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

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THE QUILL 11 NOVEMBER 8. The Collins Festival gave in assembly a short preview of the first of their series of entertainments. OCTOBER 14. Miss Grace Phelan showed us some real typing. Miss Phelan is one of the fastest amateur typists in the world. NOVEMBER 6. Mr. W. A. NVheeler gave us an interesting talk on railroads and their value. The chairman of the Student Council com' mittees took charge of assembly one morning, each one giving a short speech on the duties of his respective committee. DECEMBER 13. The annual Athletic Fair was held with much success and pleasure. Two onefact plays were presented by members of the Dramatic Club, after which a dance was held in the gym and candy and cold drinks were sold at the booths. JANUARY 30, Each member of the cast of the Dramatic Club play was introduced, and a few short previews were given. We were especially favored by having a swing orchestri, made up largely of high school students, entertain us in assembly. The orchestra is led by Earland Welch and directed by James Desmond. CLUB MINSTREL FEBRUARY 27 AND 28. The seventh annual minstrel show under the direction of Mr. David Kelley and Mr. Hinds was a great success. The setting this year was a court' room with the endmen, Thomas Kelley, James Desmond, Charles Mooradian, Robert Leavitt, Arthur Fossett, and Robert Demers, acting as policemen. The interlocutor, in the part of judge, was Mr. Hinds. BAND The band, under the direction of Mr. Kelley, had an eventful year. At almost every football game the band appeared, acf companied by eight clever drumfmajorettes and the cheerleaders. The band also enterf tained us in assembly. ORCHESTRA Through the capable leadership of Miss Towne, Gardiner High School had once more an orchestra to be proud of. It furnished the music at various plays throughout the year. HIfY CLUB The officers of the HifY Club for this year are president, Charles Storm, vicefpresident, Robert Baileyg secretary, Perley Bettsg treasf urer, Donald MacDonald. The aim of this club is to establish throughout the community high standards of Christian character. COMMERCIAL CLUB The Commercial Club held their first meet' ing to elect officers. Those elected were presif dent, Dorothy Whittier, vicefpresident, Gerf trude Farnham, secretary, Margaret Brooksg treasurer, Doris Colby. Miss Perry is the faculty adviser. At each meeting some enter' tainment has been provided. PUBLIC SPEAKING Under the direction of Miss Charlotte Jewett, public speaking has had a successful year. Medals were given to Margaret Dan' forth and James Desmond in the school conf test. Margaret Danforth was chosen to rep' resent Gardiner High School in the prelim' inary of the Lydia Spear Contest at Winslow on April 4. REMEMBRANCE Lest we forget those who have come and gone, and one in particular who served so long and faithfully and gave so unstintingly of her' self to the profession, let us call to mind some of our former teachers and friends. Mr. Cooper, who from 1936 to 1940 taught general mathematics and served four success' ful years as coach, is now at Bar Harbor, where he is still carrying on in the same conf scientious manner and doing a fine job. Miss Plaisted, the very efficient teacher of typewriting and stenography from 1927 to 1940, has transferred her talents from the teaching profession to the medical. She is now office manager at the Dr. R. D. Simons Memorial Clinic, where she is happy in her work and a popular member of the organization. Mr. Connors, the manual training teacher, resigned to take up the same type of work at Lewiston. He was a well liked and very eifif cient teacher at Gardiner High School from 1937 to 1941 and also successful as coach of the boys' Junior High basketball team.

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10 THE QUILL SCHOOL N WS DRAMATIC CLUB The first meeting of the Dramatic Club was held to elect ofhcers. The following were chosen: president, Thomas Kelleyg vicefpresif dent, Charles Mooradiang secretary, Ruth Pat' tersong treasurer, Gertude Farnham. SEPTEMBER 24. Tryouts were held to choose new members of the Dramatic Club. The total membership is now forty. JANUARY El. The Dramatic Club play, under the capable direction of Miss Anna Longfellow, was staged with great success. Our Boarding House was the play chosen and the cast of characters was as follows: Cora Claypool ESTHER MERRILL Ella March MARTHA HAMLIN Mayhelle Gilfoyle CHRISTINE GALLANT Phoebe Sweet MARIAN PIKE Noah Lot THOMAS KELLEY Happy Huyler JAMES DESMOND Williain Slyde LINXVOOD PEASLEE Sadie Slyde MARY Goun Bill Slyde WEsfroN HAMLIN Iona Slyde RITA BUCKLEY MARCH 21. Gardiner came second in the prcliminaries of the onefact play contest, being defeated by Cony. The Gardiner play was Grandma Pulls the Strings . The cast was as follows: Grandma MARTHA HAMLIN Mrs. Cummings PHYLLIS BAKER Hildegarde Cummings MARY GOUD Julia Cummings MARIAN PIKE Nona Cummings Beaver RITA BUCKLEY Williaiii Thornton JAMES DESMOND LONG ASSEMBLIES The program committee in charge of assemf blies this year is Charles Storm, chairman: Perley Betts, Phyllis Drake, John Quinn, and Richard Gillespie, ' DRAMATIC CLUB

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