Lisbon High School - Lisbonia Yearbook (Lisbon Falls, ME)

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WHAT SCHOOL SHOULD MEAN TO YOU Ever since you were five years old you have been attending school and although the majority of us knows the reasons there is still a small minority who does not. Docs it seem right that human beings between the ages of fourteen and eighteen do not know for what reasons they have attended school? Let's look briefly at the three reasons which seem to represent the basis for school. 1. To prepare us for citizenship. Here in the United States good citizenship is the basis for our democracy and picture what that means to you. The schools of our nation give us a chance to learn to think clearly, and they teach us to be unpredjudiced in our choosing of public officials and representatives, both of which are prime requisites of good citizenship. 2. To prepare us for a vocation. High school gives us ia chance to take many subjects and the liking of and ability to understand certain subjects helps us to select a vocation and further our education in that field. Many students do not make an attempt to select a vocation and later on in life they will regret that oversight. 3. To prepare us to make the most of our lives. Throughout your school days you have been in contact with the people who will be your neighbors of tomorrow. You have picked certain ones as friends because you have the same interests or be- cause you just get along. School has made these friends of today and tomorrow for you. Yes, if you realize the reasons for attending school, you would become a good citizen, choose an enjoyable and profitable vocation, and enjoy a full life with your many friends. Levi Ross Editcrrfinfchief YOUTHS IN AN ATOMIC WORLD We, the Seniors of 1952, face a very grave future, some aspects of which the graduates of previous years have not had to consider. Previously, as today, youths were forced to meet omnipresent dangers of war, as well as current problems of the dayg but today, much more than during our yesteryears, students face problems of a faster moving world. True enough, wc, like past generations, have been educated to solve some of the problems, but I wonder if enough of us are thinking of the vastness of todays work and are willing to make the most of our high school preparation when we leave our four years of sheltered existence. The atomic bomb, as an expression, shows us clearly the complicated life that tomorrow's youths are about to enter. It is. of itself, so serious and great that it has not yet been comprehended by the average mind. Yet if we have to be the leaders of this world of tomorrow, we must be able to solve the problems of this atomic futurcg our comprehensiveness must be far above that of previous generations. In conclusion, I believe that the world of tomorrow offers a great challenge to us, and whether or not we will be able to conquer this challenge is entirely up to us. It is a mystery that we must solve and it will be done only by the knowledge that we acquire ourselves. Francis Soychak Assistant Editor l5l

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glddllld fren ,Diagram JUNE 13, 1952 C? 9 PROCESSIONAL War March of the Priests INVOCATION SALUTATORY FIRST HONOR ESSAY SELECTION, Adventures in WCStlHl1dll SECOND HONOR ESSAY Mendelssohn Rev. M. Gerry Plummer Marlene Ann Holland Shirley Ann Grunerl johnson Barbara jean Pelletier VALEDICTORY Levi M. Ross, III SELECTION, Rustuczm Overture Franlqiser PRESENTATION OF AWARDS Arthur F. Baker, Principal PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS Superintendent of Schools, Elmer O. Small CLASS ODE BENEDICTION Rev. M. Gerry Plummer RECESSIONAL, Pomp and Circumstances Elgar All music will be by the Lisbon School Band, ROGER C. SNUW, Director. E61