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

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18 A THE ABRAM' BREEZE Feb. 14 - A few Valentines were seen around school today. Feb. 17 - Played Phillips tonight in the Franklin County Tournament. By defeating them, we won the Consolation Cup. Week of February 19 Feb. 19 - Cast picked for the three- act play for the benefit of the Seniors. The cast includes four Seniors, three Juniors, two Sophomores and two Fresh-' men. A whole bus load of us left at 3:30 to go to West Paris. The girls played against the West Paris girls and defeated them, thereby keeping their unbeaten record intact. The boys played against Porter High of Sebago for eighth place in the Western Maine State Tournament. Our boys won. Feb. 20 - Photographers from the Warren K. Vantine Studio were here to- day to take all group pictures for the yearbook. Feb. 22 - Washington's Birthday! No school today or tomorrow. Our boys played against Clinton in the Western Maine Small Schools Tournament.Although our team lost, we do not feel too badly when we consider that Clinton went on to win the Western Maine Championship. Week of March 5 March 5 - Town Meeting today. All Iuniors and Seniors went over to Web- ster Hall and listened in on the meet- ing to see how business is actually carried on. We started another scrap paper drive today. We hope to make some profit from it.. March 6 5 7-Examsagaintoday. March 22 - The girls team and the two Senior All Stars for boys journeyed to Hangeley tonightto play basketball In the opening game of the evening our girls beat the combined senior players of the other schools in the league by a score of 38 to 26. And so, even through the All Star game, they have remained undefeated. We are very proud of them and their coach. The Rangeley boys won in their game against the combined Seniors from the otherschools During the evening certificates were presented to the players to show that they had participated in the games for the year of 1951. March 22 - Final games in the ping- pong tournament were held today. Garnald Hewey is the school champion, followed by Bobby Tufts in second place and Lawrence Hewey in third place. Nhrch 24 - We go to press today. March 30 - Three-act play, 'Lights Outf . April-l3.- School closes for a week: Seniors leave for Washington, D.C. April 27 -.Junior Prom. May 11 - County Teachers' Convention May 3U,- M morial Day. No school. Iune 3 -Baccalaureate, June 7 - Commencement., June 8 - School Picnic. School closes for the summer. 1

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THE ABRAM BREEZE g 17 to walk on the left-hand side of the road, and showed us pictures of acci- dents. It was very educational and I'm glad the law is on our side. Dec. l - We played basketball at Strong. It proved to be an exciting evening with Kingfield winning both games. Week of December 4 Dec. 4 - Hank cards today. Some people hope D stands for Dandy. The Varsity lost to F.S.T.C. Iayvees, but not by much. Dec. 7 - The girls' and boys'basket- ball teams had their pictures taken today. Hold that pose! They hope to see themselves in the paper soon. Dec. 8 - Tonight was our first home game for both boys and girls together. We made it a success by both teams' beating Stratton. Week of December ll Dec. 12 - We had individual pictures taken today. Dec. 15 - Last day before a two weeks' vacation for Christmas. I wonder if the teachers need the rest more than we do? We had a program a d tree in the afternoon. While we were all singing Christmas songs, Mr. Spring recorded us on our new tape recorder. Later he played the songs back to us so we could see how we had sounded. Week of January 1 Ian. 1 - New Years Day. No school Ian. 2 - Everybody came back to school today. The girls' and boys' basketball teams went to Clinton to- night. Although the boys lost, the girls won. Ian. 3 6 4 - We had movies about about safe driving. They were very educational. Ian. 5 - Girls and boys went to New Sharon tonight to play basketball. Both teams won. Week of Ia uary 8 Jan. 9 - Both Strong here. Ian. 10 - Saw an educational movie on water and alcohol. Jan. 12 - That sparkle is the lun- boys and girls beat ior's new class rings. The Hangeley irls were downed tonight by the King- field lassies, but not so t e Rangeley boys. Well, Boys, you still have another chance. Jan. 13 - Clinton Varsity and Junior Varsity teams played here tonight. They won both games. Week of January 15 Ian. 16 - Played Cbntral tonight and won both games. Ian. 19 - Got our individual pic- tures back today and played Stratton up there. Week of January 22 Jan. 22 5 23 - Six-weeks tests again Ian. 26 - Girls beat Phillips to- night, but the boys lost. Week of January 29 Jan. 29 - Rank Cards today. Movies too. A Feb. 2 - The girls again won their league championship by beating Hangeley girls. Maybe you boys will next year. Week of February 5 Feb. 5 - New Sharon here tonight. we took both games. Tonight Marty took scoring honors in the league. Feb. 8 - No school. Bad weather amd no lights. Feb. 9 - School again today. One session because of the Franklin County Tournament at Wilton. Kingfield lost to Hangeley in an afternoon game. Feb. 10 ' ln the Tournament King- field beat Strong, thereby becoming the team to play Phillips next Saturday. Week of February 12 Feb. 12 - The girls and boys played a return game with Central over there tonight. Kingfield took both games. This means that our girls have finished the season undefeated, in or out of the league. Feb. 13 - There's still quite a lot of snow on the ground: the streets are icy: more cold weather is predicted for us. Yet, we saw Marty come bringing in the new baseball bats today, and Mr. Graham called all the boys intending to go out for spring sports to a meeting after school. Spring must be just around the corner.

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LITERATURE DON'T THROW THAT AWAY The other day I was up in the attic chamber looking for a piece of wood for a model airplane. As I crawled over the accumulated debris,I thought to myself,'Why in the world do we save all this junk anyway?' I climbed over an ancient butter churn: then, my eyes rested on an old radio. It was all battered and scratched: and when I looked into the back of it, I found that most of the tubes were gone. I continued on my way, passing a rack of old clothes and two broken rocking chairs. I tripped over an electric light cord from a floor lamp which had been replaced by a more modern one and sprawled over numerous cardboard boxes, saved because they were just right to fit something or other. Resuming my zig-zag course through articles of no apparent or conceiv- able value, I finally reached the corner where I thought I had put the stick of wood I needed, After peering around in this dark corner for sev- eral minutes I spotted the end of the board protruding from beneath a mas- sive pile of old magazines. In pull- ing out the board the only harm I did to knock an old alarm clock from was its reclining place on the papers to the floor. ' All this time I had been muttering to myself and resolving to tell the other responsible members of my fam- ily not to put any more junk in that chamber when it really belonged on the dump. Then I thought: This wood --and those broken tools amd trinkets in the opposite corner -- I brought those things and many others up here! It was then that I realized that I was as guilty as the rest. The practice of carting everything unusable to the attic and forgetting it seems to be a common human trait. Perhaps the reason for this is that people have learned by experience that after they dump some things, often the next objects they need are the things thus disposed of. There- fore everything eventually winds up in the attic. Malcolm Knapp '52 . MY FIRST AIRPLANE RIDE We were over to Phillips one Sunday afternoon talking to some friends near Dick Haymond's airfield. My father wanted to go up and my brother did too. I said I would like to my- self. We went down to the airport. Mr. Raymond was just putting the plane in the hangar, but he said he would take us up if we wanted to go. We told him that we did. My brother got in and so did I7 however I didn't like it in there so I got out. My father got in and they took off. I never did get an airplane ride. John Edgerly '54 A JACK-O-LANTERN EXPERIENCE One night in late October a little elderly Child named Jerry and his grandfather were sitting in the liv- ing room of Ierry's home. It was very quiet except for the fire in the fireplace until Jerry asked, 'Grand- pa, will you help me make a jack- o-la tern for Halloween?' 'Yes,' 'we will answered the grandfather, make it tomorrow night on the bank of the stream.' 'Thank you, Grandpa.' The next night the elderly man and the child sat on the bank of the stream making the jack-o-lantern. Jerry asked,'Why do you cut the top of the pumpkin off?' 'So you can clean it out and make the eyes, nose and mouth easier.' After the 'jack' was finished, Jerry found a candle to put into the clean pumpkin. The grandfather did not put it in the pumpkin and Jerry was sur- prised. He made the request.'Grandpa, why don't you put the candle into my jack-o-lantern?' The elderly man pulled up his shirt sleeve and said, 'Son, you have seen this scar before, but I never told you how I got it. It was years ago when my