Lewiston High School - Folio Yearbook (Lewiston, ME)

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6 JORDAN HIGH SCHOOL FOLIO SMILE AND THE WORLD SMILES WITH YoU I know this slogan is worn, abused, and weary, but it expresses so much. Could this motto last through the ages if a lie? NVhy can we not smile? VVe should have a sad face only when we are thinking of sad things and we have enough other thoughts without doting over sorrowful happenings all the time. l,Ve all have our wor- ries, but why give all our time to them? It will all come out in the wash. Now I don't want you to think I am a philosopher, or a preacher, or any other such person. I am only trying to verse my opinions as I see them. XVhat I wish to say is this: just smile. Some people are at either extreme, but Economics teaches us to find the happy medium, that is-A Pleasant Smile. It will not rain all the time. Showers bring the flowers. So, cheer up. It is never so bad, but it might be worse. Leo Sullivan. c fs.1b.1g..,fb LOOKING AHEAD Mother Earth has let out some of her secrets for me to hear. I met some of my former high school friends, one day in July 1932, and this is what gossip brought to my ears., George Pottle still believes in the principles of feminism and smokes cigarettes! Sally Perry has lived up to her motto, and she is sunnier than ever. Emilia LaRochelle has had the honor of being pro-moted to the position of head typist of one of the important Insurance Companies here in Lewiston. Carmen Roy is now director of a dancing academy in New York. George Kelly has grown up to be a six footer. Eileen Murphy is being congratulated upon her entering the Metropolitan Opera I-Iouse.. Alas! These were visions of but a few moments, for they all van- ished in a mist as I woke up while the clock was striking seven. -Jeanette Levesque. Our class, so it is said, is noted for its great talkers. In the Hall numerous classmates of ours, because of their incessant chatter, have been called back afternoons for periods time after time. But will not the Hall be silent when the senior class of l92S is gone and the echoes of our chattering comrades are heard no more? But then that reputa- tion has surpassed any other class in our knowledge. Perhaps the class of l928 includes some future famous orators and lawyers. VVho knows! -Katherine LaMontagne.

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,sa as ri llE5llIDlll6lIlfflDlIRlIlA.lILfJQI5 5 , THE STUDY HALL Br-r-rring-ng-ng. A bell pealed out-the signal for immediate or- der and silence. In through the double doors at either end of the Study Hall raced four or five breathless, book-laden students. Once safely inside, one of the delinquents proceeded to deposit two of his books on his desk, letting the remaining three slide gently to the floor with a resounding bang that echoed round the quiet Hall. Four or five stu- dents in the vicinity were promptly enlisted to restore the scattered papers to their proper places. From somewhere below the level of desks came the buzz of many voices. The listener was immediately given the opinion that a serious conversation was taking place regard- ing a certain irregular declension taken up the period before. Such phrases as, New girl darling - blue dress and hat - late for school this morning were audible at odd moments till a loud rap was heard from the front of the room and the conversation was rudely put to an end by an unfeeling teacher who didn't understand. Now that talk was impossible, for the next two or three minutes at least, the guilty ones slouched down in their seats with a bored expression, and were very soon sound asleep. The teacher had moved to the other side of the room to chastise a couple of consistent note-writers, so they were left in peace. In the very center of the room three people were ap- parently intent on lessons, at least so it appeared from two sides but from the other two a copy of College Humor could be seen, nicely con- cealed in the folds of an innocent notebook. -And thus in this manner, some students of Jordan High manage to survive the first thirty minutes of long, boring study periods. A harsh ringing noise was heard throughout the Hall. Every oc- cupant realized then what his fate was to be. -Only ten minutes left, and what could one accomplish in six-hundred seconds, when there was Algebra, Latin and French to be done? No, it was too late to begin- so each of the eighty odd students sank down into the depths of his all too uncomfortable chair with a despondent expression on his face, Waiting for the last bell to ring. -Helen Crowley.

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JORDAN HIGH SCHOOL FOLIO 7 THE SUB VVe must make an acknowledgment of the unknown students who did their duty humbly, unfalteringly, without hope of public praise. So I selected a boy known as a 'Sub who has been a student at Jordan High School. He went in for class activities and for athletics. He was not quick nor powerful nor brilliant. He Was called fre- quently a dumbellg it was high praise when he was called a plugger. He played on the scrub-that team of not-good-enoughs-organized and kept together, in those days of 24-28, to take the pounding of the 'var- sity in endless practices to prepare the varsity to perform before the cheering crowds. His second year, he played on the scrub, and his third year. Other scrubs were promoted to the 'varsity or had quit. He could have had no hope of the 'varsity, but for the fourth year, he came out and played on the scrub, in every possible practice of the year, pounded down, up again, down, up,- taking it, to train better men, 'till he was no longer eligible. If anyone exemplified the soul of striving and spending oneself without hope or reward, the sub did. So I chose him, The Subf, -Richard Cullen. ' 6 -n...11,aw..,f1 CROSS ROADS At last it has come, the day to which we have been looking forward for four years. Looking forward because it means the successful completion of four years of hard studying for some. For others it means only a day which will end the bother of having to bluff through five classes a day, five times a week. These latter will be the ones who will take the cross road which leads either downward or just on and on, interminably. Those who have been faithful during the four years will choose the road which leads upward to great heights, with the sign of success and victory at its end. --Frances Stevens. Gira1JbelHgfT 'QWHEN I GRADUATE'- When I graduate from high school- How many times we all have said that! I remember that even a few years ago, when I said When I graduate from high school,'i I would see a young woman who was wise, oh VERY wise, just think, a high school graduate! The world was hers. After many years' studying she had at last won her diploma. That certain diploma meant that not one book need ever be opened to study again.