison upheld the negative of the question: Re-1 solved, That it is better to be a little frog in a big pond than a big frog in a little pond. Letters were awarded at the close of the season to Frances Lombard, Perley Leigh- ton, Thomas Demers, and David Nivison. Certificates were awarded this year from. Bates College to David Nivison and Frances Lombard. THE BAND T i Gur G.H.S. band has had a very successful and colorful year, with many games, pa- rades, etc. We were praised more and more on the improvement from last year. Our band was started about two years ago under the direction of Miss Eva M. Towne, super- visor of music in Gardiner schools. With the help of the community, merchants, and various social organizations we were fortu- nate enough to secure nice looking uniforms of our school colors, orange and black. We have a very capable drum-major, Gilbert Cole. The band has played at all local athletic activities and has added to the enthusiasm of the pupils and citizens when the local teams have played. The band assisted in last Memorial Day exercises of the Ameri- can Legion and also their Armistice Day activities and received many compliments on good work and appearance. The band took the place of the orchestra this year at the Athletic Fair. Even though this is not the regular custom, the idea went over big. The band has been asked to take part in the Gardiner Board of Trade Fair, the last of May, in a comedy act. THE ORCHESTRA The orchestra has had a busy season play- ing for almost all of the school functions,

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THE QUILL 21. Evelyn Bowie, Roland Hopkins, and Emery Malcolm. The two one-act plays were enjoyed by all. The names of them were Rich Man, Poor Man and Young Man's Fancy. This year, for the first time, we had student directors, all popular members of the Dra- matic Club: Jane Ward, jean Caney, julie Roberts, and Margaret Church. They were congratulated on their fine work. After the plays dancing was enjoyed in the gymnasium with the music by Gordon Howe and his Blue Romancers. Posters showing the different athletic activities were made by Betty Curry and Mary Goud. PUBLIC SPEAKING The preliminary Public Speaking contest was held March 17, 1939, at Gardiner High School. jane Ward, the winner for the last three years, was again the leading contest- ant, with the selection That We Might Be Saved. Second place was won by Betty Chase, with her interpretation of Ma's Sunday Morning. Third place was won by David Nivison with the piece, Sky Fodder , and the fourth place, by George Cottle with My Account with the Un- known Soldierf' Others participating in the contest were Constance Leighton, Frances Staples, Geneva Mann, Perley Leighton, and Lois Farrell. jane Ward, Betty Chase, David Nivison and George Cottle were then eligible to compete in the triangular meet with Hallowell and Win- throp High Schools. jane Ward won first prize. The preliminaries for the North Central Maine Division of the Spear Contest were held in Winslow. jane Ward, our contest- ant, was chosen as alternate for the final state contest. The coach for all the Public Speaking in G.H.S. this year was Miss Charlotte Jewett, Latin teacher. WASHINGTON TRIP ', On a beautiful spring day, Friday, April I4, twenty-three students and three teachers started their eight-day tour to the Nation's capitol. Relatives and friends waved good- bye to us as the train pulled out at 9:20. We were accompanied by Miss Ella Perry of the high school faculty as chaperone. Miss Dallas Colby and Mrs. john Gilbert of the junior high faculty were also members of the party. The high school students in the party were Kathleen Goggin, Armorell Goodwin, Geraldine Ulmer, Rachel Rines, Marie Turner, Alice Brann, Ethel Gorton, Shirley Potter, Patricia Dowling, Luella josely'n, Helen Cobb, Geraldine McGrail, Kathleen Monaghan, Katherine Buckley, Max An- drews, Elwood Moulton, Hiram Pierce, Paul Skidmore, Herbert Strout, and Isabel Harriman. Frances Lombard accompanied the members of the party to Boston, stop- ping for the week there. We left Boston at 5:30 and enjoyed the ride on the boat through the canal. Arriv- ing in New York Saturday morning, we took a train to Philadelphia, where we saw the highlights of the place in a tour around the city. Among the main interests were the First Supreme Court House, Indepen- dence Hall, where the Liberty Bell is located, William Penn statue, Carpenter's Hall, Betsy Ross House, Benjamin Franklin's grave. About 3:30 we boarded another train for Washington, arriving there about six o'clock. That evening we were entertained by the Honorable Clyde H. Smith at Glen Echo, an amusement park. The following days