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

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EDITORIALS YOUR OWN MARK icon.l accepted. The boys had decided to enter the col- lege during their freshman year in high school and they both realized they would have to get high ranks. jack had got busy and was on the honor roll his four years, but Bill-that was different! Bill thought he was brilliant enough without studying. He was sure he could pass any tests that were given by just using common sense. When he got into college he would studyl Bill knew the only reason he had received C's and Dis was that the teachers had a grudge against him! - Well, today was his final exam in English and he knew it was going to be a cinch. FIRE Over the trees there was a red glow. I immediately thought: Firel', A fire frightens me very much, but at the same time it fascinates me. So when I came in view of the fire, I kept my eyes glued to it every minute. It was a house and barn combined, and they were both quite large. just a half hour before, I had gone by the house, and the owner had been mowing his lawn. Now, on my way home, I saw that the buildings were nearly burned flat. Every now and then a glowing beam would crash down, and the flames would leap higher. The leaves of the trees around the When the boys arrived home from their last day of high school, there were two letters waiting for them. The first was to jack from Northwestern College. It read: We are proud, because of your scholastic ability and standing, to accept you as one of our students next Septemberf, The other one was for Bill, and it read: We regret to inform you that we cannot accept you into Northwestern College because your scholastic standing is not high enough to be accepted in our collegef' Bill was very angry, but his mother said to him, Remember that you stand or fall by your own work, Bill. Q Betty Kirkwood ,53 house were burning, and the trunks of the trees were black and singed. When the blaze was over only a few charred beams remained. This is only one of the numerous fires that occur annually, destroying not only buildings, but land areas and even life. Many fires could be prevented, others, by quicker action, could be kept less costly. It is the duty of all of us to know the principles of fire prevention and to prac- tice them. Only in that way can our justi- fiable fear of fire be lessened. Anne Williamson '56 I ENTER A CONTEST The first land probably the lastj ski contest I entered was on Sugarloaf Moun- tain last spring. I had no idea of entering it, until on the Saturday night before the day of the race when Finn Sprague and his wife, two skiers from Portland, came to visit Mother and Dad. Amanda,v she asked, will you enter the race with me tomorrow?,' I thought for a minute before I answered her. I knew I shouldnit say no, and Uncle Amos wanted me to, so I told her I would. The next morning we arrived early at the ski hut at the bottom of the mountain. It was a cold, rainy day, but despite this, there were about seventy people there. 15

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EDITORIALS I ENTER A CONTEST Icon.l Only seven girls entered the race, me being the only high school girl and a Freshman at that. I began to feel a little shaky. I sud- denly didnit want to enter, but it was too late. On the way up the mountain I got awful- ly tired. The reason for this was because I had only climbed it once before, and my legs weren't used to it. The rain was driz- zling off from the trees and it was terribly wet and muggy. You coudn't see ten feet ahead because of the fog. When we reached the tree line, we stop- ped and ate our lunch. Then we climbed to the top of the second snow field where the race was to start. Oddy helped me take off my skins Cstrips of sealskin you put on the bottom of skis so as to keep them from slipping while climbing a mountainj, and made me sit down to get my wind, but I was too excited to do that for long. There was too much going on. Then the race began. I was the fourth girl to go. I lined up at the starting line and heard the man say, Five-four-three- two-one-go. Then I was off. I made it down through the snowfields all right, but when I got down to the tree line, my legs began to ache, because I had never skied such a long distance without stopping. I wished I could sit down, and before I knew it, my skis were all crossed up and down I went. I got up as fast as I possibly could, Qthat wasnit very fastj for I had about a quarter of a mile left to ski. I took it good and slow, because I was so tired. When I finally got over the finish line I dropped right then and there and rested my legs. I came in seventh out of seven girls. That wasn't very good, but it was good experi- ence for me and I have the fear of my first race behind me. Amanda Winter '55 CNote: Amanda wrote the above about the winter of 1951 and 52. This year she placed first in the Sugarloaf Schuss, third in slalom and fifth in downhill in the East- ern junior Girls Championship held at Farmington, third in Sugarloaf Giant Slalom. BABE RUTH SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD We are continuing again this year the Babe Ruth Sportsmanship program award. We are pleased to announce that our win- ners for this year are Beverly Boynton for girls and Bryce Meldrum for boys. fWe congratulate these students, because we fell that this is one of the highest awards that we are able to make to any of our membersj. I MOVIE PROTECTOR VVe are all very proud of our new movie projector. Although we have had a projec- tor for several years, ours was quite an old model and it was nearing the time that we would have to spend quite a sum for re- pairs. Too, it was a heavy, cumbersome machine to carry around, as we frequently have to, from one place to another. The new one is very compact, you pick up the case the projector itself is in and you have the entire machine. There is no separate sound box. It threads much more easily than the old one. It is simpler to run and, also, much quieter. The tone quality can be regulated so that it is pleasing. The new projector is another step forward in equipping ourselves with modern audio- visual means for education. I7