George Stevens Academy - Mountain Echo Yearbook (Blue Hill, ME)

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NIOL NT LUV ECHO HUMANS WILL BE HUMANS Boy meets grrl that age old story Hasn t changed and never wrll Mamma needs a hat thats stylrsh Papa foots the brll always Sam Jones buys a brand new Packard Smrtb s old Ford wrll never do Even though hrs house 1S mortgaged Smrth must have a Packard too Some folks l1ve the1r lrves the1r own wav Strll there are a certarn few Who can t let the1r nerghbors beat them Notwrthstandrng what they do Humans always w1l1 be humans Evolutronrsts or no Honor prrde and greed are constant Leaders come and leaders go Love and hate st1ll rule the rulers Whether natrons rrse or fall Irfe IS short and rn a hurry Whats the use to l1ve at all'P Walter Butler 44 ADVENTURES OF SPURLOCK SHOLMFQ WHILE Spurlock Sholmes was deep rn 1 fit of thrnklng ras he frequently rs or should I say was s1nce thrs happened many years agol a rock came Hyrn through the wrndow and landed wrth a lhud on the head of the one and only Dr Wattsun who 1S Sholmes frrend and as srstant The doctor startled s1nce he had been aroused suddenly from a deep sleep rumped out of the charr rn wh1ch he had been Slttlllg I say Sholmes he crred What on earth was that'P D1d that blasted chrmnev fall down aga1n'9 Sholmes was now bendrng over the doc tor to see rf he was hurt You re a brt unsteady 1n the brarn but youll be all rrght sa1dSholmes I say put ln the doctor Here rs the obJect that crowned me and rt has a prece of paper tred around rt What IS wrrtten on 1t'J aked Sholmes rmpatrently The doctor looked puzzled as he sa1d It must be code Here Sholmes you read Shomes also looked puzzled The let ters here are L S M F T Vlfhat can they mean'J Thrs lS one mystery that Sholmes neve olved It was not untrl Just a few months a o that I came upon the SOlllt1Oll It seems that Srr Walter Ralergh was an frdvertrsrng agent for a brg tobacco com pany and he thought rt would be good publrcrty to have the tobacco companvs name connected wrth Spurlock Sholmes But he forgot one thrng He forgot that Sholmes and Wattsun never smoked so they never knew what the letters L S M F' T stood for Dana Conary 45 THAT WVONDERFUL BROTHER OF MINE I sa1d a lrttle prayer last nrght It was for brother Jrm We havent heard from h1m for sometrme Hrs grrl she got a letter Bout two months ago Che Sald he Sald he m1ssed us And I wouldn t wonder so Cause J1nr he never went from home Untrl he went th1s t1me Hes homes1ck but hes awful brave That Wonderful Brother of Mme For two months We ve had no letter Not even a postal card We re always hop1ng and prayrng But ltS really awful hard To pretend that we re not frrghtened And go on as we d1d before Wr1t1ng letters prayrng sm1l1ng We can do nothrng more We keep on sayrng hell come back Though we haven t heard for a t1me Hell come mth banners-wart and see That Wonderful Brother of Mme Mary McGravs 44 qulte L Irv I I ' W 14 H ll ' ,' ' U I ' . . v ' n H - 1 ' ' . it. , - .1 y . - . . 0. . 1 L3 ' III . ' ' 1 ' - . . L . . . , , . . - Y IV . - , . , V V V iv- ' ' Y u J. . . I Y U , . ---V--- He's somewhere fighting bravely, , . . , . ' g ' ' . 1 ' 3 . I ' ' is vi I ' ' Y , ' H ' I ' ' . . ,, . ' H 7 ' ' . . . , . Q , . ,, . , . 11 rn ' 4. - 1 V - ,- ' ' ' ' Y! u v Y

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X JUNIOR SENIOR EXHIBITION I m as nervous as a draftee Or a Red Cross blood donor Id bett r stop shaklng pretty soon Or Im sure to be a goner I ve forgott n my books And my m1nd seems empty All the thmgs Ive learned Have gone and left me What shall I do to rlght my wrong I Just cant shake all nrght For afte1 all the Exh1bxt1ons Not t1ll Wednesday nlght Marjorle Young 44 IIIT S SQUIRM WORM He came and asked me for a dance That handsome guy rn the checkered pants He g1aLbed me up and swung me round I never knew when I h1t the ground He sa d that I was a fancy number But I felt more l1ke a load of lumber Then when he tossed me round a b1t I thought he must be havxng a ht I sald Now look here lug' Is th1s what you call uttlng a lug 'J Cause 1f 1t IS Im 1l11ng It qults I don t want to catch your Jltterbug Flts My feet were up and my head was down But he a d Come on Babe' Lets go to town' He thr w me over hls shoulder and caught me by the nose What went on from there Heaven onlv knows' But now Im a crlpple' So dancers beware Of guys 1n checkered pants And dark wavy han' -S Babson 44 C Butler 45 A PLEA It s nearly sprlng the wlnter s gone And yet we must admlt We ve mu h to do before we leave We all must do our b1t The Jubllee must be Just pel fect The IVIOUIIIIZIII Echo rxght We need a lot more stor1es So wont you try tonight The Glee Club needs more practxce Lets srng w1th all we ve go Lets practlce hard for speakxng And do Just as we re taught We need a strong Amerlca We re dependlng upon you So study hard your Democracy And your other lessons too We re 1n to w1n and WIH we must To keep the thlngs we love Our homes our f3.l'I'11116S and our land All came from God above' And do our b1t today I ets buy more stamps and bonds right now I et s fight the Yankee way MarJor1e Young 44 V A FISHING TRIP One day I went on a flshlng trxp To a llttle stream I knew It was tucked away ln the distant hllls And It was stocked wlth many fish too I came at last to th1s httle pool Where the rlpphng waters stands And I saw a big trout cuttlng wlde On a long wh1te bottom of sand I dropped my hook 1n a qulet place Where the trout stlll played about He struck my hook and b1t down hard And then I yanked h1m out B111 Babson 46 :ill NlHl'. l'AlN l'll'llH U , ' ' u va 7 3 , ' . ' y . 7 1 v 7 9 ' 3 9 , , , I S . . , - 3 . , , . . , tl , ' ' 7 - y l 1 H ' Y TV, 1 as , 1 is ' ' Y ' Y , I . . Y l -- - p - ' v So come on, Stevens, let's pitch in . Y ' I , , V , , ' Q Y , ' '7 T I . ' Y I A ' 'C ' ' 'I ss 11 , . . .Y , C . . . Y , - - ,, . . , . . . V Q i .. , . . . . , , . H , . H Q . . . V U v I ' I 1-4 ' 1 ' i Y '