Hollis High School - Sunbeam Yearbook (Hollis, ME)

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buT underneaTh we know ThaT The Tresh morning air is one oT The besT conTrib- uTors To good healTh. We receive one oT The besT Torms oT exercise by walk- ing. l'lave we lacked exercise aTTer a brisk walk in The morning air? Who would say ThaT iT would be beTTer To ride To school in a bus and exercise in a heaTed gymnasium? BUT ThaT is one OT The reasons ThaT ciTy pupils need a gym. NexT we musT Think oT The whole Thing in view oT sporTsmai.ship. Games oT baseball, baskerball, and all oTher evenTs, such as The checker conTesT and speaking conTesTs are The very besT oT characTer building and comradeship re- quiremenTs. How many oT These do we have To geT along wiThouT? To be sure we are handicapped wiThouT a gym, buT These sporTs are noT enTirely ouT ol: The picTure, are They? Could we noT develop comradeship To some exTenT in a caTeTeria where we could enjoy each oTher's company while eaTing a good meal? And a good aTh- leTe musT have a good Tood supply iT he is To become a healThy player. We would noT have To sacriTice a Thing ThaT we have now if we did noT have a gym, buT leT me call To your aTTenTion The many beneTiTs a caTeTeria would bring To all oT us. Every pupil in The school would geT a balanced meal every day-and iT is noT a Talse sTaTemenT when l say ThaT many oT our parenTs are noT able. Tinan- cially or oTherwise, To guaranTee us such a meal when iT musT be puT inTo a lunch box To be eaTen cold, day aTTer day. Those pupils ThaT Travel a long dis- Tance would have Time To enioy a caTe- Teria when They would noT be able To . ,- spare The Time To use a gym. Many of us have Things To do aT home ThaT would keep us from enioying The gym as much as Those who are more TorTunaTe. And The cosT oT This would also have To be considered. There are Taxpayers in This Town ThaT have a hard job To meeT Their Tax bills when Tax paying Time comes. Every- Thing cosTs so much more Than ever be- Tore, The common ciTizen of The Town would much raTher see addiTional money raised and Teel ThaT his Tamily was re- ceiving beneTiTs To Their healTh and so was his neighbor's Tamily, Than To pay Those addiTional Tunds, ThaT he has worked so hard To geT, To build a gym ThaT only a porTion ol: sTudenTs would have an opporTuniTy To enioy. A caTeTeria, when well carried on, would receive a large porTion oT The money expended Trom The sTaTe. ln TacT, The serving oT one hoT dish each day would warranT The help Trom The sTaTe. , Good healTh begins wiTh good Toocl and good air and good exercise. gfihe pupils oT l-lollis l-Iigh School have good Maine air To breaThe, They have The ex- ercise necessary Tor good healTh, They have The privileges oi sporTs, alThough somewhaT confined-we have all These -buT noT a hoT lunch: aTTer a Torenoon of sTudy in The classroom a caTeTeria would help us To eliminaTe Those boxes oT cold Tood ThaT we have Tired oT long ago and we would geT The real beneTiTs oT good Tood, properly cooked and served. and in Turn know ThaT we had beneTiTed in a way ThaT noThing buT a cafeTeria could give us. Avis Libby '50

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We are now in high school. Even Though we have a new building we Tind ThaT we do noT have adequaTe equip- menT To have a modern school. l3IrsT among The Things we need are some new courses such as home econo- mics, a course in agriculTure or mech- anics and a beTTer business course Than is available aT The presenT Time. This would beTTer TiT The ones who can'T aT- Tord To go To college, and have To earn a living righT away. This would help Them To obTain a much beTTer iob. l-lollis has been Taking an acTive parT in sporTs Tor a good many years. Up unTil lasT year all we had in The way oT sporTs equipmenT were horseshoe piTs and ping-pong Tables. We didn'T even have These unTil The new high school was builT. l.asT year we Tinally succeed- ed in geTTing a baseball diamond, and earned money Tor girls baskeTball suiTs and boys baseball uniTorms. We sTill have no place To pracTice baskeTball and would noT be able To Take parT in This sporT iT iT were noT Tor The kindness oT anoTher Town. NexT is The urgenT need Tor a music Teacher. WiThouT one iT cuTs oTT a large amounT oT our income which we need To keep The school going. We can'T possibly mainTain our band and puT on opereTTas wiThouT some help. We spenT a greaT deal oT money Tor 'nusical in- sTrumenTs, 'Thinking iT a good invesTmenT. lT will be money wasTed wiThouT a band. l'm noT saying ThaT iT is impossible To geT along wiThouT These Things because we can and have, buT wiThouT These Things iT puTs us way behind oTher Towns oT The same size and does noT live up To The ideals oT The UniTed STaTes. IT says ThaT we are all born equal and have an equal chance. Do you, our parenTs and Triends, all good ciTizens. Think ThaT we have These equal chances? Anne lVlouTon '50 A Cafeteria l'lealTh is a mosT imporTanT parT oT our educaTional abiliTy, For iT we do noT enioy good healTh. Then we cannoT-re- member all The Things we sTudy-neiTh- er can we Teel The energy ThaT is need- ed To become a good scholar. Food is The mosT imporTanT oT all Things ThaT give us good healTh. In iT we receive The viTamins and minerals ThaT assure us oT good eyesighT, good sTrong bodies and a clear mind. IT we have proper Tood, and dieTiTians say ThaT The average pupil who carries a cold lunch To school does noT have The Tood he needs, many oT us know ourselves ThaT iT we were where we could enjoy' a balanced meal every day, we would be more resisTanT To disease, have more oT whaT we call PEP and in reTurn geT a beTTer mark Than we do now in school. For proper Tood is whaT snaps us ouT oT ThaT lazy Teeling ThaT never did geT us anywhere. To be sure, we would all enioy a gym- nasium. There is no quesTion abouT ThaT. We would enjoy many sp-orTs ThaT we do noT have in our school aT The pre- senT Time. BuT aT our age we should be able To look upon The quesTion oT gym- nasium or caTeTeria in a sensible way, Trying To see The good in boTh. ln a counTry school, The whole Thing is seT up quiTe diTTerenTly Trom The ciTy schools. CiTy pupils seldom have as Tar To go To school as counTry pupils. Many oT us walk long disTances in The Tresh crisp morning air, Maybe some oT us can hardly realize The beneTiTs oT iT Tor we iusT don'T care Tor The TrosTy air,

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America vs. Atomic Energy lFirsT Prize Legion Essay-l948l Hiroshima and Nagasaki were ciTies abouT The size OT Dallas, Texas, and Al- bany, New York. AT a quarTer pasT e ghT on The morning oT AugusT 6, I945, Tor all pracTical purposes The Tormer ceased To exisT, and The Iarrer was de- molished Three days laTer. One aTomic bomb on each ciTy had desTroyed over Two-Thirds oT Their one hundred Thou- sand buildings. IT killed or seriously in- iurod abouT Three-TiTThs oT The enTire populaTion. ln This desTrucTion all ex- cepT one-TenTh oT The docTors and nurses were killed. Hiroshima was The TirsT To go, buT Three days laTer, as The war was being broughT To a close, Nagasaki TelT The desTrucTion OT The second greaT aTomic bomb in hisTory. WhaT was leTT oT These ciTies was IiTTle more Than ashes and a puTF oT smoke. We all were Thrilled aT The news oT how our new miracle weapon had ended The war. V-J Day was celebrared and Hiro- shima and Nagasaki were TorgoTTen. ATTer V-J Day our naTion began To consider This bomb. IT was new and hor- rible. We had made iT and we were going To have To keep iT wheTher we liked iT or noT, We had losT our iloy. Since we cannoT TorgeT This new dis- covery, all we can do is To Try To keep il' a secreT. l do noT believe ThaT This is possible. America, only by The grace oT God, discovered iT TirsT. IT was noT only our scienTisTs, buT scienTisTs Trom allied na- Tions ThaT helped us To geT iT TirsT. A conTerence was called in America aT a Time during The war. We knew ThaT our enemies were close To The se- creT. We had To geT There TirsT. The only way To do This was To combine Torces wiTh oTher counTries. For long, Tireless monThs and years They worked on and on wiTh many Tailures. Many were injured or burned by The Radio AcTiviTy, eiTher seriously or TaTally, buT They kepT -on working. They were rac- ing againsT Time. The Time ThaT mighT save us or desTrOy us. OTTen when They Tried ouT experi- menTs, They never knew whaT mighT happen. IT could have been ThaT some experimenTs in which an explosion was necessary mighT have seT oTT a chain oT explosions in The air, Thus wiping ouT The world in a Tew seconds. We are The only ones aT presenT ThaT have The aTomic bomb, buf wiThin Tive or six years or even sooner, oTher na- Tions will have iT. America has only a Tew oT The greaT scienTisTs on earTh. OTher counTries have as many or more. They, Too, will possess The secreT in Time. The aTomic bomb is noT iusT anoTher weapon. IT is a weapon suiTable Tor desrroying large ciTies. When and iT we do have anoTher war, we shall have bombs Twice as desTrucTive as The ones we have now and The ones ThaT de- sTroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. IT probably would noT Take more Than Tive bombs To desTroy any ciTy in The world. Our Three greaTesT worries are: Ill One pound oT uranium lwhich is used largely in The making oT aTomic bombsl can cause more damage Than one Thousand Tons oT T. N. T. IZI The TacT ThaT oTher counTries will soon have iT and mighT aTTack us. l3l The TacT ThaT There is no adeqwre defense.