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

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Thereill be more great snow drifts. By the time we get home tonight it will be drifted so high weill have to wade to our waist. There. All set now, must hurry or we won't have time to make the bus. Boy! Is it cold this morning? Iill be glad to get on the bus. Oh, I would! I for- got to bring my lunch, Iill have to run back to get it. There, now I'll try again. fll be glad when we donit have to climb this hill. Thereis the bus waiting, I think. No, it's just a truck stopped for something. Oh, dear! Maybe the bus has gone off and left us. Better hurry. I donit see it anywhere, Guess weill have to wait. My goodness! Eight-thirty and still no bus. Something must be wrong. If he doesnit hurry, Iill freeze to death. Let me see now, what subjects have I got today? Might as well do a little review- ing while I'm waiting for the bus. Oh, no! Donit tell me. We donit have any subjects today, today is Teachers, Convention and we donit have any school! Where is my mind? All this hustle and bustle for noth- ing. I knew school was getting me, but I didnit know I was getting that bad! Now I have to walk all the way home again. Nancy Howard ,54 RANGELEY GAME It is around six p. m. on the night of the big event. The girls, and the boys, bas- ketball teams are to play Rangeley here at home. The people are pouring into the hall. They are all afraid they wonit get a seat. I do not blame them any. In a lit- tle while Rangeley arrives with a large group of spectators. Since they have to take a chance on getting seats as every- body else does, they come early. From the schoolhouse windows, whole strings of cars pan be seen coming across the flat. Not all of them are coming from Range'- Pcsge Twenty-Three L The Abram Breeze ley, however, some are from Phillips or Strong. A little before quarter of seven, our girls troop over to the hall to warm up. The hall is already packed. Still the people come. The bleachers along the side and on the stage are full. The late arrivals have to stand out in the hall. The game starts as near seven as pos- sible. It is a close game from the first whis- tle all the way down to the last one. We have only one cheer leader for this game, for the other three are on the team. The hall is in an uproar all the time. The Rangeley group is making as much noise as we are. When it is over, at last, we find that we are several points ahead. Can we be in the boys, game that follows? When the boys file onto the floor, the crowd goes wild. After the warm-up per- iod, there are the usual pre-game activi- ties. The referees confer with the acting captains for each team. Cheer leaders, we now have four, are out on the iioor. Thereis the last minute conference with the coach, then the whistle blows. The cheer leaders hurry off the floor into the corner. The boys take their places and shake hands with their opponents. The tense crowd becomes quiet with expecta- tion. Who is going to get the first tap? Vvlho will get the first basket? During the first half we are ahead two or three times. It looks as though we might be able to pull through to a close victory. But again and again they over- take us to even up the score or to go ahead. It is very closely matched. When the teams return for the final half, everyone is ready for a fast game. The spectators are even more noisy than they were in the first half, if that is possible. Gradually Rangeley pulls out in front and stays there. Although our boys continue to play good basketball, they canit again

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The Abram Breeze the still hungry girl to sleep. The after- noon finally passed and supper came. More shredded wheat, more orange juice, and more pills. Also something new - cod liver oil. 'cHadn,t you better go to sleep now, Dear? Maybe if youjre better in the morn- ing, you can go to schoolf, 'lSchool! Dear Lord, please forgive me for faking sickness. Iill never do it again. live learned my lesson. Please let me go to school tomorrow, and I'll always be grateful. Amen!', jean Morrison '55 A BEAR STORY My brother decided to go to the Cat- skill mountains hunting bears. They had been giving the farmers in the region a lot of trouble, the sheep were disappearing and the dogs could not cope with the situ- ation. Therefore, bear hunting in this re- gion was more than just a sport. It was quite cold, but Bobby, being a rugged individualist, did not mind how 'cold it was just so long as he had warm feet. Having arrived at Cairo, he pur- chased canned goods and some chocolate. He intended to stop at a lodge halfway up the slope. It was three oiclock in the afternoon when Bobby, now happily settled in the lodge, decided to take a walk. The shadows were falling across the path and the big tree branches groaned and whined like something alive. No doubt the hair bris- tled a bit on the back of his neck. He start- ed to whistle to bolster his courage, but he stopped suddenly, for within about eight yards of where he was standing there appeared a bear cub. At this point he did not know whether to shoot or to walk up to it. Throwing all caution to the wind and thinking it would be nice to have a cub for a pet, Bob walked toward it. Then the very rocks seemed to come alive, and from behind one hurtled a huge bear. Bobby really made good use of his legs. He rushed down the path so fast that he surprised himself at the speed he could make if it was necessary. Do not think he was too frightened to continue his hunting trip, for now he knew just where to get a bear. Having fortified himself with a cup of hot chocolate, he de- cided to return to the path. This time he was fully prepared and was quite calm when the big bear came into view. He made a clean shot and felt it was a good dayis work. Patricia Walker ,55 ABSENT MINDED Sally, better get up, itis almost 6:30.', Oh, Oh! Thatis Motheris voice. Gee Whiz! I could sleep the rest of the morning if it wasnit for school. Well, Iid better roll out, if I donit, Iill fall back to sleep sure as anything. c'I,ll be right down, Motherf, Gosh! Why did they ever invent such a thing as school? And why do I have to live so far from school that I have to get up so early to meet that old bus. I could catch a few winks of sleep going to school if that bus wasn't so rickety and if the roads werenit so rough. Well, no use lying here dreaming, better get downstairs and eat so I'll have time to put up those lunch- es. Darn the cold dinners day in and day out - cold sandwiches for dinner. Some people are lucky they live so near to school they can go home to a nice hot dinner. Well, better hurry and finish putting up these dinners so I can comb Sis's hair. Then Weill have to start for school. How nice! It snowed again last night. Thereis so much snow I don't think it will ever be hot enough to melt it. Whatis that noise? Oh, no! The wind is blowing again! Page Twenty-Two

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The Abram Breeze close the gap and go ahead. When it is all over, we have lost. Then the players for both teams go over to the schoolhouse for a cup of hot cocoa and some cookies. After a short while the visitors have all gone. Mac finishes call- ing in the scores to the paper. The cups and dishes are cleaned up. Soon every- body is gone, the schoolhouse is dark. The big night is now a thing of the past. Leone Chadbourne ,54 HUNTING IS' FUN! This hunting season I had gone hunting with Richard several times. Since we had not had any luck at even seeing any game, one night I came home from school and told my mother that I was going hunting. She asked if I was going up to Richardjs to go with him. I said, KNO, because we never have any luck. Iim going up into the Companyis cuttings alone., I left the jeep at the road. It was near- ing dark by that time so I walked up an old logging road for quite a distance, then I started home. On the way out I came into a field and pulled up my gun just to see if I could see my sights. just as I took my gun from my shoulder, I saw two white tails going across the Held. I got my gun back to my shoulder, sighted right down line, and shot. I could not see if I got anything or not because it was so far away. Then another deer came running out. I took off running across the field to see if I had got one. Then I saw a deer get up and try to go. It could not use its hind legs at all. I ran over to where it had stopped and killed it. It was a doe that weighed about two hundred pounds. I had to drag it back across the field, and was my heart beating when I got through dragging and putting it into the jeep! When I went home and told moth- er, she didnit believe me. I finally con- vinced her to look. Was she surprised! Odlin Thompson '52 PLAY DAY Saturday, january 12, 1952, the girls, basketball team was invited to Farming- ton State Teachers College for a Play Day. Ten girls represented Kingfield. Other teams there were Mexico, jay, Wilton, Farmington, Strong, New Sharon, and Bangeley. When we arrived, we were told to change into our basketball suits and to register. Each one of us could choose any one of ten colors, but each girl from one town had to have a different color from the others of her own town. This made ten teams with eight girls on a team, and no two from the same town. After we had registered, we had three relay races on pivoting. dribbling, and passing. The yellow team, which I was on, and the green plaid team, which Glo- ria Dyer was on, were in the lead for these relays. After eleven oiclock we enjoyed different kinds of square dancing. We took our own sandwiches for lunch and the college served us cocoa, cookies and apples. After dinner each team was assigned to a college girl who took us for a tour of the campus. This was very interesting. When we returned to the gym, two women gave us a talk on the new rules of 1952 for girls, basketball. This proved very helpful. After this each team gather- ed and chose a captain. When we had been lined up, we played a series of games similar to the boys Round Robin. A team could play until it lost. My team, the yel- low, won the finals. The red team on which Beverly Boynton played was sec- ond and Glorials team was third. All the Page Twenty-Four