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

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MAGAZINE CAMPAIGN Thus year as usual Kungfleld Hugh School held a Magazune Campaugn Thus druve was started later however and lasted for only one week unstead of the usual two There was a contest between the gurls and the boys wuth each class hav ung unduvudual captauns and a contest be tween the classes General manager of the whole contest was Merton Meldrum Donald Hamlun was has assustant The class leaders were Senuors Mavus Atwood and Arthur Welch Junuors Verna Phul bruck and Cecul Leeman Sophorruores Lor raune Davudson and Steven Morrell Fresh men Carolyn Woodford and Terrence Wulluamson At the end of the week we found that the gurls had outsold the boys and that the senuor class had sold the most to be fol lowed by the Freshmen Junuors and Sophomores un that ouder Best of all we had sold a great deal more than we dud last year Dorothy Luce was hgh sales man sellung more than seventy dollars worth Lorraune Davudson and Clunton Knapp were next These three together sold a thurd of all sales Thus means that all the other students combuned sold two thurds of the total Thus us a lot better than last year but there s stull room for un provement The school gets flfty per cent on the fou best sellung magazunes and thurty three and one thurd per cent on all the others Thus us one sound reason why each student should try to sell at least one subscruptuon A student can help humself by sellung subscruptuons The hughest salesman of each class receuved a pruze whuch mught be a pen and pencul set a bracelet or some other pruze worth at least a dollar In almost every home there are people who read magazunes These people may Ed QContunuedJ be wautung to renew theur subscruptuons or to take new ones Therefore uf a student calls on them they vvull usually buy from thus student thereby helpung the student tne subscrubers ard the school Therefore even though we dud a lot better than we dud last year let us do even better rext year Let us actually reach our goal or every student sellung at least one subscruptuon Donald Hamlun 60 RECORD HOPS Record hops are relaxung After spend ung a day of study at school or workung durung a day we have oFf from school ut us very pleasant to spend the evenung chattung wuth school fruends and dancung or lust Iustenung to records ln a town of thus suze especually durung the wunter months there us luttle entertaun ment provuded for teen agers The movue theater us closed we have no skatung runks only a small number of students are able to sku at Sugarloaf and basketball us the only other sport provuded for us Thus s one bug reason why record hops are so successful provudung entertaunment Also the moderate pruces of record hops are well wuthun the budget of school age people Perhaps tlaus scarcuty un the way of pro vuded entertaunneent wull make us more ap precuatuve un the future when more enter taunment us avaulable In the meantume what us a better way to spend an evenung and your money than at a record hop? There you may chat wuth your fruends get your flll of refreshments tuy out new dance step and catch up on all the latest tunes Jean Oluver 60 PAGE SEVENTEEN Ot O u 1 ' ' . . . ,- . I 1 I I f . . - , . . , 1 ' 1 H - - - fu . . . - 1 1 I 1 ' I 1 ' I - 1 I 1 u . , - 1 . l - 1 ' . I 1 . 1 ' . I I I h I . In . . u ,, - I .1 ' , - - 1 I I I , u s, . . - u

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Edutoruuls DRIVER EDUCATION What as druver educatuon7 How un the future wull ut benefit us who take the course as well as other druvers and people? Should thus course be taught un all hugh schools and should every student be re quured to take ut? Safe druvung us one of the maun problems of the hughways today Each day several accudents are reported because of careless ness on somebodys part Thus problem us not for lust a few people to solve ut us the problem of everyone whether he druves or does not druve Druver educatuon us a course guven un most hugh schools for the benefit of the students learnung to druve Thus guves them the opportunuty to learn the rules for safe druvung and the fundamentals of operatung a car lt helps them to get a druvers parents of a teen ager who has receuved a certuficate upon successful completuon of the course to get slightly reduced rates on an insurance polucy Thus program for safe druvung wull bene fit all of us un the future as well as now lt wull help us decrease the number of ac cudents on the hughways Teen agers wull learn not to run unsafe cars on our hugh ways nor to druve dangerously They wull learn that safety must be the motto of all Yes I thunk druver educatuon should be given un all schools It us an opportunuty to teach safety and respect for the auto mobile that wull be of much value to every one Today the teen agers are the center of much talk about druvung Yes some of them are reckless so let us help them by showing them that druvung the rught way us the happy way Safe druvung means happy luvung and safer hughways Let us all help un thus new program for safety among druvers passengers and pedes trucms Evangeline Chadbourne 60 PA E SIXTEEN SHOULD WE PATRONIZE CHAIN STORES? Durung the past few weeks I have been around to the dufferent places of busuness un the neughborung towns sellung adver tusements for our yearbook I have found that ut is the small undependently owned busunesses that support the schools un thus manner The large stores whuch many of us seem to patronuze the most bought the smallest ad or none at all I have also notuced that uf someone us suck or some fcumuly us having a hard tume ut us agaun the small busuness that helps out ln the bug busuness the profit goes to an owner or a company un some distant cuty or even state therefore none of the profits are turred back unto local curculatuon The small busu ness us owned by someone un the ummeduate vucunuty Its profits are spent un the area thereby helpung un another way Even tumes more unvutung I belueve that we are hurtung ourselves by patronuzung large chaun stores Clunton Knapp 59 HOT LUNCH PROGRAM Thus year under the supervusuon of Mrs lmpu Tufts and Mrs Ethel Pushard we have a hot lunch program The meals are held at the Leguon Hall for the benefit of all students un school from the first through the twelfth grades Several gurls and one boy from dufferent grades help serve the cafeteria style dun ner Mrs Tufts and Mrs Pushard have guven us well balanced meals Perhaps the part about them that we who always have had to toke our dunners luke best us that they are served luot We hope tltus program wull continue un the comung years Vurgunua Hargreaves 60 O O , ' I . v . I , ..... . . I . . . license. Also, it makes it possible for the though the products or the prices are some- . . . , . ' I , . 1 I ' 5 . 1 1 ' + ' I . , . . . , I' NJ

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IContunuedJ BAND The combuned bands of Strong and Phullups presented a demonstratuon at Web ster hall March 4 I958 Thus was to n troduce the students of Kungfield to varuous band instruments and to the unstructor Mr Burchard Flagg of Strong Many students became interested rught away and began choosung the mstruments they wushed t play We started havung lessons Tuesdays and practuce sessuons Saturday afternoons We were un the begunnung duvuded unto groups accordung to unstruments and later as to abuluty A few that started dropped out but we have gained recruuts along the way makung a band of twenty one mem bers Durung August whule Webster Hall was beung umproved we were unable to practuce but un September we resumed our beung changed to Thursday nught Our first publuc appearance was at the annual sprung concert un May I958 Sunce then we have played at the Senior Play un November wuth Strong Phullups and Rangeley bands at the Round Robun un Strong one nught on the streets of Kung field and we have also played for the students of the hugh school buuldung A soon as the snow leaves us we plan to play on the streets quute often It has been quute some tume sunce Kung field has had a hugh school band We are proud that ut us possuble to have one now and belueve that wuth cooperatuon ut wull contunue for many years ahead Jean Oluver 60 GIRLS CHORUS Every year sunce I can remember tlueue has been a large group of gurls partucupat ung un the Kungtield Hugh School Gurls Chorus Thus year we had a large group PAGE EIGHTEEN to begun wuth but as the year has fast slupped by our number has dumunushed al most as fast At the tume of thus wrutung three months before the annual concert there are about seven gurls attendung regularly Mrs Wung us doung her best but the Gurls Chorus cannot partucupate un the concert unless more gurls attend We realuze that Druver Educatuon us makung ut dufficult for some gurls to attend the weekly sessuon But there are others who lust dont bother to go How then can they expect to sung before the publuc and make a good show ing? Because of the unduflference of some the whole group may be depuuved of the experience of takung part un a concert un whuch every grade un the Kungfield school system us represented All of you gurls who wull be un Kungfield to attend every practuce sessuon of Gurls Chorus and make ut somethung that you all partucupate un and enloy Vurgunua Hargreaves 59 PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS What does the pursuut of Happuness mean to me? When I thunk of the pursuut of happuness I thunk of beung able to do the thungs I want wuthout someone tellung me uf I may or may not I luke to choose my own clothes have the kund of 'ob I want and choose the recreatuon I want Thus statement also applues to my future Iufe I can choose my own professuon college home and uf I want to marry I can choose my husband I have also the freedom to thunk and speak wuthout fear of beung sentenced to pruson By pos sessung all these thungs I feel I am on the road toward happuness Juduth Jordan 59 It Q I I I - I l ' 1 . . . O . I . . . . . . . I . , I , , regular lessons, with the practice sessions High School next year, I hope you will plan . . . . . , : ' ' . - : . . . Il . . ll . s D . I . . I ' 1 Q 1 - I . ' . I . . . I I . ' 1 . . G , I I l I . . . - ' ' I . ' I