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

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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

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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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14 THE ABRAM BREEZE closed because of some current epi- demic. ' Many things are different now from what they were in 1906, but Kingfield High School is still sending its graduates out into the world. They still face the problem of deciding what they will do with their lives and what they owe to their country. And once again Kingfield is facing the problem that it solved earlier at the turn of the century - the problem of adequately educating its school population. Within the last five years it has had to double the teachf ing staff at the little school to take care of the increased enrollment. Later on, those enlarged classes will work their way up through the grades and rooms at the Stanley School to become members of Kingfield High School. Will there be room for them? What is even more important, will there be offered to them courses that will best enable them to become re- liable and responsible citizens? THE NEW TROPHY CABINET In the past four years Kingfield High School has won trophies in all the branches of athletics in which the school has participated. Although we were very pleased with the awards and we appreciated the efforts of our teams and their respective coaches, we were sorry that we had no suitable place to display these trophies. The cabinet which we had wasalreadyfilled and overflowing with cups won in former years. New cups were placed on a table, sometimes getting hit and damaged, and often gathering dust. It was, therefore, with much pleasure that we viewed a new cabinet which the town had built during the summer into the wall between the main hall and the principal's office. Now displayed in it are our newest trophies, no longer crowded together on one corner of a table, but arranged in the new cabinet where all who visit our school nay view them. Paul Cory 'Sl AUDIO-VISUAL AIDS We have added to our equipment this year a tape recorder and a film-strip projector. The recorder was largely financed by the Crowell-Collier maga- zine subscription contest in which Kingfield participated last fall,- the first time for several years. ln the contest the Seniors and the Freshmen teamed up against the Juniors and the Sophomores. The latter team won, with prizes for most sales for girls and for boys both going to students in the Sophomore class. They were Beverly Boynton and Edward Flannigan. The film-strip projector was pur- chased for the benefit of all the grades in the Kingfield schools with funds obtained from a scrap paper drive. It has already been used by several groups. These two machines, along with the moving picture projector which we already had, give us opportunity to take advantage of some of the newer audio-visual aids in education. Paul Cory '51 HOMEMAKING A new class was offered to the students of Kingfield High School this year. It has been named Home- making and it has included study about many of the numerous and varied tasks that do go into homemaking as well as the growth and behavior patterns of children and adults and their problems of fitting into family life. Although we have a good supply of textbooks, we do lack most of the equipment to Carry on such a Course to best advantage. The girls made pickles and tomato juice last fall with equipment brought from home for