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

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EXECUTIVE BOARD EDUCATION IN THE FUTURE Education has advanced a great deal since early times and has gone thru many stages of development, finally reaching the status at which it is today. But develop- ment in the field is far from complete and can still stand a great deal of improvement. Throughout the world, education in most of the major countries has been extended to many more people than it was a century ago. ln our own nation hundreds and even thousands of schools and colleges have grown up in the last fifty years. Great progress has been made in ex- tending college educations to greater num- bers of people: but after the war, when colleges and universities are back to nor- mal again, an even greater number of people will receive the value of college ed- cations. New accelerated methods of teach- ing have been so successfully adopted by the different branches of our a1'1ned ser- vices that future education will undoubted- ly be patterned after these innovations. 'Teaching by the use of moving pictures will also be used extensively throughout the schools of the nationg for by this method learning time can be cut almost in half, since pupils can learn by means of the eye as well as the ear. Not only will better methods of learn- ing be adopted. but students will have the use of modern, streamlined scientiflally- equipped school buildings. The buildings will be located on spacious plots with plenty of erea for outdoor gymnasiums, tennis courts. baseball and football fields. and race tracks. Many schools will have their own outdoor swimming pools. Eventually television and radio communi- cation will be used between the classrooms and buildings. Schools will be constructed with cafeterias and fine dormitories and private high schools will be modeled on college principles. Curriculums will be greatly expanded and will promote wider education for the student. Courses which place emphasis on the study of national and international problems will be required of all schools. These courses will assist the citizen of to- morrow to run more efficiently the affairs of the nation and will help to keep democ- racy a living reality. Ouly thru such meas- ures can schools of the future help to make this country a better nation. It is vitally important that future scholars re- ceive liberal education in national and in- ternational problems because education will not only serve to inform our own na- tion but help to establish a better world and peace among nations. V Richard Lycette

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THE ANNUAL MAGAZINE OF HOULTON HIGH SCHOOL IiCHJLTCHQ,hLAHQE JLHQE, 1944 Verne Byers, Harriette Watson Norma Jean Hallett Joyce Robinson Joanne Kittredge Anna McCutcheon Teresa Langley Marion Brewer Robert Wood Newty McLean EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Richard Lycette EXECUTIVE BOARD Lawrence Woodcock, Bernice Porter, Dorene Larson, Richard Lycette, Harriette Watson LITERARY EDITORS Joyce Cumming Minnie Roberts Harold Noyes Nancy Hyde Jean Lambert Carolyn McCloskey Audrey Dunlop Guylene Smith Lois Doescher Dorene Larson Lois Hall Sophie Hughes Joyce Dunphy Patience Ann Williams Alma Brown Lucy Drake Nydda Barker Pauline Thompson DEPARTMENT EDITORS Alumni, Patricia 0'Donnell Typists, Audrey Dunlop Athletics, Gerard York Exchanges, Dorene Larson Dorothy Paradis Elva Sweet Patience Ann Williams Phyllis Gray Humor, Bernice Porter 'Patricia 0'Donnell Anne Fraser Dorene Larson Photography, Elva Sweet Marion Brewer Bernice 'Porter Teresa Langley Milliard Fairley BUSINESS MANAGERS Lawrence Woodcock Verne Byers Anne Fraser Audrey Gray Joyce Daigle Patience Ann Williams Jacqueline Hall Phyllis Grant Jerome Clifford ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Elva Sweet Richard Hatch Bernice Porter Ruth Currier Jane French David Grant Milliard Fairley Merle Tyrell Albert Mooers Roger Jackins Newty McLean Guylene Smith Joann Kittredge Lois Doescher Clair Lambert CONTENTS Editorials 4 Sports 30 Tribute to a Friend 5 Alumni 31 Senior Class History 7 The Inkwell 32 Junior Notes 8 Our Faculty 33 Sophomore and Exchang9S 35 Freshmen Notes 9 Literary Departmnt 36 Organizations 9 Verse 55 Senior Habits 25 Jokes 57 Assemblies 29 SUPERVISOR Miss Evelyn D. Kennard

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A Tribute to a Friend .85 This year lloulton High School lost one of its inost outstanding inusic instructors ind teachers. lllr. Ivan Silk'l'lllilll. a grad- uate of llehron Acadelny. the llniversity of Maine, and the National School of Music, has carried out for the past eight years a very successful prograin as director of our hands and teacher of ldnglish in the Junior and Senior lligh Schools. Since 1936, his first year at lloulton, he has steadily huilt up the school's inusie department until today lloulton High School possesses one of the inost outstanding hands in the state. Thru his efficient pro- gram a steady flow of students from the primary grades and Junior lligh have re- placed vacancies in the hands lllildv hy graduating seniors. For the past five or six years Mr. Sherman has attended sununer sessiousat the liniversity of Maine as well as Bates Uollege, and today he is the holder of li. A. and M. A. degrees. Before eoniing to lloulton High. Mr. Sherman held the posi- tion of principal at Alhion lligh School for four years. ln Fehruary Mr. Shcrinan re- linquished his position here to accept the prineipalship of Newport Iligh School. lle is now teaching physics, plane geometry, and algebra in addition to fulfilling his duties as principal. We were very sorry to lose hiin hut. wish hiin lmest of luck in his new position. Richard Lyeette VARSITY BAND