Lewiston High School - Folio Yearbook (Lewiston, ME)

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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.

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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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8 JORDAN HIGH SCHOOL FOLIO That little girl who used to think how wise she would be when she graduat- ed has only a few more precious days' studying in her dear old school... graduation has come! The young woman is not the wise young woman the 'flittle girl thought she would be. That was a sad mistake. She will receive her diploma in a very short time, and instead of saying that all her studying is ended for life, she will realize that she has learned ONE big lesson in all her school vears, and that is to want to learn something. d After I graduate, may I go on in life wanting to learn something, and ing, even they made me not the wise woman the little girll' thought I satisfying that want. Then I shall know that all these years spent in study- would be, will have taught me that greatest lesson: To want to learn. -Irma V. LeClair. 6-5nJ'bel T EVERYONE'S ENEMY. THE ALARM CLOCK The alarm clock is a menace to sleep. It always seems that just when a person is sleeping most soundly, or perhaps is in the midst of a very pleasant dream, the alarm clock delights in send ng forth its jarring ring so that the sleeper is rudely awakened, and although he may be tempted to doze off again, he is not likely to do so, because his conscience Cif he has any at ally will not allow him to. He knows that he has set the alarm to ring at that certain hour to awaken h'm and even though he casts murderous glances at the clock, and vows to cast it into the handiest rubbish pile, he heeds its warning ring and shakes off the sleep which is quickly enveloping hm. Sleep and the alarm clock will not mix, and wherever there is one of these two present, the other will he lacking. -Marion Harris. Cwqmdlnaspffb IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES In bed at last! Isn't it a grand and glorious feeling! But oh! didn't I have a Wonderful time at the hop! My goodness it's nearly one o'clock! And to think that I have got to get up at six to-morrow morning to get to the orchestra rehearsal on time. Oh dear, I fear I will not, and Mr. Horne looked daggers at me last Friday when I was ten minutes late. Let me see, how many hours of sleep shall I get? I know I should have at least nine to keep my school girl complexion. Goodness mel I shall get only five. VVell, I'll make it up to-morrow night. Next morning, just as I am about to marry the Prince of VVales or some such creature, little sister comes toddling in and kisses meg then when I do not wake she tugs at the clothing and screams in my ear. You said to be sure and wake you when I got up. Papa has the fur- nace fire all built, and see what he brought me from the Shrine Club last night, a great big red balloon man, and he stands up too.