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

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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

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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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girls on the winning team were awarded silver cups and had their pictures taken with them. I enjoyed Play Day verymuch. Best of all, I met many new friends. joan Trask 153 WHICH? Movies, television, or radio? Which comes first in education, first in enter- tainment, first in instruction? It is hard to say. Here in Kingfield we do not have television and so have to choose between radio programs and the movies. With television you can see the event as it actually takes place. Examples of this could be the home coming of General MacArthur, the notorious criminal trials, sitting in on the United Nations meetings, and similar incidents. All of these things are educational. There are also jack Ben- ney shows, Arthur Godfrey shows and many others for entertainment. Too, they have instructions in different things, such as how to act in case of an atom bomb attack. The radio has all of these features, too. But one does not get nearly so much out of them as if he could see them, too. The screen employs all of the above mentioned, too. But very few people go to the movies just to see the newsreels. The producers know that movies don't make a hit if they arerft glamorous, hair- raising and a little unreal. Of course, there are good pictures. But how many? Not nearly so many as there are bad ones. So for their value in entertainment, in education, and in instruction they rank in this order: television, first, radio, second, movies, third. Virginia Trask 752 Page Twenty-Five The Abram Breeze 1952 This year is the time for election And it must be made to perfection, It may be a little daft But some will vote for Taft. The president will need an advisor And we hope he is 21 miser! He must have power to smash ,em So I'll recommend Stassen. L. Hewey 353 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 'I he race is on and who will win Is rather hard to say. It might be Taft, just like his kin, Or Stassen, from across the way. Perhaps itis Kefauver with his crime, Or Truman back in the race, General Ike could beat everybodyis time, For heis our military ace. . C. Howard 152 THE A-BOMB VVe thought that now we have the A-bomb Everything would be all right That We'd live in peace and security And never have to fight. But Russia, too, has the bomb And they have different ideas, If we both fight and donit use our heads The whole world may disappear. E. Parsons ,53 DEMOCRACY 'When the president recalled MacArthur from the East, All hopes of ending the war were ceased. Itis true old Doug was a stalwart man, And he stood his ground on many a sand, But Ridgeway is doing full as well - His troops have gone ahead pell mell. The Communists are stubborn, but striped' too, And their mistakes will help pull us through.