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

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THE QUILL 11 PICKING A FOOTBALL TEAM FROIXI THE HEROES OF FICTION To pick a football team from the heroes of fiction was not a job for one man. To do this job. a group of experts was chosen. Everyone knows, of course, that there is no one alive today who is as smart as a football player thinks he is. To aid these gentlemen in their task a secondary group was selected to choose and submit names of likely candidates to THE ex- perts . Careful consideration was given by these professionals in the game of second guessing to all candidates. For a player to be selected to the team a three-fourths ma- jority was needed. Now that we know how the team was chosen, let us look at some ofthe players' names and the reasons of the experts for selecting them. Letis look, first, at the names of the backfield men, better known in football circles as the uglory boysn. At left-halfback is the fabulous Frank lVIerri- well. No explanation is needed for this man's presence on the team. At right-half- back the hexpertsn, believing they would need more speed in their backfield, selected the Roman God Mercury. For a fullback, after careful consideration and considerable discussion, the Uexpertsf, picked Hercules. The quarterback, and also captain, was a unanimous choice. To the task of guiding the backfield presented above was named Captain Horatio Hornblower. Now let,s take a quick look at the line. The usuper brains were able to agree on only three candidates. Two of these are tackles and the other is the center. First the tackles: at left tackle another unanimous choice is the great Paul Bunyan, the giant of the North Woods. After receiving the announcement of his being chosen to the team, Paul said he was very flattered but that he would not leave home to play ball without his Blue OX. Discussion among the Hexpertsi' was heated, but they finally agreed that Paul was too valuable a man to lose, therefore Paulis ox was given the po- sition of right tackle. After the selection of the tackles was completed, the search for a center ended almost as soon as it started with the choice of Pecos Bill. The Hexpertsi' believed, and most people will agree, that with three such players in the line there wouldnit be need or room for any more. With the completion of the team, the brains began screening the names of like- ly candidates for the position of coach. These men worked night and day for weeks without leaving the conference room but could never agree on a candidate wort-hy of the job. At length, the list oi nominations from the second group produced no one and the experts could think of no one. The only alternative was to turn to the common people to help. The call is still out, so if you have any ideas for a worthy man, please get in touch with the experts im- mediately. 'George Heselton, ,52 IF tWith Apologies to Kiplingl If you can keep your thoughts when all about you Are whispering, fooling, and distracting youg If you can trust yourself when teachers doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can speak, but not with fear and trembling, Or being laughed at, check the urge for fun, Or being witty, donft give way to bragging, And yet go on, work hard till all's well done, If you can the names and dates of battles master And in memory the Constitution retain, If you can meet examination and disaster And feel about these two things just the same, If you can in chemistry worry each day through And not nblow-up in that heated atmos- phere, Or you can 'iparlez-vousn and Hcomprenezu too Without insisting your classmates must hear, If you can force yourself to sing do-re-mi, For it will be sung long after you are gone, And hold on to your temper when you get off key Saying to yourself-HI Will Stay Oni , If you can overcome a common temptation, Especially with a diamond in view, To put an end to all this meditation And say, Adieu, and again, HI do , If you can read of the great literary men, Historical biographies and such, And dream of ancient kings and queens, knights, brave men, Nobility-nor lose the common touch, If HVeni, Vidi, Vicin you can say and also mean it As Ceasar did of old and without fear, Yours is G. H. S. and everything that's in it, And-what is more-you'll graduate, my dear. -Lois Lackey, '52

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Why do you n.ez'er tire of playing or cease from mischief EDWVARD VICTOR ANDERSEN GENERAL COURSE Boys' Locker Room Committee lg Equipment Committee 3: Laboratory Assistant 4: Boys' Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4: Mixed Chorus 3, -lg Representative to New England Festival 3g Senior Class Play -lg Football 1. 2. 31 Cross Country 43 Hoekey 2. Success is what you make it ANNE EVA ANNAS COLLEGE COURSE Student Council 4: Magazine Campaign 45 Quill Board Uunior Assistant Editor 3, Editor 4D g Halls Committee 4, Lost and Found Committee QChairman 45, Girls' Glee Club 1, 3, 4, Mixed Chorus 2, 3, Representative to Student Legislature 4, Junior Red Cross Council QSecretary-Treasurer 41 5 Latin Club 23 Senior Class Play 45 junior Class Play fPrompter 3lg Girls' Squad Leader 3, 43 Girls' Volleyball 1, 2, 3. 43 Girls' Basketball l. 2. 3. 4: Honor Essay. Love once, love always SIRETA NADINE AUSTIN COMMERCIAL COURSE Girls' Locker Room Committee 4, Girls' Glee Club 25 Junior Red Cross Council 3, Girls' Squad Leader 3, 4, Girls' Volley- ball 2, 3. 4: Girls' Basketball 2, 3, 41 Girls' Athletic Council 4. The quiet, progressive type GEORGE RAYMOND BARON INDUSTRIAL COURSE Quill Board 4g Halls Committee 4. Success is the reward of application NORMAN EARL BEEDLE COLLEGE COURSE Student Council fAlternate lj, 4, Halls Committee 4g Boys' Locker Room Committee 45 Grounds Committee 1, 4 fChair- manj, Orchestra 1, 2, 33 Mixed Chorus 4, Representative to Student Legislature 4: Instrumental Club 2. 3: Latin Club 2.