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

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The Abram Breeze Week of December 5 Dec. 6-Our boys and girls went to North Anson tonight. We split the games with them, our girls losing and our boys winning. Dec. 9-Our Varsity Team played at Wilton tonight. A very exciting game, too, with an overtime period which allowed us to win by a 39-33 margin. Week of December IZ Dec. 12-Career Day in Farmington. Our Sophomeres, Juniors, and a few Seniors and the teachers attended. We should profit greatly from this opportunity to hear the views of men and women who are engaged in the different businesses and professions. Dec. 13-Group pictures were taken this morning by a photographer from Luce's Studio. Dec. 16-Mr. Dann directed a very inter- esting Christmas program at Webster Hall this afternoon. All the grades fjunior primary through high school, took part. Following the program, the high school enjoyed a Christmas tree with refreshments and an exchange of gifts. A two weeks vacation began with the close of school. Dec. 17-Two home games tonight. North New Portland Junior Varsity played our Junior Varsity while our Varsity played the Varsity of Williams High of Oakland. The Seniors sold hot dogs and cold drinks. For the first time they used our new grill. Dec. 29-For additional practice during vaca- tion both of our teams played with the town teams tonight. A Week of January Z jan. 2-Back to school again. Jan. 3-Strong High School played here to- night. Our girls won their game 33 to 18, with Virginia scoring 20 points. Our boys also won 38 to 23. Jan. 4-Our girls' team went to Farmington this afternoon and watched Farmington play the Rangeley girls. Our team changed up and had its picture taken for the yearbook. Helen, Jean and Louise secured some advertisements for our yearbook. jan. 6-Our teams went to Stratton to play fwnight. The girls won, but the boys lost. Week of january 9 jan. 9-Our girls went to Farmington to play. The game was called off during the fourth quarter because of lack of players. The score at that time was Farmington 28, Kingfield '4. Jan. 10-Phillips played here tonight. Our girls won 41 to 16. The boys' game went into a three minute overtime. The final score was Phillips 38, Kingfield 34. jan. 13-The Rangeley teams came down to play with us tonight. Once again our girls won, and once again our boys forced the opposing team intc an overtime before they were defeated Jan. 14-This morning, Mrs. Chadbourne sent in the pictures that are to be printed in our yearbook. Week of January 16 Jan. 17-More games at home. This time it was with New Sharon. We believe that the girls and boys of New Sharon deserve a lot of credit for their pluck and courage, Nu matter what happens, they could always stay in there and try. That is the real spirit. -Ian. 20-Our teams went to Strong tonight. Both brought back news of victory. Jan. 21-Our boys out for Winter Sports took part in the Farmington Ski Meet, held at Jack Titcomb Ski Slope. Farmington won the trophy and the other teams finished in this or- der: Wilton, Kingfield and Rangeley. That night our varsity basketball team traveled to Oakland to play a return game with Williams High. Week of January Z3 Jan. 23-Exams today and tomorrow. Jan. 24-Stratton teams visited us tonight. We won both games. Jan. 25-Farmington girls came up to play our girls a return game. Final score: Farming- ton 13, Kingfield 31. Jan. 27-Both teams went to Phillips tonight. This time both of our teams won their games. Week of january 30 Jan. 31-Both teams went to Rangeley to- Pcrge Eighteen

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Oct. 21-The County Cross Country Meet was held here after school tonight. The schools participating were Phillips, Strong, New Shar- on, and Kingfield. Russell and Richard, by coming in first and second respectively, helped Kingfield to win the meet. That means that our boys are County Champs again. We be- lieve that all boys who run Cross Country de- serve a lot of credit, for it means a lot of hard practice for each individual and not too much glory. During the evening the Senior Class held a social at Webster Hall. Week of October 24 Oct. 24-Play books came. Oct. 25-Tryouts held and cast picked. Oct. 26-One session. This is the weekend of the State Teachers' Convention in Bangor. Oct. 28-Even though it is Convention week end, there is still school activity. The Cross Country team traveled to Lewiston to run against the Bates Freshmen. Mr. Graham went over from Bangor to meet the boys. Again, Kingiield succeeded in winning a meet. Week of October 31 Nov. 3-State Meet at Orono. Although the Kingfield team placed only ninth, it still finished ahead of some schools much larger. There was a field of 14 schools with 104 starters. Once again, Russ won recognition for King- field High School and an individual award for himself. For the second consecutive year, he placed second in the state meet. Because of this he was invited to run in the New England meet to be held in Connecticut on Armistice Day. Nov. 4-Juniors sponsor another social. Week of November 7 Nov. 7-For the first time this fall both boys and girls practice basketball in Webster Hall. Nov. 8-This morning, the first thing, the Juniors and Seniors visited the Freshman and Sophomere room, and all four classes took In- telligence Tests. During Activity Period we all enjoyed a brief entertainment arranged and con- ducted by the students in Mr. Graham's room. This consisted of group singing, musical selec- tions, and readings. After this, Mr. Spring Page Seventeen The Abram Breeze showed the group some slides he had taken of places of interest in New York City and in Wfashington, D. C. Nov. 11--Armistice Day. Week of November 14 Nov. 14-Junior class rings arrived today. Nov. 15-More tests! This time they were The Reaclefs Digest reading tests. In Activity Period we were entertained by Mr. Spring's room. Part of the program consisted of movie cartoons. Nov. 18-The annual School Carnival was held at Webster Hall this afternoon from 1:00 to 5:00. We had the usual booths, with the addition of a fortune teller. The play ':Squaring It with the Boss was presented in the evening. Following that, the people enjoyed playing Beano and seeing the drawing of the lucky tic- kets for the turkey and the basket of fruit. Raymond Allen won the turkey and Phyllis Hutchins won the basket of fruit. The money received from the Carnival goes into the Student Council treasury to help finance our sports pro- gram. Week of November 21 Nov. 22-Mr. Graham and some of the boys went to Phillips to take part in the Round Robin Basketball games, which opened the season. Nov. 23-Another long forenoon. We had all the classes this morning, so that school might close early for the Thanksgiving Holiday. We hope that everyone gets back to school safely next Monday. Week of November 28 Nov. Z8-Yearbook staff met to plan what it is going to do this year. Nov. 29-Exams again, today and tomorrow. Tonight the boys? and girls, basketball teams from Anson Academy visited us to play our first home games. Both of our teams won. Dec. 1-Our Varsity played the Junior Var- sity of Farmington State Teachers College at the Community Building in Farmington. Dec. 2-Mr. Morison of the MWilton Times interviewed our yearbook stag. We decided to accept his offer and have him publish our book.

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night. Both boys and girls lost their games. This was the first league game that our girls have lost this year. Feb. 3-Our teams went to Farmington to play New Sharon in the Alumni Gymnasium. We took both games. Feb. 4-Some of the boys took part in the Wilton Carnival today. Wilton won first place, followed by Kingfield, Farmington, Jay and Rangeley, in that order. Week of February 6 Feb. 8-Our Junior Varsity played against the Rangeley Junior Varsity and won. Feb. 9-The Seniors ordered books for The Elusive Bachelorv for their class play. Tonight marked the opening of the Franklin County Tournament against Phillips. Phillips won. Feb. ll-In the tournament tonight, our boys played against Stratton and won. This gives us the Consolation Cup in the Franklin County Tournament for small schools. Week of February 13 Feb. 14-The Freshmen boys and our girls went to Farmington to play basketball tonight against the Rangeley Frosh and the girls' Var- sity. Our boys lost 35-27. The girls game, which was very close all the way was to deter- mine which team would be the champions in the Franklin County Small Schools League. Both Rangeley and Kingfield girls had won all their games except for one with each other. Our girls had won the game played here in Kingfield, and the Rangeley girls had won the game played up there. We were very pleased that our team Page Nineteen The Abram Breeze won. That means that for two consecutive years Kingiield girls have been champs in their League. Congratulations both to the girls and their coach, Mr. Spring. Our boys, Varsity went to Kents Hill to play tonight. For the first half we held them down quite well. Kents Hill won. Feb. 15-Our Varsity went to Norway to play Porter High of Kezar Falls to see which school would earn the chance to play in the state tournament to be held in Farmington next week. Porter won. Feb. 16-Junior Varsity went to Strong to play. Feb. 17-Vacation of one week began with the close of school. Week of February 27 Feb. 27-School again. Senior play books are here. Feb. 28-Tryouts for play. Junior Varsity played Strong Junior Varsity here. March 3-All Star games at Phillips. Our all stars are Buddy Dunham, Beatrice Morrell, Burchell Morrell, Dena Vose, and Virginia Trask. March 7-Yearbook material goes in today. March 31-Senior Play. April 14-School closes for on week Sen iors leave for Washington. April 24-School reopens May 30-Memorial Day. June ll-Baccalaureate. June 15-Commencement june 16-School closes.