Hampden Academy - Sedan Yearbook (Hampden, ME)

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X --- com . In the winter cold dinners are not good for growing bodies. Since the trend in education has been towards constructive 4 learning, a shop of modern equipment for a boy's manuel trainingg class would fit into the needs. A well lighted laboratory with a lot of room, sufficient chemicals, and new suitable equipment for Chemistry and Physics classes would be put to good use. A WORLD CRISIS In the last month we have all heard. a great deal about the famine and starvation of millions of people in the world. Our President, Mr. Truman, government officals, and business leaders have asked us to save food in order that we may send food to ' these people until they are able to supply many of their needs. Americans are not the only people who have been asked to tighten their belts, to put less food on their plates and to eat what they have before them and not leave half of it to be thrown out as garbage. The English people, who have less food all during the war and still don't have as much as we, have offered part of their diet to help feed the starving of the rest of the world. People who have to spend the whole day looking for food have no time to think of ways to make the peace truly work. Little children who must dig in garbage heaps and beg in the streets for a piece of dry broad or a cold potato have neither , time nor wish for a school where they can learn to become good A citizens. The children of Greece, India, and China must have food and good health to become happy and useful citizens in their countries and the world. They cannot do this for them- selves because of many reasonsg for instance, there isn't enough land to feed them all and as in the case of Greece and China much of the land has been ruined by war. All of us can help save food by finishing what is placed before us to eat. In our school most if us Rive on farms or have gardens at home. By getting out.more oftenfto,help pull the weeds or by washing or cleaning the vegetables and fruits that are going to be canned we can all help feed the children of the other countries.

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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

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WQ,lEf!3UiMW AN EMBARRASSING MISTAKE' Silas Olgard was a lonely bachelor, who lived in a small one story house on the edge of Bloomdale, Minnesota. He was a small man and walked with a slight limp, acquired in a lumber camp up north. He had been in Bloomdale twenty years but as he was quiet individual no one could find out much about his past life. A farmer he was working for happened to obtain the rare bit of information that his birthday was on the 29th of August That eventful day would have passed by quietly if the farmer had not casually given the information tohhis wife. She immediately remarked that, since the poor old man had probably sp ent many birthdays alone, they should give him a party. Silas arrived for his birthday supper with the farmer at an early hour. He was dressed in his best pair of pants and a clean white shirt. Somewhere he had managed to find an ancient but gaudy tie which he tied in a knot that resembled a bowline. Soon the first course consisting of parsnip soup was on the table and they sat down to eat. Silas, who had been used to eating alone where few utensils and manners were needed, was slightly disturbed by even the simple table set before him. His necktie almost fell in his soup several times. He remedied this by tucking it into his shirt. By the time the birthday cake was placed before him he was very nervous and embarrassed. Out of the corner bf his eye he noticed that his shirttail had come out. He cautiously tucked it in while no one was looking. Having succeeded in this, he finished the meal in peace. As he rose to leave, the table cloth did too! He had mistaken the tablecloth for his shirt and had tucked it under his belt. Edward Goodell '46 Carelessness is our worst enemy. Not matter where you.gO or what you do you always find it going on. In school, in work, in play. Everywhere! If it weren't for carelessness the most of the accidents that happen would not occur. For instance, if the pedestrian had looked where he was going he wouldn't have been hit. If the wood cutter had watched his axe, he wouldn't have cut himself. Had the boy watched his knife, he wouldn't have cut his finger. There is nothing that can be done about carelessness unless everyone does his part. That is to watch what he is doing. - I . ' Philip Jones '48