Gorham State College - Hillcrest / Green and White Yearbook (Gorham, ME)

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1: Twcllly-Mg SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS ROBERT HUBBARD, President MARY VENTRES, Vice-president RICHARD MACDONALD, Secretary ELIZABETH MCKOWN, Treasurer

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From Kindergarteners to College Seniors, Gorham students learn by doing. We invite you to look in on them at typical moments of their school care-ers. Page Tweniy-smwn

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SENIOR HISTORY By VIRGINIA ANDRE Just about every senior class remembers the opening day of school when, as freshmen, they met in the old gym for a pep talk by lVlr. Woodward as he handed out the schedules. We remember, too-remember with smiles, chuckles, and a tinge of sadness all those feelings of independence, awe, and homesickness. I Our freshman year was fairly uneventful as we were too busy making friends and adjusting to our new surroundings. We did try to think of ways to raise money but these ideas were put aside for another year. Our pride and joy of our freshman year were our seven male members of the class! Hal Mailman, Ronald Murphy, Lionel Fountain, Dick MacDonald, Ray Smith, Russ Becker, and Francis Lucey were the apples of our eyes and were welcome on a campus otherwise devoid of young, unattached men! Our sophomore year found us one step higher on the stairway to success. Since we were now well-acquainted with ourselves, our teachers, and our sur- roundings, we began to take part in many extracurricular activities including dramatics, music, sports, and various clubs. Once again we talked over plans concerning raising money by putting oII a class show, and once again we postponed this for another year. ln lVlay we went to Sebago Lake Park for our class outing, thus ending our second year at Gorham. lVlost of us will agree that our junior year was the most successful of the four. This was due to our very successful class show called 6'Caslight Fol- liesi'-an all-student production. Who can ever forget the old-fashioned melodrama, the Barbershop Quartet, the Flora Dora girls, and the Park scenes? That it was a great success was very evident, especially by the sud- den increase of money in our treasury! This year we said goodbye to some of our classmates who had taken the three-year course and were graduated in J une. We wished them the best luck in the world, but couldnit help wondering l1ow we would be feeling the fol- lowing year when we would be in their place. Our senior year brought us many busy moments. We still were fairly ac- tive in extracurricular activities, but not to the extent that we had been the previous two years. Half of the class did its practice teaching one semester, and half of the class the other semester. This broke up the class for activities, but it didn,t keep us from having a good time. We held an outing at Gun Point in October and some of us are still talking about the good time we had. After the half, time just flew by with teas, talks of minimum salaries, fittings for caps and gowns, class parts, and thoughts of saying goodbye to our room- mates and friends. Our four years have been good ones here on the hill. They are years weill cherish for the rest of our lives with many happy memories. Page Twenty nmc