Hampden Academy - Sedan Yearbook (Hampden, ME)

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SEDAN STAFF First row, left to right: D. Bille, A. McKinley, B. Doherty, G. Mul- lins, N. Pike, P. Jones, K. Washburn. Second row: Mrs. Bryant, CAd- vlsorj, V. Bridges, E. Chase, K. Oxley, J. Graffam, J. Davis, A. Hopper, Mrs. Whitten, iAdvisorJ, Mrs. Good, CAdvisorJ, R. Faulkner, C. Pierce, F. Ferro, C. Maddocks, E. Goodell, S. Nickerson, I. Cole, Absent, L. Giles, L. Porter. . l Q.. 4- NATIONAL HONOR SO C IETY Left to Fight: Miss AIIIGS CSPOUSOPD, E. Goodell, H. Ware, M. Crooker, B. Call, N. Pike, G. MulllUS. W l A

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H' 'Q ?3?:' f?'Qm 'FI ADD W 3 . Hn' IRL 'f V 2. A lf' I ffl f' fr II X ' xJ'Jsf Q X:r,w5f'i+v:9 Qvvtzy Attendance, which was very small, was being taken in the grade schools all over the town. It was a cold, windy day.' The children were huddled around the stoves with their coats on trying to recite. - ' I ' This was a common scene last winter in many of the schools on the back roads of Hampden. There were many absentees from school because parents did not want to send their children into cold rooms. Some children already had colds from sitting in the drafts. The sanitary conditions in practically all the small schools indicate that there is much room for improvement. Some of the stoves are dangerous without jackets around them to circulate the heat and keep the children a safe distance from them. Our town has wisely passed measures to provide, eventually, for a consolidated grammar school. The expenses of a consol- idated school would be much less, because fewer teachers would have to be hired, there would be only one or two janitor's pay rolls and much less fuel would be required to heat one large school building than many small school houses. New adjustable school seats would help the children's postures and an efficient lighting system could prevfnnsmany eye defects. A consolidated school should also invest in a Moving Picture Projector. The high school has proved how much easier a pupil can learn by observing moving pictures concerning the subjects of study. For exmaple, a moving picture shown on the danger of drinking any kind of water proves to the children all the possible harm and diseases that can come fromfirinking water before it is purified. For another example of better learning, a moving picture of foreign countries and their songs, customs industries, and resources is more impressive and easier to understand then just reading about a thing. It tends to stay in a childs mind longer. There is a need also for the town of Hampden to have a new high school building. Showers for boys and girls should be installed, a good gymnasuim should be built so that the pupils could be correctly exercised. This is an important fact. All schools today stress the point that a child must have physical, education as well as mental education. A Home Economics department could sponsor a lunch room or small cafeteris for the pupils that are unable to eat their dinners at home. I I I I l I I I I I I I I I I I I I , I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 7 T l I