House in the Pines High School - Log Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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TEDDY Stubby nose Tilted up Tb catch the smell Of baking pies And cakes, Flattened At the tip, Allowing Better views Of candy shop Windows Freckles From playing Always in the sun, From games Of marbles, Baseball, too, On empty Sand lots, And swim ing, Bare bottomed In the lake Small feet Tan and bare, Tbugh From running On stones And pebbles In paths On the way To fishing: Scratched By bark, On trees Good For climbing Full Of fun And mischief, Brimming With bounce And glee, HBPPY In the sun Pleased With life, And living Ann Hotz, '47 fa. if X ...Z Us-M wx ,Bm I I c . W N l Y I f ,X t V31 55 f e - 4, Q gc '4 I- of 3 f ll' ff -Z f 4, Y ' ' h, V: Y .

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LIFE It only has four letters, yet next to God it's the most powerful thlng in the world It has come, however, to be so prevalent that people like Mary Jones and John Smith hardly know that Webster includes it in his dictionary on page 579, but men like Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson were acutely aware of it Lincoln waved a war to show us the value of human life, and Wllson gave us a theory called the New Freedom wnlch embodled this very same idea But to what ava1l9 Have we have rich coined and now nd all our tlme using the big work psychosomatic and completely forget about the simple little four letter one life Lincoln, Wilson, and other great men llke them tried to show us the SlgDif1CaUC8 of llfe ln ways whlch they thou ht would cause the least destructlon and pain to man, but we failed them, and now God has taken it upon himself to show us what we failed to learn from these men He has let man so beyond nlmself almost beyond what is humanly possible He has let hlm split the atom, and create an. lnven tlon whlch lf he shozld contlnue tozfall to see that llfe means love, fidelity, and equality, will ultimately exterminate hlm lessened poverty, have we given equality to every man, we at least given peace to the world? No, instead the have become rlcher, and the poor poorer We have even such phrases as rationalization and over civilizatlon, in the final analysis even war is gustifiable We spe but he has recently given him tue power to bring about eternity tomorrow, the day after, or tne day after that rrances Camann, '47 JUNE 7, 1946 As I walked down the road, I heard loud voices from the Hill's house, another quarrel, I thought to myself The night was too beautlful to worry about other peoples'quarrels though, so I passed on down the road After walking a mile or so, I turned and headed for the barn across from Mr Hl11'S house, Being a farmer, I had to see that the cattle were well settled for the nlght wlth plenty of water in the troughs for each of them The moon was full and the stars were shining bri htly A soft breeze was gently blowinn and the rustle of the grain sound ed like music I entered the barn and began to tend mv chores Suddenly, at a level slightly above me, the wind began to howl, and there before me, I saw a form slivhtly blowing to and fro On closer inspection, I recognized the form to be a body, the body of Mrs H111 I then decided that no nlght was too beautlfu to worry about other peoples' quarrels Joan Bachmann, '47 l . O Y ' ro Q fl 1 o . . , . . . .J . ' O . O w - as ' 0 I 0 0 K 1 0 V O -J O 1 V I , , - l I 0 0 I from the face of the earth. He gave man life to have eternity, u 1 . . T1 -3 . . Q ' J K 0 O fi: ' 1 g i , Ki J d M 0 G 0 Q . o - . E D O

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SALLY'S FIRST DATE Seated before her dressing table on the night of the High School Prom, Sally Jones carefully combed her new upswept blonde curls With the herself from all dlfferent lnen a different way. Susie, too, help of her hand mlrror she carefully inspected angles She thought that some how she looked she thought it must be tnat her hair is done no iced the change n osh, she observed, You sure have got a long neck, Sal Sally frowned Ten year old Susie, always the pest, seemed to bother her now more than usual Fascinated, she sat on the edge of the bed, watching her sister dressing Sally didn't mind Susie watchlng her bat her remarks were sonethlnv she could not put up with Overlooklng her sister's remark, Sally lifted one hand to look at her manicure Horrllied, she slddenly notlced that her scarlet tipped fingers were shaking This proved lt She had been ignoring that funny, hollow feeling all evening, but she finally had to admit that she was a llttle scared This was her flrst date, and she was very scared She not what encouragement Sally, wlth a less glamorous knew what her last flttlng too SOphlStlC8t she could from the comforting swlsh of her sl1p worried look, noticed that her new formal looked than it had the flrst time she put it on Sally mother would say, in fact she had said it at the yesterday, uHoney, you know that up sweep is far ed for that dress She thought it wasn't I don't care, Sally said, not paying any attentlon to Susie's astonishment 'My halr is gOlHU Carl Phelp's probably had loads and loads of dates Wlth all the really popular girls at school and taken them just everywhere maybe even, she lowered her voice, to that new dance hall just outside of town And I'm not voinv to have him thinking I'm a child who's never been anywhere I won't wear my halr down on my shoulders tonight ' Carefully, she tucked up a loose strand that had fallen down Susie saw her nlt mlpht be okay if it'd stay up, Sal Sut look ' Susie polnted nLook there, it keeps falllng down U She led lee fully Sally reached for another pin She wo1ld have to hold her head just so, and not move it qlickly She thought that above all 'arl must never s snect that this was her flrst date It would ruln everything Why, that fate, woJld be worse than death Saddenly the doorbell ran , Sally rushed aroand in a dither, . , . ' O ' . W. I in t 3 . G II N , 0 , - - y ' O i-, O O L . on 1 0 3, A QC t . I O Q I O ' -1: - 143 - . O . O . .L .L . ' - I U Il 5, O . 1 . . O n ' 11 D to stay up. Desperation forced her to appeal to Susie. 'Nhy, n J n 0 D ,D 1. I l - 1. ,D , . O . I O I I n I :Z ' D . ' ' ' - ' ' - - sian 1 - I - . ' i . 1- . -J , 7. , - . 0 Q ' 0' . - 3. 0 1 Z7 ' ' 7 1 - ,