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

Page 5 text:

BUSINESS MANAGERS THE ANNUAL MAGAZINE OF HOULTON HIGH SCHOOL HOULTON, MAINE JUNE 1946 EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Henry Baulch Patricia Cla! ke EXECUTIVE BOARD Henry Baulch, Patricia Clarke, Beth Lee Judkins, Elizabeth Conway Audrey Gray, Richard Hatch, Roger Jackins LITERARY EDITORS Elizabeth Conway Nancy Hyde Beverly Phelps Mary Shaw Barbara Charlton Jacqueline Hall Carolyn McClosky Marietta Doescher Joyce Leavitt Mary Skehan Anne Hannon Betty Landers Judi Nevers Wendall Peabody DEPARTMENT EDITORS Alumi, Mary Spain Art, Edwin Hanson Eldaige St. Peter Margaret Duffy Exchanges, Nancy Hyde Photography Mary Shaw Florence Rouse Betty Landers Athletics, Richard Hatch Vaughn Steen Humor, Audrey Gray Georgia Holden Vaughn Totman Alfred Astle Estelle Sldelinker Gene McIntosh Joyce Leavitt Marietta Doescher Ruth Barrow Roberta Corey Beverley Phelps Roger Jackins Wilfred Langley Francis Nason Richard Nightingale Philip Kinney Melvin Hovey Leland Ludwig Florence Rouse Sarah McGai!ln Editorials Meet Our Faculty Facts About Class Officers Organizations Senior Notes Junior Notes Sophomore and Freshmen Notes Senior Pictures Richard Hatch Richard Mamon ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Shirley Ingraham Joyce Daigle Geraldine Grant Madeline Deschaine Bonnie Henry Jeanette Gartley Shirley Moreshead Thomas Martin CONTENTS Earl Simpson Norman McNally David Harbison Edna Flewelling Sylvia Crawford Beatrice Sweet Eleanor Libby O 4 4 11 8 7 12 13 14 15 Veterans Back to H. H S Senior Habits Sports The Inkwell Exchanges Alumni Literary Department Verse Humor SUPERVISOR Miss Evelyn D. Kennard

Page 4 text:

Q DEDICA TION It is with the deepest respect and admiration that we, the students and teachers of l-loulton I-ligh School, dedicate this issue ol the NOR-fl-l STAR to Mr. Milton B. Lambert, our beloved friend, teacher, and principal.

Page 6 text:

HONOR SOCIETY A FLEA FOR TOLERANCE The United States public today worries about taxes, national and international politics, housing, food, and atomic energy. Yet we. who almost control atomic power and international finances, who have a major part in world politics and food prob- lems. do not have a fraction of the worries of European countries. Most Europeans and Asiatics, but especially the Greeks and people of India are starving. Many Ger- mans can't find a house, much less one in which to live. The Balkans and Near East are being threatened by Russia, and Russia thinks that she is being threatened by the Anglo-Americans with the atomic bomb. One thing that we Americans must turn our thoughts to and worry about is toler- ance. for a lack of religious, cultural, racial, social, and political tolerance play- ed a part in shaping up this past conflict. Wherever it is-present, intolerance creates dissention, a bad thing to have in any country or community. One of the first thingsthat Hitler did after coming into power was to enforce his intolerance of everything that might inter- fere with National Socialism. In his cam- paign of political intolerance he destroyed the opposition. parties, having already overthrown the Weimar Republic. He burn- ed the libraries in order to do away with the teachings of their books, hoping that through this cultural intolerance he could set up a new Nazi culture. Concerning re- ligious and racial intolerance, we all know how the churches were closed, public meetings forbidden, and Jews persecuted. You say This concerns only one half of the warg the Japanese didn't practice in- tolerance. Didn't they use racial intolerance to try to stir up the Filipinos against us with their Asia for Asiatics ? Were not the people of Japan compelled to have a Shinto shrine in their homes, be they Buddhist, Shintoist, or Confuscianist? The Zaibat- sun, the handful of industrial or business magnates who almost controlled Japan's actions, is a good example of social intoler- ance. Under political intolerance there was the Black Dragon Society which was looking for those who disagreed with the government policies. These examples have shown what in- tolerance can do to a country if practiced whole-heartedly, but even on a minor scale this evil has a very bad effect. The mid-western race riots last year ranked among the most shameful exhibi- tions in American history. Within days after the first riot, it seemed that every