Houlton High School - North Star Yearbook (Houlton, ME)

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Editorial Staff The North Star ee ' I-Ioulton H1gh School E ITO D R Houlton, Maine George Roben June, 1938 ASSISTANT EDITORS , , Jeannette Berry Maurice Friel Elizabeth Farrar Lawrence Tilley CONTENTS Title Page BOYS' ATHLETIC EDITOR Editorials 2 Donnell Graham Debating 3 GIRLS' ATHLETIC EDITOR Highlights of 1938 4 Frances Donovan Class of 1939 6 BUSINESS MANAGER Class of 1940 7 Joseph Mullen C1388 of 1941 8 Football, 1937 9 ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Ardith Lakin Track 10 Frances Dow Robert Macllroy Gordon Birhor Helen Ruth Mullen Cross Country Merle Hawkes Ruth Dibblee Gwendolyn McGrew Grace McCormack Basketball Doris Alward Joyce Lambert Ada Friel Mary Anderson Tennis Wesley Carpenter Jeanette Small Dorothy Hawkins Virginia McIntyre Baseball Helen Cumming CLASS HISTORIANS Lawrence Tilley '38 Ruth Edwards '40 Millicent McKinnon '39 Gwendolyn McGrew '41 SECRETARY-TREASURER Jeanne Martin FACULTY ADVISER Philip M. Marsh Literary Department Poetry News and Oddities Clubs of H. H. S. Exchanges Alumni Notes Music Jokes

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Mrs. Belle L. Briggs Teacher of French This issue of The North Star we dedicate to a lady who has been a faithful, sincere, and very patient friend to the students of I-Ioulton. The longer we know her, the more we appreciate and are grateful for Mrs. Briggs, unselfish devotion and loyalty to her work.

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Editorials Thanks Merchants and professional men of Houlton, we thank you for responding so graciously to The North Star's call for ad- vertising. As the result of this response, we are once more able to offer to friends of Houlton High a good-sized magazine which we hope will meet with general approval. In the year of 1931, the last issue previ- ous to this was published. Owing to the de- pression and to an accumulated debt, it was then thought advisable to discontinue The North Star until business conditions were more favorable. This year, we have made an effort to secure enough advertising to pay for in ad- vance the cost of publishing The North Star. With the profits from the sales of the mag- azine, we shall try to pay off our debts and leave The North Star free from financial worries. If we are successful, The North Star will be in a condition to grow and flour- ish through the succeeding years. We have done our best to put out a moderately-priced magazine which will ac- curately portray the student life of Houlton High. We hope it will prove a source of pleasure to all who hear it.-G. R. The Ideal Student Report cards have been given out again. Perhaps you have a friend who has received higher rank than yours. But don't envy him, especially if he has devoted most of his leis- ure time to studying, with practically no re- creation. He is not an ideal student, not one to be envied. There is another student who has re- ceived lower rank. But he grasps every opportunity that comes his way for the bet- terment of our school. He has shown him- self Worthy of praise by his enthusiasm and cooperation. He is one to be proud of and to stand as an example for the ambitious youth of high school age, for he is an all- round, balanced personality. So, even though you may not be espe- cially gifted with scholarship traits or ath- letic stamina, you may become what, in the estimation of most people, is more nearly an ideal student.-M. F. Opportunity There is an old word that has been bad- ly abused by our muddled thinking, but a word that manages to survive, and is certain to recover its former standing. That word is opportunity. It means the port, the open- i11g, or the door opposite you, and anything that is opposite you must be directly before you. The best observers of life have stated that there is always such a door, and that it is always accessible. There are many who say that opportun- ity no longer exists. Generally they mean that the door at present accessible is not the door they want. They think opportunity means a big door, or at least an inviting door, and this present one may be small and plain. Because they do not understand that it is their door, they say there are no doors. That is a great mistake. Even though it is a plain and humble door, every door, big or little, opens upon the same possibilities. There are three kinds of opportunities. First, there is the opportunity that MAKES you. Everyone has that. In youth, it is the opportunity to learn. There is not one of the facts learned every day that will not stand forth later as the very thing you need. The days are full of the sort of opportunity that makes you. Second, there is the opportunity that TAKES you. Many of the great men of to- day, when asked, tell you that their success was as much of a surprise to them as to any- one else. The secret is that they were ready! And, lastly, if you learn and prepare, you need never fear the third kind of oppor- tunity-the opportunity that BREAKS you. The worst thing that can happen to some men is to get a promotion, for they are not ready for it. Their opportunity is their de- feat. They are not ready. Look again at that opportunity which is directly before you. It may not be what you dreamed. But, once in it, you will go any- where you want to go--if you are ready. If you are not ready, beware of opportunity. --J. B.