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

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Th f by thegStudents of Gardinerggl-Iighf School, Gardiner, Maine Y Volume Nineteen JUNE, Nineteen 'Iihiry-nine Number One QUILL STAFF C ' Ezlitor .,,...,,. ,, .,....,, ,. , Assistant Editor Business Manager Assistant Business Manager , , , , Jane Ward Lois Farrell Leroy MacDonald . , ,. , .,...,... Marjorie Wood Department Editors: Literary . .. . Perley Leighton Alumni , , Margaret Church jokes .. . ,. .. . . ,,., , .Geraldine McGrail Athletics Boys V Carroll Newhouse Girls Katherine Buckley School News Kathleen Monaghan Class Reporters: Senior Q ,Thomas Demers Sophomore Mary Goud junior Ellen Pomerleau Freshman William Nivison Typists Armorell Goodwin Kathleen Goggin Rita McDonald Marie Turner Editorial Scene: Room for Improvement Time: Any day during which the call for more participants in any extra-curricular activity has been issued. Characters: Ican and lcannot Ican: Say, l'm going out for some of the extra-curricular activities. I don't know exactly which ones because I don't know what I'd be good in. Anyway, I'm going to try a few of them. Why donlt you? lcannot: Oh! Ican't. Ican: Why not? Icannot: My goodness, I simply couldn't. Ican: I don't see why. You don't know what you can do until you've tried. NX'on't you even try? lcannot: I don't believe so. Why --I gf well 4- Gee, I can't. Ican: If you'd only realize how much more you would get out of school by taking part in extra-curricular activities! You'd be getting what is commonly known as a well- rounded education. If you don't go any farther in school, you will at least have had a taste of something besides reading, writ' ing, and 'rithmetic. Icannot: Well, I don't think I'd care for any of the extra-curricular activities. Be- sides, I can't be bothered to stay nights after school or come back in the evening just to take part in this, that, or the other. Ican: Oh! You make me tired! Why be so selfish? If you don't care about doing it for yourself, why don't you do it for your school? Don't you realize that if more stu- dents take part in the extra-curricular activ- ities, our school would be sure it is display- ing its best talents? Icanriot: Oh, I haven't any talents. Ican: Will you please tell me how you know you haven't any talents?

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8 THE QUILL Icannot: Well T I + I know I haven't. Ican: I thought as much. You don't know that you haven't any talents. If you insist upon taking that attitude, you're sim- ply defeating yourself before you even start. Icannot: I've told you that I simply can't go out for any extra-curricular activities. Ican: You haven't given me one reason why you can't, so you must mean you won't. Well, I am going to tell you a story and I want you to listen. There was a little choo- choo train struggling to get up over a steep hill. There was also a big choo-choo train struggling up the same hill. He couldn't make it, so he asked the little choo-choo train to push him. The little train puffed and puffed and said, I think I can-I think I can. When he reached the top of the hill, he smiled and said, I thought I could, I thought I could. Icannot: Oh, Ican! I always thought that there was something wrong with you men- tally. Ican: All right, maybe there is something wrong with me mentally. just the same there's a lesson behind that story that peo- ple like you ought to know and understand. It may sound silly to you, but I'm going to be like the little choo-choo train and you 1- well, you can be what you want to be. I don't care any more. Only I'm telling you, that if you don't wake up and get wise to yourself, you'll be out of luck some day. -Jane Ward, '39 SCHOOL SPIRIT What is school spirit? If I were to ask you if you had school spirit, you would say yes. You think you have, because you cheer the football and baseball teams, and attend the various entertainments sponsored by the school. This is but a small part of school spirit. The more important part is partici- pation in various sports and activities, work- ing for the school, rather than just contrib- uting a little money for a ticket. We should actively participate, so that the school will be better represented. Do you realize that a very small group, not more than twenty-five in the whole school, is doing the largest share of the work in the extra-curricular activities, excluding sports? This fact is due, not to any greater ability on their part, but to their willingness to work for the school, to their school spirit. Boys are especially lacking in this true school spirit. Boys are vital to the Dra- matic Club, yet their number there is stead- ily decreasing. The same condition exists in other organizations. The boys do not seem to realize that they, as well as the girls, should represent our school. We should all participate in activities for our own benefit. We have all used paint at some time or other. If only a little is used, and the rest left in the can, the remain- der soon becomes useless. If all the paint is put on a small space, it is also useless. In the same way, if we use but a small part of our ability, the rest soon disappears. If we put all our talent on one subject, it may lose its interest to us, or we may become unin- teresting to others. We should spread our ability to include many varied things. All activities give some actual benefit, as any- one who has participated in them will say. When we have more things to hold our interest, we do not find school dull, monot- onous, uninteresting. However, there is a danger of over doing this. Paint, if spread over too great a sur- face, is too thin to do any good. We should not try to do a little in every activity, for in