Leavitt Area High School - Angelus Yearbook (Turner, ME)

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LEAVITT ANGELUS 15 Murphy, was very happy and coni- tented. May wonders never cease! About this time I saw an auto bearing down upon me. After a terri- fic crash I discovered that I had fallen off the large rock on which I was comfortably sleeping, thus terminat- ing my dream. I got up and returned home, only to discover that one of the girls of the class had been left out of my dream. My prophecy is that Doris Hues-ton married her soldier boy and lived happily ever after. Melvin Gibbs. .Tig-...- PROPHECY FOR BOYS It was a beautiful clear day when I started out for work on June 9, 1954. I was serving as an airplane hostess and I'd just been assigned to a new plane. I was told that Eddie Murphy was the pilot. I remembered that there had been an Eddie Murphy in mv class, but I didn'-t have time be- fore we started to find out whether or not he and the pilot were one and the same. Later, when I had a chance to go forward, I recognized him as my former classmate. He told me that he himself had made the motor from parts of his Fords. We passed a plane bearing the name Bempkin's Trans- port and who should be piloting but Melvin Gibbs. They raced for a little way. but Murphy soon noticed that he was ahead of schedule so he throt- tled back and went downstairs so we could look at the scenery. When I noticed a particularly large and prosperous looking farm below us. he told me that Laurence Gagne and Thompson Moore owned it in partnership. We circled it to see if we could spy either one of them. Just as we we-re over the back lawn we saw Tommy and a young lady walk- ing together, While trailing after them, were six or seven little red heads. I didnit have time to see who the lady was because by that time, we noticed Gagne persistently chas- ing the old hens. He didn't seem to be trying to catch any special o11e but was just grabbing here and there. I don't know whether he final- ly caught any or not but the whole performance reminded me of his per- formance at Leavitt when trying to date us girls. I heard a peculiar noise back in the cabin so I decided I'd better return to see what was going on. There I found Merle Libby singing Paper Doll while at thesame time he was writ- ing the words Betty Jane . He seem- ed to be deeply absorbed in his work so I didn't bother him. In fact every- one seemed to be occupied, especial- lv a handsome gentleman who was reading a book while he carefully guarded several others which lay nearby. After having seen so many of my classmates that day, I thought of Raymond Sennett, as he had been reading a lot during his school days. A few minutes later my suspicions were confirmed when he glanced up and recognized me. When I told him about having seen so many of mv for- mer classmates that dav, he told me that Harry Star-bird had settled down to married life and was making Mason jars. Strange as it may seem, in this one flight I obtained all this information about the boys in the class of '44. Nellie Gordon. .,10. . ADDRESS T0 UNDERGRADUATES Today is our last as students of Leavitt Institute. Tomorrow we shall be part of the Alumni, and it is you, the undergraduates. who will carry on in our places. It really doesn't seem possible that four years have

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14 LEAVITT ANG-ELUS whom for the past four years I have struggled onward to the ultimate vic- tory of this graduation day. Natural- ly there were some of the boys of the class in my vision but the only ones in whom I was interested were the girls. ' Suddenly it seemed as though I were traveling from place to place in some kind of a fantastic rocket-pro- pelled plane, and had just perceived ahead of me an airport at which I was scheduled to land. Upon landing, I discovered that I was in New York City. Then I saw coming toward me ,L group of spectators among whom was one of my former classmates at L. I., Laura Timberlake. She was clamoring for news as she had re-- cently become a news reporter on the Metropolitan Daily Planet, after her period of service in the WACS. This was not surprising for she had al- ways had, in the good old times, a nose for news. She told me that she had just come from the Navy Nurs- ing School where she was seeking news, and had met Shirley Bempkins, who completed wi-th flying colors the Nurses' Course. I was glad to hear this, for it had always been her greatest desire. As I had to stay over night at one of the hotels in New York, I chose the Ritz. Whom should I meet but the wife of one of the most prosper- ous hotel owners, Elaine Gilbert Lit- tlehale. The passing years had changed her somewhat but she was still the Elaine Gilbert I had known at L. I. After a good night's rest in one of Ameri'ca's softest beds, I woke at 5 a. m.g and after a hearty breakfast, I came out on the street and hailed a taxi which, I soon discovered, was driven by Nellie Gordon, who, I am told, had sometimes driven the Leav- itt bus. She engaged me in conversa- tion during which she explained how she had acquired the job. She said that after two years of driving for the Maine Central Bus Line she had been transferred to the more impor- tant job of taxi driving. When I reached my destination, the airport, I got into my rocket ship and headed for Florida. Upon arrival I was greeted by Airline Hostess Esth- er Dunn, who was about to take off for Chicago on one of her daily runs. She informed me tlhat her good friend, Celia Russell, had been very successful in her Nurse's Aid Course at the Chicago Hospital, and that she was to be transferred to regular duty in a week. I was not a bit surprised to find that those classmates had such good positions, for Esther was al- ways a quiet person, and Celia very determined. I don't know w'hy my instinct should have guided me so, but as I was walking downtown on the Tampa Boulevard, I went past a beauty salon which bore the sign above its door, Norma Roberts, Beauty Expert . As I entered the front door I saw the ex- pert herself at work. She said that in a month she would be on her way to a Hollywood Studio to work on male movie stars. She used to be quite a Star Gazer at L. I. After a good look around I took off again and landed in San Francisco at 12:00 o'clock noon, I hailed a cab and went to an overtown restaurant which I discovered was operated by a former soldier, who had returned from overseas duty, married Barbara Hathaway, and established himself in the restaurant business with his wife as the cook and Helen Williams as treasurer of his company. After one of Bab's excellent meals and a friendly chat, I decided to return to the Auburn Airport. I arrived there at sunset and found that Crystal Reed Murphy, wife of chief mechanic

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16 LEAVITT come and gone so quickly, and that now we are ready to embark on life's great journey. Before we leave may we offer a few words of advice which is the result of our own experiences? You should con- tinue your school life though per- haps at the present time it may seem too difficult or too boring to do so. Prospects of high paying positions may tempt you to leave school. Do not make this foolish mistake. As the years go by, more and more stress is being laid on the importance of edu- cation, particularly in normal times. This is simply for the reason that in our times it is practically impossible to be self supporting without some formal education. Certainly the many complications and business relations of every day life require some degree of education: the more the better, as anyone will bear me out. To gain any position of responsibility or advan-ce- ment one must be an educated per- son. If you are contenlt with a lowly position and low salary, well and good. Not many people are satisfied with anything poorer than the best. If you plan. however, to succeed in this world. bv all means remain in school and obtain as much education as possible. In seeking your education, Under- classmen, keep this most important factor in mind: choose only those subjects that will benefit you most. Never choose a subject simply be- cause you consider th.at it is an easV one, for not only are you often fool- ed. as I have discovered, but if it does not fit into your scheme of things it is just so much time wasted. Perhaps you may not be able to ob- tain as much education as you would like. for we of this generation, in the midst of a. great war, are faced with responsibilities of gravest magni- tude. On our shoulders, perhaps rests a heavier burden than on those of ANGELUS any other age group, but bear in mind the fact that when peace returns you will have your own lives to lead in your own fashions, and your own decisions to make. Thus you owe it to yourselves and to the destiny of our nation to obtain as great an amount of education as possible while the op- portunity is still at hand. So in sum- mary may I urge you to remain at Leavitt, uphold its traditions, and ac- quire all the knowledge possible, for you will need it. Raymond Sennett. ........0.l... GIFTS TO BOYS On June 9, 1944, an American bomber iiew over Adolph Hi'tler's mountain villa in Germany. It un- loaded its bombs and returned safely home to the United States. Hitler was in the front garden reading the comic 'Tillie the Toilet , and Goebibels didn't have time to warn him that the Americans were coming. Consequently, Hitler will never realize what we did for the world in those few minutes, but there is a queer incident connected with the whole 'aHair, which interests us es- pecially. One bomb fell directly on Hitler's head, bounced, and exploded. Out of it burst a box decorated in blue and white paper. This box soared high over the ocean and landed in the Town of Turner. On it was a note addressed to Laura Timberlake. This is all it said, Open the lid and present the gifts to the boys and girls of the Senior Class of '44 at Leavitt Institute . So, with the compliments of who- ever donated the gifts, I present them to our classmates.