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

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A Q.. LEAVITT ANGELUS 15 l LITERALT E SALUTATORY Trustees. members of the school board, teachers, alumni, parents, friends and schoolmates, we, the class of 1946, extend to you a most hearty welcome to our graduation exercises today. As many of you realize from your own experience, this is a, very impor: tant day in our lives. Many of us will be entering a life altogether different from the one we've known at school. From now on our lives will be what we make them. We should set a lloal in our minds and in later years strive to reach that goal. Although many of us never reach it, we still shall have gained by it. Better to strive and climb And never reach the goal Than to drift along with time An aimless, worthless soul. Aye, better to climb and fall Or sow, though the yield is small, Than to throw away day after day And never strive at all. Soon we shall have a big decision to make: What we plan to make our future work. There are many things in this world to choose from. Among the boys, many will he go- ing into the armed forces. Although the war is over, there is still a great need for many more boys. Besides the good training one receives there, one is also given a chance to see the country. Others may choose to work on farms.Thisis also a very important work. In spite of the fact that many people in the city make fun of farms and the country hicks . we know that if it were not for farmers, the poor city people might go hungry! And then again some of the boys may be planning to obtain more edu- cation in some school or college. Many of the girls will be continu- ing their education in either college or business school. Some may plan to be nurses: some, teachers: and a few are probably planning to get married soon. . Life means something different to everyoneg as this poem states very well: To the preacher life is a sermon To the joker it is a jest To the miser life is money To the loafer life is rest.. To the lawyer life is a trialg To the poet lifes a song To the doctor,life's a patient That needs treatment right along. To the soldier life's a battle: To the teacher. lifes a school Life's a good thing to the grafter l't's a failure to the flool. To the man upon the engine LiDe's a long and heavy gradeg l't's a gamble to'the gamtbler To the merchant life is trade. Life is but a long vacation To the man who loves his work: Life's an everlasting effort To shun duty, to the shirk. To the earnest Christian Worker Life's a story e-ver new Life is what we try to malke it Brother, what is life to you? No matter how hard the decisions are that we are called upon to make. I'm sure, through the help given us bv our teachers and parents, we'll be able to make wise decisions.

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LEAVITT ANGELUS 0112155 GDB? fTune-Juanita! cn ' Now We are leaving So Farewell, dear old L. I. And to our schoolmates ' Teachers, all, Goodbye Four years We have been here Years of study, work, and play, And oft in our dreaming Was Commencement Day ' fchorusj Leavitt. dear old Leavitt, You will linger in my heart Leavitt, dear old Leavitt, From you we must part. C27 Friends, We shall miss you Miss those haopy times we've had For'of old Leavitt We have mem'ries glad. Now as We do leave you Leave our dear old L. I. Fondly do we bid you Each and all Good-bye Joyce Boothby fchorusj 1

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16 LEAVITT And now in closing, I'd like to say that I hope all of my classmates will always remember the good times we've shared in our four years at Leavitt. Also I hope we all remember the good advice given us by our teachers. And again let me say for the class that we are very glad to have allof you here at our commencement exer- cises today. Marion Sanders ' o-0-o-o HONOR ESSAY The History of Leavitt Institute James Madison Leavitt was born at Howe's Corner, Maine, in 1826. He attended the local schools and later went to Norway and Monmouth Academies. He then went to Georgia and taught school. While in that place he married a Turner girl. Later they went to Brooklyn, N. Y. Where he en- gaged in the making of parasols and umbrellas. This proved to be a very successful venture. Mr. and Mrs. I-eavitt had a great love for their nat- ive towng thus they gave it this won- derful high school. which was later named Leavitt Institute. On one of the walls in the downstairs corridor at Leavitt Institute there is a picture of Mr. Leavitt. Beneath it is the fol- lowing inscription: A. D. 1896 This Building is Presented To the Town o-f Turner by JAMES MADISON LEAVITT As a Token of Love for His Early Town And in Sympathy with the Cause of Progressive Education . . ANGELUS Leavitt Institute'was built in 1896 but was not open to the public until the spring of 1897. Prof. Lauren San- born was principal, with Miss Antoi- nette Foster and Miss Alice Pratt as assistants. ' Surrounding the building is a beau- tiful campus of six acres, where grounds for baseball, football, ten- nis, and other athletic sports are laid out. About three Acres are available for work in agriculture. By act of the Maine Legislature, Leavitt was incorporated on Febru- ary 15, 1901. Berry Hall, the first dormitory of Leavitt Institute, was built in March, 1906. It was a large, three story -build- ing. which gave ample room for sixty students. This was given bv Mrs. Mercy M. Berry, a native of Turner. The building burned in 1918. Five years later the second Berry Hall was built on the foundation of the first. In athletics Leavitt has done very well considering the fact that most of the schools that it has competed with have been larger. Baseball. boys' and girls' basketball, football, track, and softball are some of the outstanding sports in which we have participated. There was a good gym- nasium in the first dormitoryg hence, after it burned there was quite a period of time that Leavitt had to go without indoor sports. In 1933 the old Turner Center Creamery was pur- chased and converted into a gym- nasium. The Riverside Literary Society was the first step toward-debating. This club was for the purpose of practicing speaking, of presenting dramas, and of learning to appreciate good litera- ture. In recent years the debating team has competed with other schools with very good results. In 1931 Harold Hickey, Hamilton Boothby, Thurlie Additon, andCatherine Irish