Hermon High School - Microphone Yearbook (Hermon, ME)

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The MICROPHONE 13 SENIOR PLAY First row: C. Thayer, L. Oyer, Mr. Owyer, G. Brown, B. Libby. Second row: B. Bartlett, R. Mason, R. Byers, B. Gordon, D. Keith, M. Kitchen. SENIOR PLAY The Senior Play, “Aunt Abby Answers An Ad”, was presented November 3 and 4, 1949. The comedy presented an amusing plot involving a dyed-in-the-wool old maid who hated men. She answered an ad in a Lonely Hearts column of a “Love Secrets” magazine, with hilarious results. The Cast of Characters Abby Ainsley, a dyed-in-the-wool old maid Loretta Dyer Lucindy Lovejoy, her maid of all work Joan Lindsay Horace Harter, her unwelcome suitor Guy Brown Anna Ainsley, her niece from the city Bevely Libby Lillian Lorraine, Anna’s girl chum Ree Mason Billy Barberton, engaged to Lil- lian Charles Thayer Bobby Barington, Anna’s boy- friend Beverly Gordon Mrs. Purviance, a tourist Nadine Moore Horace Hark well, a lonely widower Bichard Byers Essie Ebbersole, a tattle-tale Dorothy Keith Stage Manager Barbara Bartlett Prompter Mildred Kitchen Director Mr. Dwyer

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SENIOR STATISTICS Name Favorite Saying A Yen for Pastime Cause of Death Ambition Where They Can Be Found Barbara Bartlett I mean you know— Alden Biting her tongue Not seeing Alden To be a beautician At home Louise Booker “Cripious” Paul Writing letters No loving To be on a ship In a Ford Guy Brown That’s a joke, son! Ree Mason Talking with senior Chemistry To be a veterinary On the tractor girls Fuller Road Richard Byers Oh Boy Gayle Playing basketball No basketball To work at Lord’s games Store Loretta Dyer How rugged! Sonny Teasing Mr. Smtih Edward Nowell To go hunting Lincoln Christine Fletcher Hain’t that touching! Sonny Sleeping Temper To type At Chase’s Store Edward Frost What ya doing kid! A truck that will Sleeping in class Janet St. Louis To drive fast Carmel Village go 100 MPH Charlene Goodspeed Hi kid! Lloyd Sewing Going to bed at To drive a certain At home seven Chev. Beverly Gordon You said that! Mary Sitting in Junior Sneezing To have a Plymouth At Northern Maine Jet. room Earl Hall Wow! A new car Throwing things Not being on To be a football In Brewer detention player Derwood Hillman o ♦ Charlene Automobile Teachers To get to school on At Newport Lindsey accidents time Dorothy Keith Life gets so boring! A certain Hermon Studying at noon No A + ’s To go to college At home studying ffuy Mildred Kitchen Gee Whiz! Johnny Drawing Dancing To be a baseball With Johnny, Tom, and player Connie Bevely Libby Hey, Hon! Daydreaming Whispering to Ree Not enough boys To be a teacher Bangor Ree Mason Oh, golly, yes! Guy Talking with Bev Not blushing To be a nurse Talking with Guy Richard Mason O.K. A girl Riding in Mr. Too many girls To read On the farm Smith’s Jeep Edward Nowell Huh! Gloria Teasing Shorthand To be a farmer Mrs. Patten’s Bernice Pomeroy Oh, dear! Ronnie Fighting Jealousy To spend a honey- At home moon in Hawaii Donald Smith Bye, now. Girls Sleeping Women To get a deer Hampden Charles Thayer Hi, kid! Junior girls Getting a date Not enough girls To do nothing Home sleeping Peter Voudoukis Oh, I don’t know A new car Going to school Not being able to To be a man Twilight Pavilion blush Joan VVithee Don’t be foolish! Billy Typing A date To work At H.H.S. Harold Woodard Don’t take me wrong Marilyn Fooling Working To graduate With Turner Higgins Paint Co. Joan Lindsay Oh, My Lord! Derwood Laughing Blushing To be a gym teacher At Bevely Libby’s house

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HERMON FIRE DEPARTMENT A group of World War II veterans started talking about Hermon’s having a fire depart- ment. Finally a special town meeting was called, but the meeting was killed before it started. As soon as a moderator was chosen, a motion was made to adjourn the meeting until regular town meeting time. At the regular town meeting all the men turned out to support their cause. Mrs. Alden Griffin made a motion to give $1500 to build a fire truck and equip it. Also, at this meeting, it was decided that it be left up to the selectmen to appoint a fire chief. The man chosen was Charles B. Smith, Jr. He in turn appointed his assistants, who are George Bates and Myron Davis. They bought a ton and one-half Chevrolet truck, 1944 model, for $475. The parts for repairing it cost $40. All the labor was donated. A war surplus front end pump with 500 gpm. capacity was bought with $135. The water tank, now in the body of the truck, cost $25 and holds 500 gallons. The pipe and fittings were donated by the Bucksport Fire Department. All the lumber used was donated by local carpenters. The fire truck began to take its rightful form. A portable second-hand pump, 80 gpm. cap., with gasoline engine, was purchased, along with 500 feet of inch and a half hose, twenty feet of two-inch suction hose and a couple of nozzles. Merton Hillman, Chesley Webber, and Walter Pendleton made three ladders, and four new tires were bought. After all this was done only $150 had been overdrawn beyond the $1500 appropriated. This was considerably less than would have been paid out if Hermon had bought a new fire truck. A new one would cost at least $8500 fully equipped. More money had to be raised to pay back the overdrawn account. The Odd Fellows held the first annual Firemen’s Ball as a benefit. A rifle was raffled off at this ball, and the Eastern Star held a card party for the benefit of the firemen. A total of $600 was netted from the three projects. With this money they paid for the tires, paid back the overdraft, and bought nozzles, paint, chemical fire extinguishers, suction hose, strainers, lanterns, a new siren for the truck, another siren mounted on Herbert Snow’s barn as an area fire alarm, and paid for necessary repairs. Since the recent fire at Northern Maine Junction, local support has been much better, especially in that section of town. Because of the prompt action of the Fire Department, Lord’s store was saved. If the store had burned, at least three other sets of buildings would have burned. The loss in valuation to the Town of Hermon would have amounted to more than W times the cost of the present fire equipment of the Town of Hermon. After this fire it was realized that th° present system for fire calls was inadequate. A telephone call system was worked out by Howard Crosby and Lawrence Dwyer and cards were mailed out to instruct citizens what to do in case of fire. At the time these words were written the Fire Department had answered nine fire alarms, two false alarms, and one out-of- town call, where they were not called until the building was completely consumed by flames. The formation of the Hermon Fire De- partment under the direction of Charles B. Smith, Jr., is the first progress in this field in the recent history of Hermon. Editor-in-Chief