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BABE RUTH AWARD On a brlght Monday mornlng n early Sprlng Ml Center called us lnto assembly and made two xely lmportant announcements One was that It had come tlme to vote on the nomlnees f0l the Babe Ruth Aw ald f0l Good Spolts manshlp The ballots wele passed out collected and counted We were lHf0lm ed that Rlchard Loveloy was elected fol the boys but what s thls' A tle between Amanda Wlntel and Methel Atwood as the glll reclplent of the annual aw ard Out go the ballot sllps agaln and agaln they ale collected Another tle' It was then announced that the flV8 students who wele absent would be called upon to bleak the tle Thls they dld a couple of days later by electlng Amanda The second announcement on thls eventful mornlng told us who the 1955 delegates to Glrls State are The Car labassett Rebekah Lodge IS sponsollng LOUISQ Phllbrlck wlth Gall Thompson as her alternate Dorls Meldrum IS belng sponsored by the Norton Wourl Post Amerlcan Leglon AUX1llaTy Wlth Bever ely Chadbourne as her alternate I am sure that these gllls wlll have a good tlme and also wlll glVe thelr sponsollng bodles reason to be glad they were chosen Mullel Wlntel 115 OUR LIBRARY TABLES 0Ct0b6l 15 1954 we pulchased two new llblary tables wlth the money we made fI0m oul yealbook the pre VIOUS years One of the tables was put ln the Junlor and Senlor room the Othel ln the Freshman and Sophomore room They serve constantly as llblary tables occaslonally as a stand for fudge sales Editorials and we used one of them as a ploperty ln oul two one act plays They haxe helped to make oul looms bflghtel and neatel ploxlng to all the student body that oul money was w ell spent Gall Thompson 16 GIRLS STATE In June 1954 two hundled tw enty nlne g11lS flom all OY91 the state of Malne gatheled at Colby College ln W3t9lVlIl9 to attend the seventh Gllls State I am very pl oud to say that I was one of those glrls GIFIS State as you know IS sponsor ed by the Am9lIC3H Leglon Auxlllaly to help the glrls understand mole fully the worklngs of our government It IS dlVld9d lnto two partles Natlonallst and Fedelallst two countles Honesty and Courage SIX tow ns Fl eedom Justlce Tluth Loyalty Democlacy and Falth I was ln the town of Tluth county of Honesty Federallst party and I was elected a State Representatlve Murlel Wlnter the other Glrl Stater from Klng fleld belonged to the Natlonallst party county of Courage town of Fleedom The glIIS carry on town meetlngs elec tlons bulld up party platforms and ln genelal cally on all the buslness of govelnmental offlclals We had many outstandlng speakels The ones that lntelested me most W610 MIS Inez Wlng of Klngfleld who IS a gleat WOIk81 ln Clvll Defense MIS Margal et Chase Smlth w ho IS one of oul Unlted States Senatols from Malne Marllyn Graffam last yeal s Glrl State Goxelnol and Anne Dyel last yeal s Outstandlng Glll Statel The lattel two told us much about thell tllp to GIIIS THE ABRAM BREEZE STAFF Seated tleft to rlghtl Ollver Thompson M Vllnter Lovejoy Tufts Atwood P Norton Wllllamson Standlng Dawson Phllbrlck Wllbur A Vllnter A Carey Edgerly McCullen Trask J Meldrum Mrs Chadbourne DRAM ATICS Flrst Row lleft to rlghtl Xlllbur Packard Atwood McLeary M XKIHIGI' A XVIUIEI' MOFFISOU Dawson Thls row wlth Dyer and C Norton presented Take Three Glrls Mlddle Row Mrs Chadbourne Phllbrlck D Meldrum B Chadbourne Dyer C Norton P Norton E Chadbourne Knox Back Row Boyce Trask Edgerly A Carey Lovejoy J Carey XWIIIIQIDSOH A Meldrum Thompson Not present Douglass PAGE FIFTEEN 1 . 1 l ' ' ' 1 . 1 g I V V 9 , . 1 1 1 1 . . . 1 1 1 . . 1 1 . . - , ,T , Y 1 1 ' Y ' , - v ' 1 11 1 . , .- ' ' ' 1 ' 1 1 . ' . . , . s 1 1 ' ' . ' 7 . 1 . . . ' 7 , . 1 - 1 1 1 ' ' Q a a n ' ' 1 1 . . l 1 . Y , 1 1 . ' . ' V ' a w 7 Y l Y 1 - 4 - n ' ' 1 1 1 ' 1 I . ' 1 . 1 - ' 1 1 , . . , - . . . 1 ' 1 ' 1 1 n 1 1 4 I ' 1 1 ' n I ' . - 1 ! Y Y .' ' . 77 1 . ' 1 . 1 n ' ' . . . . . ' 1 ' 1 - 1 1 . , . . . . 1 , . 1 1 Q 1 - 1 . v . U 1 . ' . - 1 ' 1 1 ' J 1 1 1 1 1. 1 17 - 1 1 . u Q 1 0 7 1 , . 1 11 11 . . . ,. . Y . . - 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 - 1 - - 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 . Y . 1 V ,. . . M - 1 1 1 1 - 1 - 1 1 . ' 1 ' sl ' V' I . , , . , . , , . , . , , , . l . ,. . 1 - 1 1 1 - 1 1 - 1 1 - 1 .
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Editorials Nation in Washington, D. C. After the various speakers had finished, we could ask them questions. Another interesting feature was the bus trip to Augusta. Here the Girls State Goxernor along with all the other of frcers was sworn into office We all visited the Blaine Mansion and shook hands with Mrs Cross and then had tea At Grrls State I met many interest mg people besides having the chance to actually participate rn the various governmental affairs I again would like to thank the American Legion Auxiliary which sponsors Girls State and Carra bassett Rebekah Lodge for making rt possible for me to attend the 1954 ses sion It is certainly a great opportunity and one I shall always remember Methel Atwood 55 OUR SCOREBOARD Early last fall our Student Council voted to purchase and have installed in Webster Hall an electric time clock and scoreboard This was to be financed en trrely by the Student Council funds It arrived and was installed in time for our first home game We used rt for all home games rncludrng the ones that the J V s played We are very proud of our scoreboard and we feel that rt makes the game more interesting to the specta tors as well as being helpful to the coaches and teams playing Richard Lovejoy 56 AMERICA America rs the place people used it rn order to hare freedom of relrgron of speech of the press or any other freedom that human beings have always wanted Columbus stumbled upon the new world in 1492. turning into reality the dreams that people in the old world had formerly thought impossible to real rze t The Pilgrims later came, and, by mistake or by God's will, landed on Plymouth Rock to form the first perma- nent colony in New England. They found the raw' winter days difficult to endure but they withstood all hardships because they lored their new freedoms and wanted to preserve them for future generations Our country has had to struggle constantly rn war and rn peace for its freedoms from the day of its first settle ment right down to the present day We will probably always have to continue fighting for them because the best things rn life usually do not come easily But rf rt be God s will we shall pro ceed to lrve happily and honestly under hrs guidance And as Lincoln stated rn the Gettysburg Address Government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth Garl Thompson 56 LIFES DARKEST MOMENT Everyone has what he calls his lrfe s darkest moment The odd part is that he gets into many such spots and each time he says rt rs the worst Some people have harder times than others but a great many of them are Just mak mg a mountain out of a molehill I have had many unpleasant things happen rn my life so far and each time I thought nothing could be worse yet I know I will see and know much harder times during the years to come I think whenever we have to feel pain or are faced with what seems a harder problem than anyone else has under a dictator ral form of government or the many many people that have painful and incurable diseases Com pared to theirs our problems will soon seem more insignificant and more easily endured Gail Thompson 56 1 Rangeley xs Krngfield 4See our time clock 1 2 Freshman Inrtratron 3 Contestants in Public Speak ing Contest 4 Richard and Harry 5 Boris at the school picnic 6 Amanda shooting foul shot 7 Joanne Jn the floor again 8 Rangeley vs Krngfrcld at Strong 9 K H S Boys warming up 10 Elmer and the Lovebug Janie and Hubert Jeanie Elmer and Luke thrdden by Elmer! 11 Elmer and the bovebug Susan and Jeanie 12 Harry What a character 13 Ralph Jimmie Ethel and Harvey 14 Richard and Daw no 12 Franklin County Tourney 15 Rangeley vs Krngfreld at Farmington 16 Fast Rebound girls 17 Up and at em Freshmen 18 George and Amanda 19 Schools fall picnic 20 Dont Just stand there do something PAGE SIXTELN 7 ' - . . . ' . . v , , v ' v . , . 7 ' . . ' ', 1 I s 0 . , . - - . . , . Y L . . . . . . r ' , u Y , ,' Y, s - , ' 1 . n ' 7 , rr . . , , . . 1 ' ' . Y I , , . . . t . . .1 . l s , s Y g '. . D , ' . ' Y. . . ' ' 8 ' , P0 .dleifm afbout' fishing they colfld fmd we should think of the people that live Y Y ' I I Y . ,' , V ' ' . ' . ' ' ' D ' . . . A -. y . . I . V, . , ' ' Y . . , ' ' v . ' y
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