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

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12 THE ABRAA4 BREEZE Jean Pushard, and Marilyn Raymond. Leone Chadbourne was co-manager for the girls' team. lean Pushard was one of the four cheer leaders. Kendric Lane left us after about twelve weeks of school: then we gained a new member when Marilyn Dawson transferred here from Massachusetts. Since Mary Hinkley left us in Feb- ruary, we now number only eighteen, THE FRESHMAN CLASS A is for all of us, The Freshman class, you see. B is for Bunker As spry as can be. C is for Chadbournes, Cousins are they. D is for Dawson, Happy and gay. E is for Edgerly, a boy of our class. F is for Freshmen Hoping we all do pass. G is for grand and gala school days. H is for Howard and Huntington with their good hearted ways. I and I stand for increase in knowledge and joy. K is for Knapp, our brightest boy. L is for Leeman a d Loucks, Both of whom are quite tall. M is for McMullen Who plays basketball. N is for Nichols On whom we can count. O is for obstacles Which we hope to surmount. P is for Pinkham and Pushard, Both small as can be. Q is for quick Happy a d free. H is for Raymond Who does not have a care. S is for school: The Freshmen are always there T is for Taylor and Thompson: Happy-go-lucky are they. U is for unity In work as in play. V is for Vose Always with a smile. W is for worthy, Working all the while. We finish the alphabet With an X, a Y and Z, Leaving the whole class As happy as can be. Isabelle Vose

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THE ABRAM BREEZE ll CLASS OF 1954 iff, ,fri V FRESHMAN CLASS First Row, left to right: Pushard, Dawson, Loucks, T. Thompson, Bunker, Hun tington. Second How: Leeman, Pinkham, L. Chadhourne, B. Chadbourne, Raymond, N. Knapp. Back How: D. Taylor, McMullen, Edgerly, Nichols. Absent: N. Howard, I. Vose. September 5 was the opening date hr school when nineteen Freshmen climbed the stairs to enter Kingfield high. That afternoon we elected of- ficers as follows: President Nancy Howard Vice President Norman Knapp Secretary Mahlon Nhhhllen Treasurer John Edgerly Student Council Representative Marilyn Raymond The big day of the year for all Freshmen was September 29, Freshman kitiation Day. On that date there were many peculiar looking persons roving around school. Each one had to dress like a comic book character, or a movie star specified by the Sophomores. That evening we had the reception at Webster Hall. We were all glad when it was over, but every one agreed that we were not used too badly. Three of our members, Norman Knapp, Jean Pushard, and Theodore Thompson, had parts in the play 'Wilbur's Wild Night'. Theodore and Victor Nichols were in the three-act play 'Lights Cmt'. We were fairly well represented in sports. Although Mahlon McMullen was our only member on the varsity basket- ball squad, Basil Chadbourne, Norman Knapp, and Theodore Thompson played on the junior varsity team. On the girls' basketball team were Katherine Loucks,

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THE ABRAM BREEZE 13 STUDENT COUNCH Seated, left to right: V. Trask, secretary, Mr. Springg M. Howard, senior representative, Raymond, freshman representative. Standing: Meldrum, treasurerg Cory, president, M. Knapp, vice presi dent, Flannigan, sophomore representative. Absent: C. Howard, junior representative. EDITORIALS S In looking over the old records of our school, I find that Kingfield High School is graduating this year its forty-fifth class to go out from the Stanley School. Don't misunderstand me. I know there has been a Kingfield High School longer than that. However, these earlier classes attended what is now known as the little school. ln the month of June, 1906, there was graduated a class that had started in the old building but that had finished in the new one. What an achievement that was for the people of Kingfield, and how proud that class must have been! In the long stretch of years be- tween then and now the school has seen its graduates and undergraduates go forth to help fight in two major wars. At the present time more of her grad- uates are entering the armed forces, and one of her former students, a vet- eran, is now back finishing his high school education which World War II had interrupted. There have been other crises during these years. For instance, written into the records of the school in 1912 is this statement recorded by one of the teachers: 'The second half of the first term was broken up by diph- theria. The schools were shut down Tuesday November 26, 1912. The days of this second half were made up during Xmas and New Year's week ..... ' Doubtless some of you recall other times when the school was temporarily