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

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H-if'-E'Literary?-T+L-'J IMPORTANCE OF A HIGH SCHOOL TO A COMMUNITY Have you ever thought of what a com- munity would be like without a high school? Think how much the activities in any com- munity center around such an institution. Of course, this pertains particularly to small communities where there are not many clubs and other organizationsg but it also pertains to large cities to a marked degree. Sports, s u c h as football, basketball, hockey, baseball, and track, provide enter- tainment for hundreds of people. These activities in the school prevent juvenile delinquency, as they keep the students occupied. The parents, teachers, friends, and students are brought in close contact with each other, improving public relations. Musical groups of any high school not only furnish entertainment for the residents of the town, but they bring out the talents of the young people. Band, orchestra, and glee club concerts, minstrels, and operettas are given from time to time during the school year. In addition, the school band plays for civic organizations, parades, and special events. Dramatics, public speaking, and debating are other activities that are enjoyed and shared by the students with the people of the community. It is easy to see how the community is built around the high school and also to see how dull the life of the average citizen would be without this institution. - Alice Gray, '50 THIS IS IT Well, here we are! After all these years we've finally made it. As we look back over our school days, we think how fast the time has flown, but we also remember how very often we sat in school wishing the time away, little realizing how fortunate we really were. Now we sit back and recall the many happy times and experiences we have encountered in school. Each of us thinks of it in a different light, now as he begins to realize just how im- portant education is, and he asks himself, Have I done my best? Am I ready for that which is ahead of me? These questions dominate our minds as we leave school. We will now be on our own. Our success and happiness depends upon how we have developed our powers of con- centration and stick-to-it-iveness to aid us in our quest of the future. - Franklin Looke, '50 SPIRIT The word spirit has many meanings. In one sense it means a supernatural thing, a ghost. In another way spirit means a drink or medicine that stimulates. And in still another sense it means vitality and vigorousness. Yet there is still another kind of spirit, a kind you cannot touch, but is very evident - School Spirit. School Spirit, as most people see it, is the cheering and encouraging that goes on while a school is competing with another school in some sports such as baseball, football, or track. But is that all that School Spirit means? I.,et's hope not!! Of course, that part is very important, but let's think of other places such as the dramatic club, the band and orchestra, the school dances, the tag days, the banquets, the school rules, the pupil's attitude toward their teachers, and- last but not least - the studies where it is equally important. School Spirit, therefore, is something that takes in all the meanings of the word spirit. School Spirit is a little ghost that lives in each of the students. It is a stimulant and medicine to any person or organization inthe school that needs its support. It is vigorous and full of vitality at football games and other fields of competition. School Spirit is a thing that flows through

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THE QUILL MAIN ENTRANCE A GARDINER HIGH SCHOOL If the walls of our high school could talk, Many varied tales could be told Of the different personalities who walk Each year from its great threshold. Some have become known in the world of fame And are proud of their Gardiner heritage. Others have gone out and accomplished their aim ln the working world of this day and age. May we not only be proud of Gardiner High But may she be proud of us, as well. Our love for her will remain 'til we die And her praises we ever will tell. e Editor-in-Chief

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8 THE QUILL the corridors, into the study halls, into the minds of the teachers and students, down from the school, and along Main Street with a group of babbling young people, into the corner drugstore, out to the basketball games, into the school dances, and on into our homes. School Spirit is a living thing, and it is a thing that our school, Gardiner High School, has and always hopes to have. - Barbara Dessler, l52 RESPONSIBILITY IN SCI-IOGL Who is responsible for what we achieve in school? We ourselves are. Now is a good time to consider whether or not we are taking all the responsibility for our school work that we should. Let us all make sure that we get the most out of our work. Teachers give us assign- ments, and it is our reponsibility to master those assignments to the best of our ability. If there is anything we do not understand, we should go to the teachers for special help, as they are always willing to give it. It is very important that we give our atten- tion to the work in all classes. If we are absent from school at any time, we should report to the teachers when we return for make-up. We must not expect the teachers to look us up. We have many opportunities to accept responsibility in sports, dramatics, music and other activities in our school. If we take this responsibility upon ourselves from day to day, we shall be more successful in our school work. - Diane Robbins, '52 VOCATIONS The dictionary defines a vocation as the work, profession, particular state or business for which one is specially fitted for a life work. We who are in high school should give more than a little thought to this definition, because most of us will soon come face to face with the problem of what our vocations are- for what life work we are best suited. This is the time when we should decide, at least tentatively, what work we are interested in doing. We who have ideas in mind should read about those fields which appeal to us to ascertain the opportunities for entering them, and should talk to people who are engaged in those occupations in order to see the actual work- ing set-up. Those of us who seem to have no definite ideas about vocations should read about and become acquainted with all the different fields in which there may be openings, and we should talk to people engaged in many different types of jobs. For any of us who expect to be able to continue our education beyond high school, thought about vocations now will help a great deal because it will enable us to more intelligently choose a college or school and will prevent us from wasting time taking unnecessary courses once we are there. For those of us who intend to get jobs after graduation this realization of our own in- terests and knowledge of 'available opporf tunities will be of value in finding work in which we will be happy. - Jane Dineen, '51 UNCLE SAM Americans often ask themselves, Who is Uncle Sam? Ask anyone that question and what would you get for an answer? Some might say, Why, Uncle Sam is our country, our government, and our armed forcesf' Others might respond, Uncle Sam is the farmer, the men on the streets, the man in the oflice, and others who help to make up this country. I would say, Uncle Sam is you and I and the hundred thirty million other Americans who are willing to do something for their country. - Robert Nixon, '50 MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT There were many presidents in our land, And every one was surely grand. But the one I liked the best of all Was the sixteenth one that took the wall.