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

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THE ABRAM BREEZE 23 HUMAN NATURE There is a time when winter is here And snow has covered the ground, When we long for that wonderful time of year When ground is bare and birds flutter 'round. But Come And That what do we think when our wish is complete? summer, our thoughts are reversed we think as we work through the sweltering heat surely this season is the worst. I guess it is a human trait To want what we have notg But And The we should leave it up to fate take what falls our lot. Malcolm Knapp '52 THE SKI MEET ski meet had begun, We all were having fun. Jum And Sla We ping was first on the list each landed in a mist.- lom was next on the list, all had to twist. A Kingfield boy won that test, He was the fastest and the best. When all the boys went and ate, I sat with my mate, We all had beans at first Then apple pudding for dessert. The dinner was very good So we got up and stood. Lat So er than this we could not stay each went his own way. Odlin Thompson '52 FLAG IN THE RAIN There's nothing so forlorn as a flag in the rain, Hanging all soggy and wet When some one has gone and left it in shame. He forgot to take it in before he went. A wind, if it should come up, would rip it for sure And maybe then yank it from the masq Even still without wind, it could freeze before dawn, And if it froze you know how long it would last. Oh! How I would complain, were I a flag in the rain, My stripes would all run together, I would tell my owners to show me FESPSCCQ I was meant for warm and sunny weathen Ruth Donahue '52 HISTORY? POOF! THAT'S EASY When I was young and first in school, The best thing I liked to do Was to see how many of my books I could take home from school. a terrible lot Well, I must have changed From then to now, you seep 'Cause the only books I like to take home . Are the ones I don't have to read. One night when I had my studying done My father said to me, - 'Daughter, why don't you ever bring home Your U.S. History?' 'My history, Pop? Aw, that's too easy! And besides, I haven't time.' Well, when six weeks had rolled around I wished I had taken time. My dad just looked at my rank card And then he looked at me. 'The only easy thing about history for you Is getting a big fat D.' Ruth Donahue '52 DID? Did you ever see a snowflake Sitting on the wall?

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22 THE ABRAM BREEZE subject of the holiday. Now a few of us think about the subject of the holiday and sometimes we have parades and speeches. but the majority of the people think of a holiday as a day of no work. One of the worst aspects of modern holidays is the habit of many people to use liquor to help them celebrate. They often get drunk and then pile into their cars and go to a party, a dance, or go visiting. This often turns holidays into 'horror days', regular massacres in which three hun- dred people may be killed in one weekend by traffic accidents. There are groups who are trying to do something about this. Perhaps the greatest influence against drunken driving over a holiday is the radio. Warnings are broadcast repeatedly for the people not to drink if they plan to drive: or if they feel they must drink to some degree, to at least drink some black coffee before coming home from a cocktail party. News- papers urge the same things. In spite of these warnings thou- sands of drivers will venture onto the highway after taking a drink.Many of them will be killed or injured: what is even worse, they will kill or maim many innocent people. People should take all holidays more seriously. They should be used to commemorate the things they were named for. Not a few, not a majority, but all the people must find a way to celebrate that does not include driv- ing under the influence of liquor. Malcolm Knapp '52 THE BIRTHDAY OF A GREAT AMERICAN -FEBRUARY 12TH We have just passed February 12th, the birthday of a great American. I think that it is fitting that we should pause to think about him for a moment. He was born amidst very humble sur- roundings in the early part of the nineteenth century in one of our frontier states. His father was a poor illiterate carpenter-farmer. Al- though his own mother had died during his childhood, his father married again, thus providing a mother for the home. The family moved several times, always westward. This America had very little form- al schooling, just a few months at a one-room country school. But that didn't stop him, for he learned everything he could by reading books, listening to speeches, and talking to learned people. The young woman he loved in his younger years died, a fact which deeply saddened his already melan- choly spirit. Later he married an- other and had four sons, of whom only one lived to grow up. This famous man, when he had in- curred a debt, never failed to repay the loan,even after years had elapsed and the other party may have forgot- ten about it. He trained himself for the bar and practiced law for a time. He was a member of the state legislature sev- eral times. He carried his beliefs to the people in the famous Lincoln- Lbuglas debates, which paved the way for him to be elected president even though they failed to get him elected to the U. S. Senate frpm Illinois in 1858. He was elected president ofthis country in one of the most,critica1 times we have ever had: but he nobly guided us through the war between the states. Had he not been assassinated by a fiend he would have carried out a sound, fair policy of reconstruc- tion instead of the scandalous one that was pursued. Most men would not have been able to overcome all the troubles and trials, endure all the privations and all the grief that this man did. Yet he withstood them all: and at the same time he was able to help his fellow men of all races to enjoy a happier and better life than they would have had had Abraham Lincoln not lived. Paul Cory '51

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24 Did you ever see a raindrop Dropping in the fall? Did you ever Flying in Did you ever On a late Did you ever Being cha Did you ever see a seagull a windstorm? see a squirrel December morn? see a cat sed by a dog? see a woodsman Chopping at a log? Did you ever see a worker Walking to a mill? TH Did you ever see a robin Perched upon a window sill? If you haven't seen these things, You'd better go out some day And see the world wide open Like a windrow of hay. Henry Carey '51 WINTER I like to see the winter come With all its ice and snows, But what I ls when like about it best the winter goes. This may sound queer to some of you, But many'will agree That winter is the best when past Unless you like to ski. - One thing about the winter time We never are too hot. We Or weed We have to We lose So give me never have to mow the lawns the garden plot. shovel snow and plow: all that we gain anytime July When all we have is rain. Paul Cory '51 A SWHAA One day when I was by myself l thought I'd take a swim, And as the wind was blowing hard Soon a wave had hauled me in. BRAAA BREEZE But as I knew not how to swim I floated like a log, Until I saw a river- I guess it was the Androscog. Nancy Howard '54 CAMERA SHY If our pictures in this yearbook Look a little awry Don't blame us poor students For we're all camera shy. Some of the girls in the picture Give the photographer a doleful stare Just because he did not give them A chance to comb their hair. Just as he gets us placed just so We all begin to stir,- It's just the knocking of our knees That makes the camera blur. When he can't keep us still, he begins To stutter and stammerg Then we all smile and hope for the best And pity the poor man's camera. Ruth Donahue '52 KINGFIELD Our Kingfield is a tiny town With school and church and milL But best of all we like the house Of Governor King upon the hill. Oh, that is how we got our name Of Kingfield, don't you see, Because the Governor lived here Many years before you and me. Isabelle Vose. '54 V WINTER WONDER LAND Oh! Winter, winter wonder land, You cover our land with a blanket of whitm Winter, winter wonder land, My, what a wonderful sight! Oh! Winter, winter wonder land, Why do you make the north winds blow?