Hermon High School - Microphone Yearbook (Hermon, ME)

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The MICROPHONE :51 Junior High Highlights AN EIGHTH GRADE PROJECT The eighth grade has been thinking of col- lecting metal to raise money for a cafeteria. We have discussed it a great deal but noth- ing has been done about it yet. A cafeteria is an essential thing in this school, because almost every pupil must carry his lunch. We really need some kind of a hot lunch pro- gram. Patricia McGinley MOVIES The Junior High have sponsored four movies this year. The first one was “Danny Boy”, put on to raise money for the Polio Drive. Proceeds from the other three have gone into the junior high school fund. Law- rence Eaton of the eighth grade and Philip Frost from the seventh have collected the money each time. Joyce Frost, Grade 8. MURAL The eighth grade drew a mural, later hung on the back wall, to illustrate American his- tory, showing colonial life in 176:1. Sewn pupils were chosen each to draw free hand a section of his own choice. The pupils and subjects illustrated were: Barbara Lindsay, Communication; Robert Manson, Earning a Living; William Allen, Religion; Patricia McGinley, Home Life; Julia Russell, Social Life; Henry Bradbury, Education; Natalie Phillips, Transportation. Patricia McGinley, Grade 8. STATE LIBRARY BOOKS The eighth grade started as a project get- ting state library books which we can keep for six months. The books, which have his- torical backgrounds, are about famous peo- ple and places we have been studying. We who have read the books have found them very interesting, and some have read a number already. Priscilla Dole, Grade 8 IMPROVEMENT OF DESKS The eighth grade students have been fixing up their desks this year. Each desk has been sandpapered to take out all pencil marks and then varnished. The students worked on them during the first weeks of March the last two periods in the afternoon. The desks are very bright, and the iron stands are black. They really look a lot better and are also easier to work on. Ruth Cambell. Grade 8 SOUP’S ON ! The eighth grade started having hot soup at noon Monday, February 6, 1950. Those who wanted it brQught their own bowls and spoons. The lunch costs ten cents a day. There are two pupils chosen each day to get the soup ready at recess. The soup is heated on a hot plate which was borrowed from Robert Manson. Natalie Phillips keeps a record of the money and of those who have soup and do the work. Alice Lawrence, Grade 8 OUR OPERETTA We of the Hermon Junior High School are putting on an operetta. It is going to be a hard task, but if everyone puts his mind to it, it won’t be too bad. It is about Tom Sawyer and will not be ready until the last of March, or the first of April. It has not been put on for six years. I think it will be good, because it is some- thing different from the entertainments we have presented for quite a while. Eva May Peterson. Grade 8

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30 The MICROPHONE FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA First row: F. Wiles, B. Gordon, D. Hillman, Mr. Smith, R. Mason, W. Bishop, G. Lawrence. Second row: V. Libby, A. Nowell, R. Lindsey, H. Woodard, M. Kitchen, B. Bishop, E. Frost, A. Boudreau, L. Robinson. Third row: I). Smith, G. Ellingwood, S. Andrews, W. Bragg, I . Porter, E. Byers, C. Lindsey, E. Strong, C. Homsted. FRESHMAN CLASS First row: C. Pickard, R. Willey, V. Libby, L. Crosby, L. Robinson, L. Kitchen, T. Voudoukis. Second row: N. Hackett, P. leathers, M. Lord, M. Light, Mr. Smith, F. White, V. Lord, B. Wilson, S. Judkins. Third row: S. Lindsey, D. Hillman, C. Keirstead. I). Keirstead, M. Teague, M. Griffin, Z. Lane, C. Lindsey, K. Bragg, B. Wiles, I). Pomeroy. Fourth row: M. Johnson, G. Withee, A. Boudreau, G. Ellingwood, H. Robbins, G. Mc- Kay, S. Andrews, C. Hcughan, A. Nowell, W. Hammond.

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JUNIOR RED CROSS The MICROPHONE 32 After hearing Mrs. Esther Baldwin and Mrs. Stanley Carter of the Penobscot Chap- ter of the Red Cross speak last fall, the 7th, 8th and 9th grades of Hermon decided to join the Junior Red Cross, thus devoting some of their time to this worth while project. We have already done something for the veterans in Togus. For instance for Armis- tice Day we made one hundred little cup favors filled with candy. We also have made and sent eighteen joke books to them. We have a sample book, if you are interested in looking at it. Now we are working on an afghan, with which many folks have been willing to help, and we hope more and more may offer to do so. We must have one hun- dred thirty five-inch squares knitted to com- plete this project. The seventh grade wrote letters in the form of phonograph records, which were sent to the Hyde Memorial, the Shrine Hos- pital, and the Room for Handicapped chil- dren at Mary Snow School, Bangor, Maine. The Junior Red Cross has sent cards to many sick people and to shut-ins. Three scrap- books were made and sent to Bernard Du- plisea, Anne Nowell, and Darleen Brown. We hope they will help them pass away those dreary days in bed. We plan, by the end of the year, to have done many things to make our friends, old and new, smile. Patricia McGinley, Jean Simpson. Grade 8 THE ESKIMO The Eskimo lives in the land of snow The weather is so cold That he dresses from head to toe in fur. So the story’s told. The Eskimo’s home is an igloo That’s built of block of ice Although it’s very cold and drear. The Eskimo thinks it’s nice. MY FRIENDS I have a lot of friends; I love them every one. And when we get together, We have a lot of fun. On a fine and sunny day When birds are flying about, We go down to the meadow And there we laugh and shout. Sometimes we run a race. Or play a game of ball, But just when we get started, I hear my mother call. And then our fun is ended, Much to our greatest sorrow; But mother reassures us— We can play again tomorrow. Joyce Stewart, Grade 8 TREES The trees are oh, so pretty! You can see them far and near, And still more trees are growing Every day of every year. You can see them in the summer, You can see them in the spring, You can see them in the winter. When snow covers everything. Thelma Lawrence, Grade 7 COLD NIGHTS Drat these blizzards that blow so high They blow the snow from the ground to the sky. If you’re walking home from school some cold night There’s not a car, not a car in sight. When the cold, cold wind is in your face, You start walking at a faster pace. There’s a car! There’s a car coming over the hill! And your hopes go higher and higher still. We stick out our thumb, he’s going to stop; We look closer, and it’s a cop. We haul our thumbs back in our pants; How we wish we were little ants! But he doesn’t stop—he goes right by, And we walk home and nearly die. Julia Russell, Grade 8 Allen White, Grade 8