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

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OUR TEACHERS tXVith apologies in advance! Most accounts of our teachers would begin with the principal. But we a1'e going to begin with Van , our janitor. He is not hired as a teacher, but is one just the same- -teaching us courtesy, humor, and cleanliness every day, as he goes about his daily tasks. No high school ever had a better janitor than Van! And Benny, whom we lost this year, who took such good care of the central building -4 he taught us, too. Remember those sleight-of- hand shows he used to give us? He taught us a love of fun. On the same floor with Van. within reach of the Coca-Cola machine and handy to the gym. Charles XVood, Sr., hangs out. Charles is our Maggie 1na11, and for all his stern tat-iturnity. is a conscious humorist with many a twinkle in his eye. He weighs 190 lbs. avoirdupois. but cau't bowl harder than a lady. Perhaps that is why he is a gentleman. On the main buildings first floor, we find our old-in-years-only friend, Myra Howe, our Latin teacher. Hearing her smart steps down the hall, you'd swear a young woman was coming-and so it is! For all her stern. crusading tfor the righti spirit, Mrs. Howe is youngvat heart. Just be nice to her-and you'l1 find out! Across the hall from Mrs. Howe is 'Clar- ice. Now, isn't that the nicest name? Clarice--but what a mercenary surname. Penney! VVe are almost tempted to add, a fe- for your thoughts ebut that's been done too often. She's a crack dramatic coarli, one of Maine's best! The Siamese twins, inseparable forever. are Miss Percival and Miss Vifhite, teach- ers of history and English, respectively tand respectfully. toob! They room together. eat together, talk together, ride together, ad infinitum. VVhat a tragedy if one were to marry! The bad boy of the crowd is just across the hall from these almost-spinsters. in room 7. There the old bach of the faculty OUR TEACHERS Front row, left to right: Mr. Marsh, Miss Percival, Miss McCain, Principal Lam- bert, Miss Farnham, Miss Adams. Second row: Miss Gellerson, Miss Oelschlegel, Miss Penney, Miss Donovan. Others above: Miss Laird thidingj Miss Qualey, Miss Wallace, Miss Perkins, Sub-master VVood, Miss White, Miss Hallett Calso hidingi, Mr. Dobbins, Miss Hender- son, Mr. Tibbetts, Miss Black, Mr. Stinson. 17

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Taylor, Kenneth Merle H Club 3. 4: Baseball l. 2. 5, 4. Vose, Clement Ellery Caribou 1. 2, 33 Senior Play 43 Football 4: I-I Club 43 'Basketball 4, Highster 43 English Club 4: Circus Play 43 Class Gifts. Watson, Marguerite Glee Club 1. 2, 35 Basketball 3. 4g I-l Club 3, 4, V Pres. 4: Drum Major Twirling Corps 43 English Club 3, 43 Home Ec Club 43 Circus Play 3. Watson, Vera R. Home Ec Club 43 English Club 4. Mason, Philip Football 1. 2. 3. 45 Basket- ball 1. 2, 3, 45 Baseball 1, 2, 3, 43 Track 2. 3, 4: H Club 2, 3. 4, President 4. lSee picture elsewherel Whited, Doris Maxine Honor Society 4: North Star Board 4. Wiggins, Irene Emma Home Et' Club 4. Willette, Arleen Mary Home Ea Club 4. ,W-Q.. , Willette, Ralph Joseph ' I' i Track 3, Football 3. Wood, Charles Wesley, Jr. Football 3, 45 Band 1, 2, 3, 4, Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 43 Glee Club 1, 23 Honor 'Society 4: English Club 3, 43 H Club 3, 4g Hi-Y Club 3, 4, Tennis 3, 43 Senior Play 45 Circus Play 4.

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THE .IUNIORS They'll have the paces his beat like a sentry with no gun but his voice, Please do not talk in the hall . With all the unmarried women in the world, how can he hold out? Surely, the teaching of English can't'be that interesting! Upstairs, in room 19, Alice Ann is back, filling the seat that Hopalong filled for ten weeks while she was ill. Everybody likes Alice Ann, even if French isn't al- ways popular. She's so nice, she'll never be a spinster-we trust! Miss Henderson, across the hall in 20, is rumored to have made her plans for an escape with me into matrimony. Well, Ethel, Just keep on smiling, and happiness may be yours. They say marriage is heaps more fun than teaching problems in de- mocracy! Stinny beams his timid smile from the door of 18, whence cometh all the nauseat- ing odors of the school. Also, from Coach Stinson's skilful training, there cometh, nearly every year, a state champion cross- country team. More power to chemistry! Who's in that tiny little room, 21? None other than the satirist of the faculty, Miss Averill Gellerson, who drives English into freshman brains every day. Tall, independ- spotlight next year. ent, always laughing, but, like Hamlet, they say, inside-but who knows? I11 17, the bangety-bang typing room, sits the gray Miss Black , quietly going over her papers in a din like that of a factory, while thirty earnest faces before her are glued to their copy. What patience that woman has! Through the glass partition to room 15, one can see the bouncy .Marjorie McCain, stenography teacher, blooming as a rose, ruling her twenty-eight sophomores with an iron-we were going to say hand-will. There SHE is, but her heart's in Colby College! Next to her, in 22, another tiny room, is Miss Oelschlegel--We can spell it but We can't pronounce it!-teacher of math from B. U., with her PBK pin on her sturdy chest, an air of determination all about her, and a smile all ready to burst through. She sings, too. In 13, Miss Rena Adams rules the roost, when she isn't visiting with her crony, Miss White. Her complexion is the envy of all the beauty shops in Houlton-but don't let that fool you, she's got spunk! Across from the beauteous Miss Adams, Oelschlegel, and McCain is the Adonis of 18