Limington Academy - Sokokis Warrior Yearbook (Limington, ME)

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SOKOKIS IV.4RRIORAAAAAAA LITERAR Y THIN ICE Tonight there was a skating party up to Potter Academy. lt was a social for the young people of the Youth for Christ group. This is a group made up of young people of several churches from different towns. The boys and girls went up in a truck. When they arrived Mary went into the gym but found nobody there. She went down into the kitchen but found only a woman who said that the young people were all down on the pond skating. She said it would be a five-minute walk down there. We struck out for the pond. When we got half way across the pond we came to some shell ice. Further on there was a bog. The boys and girls were on their way across the bog when .jackie and Laura started go- ing ahead of the other girls. Susan, Gracie and Mary were behind the rest ol' them. There was snow on top of the ice but walk- ing along they sank only a little bit into the snow. As they were going along at a good speed Susan stepped through the snow upon thin ice. Crack! went the ice. One foot crashed into the cold water. When she tried to get up the extra 'weight of her other foot caused that one to break through also. Both feet were in the water up to her knees. Afterward, Mary met the same fate and Grace stood there laughing. All of a sudden she slipped and sat down into the icy water, also. When they were near enough to the pond to hear the voices of the other young people they started yelling for someone to come and meet them so they could find their way down to the pond. The three girls reached the pond at last. The two that got their feet wet were cold but they put their skates on and went skat- ing just the same. It was fun for a while but Mary and Susan were too cold to enjoy it much. They both took off their skates and went up to the gym. When they got up to the gym they went down into the kitchen and put their cold feet into the oven. What a relief! When the rest of the gang came up from skating we all went into the room and sang songs. Meanwhile refreshments were pre- pared and soon we were served hot dogs and cocoa. There was a little cocoa left in the cups that had been used. Eating must have had a bad effect on the boys. They felt like throw- ing things to create a little excitement. They 44444441951 threw the cocoa at the girls which hit them on the sides of their faces. They also played football with one that they found there. jackie had half a cup of cocoa left when he saw Bobbie throw a football at him. He ducked under the table so he wouldn't get hit. The football hit the cup of cocoa and knocked it down jackie's neck. It was about ten-thirty when we left Pot- ter Academy to come home. XV e got on the wrong road but we went down and turned around. We got home about eleven-thirty. R. M. B., '52. MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE DENTIST l was five years' old the first time I went to the dentist. Since my teeth had been aching very badly my mother and sister juanita went with me. When we arrived at the office the dentist The nurse took was getting ready for me. off my coat and led me to the chair. After it up high and I was seated she pumped then tied a napkin around my neck. I was interested in looking at all the instruments and rather enjoyed myself for a few minutes. Then the dentist came in. He stood be- side me and told me to open my mouth. Be- cause I didn't open it wide enough for him to see much he stuck his fingers in my mouth. I didn't understand why he should put his fingers in 1ny mouth! I did what I thought was bestg I bit his finger. I wouldn't let go either. The nurse came and finally the dentist got his finger loose. The dentist came out and told my mother that he would take my teeth out in the hospital and not in the chair. I guess he decided he didn't want to take another chance of getting his finger bitten. I don't blame him either. I wonder if he ever remembers it. If he did he hasn't said anything about it to me. I always supposed Mother and Juanita knew I bit his finger, but when I mentioned it to them a short time ago, they told me they never knew. They teased me about it but I didn't mind it. It's funny to me now to think back and see myself sitting in that chair, biting Dr. Stockwell's finger as hard as I could. I don't suppose it was funny to him. N. J. s., '53. F fftzm

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444444 LIMINGTOIV ACADEJWY SENIOR CLASS STATISTICS Treasurer, Ruth Chapman Activities Board, Frances Pulsifer, Name Ruth Chapman Arthur Dearborn Joyce Hasty Dorothy McLucas Alton Munson Frances Pulsifer Susan Randall Roberta Smith Mary York Secretary, Dorothy McLucas Joyce Hasty, Arthur Dearborn Song Haunt Ambition Harbor Lights up With Mickey College Aba Da Ba Home College Tennessee Waltz With Roland Secretary Harbor Lights With Bill B. Beautician Tennessee Waltz Home College My Heart Cries For You With Bill M. Bookkeeper Harbor Lights Home College Tennessee Waltz Home Bookkeeper My Heart Cries For You East Limington Teacher SENIUR CLASS REPORT We began school in the fall of 1950 with nine seniors, seven girls and two boys, and so far have not lost any members of the class The girls were quite successful in basket- ball this year even though the year wasn't outstanding. Joyce Hasty was picked for the foul shooting in Portland. Roberta Smith and Dorothy McLucas were picked to play in the All-Star game. Frances Pul- sifer was picked for the All-League team. Arthur Dearborn and a member of the junior class played in the All-League game. This was what the seniors contributed to in sports. During the year we have been quite successful at putting on suppers. The seniors were asked to put on a supper for the sportsmen and the poultrymen which we did very well with good results we thought. We also have had several food sales in which we cleared between S35 and 3540. ' I We presented .a play called Smarty- pants in which all of the seniors and three I- :fir of the juniors, namely Dolores Howard, Alton Black, and Vern Blake participated. We presented it two nights at the town hall then we put it on at the Odd Fellows' Hall at Hollis and we divided the profits from it. We got Sl5.l3 down there. The seniors are leaving on their class trip to New York and Washington, April 13, and we hope to see a few of the most important things that time will allow. It is coming near our time to gradu- ate and we are beginning to be busy with our class partsg four honor parts were given this year. They were given in this order: Mary York, Valedictoryg Roberta Smith, Salutatoryg Dorothy McLucas, First Honor Essay, and Arthur Dearborn, Second Honor Essay. I hope the rest of my classmates will be very successful at whatever they do. ' Graduation is June 8, and we wish all of our underclassmates the best of luck and happiness in the future years to come. S. A. R., '5l. 19504444444

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,AAAAA LIMINGTOIV fIC.4DE.WY IMPROVEMENTS IN LIMINGTON Limington Academy was founded in the year of eighteen hundred and forty-eight when of course they had nothing but wood to burn and the academy looked pretty good to the older people. Now in the year ol' nineteen hundred and fifty-one, we still burn wood but we do not intend to other year. As for improvements already begun, the Agriculture boys and Mr. Mayo, whom you might call a supervisor, have rebuilt and done over our whole first floor which pro- vides us with a new library. A new Chemis- try room, an Agriculture room, a principal's ollice, and a boys' and girls' dressing room have been made downstairs. Upstairs we have new curtains for the windows, new book shelves, a new trophy case, and fluorescent lights. With a little help and encouragement, I think the rest of the school could be improved. It needs a paint job on the interior, a new furnace which should burn coal or coke in order that a fire could be kept during the week- ends and the building would not cool off so much. A little repairing made on a schoolhouse does a lot toward making it a warmer and pleasanter place for whatever it may be used for, in this case for studying. And who can study when it's cold and the furnace will not throw enough heat to warm the English room. If we had the im- provements that I have mentioned this school would have a better enrollment and a smaller group of absent students than it ever had before. To those who read this, let me say: Please do not say that what is good enough for you is good enough for us because this school is older than you realize. Let us improve instead of going backwards. A. S. B., '52. HH- SAVE OUR WILD LIFE Hunting and Hshing are two of the chief attractions to Limington, but when the people arrive with all their Hshing tackle and hunting equipment, they find that the brooks and woods do not furnish enough fish and game to bother with. .5 lvtn In Limington we have various brooks tl1at are wonderful places for the trout, but the people do not have enough interest to stock them. The Sportsmen's Club in Lim- ington should raise money and then go to the state hatcheries and buy little fish and put them into the brooks and streams. Let the state put a law on them for four or five years, then when the law would go off, we would have plenty of good trout as well as wonderful sport. A beaver dam is one of the best means of making a small rundown brook into a large pond that in no time would be full of pickerel and trout. I think that the State, or even the people of Lim- ington, should encourage the beaver to make dams in their brooks and even the small rivers. However, the dams should be destroyed before the pools become stagnant and the trout begin to die. The Little Ossi- pee River that runs through Limington is full of bass, chubs, pickerel, hornpout, suckers and eels for fine Hshingg and mink, otter and muskrat for fine trapping. Trout fishing is the kind of Hshing that people like best but conditions favorable to this sport are not maintained in Limington as well as in other towns in the State of Maine. There are various ponds in Limington that have all the Hsh in them that I have mentioned and more, too, such as sunfish and smelts. Some of them should be protected by a closed season for a few years similar to those provided in places we already have. The woods or forest is one of the greatest factors in keeping our game in the abun- dance that we like. If we cut our forests and then we don't replant them, there is no cover for the wild animals, such as squirrels, who live in the treetops, and run back and forth scolding each other. Some squirrels are very destructive to the cornfields and sometimes they will even get into a barn or storehouse, but they are very beautiful in the forests, especially the gray squirrel. We have lots of deer in Limington, but each year sportsmen from other places seem to get them before the townspeople do. The deer have game preserves where they can go for protection from hunters. In the winter the deer all have to bunch up and make yards because of the heavy snow. Lots of deer die because of lack of food when they 195044444444