Kingfield High School - Abram Breeze Yearbook (Kingfield, ME)

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20 THE ABRAM BREEZE in the afternoon the Seniors had their fair, and in the evening they presented their three act play. Both turned out very suc- cessfully even though most of the play cast were not feeling well. Today, also, we wished Richard Mercurio luck, for tomor- row he's going to Bates to take his en- trance exams. Week of April 5 April 6 - Today the long awaited Sen- ior Honor Parts were announced by Prin- cipal Clunie. April 7 - The Senior train tickets for the class trip arrived. April 8 - We're taking our fifth set of six weeks exams today and the Seniors are getting ready for their class trip. Poor Seniors! April 10 - The Seniors left today for Washington from the Post Office at 2:30 P.M. They went to Portland by auto. Those taking them were Clifford Kirkwood, Kenneth Safford, and Bob Viles. Marion hardly made it for she got mixed up on the time. When she arrived they had a few hurried pictures taken, climbed into the cars and were ol? to Portland. Tonight they go by train to New York and then on to Washington Monday. Week of April 12 April 12 - The pupils and the teachers seem to be relieved that the Seniors are gone for a week. They are getting along very nicely without them. Most of the exams came back today. April 13 - The Paper Drive began to- day. Nip Wing's, Austin Thompson's and Russell Riggs's trucks were used to collect papers. April 15 - This morning a few cards arrived from Washington and were seen floating all over the school building. The paper drive ended today. April 'I6 - The interclass track meet ended. The Sophomores won with 48 2-7 points. The Juniors were second with 38 2-7 points. The Freshmen scored 1 3-7 points. Austin Thompson was the high scorer with Lewis Brackley coming a close second. No school next week for our Easter vacation has arrived. Week of April 26 April 26 - Today everyone returned to school. Most of the recesses were spent looking at the group pictures and the snap- shots that were taken by the Seniors on the class trip. Today rank cards were passed out again. April 28 - All the basketball boys and girls, track boys, coaches and managers are eating light today for tonight the Stu- dent Council and the American Legion are giving them a banquet put on by the American Legion Auxiliary. Charles Tren- holm looks terrible. It must have some- thing to do with that speech he has to make tonight. Oh yes! This afternoon the Seniors chose their class motto. lt was We Finish To Begin. April 29 - This morning everyone came to school looking very happy and far from starving. In the afternoon different stu- dents brought rakes, shovels, wheelbar- rows and rags, thus National Clean-up Week was observed. Week of May 3 May 3 - We beat Stratton in the first baseball game of the season by a score of 1 1-1. V V May 4 - Today the Juniors signed a contract to have their pictures taken by Warren Kay Vantine Studio, Inc. May 5 - The track boys left early this P.M. to take part in the track meet in Farm- ington. May 6 - We won o game from Strong when Nip got a three-bagger in the last of the eighth inning. Also most of us helped hang Mr. Clunie a May Basket. Week of May 10 May 10 - We won a baseball game at Jay, today. May 12 - We were all sorry to learn that Richard Mercurio entered the Frank- lin County Memorial Hospital this after- noon. We wish him the best of luck and hope that he will soon be back with us. May 13 - At last! We go to press, to- day! Robert Kirkwood '48

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22 THE ABRAM BREEZE SCHOOL SPIRIT School spirit plays an important port in the life of every scholar and in the activi- ties of every school. A In order to be progressive and sustain complete cooperation each student must have his share of spirit. By spirit, I mean that he should maintain such qualities as friendliness, courtesy, punctuality and initiative. In sports and all other extra-curricular activities as well as in class subjects them- selves, school spirit is necessary in order to make school days successful and happy. It is needless to say that all students in a school cannot be pleased but those who must suffer the unpleasantness of loss should learn to accept defeat honorably. On the other hand, those who have met with victory should act with understand- ing and thereby gain valuable experience in co-operating with others. In my opinion, acquiring school spirit is a maior step toward achieving success in school life and in life's school. Lorraine Knapp '48 HOW KINGFIELD CAN IMPROVE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT Kingfield does not have enough fire equipment. What things they have are usually in working order but there are not enough of them. ln order to secure money for improving our department we would probably have to raise taxes or set aside an amount of money each year. It is very important to have suitable fire equipment to save homes and lives. We have a pumper, ladders and hose that I know about which could stand repair work on them and even new ones would be appreciated. It would be nice if we could have an engine, but I realize that would be too expensive, so if we could have an army truck or something that we could depend on using at every fire, it would help. There should be a man ap- pointed to drive the truck at all times. He should be one that we could rely on and one that would know how to handle it and keep it fit. If we were able to secure any of these things, wherever they are kept, they should be in order and ready to be used at any time. The firemen should be ready night and day to go to fires. For out of town fires, some of the firemen should have their cars ready to go. After such a terrible disaster as the one that happened to one of our homes here in town last fall, I should think that the townspeople would realize how important it is to have proper equipment. It could have been any of their homes as well as the next fellow's. When town meeting comes around in the spring, go over and see what you can do for this purpose. Discuss it and vote on it. Helen Knapp '51 A 4-H DEMONSTRATION On Friday our local 4-H leader, Mrs. Floyd Ellis, gave Beatrice and me a sheet of paper that had the directions for iron- ing a man's shirt. We went through it, reading it carefully and listening as Mrs. Ellis explained it to us. She told us this demonstration would take place on March 24th, at the Universalist Church Vestry. Beatrice and I agreed to meet at her house on Tuesday right after school and practice. This we did. We didn't do very well at first, but if we could go through it a few more times we thought it would be all right. At last, Wednesday evening - the night we dreaded-came. But luck was with us, and we won for the Senior group. This meant that we would go to Farming- ton on March 27th for the county demon- stration. We practiced several times before Sat- urday and we thought we had improved some. Our leader said we had a good chance of winning but, of course, we didn't think we would. You can just imagine our amazement when the iudges announced that the winners of the Senior group were the two girls that ironed the shirt. We were very much surprised and pleased. I think the worst is to come though, for in May we demonstrate over