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

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it ,df THE BASKETBALL TEAM Boys' Basketball When Old Man Basketball came around last fall. the future of the Houlton Hoop- sters in the gym looked very satisfactory, Losing only one of last year's men, Coach Woody Peabody, former assistant coach and head coach this year, with four letter- men including Berry, Niles. McNutt, and lPlourde, four more fast juniors, Grant, McGaffin, York, and Byers, and two promis- ing young sophomores, Berman, and McCor- mack, brought to Houlton the Aroostook Basketball 'Championship for the first time since 1933. With Berry at center, Niles and Mc- Cormick as forwards. and Byers and Mc- Nutt as guards, these five fast starters chalked up 416 points for the entire season in Aroostook County. This gave the Houlton Hoopsters an average of forty-one points per game. Niles of Houlton led the Aroos- took league scorers with i131 points and Berry and McCormick came as a close third and fourth with eighty-seven and eighty-three points respectively. Byers and Plourde, who substituted for McNutt, only juniors who played to any extent this year, 'showed themselves promising leading bas- keteers for the year of 1943-44. The real battle of the year proved to be against our rivals, the Presque Isle Wildcats, which took place in the Houlton gym. In this game the score was tied no less than eight times. but Houlton finally emerged victorious. Out of the fifteen games played, only four were lost. one in the Aroostook league to Mars Hill. and three outside, two to Stearns and one to John Bapst. This gave the Houlton Hoopsters one of the best seasons for many a year. The score per game was as follows: Houtlon 46 Oakfield 12 Houlton 25 'Stearns 37 Houlton 48 A. C. I. 28 Houlton 46 .Iohn Bapst 42 Houlton 33 Presque Isle 22 Houlton 48 Caribou 22 Houlton 57 Fort Fairfield 20 Houlton 33 A. C, I. 55 Houlton 25 Presque Isle 23 Houlton 31 Stearns 61 Houlton 33 John Bapst 46 Houlton 56 Caribou 26 Houlton 28 Washburn 26 Houlton 47 Fort Fairfield 32 Houlton 48 lVashburn 15

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Its members made menu covers for the Chrismas dinners of service men ln hos- pitals, packed Christmas boxes of toys as well as mlany useful articles for the chlld- ren of warring nations abroad, and carried on many other activities. The annual roll call was conducted with great success, and a dance was sponsored by the council to supply additional funds necessary to carry on the functions of the organization. Miss Titcomb is the faculty advisor, and the off- icers of the council are: president, Lois Hoveyg vice-president, Patricia Russell: secretary, Patricia 0'Donnellg treasurer, Robert Burns. Under the direction of Miss Wilson the Glee Club has held its regular meetings this year. A Triple Trio made up of mem- bers chosen from the club as a whole has taken part in various entertainments put on by the townspeople. The group will appear in the annual music night program this spring and attend the music festival. This year again the Hi-Y Club has our principal, Mr. Lambert, as its faculty su- pervisor. This year's organization has twenty-flve members. The officers for the year are: Kenneth Larson, president: Jerome fCllfford, vice-president: Albert Madigan, secretary: James Chadwick, treasurer: and Verne Byers, chaplain. The boys activities this year have been greatly reduced due to the present conditions. This is the first year in six years that the Houlton High School chapter of the Hi-Y hasn't gone to the annual convention. The future Farmers is another outstand- ing organlzatlon in school this year. Mr. Wood ls the supervisor, and the officers are: Earl Gardiner, president: Donald Hagan, vice-president: Fred Moores, treas- urerg wSamue1 Lloyd, secretary: Clayton Brown, reporter. 'The executive committee consists of Freeman Taylor, Lester Sewall, and Leigh Cummings. Due to rationing boys will not hold their annual spring father and son banquet. The Jr. Red Cross members are repre- sentatives of the different home rooms. They have been very active this year Some of the projects which they have un- dertaken are making boxes for children of Iceland and for the children of the local hospitals, making scrapbooks for the hos- pitals, making surgical dressings for the 19 Houlton Chapter of the Red Cross, and al- so sponsoring two First Aid Classes for the Junior fifteen hours' course. The officers are: Nancy Hyde, president, Buddy Moores vice-presidentg Gennette MacNair, secre- tary: and Jean Lambert, treasurer. They have made an important contribution to the war effort this year and will continue to make themselves outstanding. The Boys H Club, usually one of the most active clubs in the school, has suffer- ed the same effects as all the rest this year. The annual initiation of new mem- bers was held in chapel on April 2l1. As a project this year the club has undertaken the erecting of a memorial plaque to Regg- ie Downie, an outstanding athlete and all- round citizen of Houlton High School, who died suddenly last year. He was a mem- ber of the class of 1942 and was loved and respected by everyone who knew him. The officers of the year are: president, Bud Berry, vice-president, Earl Gardinerg secretary-treasurer, Kenneth Larson. The executive committee is made up of Elliott Berman, Jimmy McAffin, and Bill Ford. A group of volunteers under the direction of Miss Ramsey has organized a debating society to study the fundamentas of debat- ing. So far they have only held discussions on various pertinent subjects, but they plan to hold at least one actual debate in the spring. The society ha no officers, but a committee in charge appointed from the group composed of Bryce Lambert, Kathleen Kinney, and Paul B-ither. B. C. M. and P. R. R. The Hi-Y supper was at its peak, noise and all. Suddenly Neil Lambert's voice was heard in one corner: Gee, this is just as crowded as home ls! . Miss Kennard: Where did Shakespeare go to school? Eben Currie: Yale, ma'am. Uust before rationing startedl Anna Burtt's mother: Ellery, I can't find any prunes around here. Where can they all be? Ellery: Well, you know what Anna says, The best prunes of all go to Carnegie Hall.

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SENIOR DIVISION BAND Cross Country Coach Clyde Stinson. the miracle build' er of harrier teams, came through this year with a team that was so outstanding that it thoroughly trounced Presque Isle TWICE. The boys were barely edged out at tl1e State Meet by Dover-Foxcroft Academy. The two outstanding 1'l1IlI1e1'S we1'e two seniors, Bill Ford and Ken Larson. These boys placed second and fifth respectively in the State Meet. Other excellent runners were Jerry XVest '43, Aubrey Grant '44, Earl Gardiner '44, Harold Stewart '44 and Elarl Bickford '44 and James McG'affiu '44. All of these boys won their letters. 'SCORES Houlton 25 Maine Frosh 31 Houlton 18 Bangor 40 COUNTY MEET Houlton 28 Presque Isle 42 A.. C. I. 77 Caribou 83 STATE MEET Dover-Foxcroft 31 Houlton 48 Presque lsle 63 Corinna SS Bangor 100 Intra Mural Basketball The .Junior Varsity had an excellant season with eight wins out ofeleven games. The Junior Division team composed of the three lower grades played a very success- ful season with other H. H. S. class teams, but tied with Ricker freshmen and sohpo- mores with two games won and two lost. Mr McMillan worked with the sev- enth, eighth, and ninth grades, while Mr. Sharp handled the upper three classes. Physical Education ' By Don Gidney At the beginning of the school year our athletic program was greatly curtailed due to limited transportation facilities. After Mr. Peabody was appointed head of Physi- cal Instruction, our new physical fitness program was sta1'ted. Its purpose was to help build up the boys and introduce to them a touch of what they might expect when they enter the service. consists of strenuous ex- The program ercises with military drilling. The exercises began simply. But as time passed and the boys got used to the diff- erent exercises, the program was broad- instructor's aim to have e11ed. It is the every boy attain the ability to go through the exe1'cises with skill and ease.