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

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Week of November 12 Nov. 12-Armistice Day. Another day free from school and classes. Nov. 15-Carnival and play, aCollector,s Itemv. Hope everyone got his money,s Worth. The school did well financially. Week of November 19 Nov. 20-How well one thing follows another! With the Carnival out of the way, basketball begins in earnest. Round Robin Games in Strongis new gym. This is our first trip in the new bus. Swell. Nov. 21-One session - Thanksgiving Holiday. Week of November 26 Nov. 26-Snowstorm! Salem and Free- man bus left at noon. Betty and George rode home with Mr. Allen, so they didn,t have to leave so early. Nov. 27-I wish I had studied harder. Exams again today and tomorrow. Played New Sharon in our first basketball game of the year. Both boys and girls won. Nov. 29-Played North Anson here. The girls lost, but the boys were again victori- ous. Week of December 3 Dec. 3-All the grades downstairs came up to see a movie and hear a talk on the evils of alcohol. Dec. 4-Strong here tonight. We took both games. Dec. 7-Pearl Harbor day. The boys, basketball team went to West Paris to play Woodstock. They came back with an- other victory. Keep up the good work, boys. Week of December 10 Dec. 11-Both boys and girls beat Strat- ton here tonight. Cheer leaders are now working in earnest to support the teams. Dec. 14-Our boys traveled to Strong to play West Paris. We lost by a close score. Some of the boys were having the current fluv and couldnit go. Page Seventeen The Abram Breeze Week of December 17 Dec. 18-Elected editors of KAbram Breezev. The games with Bingham were postponed because of the storm. Dreadful weather! Dec. 19-Last day before vacation for Christmas. Wonder if vacation is as wel- come to the teachers as to the students? We had a Christmas party and program. ,Bryce served very well as our Santa. Mac and Tuffy were his special helpers. Every- one had gifts and enjoyed fudge, cookies and cokes. Bingham played here tonight. Although we had almost no spectators, we took both games. Week of December 31 Dec. 31-Still vacation. Ian. 1-New Year,s Day, no school. jan. 2-Everybody back today after va- cation. Boy! Did those days fly fast! The girls, and boys' teams went to North An- son. The bus surely is nice. No hunting around for transportation, but it is a little expensive for the school. Boys won again, but the girls lost. Ian. 3-junior class rings are here. Do they sparkle! Ian. 4-Another game, this time with Phillips. Boys lost but the girls pulled through with a victory. Girls now have a new coach - Mr. Powell. Tliat,ll be a help for Mr. Graham who has been having all the basketball. Week of January 7 Ian. 8-Selections were given out to the whole school to learn for public speaking try outs. The seniors chose yellow carna- tions for their class flower. The teams won two games from Central here. Ian. 9-The Seniors were measured for caps and gowns. Ian. 10-Both teams had pictures taken for the newspaper. Ian. 11-Try Outs for Public Speaking. Tonight we traveled to Rangeley. Lost

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The Abram Breeze to all. Ilm sure every one of us had a good time. Sept. 27-Play books here for the three plays. Sept. 28-Triangular Cross Country and Track meet. Contestants: Strong, Phillips, and Kingiield. Richard and Norman tied for iirst place in the Cross Country. YV:-3 came out first in track and second in cross country. Week of October 1 Oct. 2-Try outs for the plays. Who wants to be Grandma? Oct. 3-Juniors chose class rings today. Oct. 4-Enjoyed seing Mr. Graham as Herbert in c'Crazy Dazev. Oct. 5-Cross Country Meet here with Phillips, Strong, and K. H. S. running. Trenholm boys tied for first place again. They should try out for the Olympics. YVe took the meet. Week of October 8 Oct. 9-Seniors had pictures taken to- day by Vantine Studio, Inc. Hope the Sen- iors are pleased with the results. Oct. 10-Mr. Hovis was here to organize our magazine campaign. We enjoyed his pep talk. He thinks we will all be salesmen some day. Suppose his name is really Clar- ence? Oct. 11-County Cross Country Meet at Strong. We won by one point. The Tren- holms again tied for first. Welll miss Rich- ard next year. Oct 12-Freshman Initiation! The Sophs are getting their revenge for what hap- pened to them when they were freshmen. Week of October 15 Oct. 15-Please donlt say it is sol Sorry, I guess it is. Six-week exams start today. Oct. 15-More exams. Ordered Carnival Play books today. Oct. 19-Presented three one-act plays: While the Toast Burnedn, c'Dark Starv and 'zllome to Motherv. I'm sure all three were enjoyed, but very little profit was made. Week of October 22 Oct. 22-Basketball season has arrived! Both boys and girls are practicing now. You should see all the cripples around school. Mr. Graham is certainly busy with both teams. Oct. 23-Everyone is still trying to sell magazines. The cast for the Carnival Play was chosen today. Suppose there is a Iohn Barrymore among us? Oct. 24-One session. State Teachers Convention the rest of the week. Thereis great interest to see which class is the one to sell most subscriptions to magazines. Its the Sophs, with Leone and Mahlon being high for girls and second high for boys. Honors for high boy goes to Bryce, whose Junior class earns second place for itself. May we all do as well next year. Several of us are proud owners of felt insignias, showing that we attained honor or high honor the first six weeks of school. They are for 1952, Gloria, Virginia, and Malcolm, for 1953, Beverly, Betty, and Bryce, for 1954, Leone and Norman, for 1955, Muriel, Methel, Amanda, Shirley and jean. Week of October 29 Oct. 29-All back once more, except for the hunters. Theres snow on the ground. Oct. 30-People staying after school for the pleasure of hunting during school hours. Nov. 1-Virginia is splurging a diamond. We don't have to wonder who is the lucky fellow. Week of November 5 Nov. 7-We saw a movie on Highway Safetyv today. Nov. 8-Plans for the Carnival are well under way now. Sorry:-there won't be a turkey this year. Everything else, though. Page Sixteen

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F The Abram Breeze both games. Saturday, Ian. 12-Play Day at Farm- ington State Teachers College for ten of the girls' squad. Grand time. Itis nice to meet people and get acquainted with them. Also, learned new rules for basketball. Week of January 14 Ian. 15-Played New Sharon here. Won both games. Ian. 18-A Friday night free from bas- ketball. Sophs took advantage of it to have a social. Although they got a very small attendance and not too much profit, all had a good time. It was an excellent op- portunity to try out our new Audio-Mas- ter. Iim sure all there agreed that it works very well. Saturday, Ian. 19-Played two games ,at North New Portland. Week of January 21 Ian. 2:2-Played two games at Strong. Exams again. Ian. 24-Boys played against F. S. T. C. junior Varsity. Ian. 25-Stratton here. Week of January 28 Ian. 29-Phillips again. Boys lost, girls won. Ian. 31-Mahlon, Malcolm, Gloria, Vir- ginia, and Ioan Trask went to Madison, North Anson, and New Portland to sell ad- vertising for the year book. Feb. 1-Played Bingham in their 116W gym. We took both games. Week of February 4 Feb. 4-We had a movie which was very interesting today. All about Heinz canned products. Feb. 5-Played Rangeley here. The boys lost but the girls pulled through with a 55-47 victory. Feb. 6-Stratton and Strong played off the tie here to see which team would go to the Farmington Tournament. Stratton won. Feb. 7-Business meeting to work on ad- vertising for yearbook. Almost any night now you can hear Mr. Osier and the tape recorder playing back some speech for the contest. Feb. 8-Franklin County Tournament today. Kingiield lost a close game to lay. Saturday, February 9-In the tournament Kmgiield beat New Sharon, thereby be- coming the team to play Phillips next Sat- urday. Week of February 11 Feb. 12-Very stormy weather. Salem bus was unable to get through. Feb. 13-Still very stormy. No sign of any Salem people today, either. Feb. 15-Saw Mr. Morrison today about printing yearbook. Saturday, Feb. 16-Tourney time again. Lost to Phillips. Week of February 18 Feb. 18-Blizzard! N o school today. Feb. 19-Weather still bad. Roads worse. This is vacation. Fm sure we all can use it. Feb. 21-State Tournament at Sanford. Our boys came through with a surprising victory over Phillips. Feb. 22-Boys lost a heartbreaker to 'W est Paris. Week of February 25 Feb. 25-Sorry to hear that Leo wonit be back to finish the year with us. Sorry, too, that Betty is sick. That means she will miss out on the speaking contest. Feb. 27-Group pictures taken. for the yearbook by Warren Kay Vantine Studio, Inc. Lynette is back with us by now. VVe miss Louis, Marilyn, Nelson, Basil, Ianice and Leo. Too, Betty and Victor are absent today. That makes some of the groups look small in comparison to what they were in the fall. Feb. 29-Kingfield,s first Public Speakn ing Contest for some years. We thought Page Eighteen