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

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. ,- THE FRESHMEN Feeling their oats ahdin way, on the County Road , you passed through our CuIebra Cut , by the cemetery. and smelled the town dump. Still you did get a good look at the town, spread out on both sides of the Meduxnekeag Stream. And then- ENTERJNG HOULTON Then you were in Houlton, going under the Bangor and Aroostook overhead bridge, by the power house. and down North Street, across the iron bridge to the square. Or perhaps you wanted to save time, so hurried up the dark, woodsy Haynesville Road, up Bangor Street , by automobile came from row to the square. lf you Canada, you probably entered at the New Brunswick line from Wooclstock, and sail- ed by the airport. up Garrison Hill fwhere the Aroostook XVar was fought 6. and then down into town. Or did you follow l'. S. No. 1? If you did, you either came north from Calais or south from Presque Isle. In either case, you saw Houlton at its best. from smooth streets. alongside att- ractive homes. THE SQUARE In any case, you landed in the square. That's where everybody comes. It's like a magnet-150 feet wide, twice as long. and bordered by stores, offices. and two the- atres. You probably ate a lunch there- perhaps at Robinsons bought a paper, perhaps at French's, and then inquired about us. You had to. because Houlton High is just off the main track. HOXV TO GET HERE Alld sofyou got back into your car and drove south on Court Street one block, then north by the Northland Hotel and the Aroostook County Courthouse and Jail. And then-on your right, facing the Meth' odist Church. you saw an old-fashioned brick building that looked like a school. You stopped and asked whether this might be IT-f-and one of the boys playing in the yard sent you on, south a hundred yards, ts another building. Yes. Houlton High is two brick red sehoolhonses--two! That surprised you a little, didn't it? THE HIGH SCHOOL Yesehere we a1'e, on a gravel lot about big enough for three houses. just across the street from the jail, and closely bound- ed on two other sides by the hotel and the Aroostook Hospital. Not much room, you feontinued on page 613 20

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the faculty. But don't crowd, girls! He's permanently-we said PERMANENTLY- married. Quiet, but with a keen sense of humor, Woodrow Wilson Peabody is 190 pounds of athletic muscle. In room 16, where you see those nice girls sewing, is the qluietest woman in seven counties-Miss Laird, who alternates with the beauteous Miss Farn-ham in do- mestic science classes. Both girls are free, white, and twenty-one, you men of Aroos- took-and they can cook! In the central building, Mr. Saunders, little, but efficient, teaches manual train- ing: Colby athlete Joe Dobbins, quietly smiling Miss Qualey, red-cheeked Miss Wallace, and Miss Thompson-the veteran of us all-hold the fort on the first floor. Upstairs, since Mr. Saunders generally teaches in the basement, Miss Perkins and Miss Hallett are in command. We are told that Miss Hallett is to be taken away soon by a man-the brute!-but we think Miss Perkins will be with us for a while yet, for no similar reason. And are we glad of it? You bet we are! Oh - we almost forgot our principal, an- other 190 pounds of muscle, Milton Lam- bert. He holds forth daily on the evils of being tardy, unexcused, noisy, discourteous, et cetera, et Cetera. Surrounded by deten- tion slips, excuses, dirty-faced little boys and timid little girls, teachers, parents, and salesmen, he somehow manages to e- merge at the end of each day's o1'deal as fresh as he started. How does he do it-- cod liver oil? And June, oh yes, Juneehis secretary- the girl with the dimples and the April complexion. And Mrs. Fitzpatrick, the su- perintendent's secretary-quiet, smiling. efficient. And George Cumming, our old friend returned anew to serve us again as superintendent--but he came too late to get into the picture. That's all, folks! A STRANGER'S GUIDE TO HOULTON HIGH Howdy, Stranger! Glad you came to vis- it the shire town of the world's greatest potato empire, Aroostook County. Still, Houlton, with its 8,000 people, its market square. its five factories, and its million- dollar airport is not all potatoes-not quite. Take Houlton High, for instance. But first-we forgot-you entered town. By which route? lf you came in from Kat- ar,ry'iisf-'f1:n1'X . X 's . , . , wk THE SOPHOMORES Just getting civilized

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THE EIGHTH GRADE Growing fast THE SEVENTH GRADE On their way up 21