Lubec High School - Quoddy Light Yearbook (Lubec, ME)

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E QLODDX own head She carrred about wxth her a huge xlarm clock and strangelv enough at the most IIIODIJOFYIIIIQ moments that dreadtul alarm would TIlXSl9I'lOllSlY sound startllng the wholt llllllfllllg trom basement to attle Our Iunlor yen was a very Lllflltllll and try mg one tor teachers and students allke thus there were no Qlglli ot regret on our part when at last that lune das came WhlCh ended our :rex ts Iunlors md bestowtd upon us trtle ot QCHIOTS Our benlor year was deeply saddened by the dexth of our beloved classmate farrol Look to whom QIHCQFQ monuments ot love and re that the name ot that mourned comrade may nun be totgotten bw anv ot the class of 1990 For He the Koun md strong who eherrshed 'Noble lOllglllgS tor the strife Pv the roadsrde tell and D9I'1Sh6fl X errx wlth the march ot llfe Reallmng that as SQHIOIQ we must alwavs set 1 hoof Ample lox the undelrlassmen we have through out the vear rrgorously abstalned trom chew mg gum and whrsperlng the two paramount evlls Wlth Wh1Ch 1 teacher has to contend ciuse ol' our stately conduct and also ol our model class meftrngs we have succeeded rn lWlHYH'lE the respfvt anl admlratron o all the 'IQQVC QWK0 l f JIITHUTQ Xl'l0 QYIITHIF to Q X fIllQI 'llTlff YOXX'llf IIS 'l ' 017 '1l'lllD'l X f hue befu lm atrard somtwhlt rnuols ll Ol 9ll'lQY'l0 llY Qexrr xl event ot more or less umporttnee mark the progress ot our QGUIOI ve'1r 'tmonfr w uh Ire mlm Somtls ind dmces the fhoos 112 of our rlas rmgs and the presentatron our plfu The Flopement of Ellen All too soon lt seems We have reached the flosmg rhanter of our Hlgh school Irfe Xle toffetlvcr of the advantages and benefits whreh haw bfen ours and ot the lastlng trlendshlps e lf we made And now that we must close the portals of luber Hlgh behool behmd us and go torth to '1 ooder field ot endeaxor may we be better 'fed to fare the trmls and drfflcultws thxt 'Voln md To morrow mftv present all be muse o those dear and never to be forgotten do trrdus whlth we have spent together as 1 s Of 1 BFATRIKF Ixou I s lxrlyuntges The Quoddy Lrght acknowledges w1th thanks the followmg exchanges The BTGCCIH Portland, Ma1ne Somanhrs Events South Manchester Ct Lawrence Bulletm Lawrence Mass Nautrlus Watervdle Me Volunteer Concord N H The Advance Salem Vlass The Laurel Farrnrnpzton M oomanhls lrvents An excellent Well planned paper The BYCCCIA Your paper rs very mter estlng with all departments Nell developed C17 Lawrence Bulletm Your Llterary and School departments are very good Nautilus You have a paper whtch should be appreclated and one of whrch to be proud Volunteer Your Exchange department rs very attractrve The Laurel You have a verv good L1t erary department The Advance Your L1terarv department IS of the best More space should be gtven to the Exchanges T H ' ' L I G H 'l' ' . L ' A .Z K3 . 1 R- . , K. ' . ' ' v. .D I V1 I . . v V Q 7 . ' 3 . 1 ' ' 1 v n 4 v .L -. 1 1 flaw .1 hr , . ,, 1 . .ay ' ' ' ', ' hz: 'tr - t.' rl '. 'l . 1 rr. 1 ' .thj . ' ' Innl 1' ' wr - 1: ' . L' ' l 1 'Y X I '1,. I L , . ' i I , t . ff: ru' if . ' . 1 ' 2 the 'h 1 , 1 Q 3 ,'1 . 1 .1 ,.', , ' .- '.1'. ' 't '..s.' .,. . ' 1 - of ' 1 , ,. , . 2 . , 1 1 l , , . , . y ' I . I 1 . . Y spmft will ever remain implanted in our hearts 5'ml ' lm' 'hmk of 'ho good 'lmeg W9 have had ' v ,. . . f ' 1 .. , ,,,.,,'. yf ' ,fn 'H' 1 l '.,r ' .l V S.. . ' .fl ' 1 . u U -1 g 2 A4 , . v 4 Nl I A C A, A .1 . I I L . VV I A . , . , K '- ,, . . . ,', br 1 . ,. ,1 ' '. ,' ' , 1 . '. . ' . u . V !: , Z I I K F L I I 4- lne care-l'ul ol' our t-onduct and 1 ff l ex- , , ,- .5 .' , , 4 , ' ' ' . , ' my fu, Q, 920. ' , ' 1 1 . ' ' ' 1 ' ' ' 1 . lie- .. '. i 1 FY 0 c. ' -' 1 ' I 5 I I , . . . . Y A ' v . . . C' ' - ' V1 ' 1 4 . . , ' ' ' , v ,

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THE Q1 ODDX LIGHT clensrons and dozens of other trresome and rrk orne thrngs Durrng that flrst rear whrch was long and uneventful we studied wrote Wrote-and studred We used reams and reams of paper rn wrrtrng the numberless Englrsh themes re qurred of ns and we w rll always look back wrth rcgret on that great waste of trme paper gray matter rnk and energv He grew grate and carew orn from burnrng the mrdnrght orl and when at last the summer vacation came we welcomed rt wrth unrestrarned shouts of de lrglrt Indeed rt was a rather lrmp and d1s1l lusroned class of lrreshmen whrch gladly changed rts name to Sophomore at the close of the wear Although we towed that we never wanted to see another school book as long as we lrved strll the followrng September found the most oi us hack at school agaln Twenty two of our class sad to sax had haselv deserted us some had gone to other schools whrle a few had apnarentlv grown trred of our congenral companronshrp and had left us to struggle on wrthout them As I have sard before we had grown to be a very grave class Thus it happened that rn stead of applyrng to us the usual eprthet of Srllx Sophs they called us the Serrous Soph ornores lt can he truthfully sard that we drd am sorrv to sav many bad habrts from the naughty JUHIOTS and the reckless Senrors such as chewrng gum wrrtrng notes Whrsperrng tlrrowrng erasers md eatrng candv rn school There were several changes rn the teachrng staff at the begrnnmg of our Sophomore year Of the last vear s teachers only Mr Barley and lvlrss Adams had returned The following new teacher had been engaged Mrss VVhrte for French Mrss Smrth for the Commercral de partment 'vlrss Iefferds for Domestrc Scrence and Nlrss Towle for Latrn ta most excellent teacher with whom we perused Caesars Gallrc Vx ars and found Latrn a verv fascrnatrng and rnterestrng studv I Our French classes were alwavs verv ex crtrng The arr was ex er full of flvrng mrssrles rnclndrng rubbers chalk and erasers The tu mult was often dreadful Mrss Whrte was ohlrged to spend two thrrds of her trme makrng threats whrle the other thrrd was devoted to rnstructrng us rn the use of the partrtrve Nev trtheless durlng the lulls rn the battle we prcked up an astounding amount of knowledge md were exceedinglx hurt when our next l-rcnch teacher did not thrnk us at all well rn tmnred on the subgect tlfr Our Sophomore year passed bv qurcklv and hrpprls Sex eral members of our class left us durrng the wear so that there remarned a total of only thrrty erght who attained at last that longdesrred tltle of Junrors Our lunror wear seemed 1ll fated from the first War was gorng on rn Europe and mam teachers had deserted therr professron to take up war work thus makrng rt almost rmpossrble to secure enough to supplv all the schools But thrs was not all for at that trme a dread ful eprdemrc cornmonls known as the flu was ragrng all over the country causrng nn speakable grref and mrserv everywhere To us one of the saddest events of that terrrble fall was the death of our new prrncipal Wir Matthews who was one of the many vlctrms of the eprdemrc School drd not open untrl very late Creat rnconr enrence was caused hy the fact that the number of teachers was rnsufhcrent to carrs on the necessrrr work It w as plarn to be seen that others must be secured at once Thus lt happened that we had a great varretx of teach crs durrng our IIIIIIOI' year as some stayed wrth us for onlv short perrods of trme They drffered wrdelv rn looks and temper and ranged rn age from twentr to sex entv five We had for a trme a certarn 'Vlrss Donosan for Englrsh rn trnctor Xlrth her we struggled through the ranhv and would have found rt verv nksome rndeed rt ser eral of our classmates had not en dear ored to the best of therr ahrlrts to enlrt en the lessons somewhat bv performrng antrcs whrch were at once grotesque and rrdrculous And when we were rendered helpless from laughter 'Vlrss Donovan whollv unapprecratrve rnd exasperated would send these selfap nornted clowns vom the room and grve them zero Owrng to the fact that the school year had been so broken up we w ere excused from Tumor prrze speakrng whrch we of course deeply re grett dt'U The great event of the year was the .lunror Prom whrch proved to be a very :rand rnd successful rffarr Towards the close ot the wen we w e blessed wrth a new French teacher Nlrss Tre carton who was reported to he fast approach rng her hundredth brrthdrv but who showed no srgns of her great senrlrtv save lor a slrght deafness and occasronal huzzrng norses rn her head whrch she mrstook tor whrsperrng on the r rrt ot the students and often rrrnocent puprls wfre he rrtlesslx condemned and sent from the room rn drsgrane all because she could not be convmred that the norses she heard were rn her ' v v ' ' Y V ' 1 'T 1'-t V l - ' . 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I QL Ol D LIG Class Jrnp mcg- Jzurl I lnteen years had passed s1nte my gradu 'IUOII from the Lubec Hlgh Sehool It was the year n1neteen hundred thlItV flve Eyery body oyy11ed all aeroplane 11ow a11d ran ll them stlyes Day and lllght one could hear the 11o1se ot the Gllglnff and the Happlng ol wmgs 1110 had groyyn monotonous so one day ll 'Xlay I Jumped 1n my aeroplane and st 11ted on a short Journey' I went on a l1ttle wavs real171ng that I must turn back but the sp1r1t of respons1b1l1tv suddenly left me and I yyent on and on My nrst stop was Just 0lllSld9 of New Yo1k I took a car and Went lnto the c1ty Xs I left the car my gaze was d1rected toyyard a g1eat crowd ot people sta11d1ng al most 111 the m1ddle of the street In he tente1 of the crowd was a small D13lfOl!'I1 llld on the platto1n1 stood a lady who was 111k1ng earnestlv In her hand she held a lottle ol some k1nd of med1c1ne and as I d1tw near het I read the words T1nlac p1111t1es the system and makes the old you11g The ladv who was hold1ng he bottle of Tanlat- was Dorls Ackley Do11s yy l1o had yamped all the boys 1n our class had 6X1d9IltlY ehosen a l1fe of exc1teme11t .1the1 than '1 hon1e and '1 loy1ng husband l next yyent to a hotel and sat doyyn to tl1111k OVQI what l had Just seen But as 1ny eyes wandered over the 1oom they fell 011 the headl111es ot the lNew York TIIIIGS IIS was W at I rea New Yorks l+ant1est Dancer hues LongHa11ed Denbow 101 B1each ot Prom1se I plcked up the paper a11d read further 'VIr Raymond L Denbow a famous prlze flghter IS belng sued tor ten thousand dollars by NIISS Wm nred hll1ot New Yorks tanc1est dHIlC9I f0l b1each ot prom1se Denbow has verv l1t tle to say 011 the subject 'Vhss Ell1ot told the JIIIY l1er story of llI1I9Qllll8d loye th1s IIl0lll1I'lg Imag111e mv surpr1se' W1n111e a11d Ilappy DQIIIJOXN 1n a loye a1Ta11 Happy lllllil IBIIZIIIIIX haye thlnged SIIILQ hls school day- to1 1101 only had he tou11d C0llI3.g6 enough to Jnopose to 1 g11l but had IIQIXC enough to re- tuse to martv her atter he had once proposed Setklng b0l'll0lhlllg ot a more layorable lla t111t l qu1tkly turned to the next page and these wotds caught n1y eye Asks Nlayor to ltnd Iel '1 usband will r t 1 to y Ylllll 1 To 'yiayot ot New York t1ty Dear blr Hav1ng the greatest confidence 1n y0lll Judgment 'md appealmg to yo11r sympathv I put the greatest problem ot my l1fe before X011 Eyer slnce my g!aflll8fl0Il from Lubet Pllgh bthool 111 nmeteen twentv my OIIQ '11nb1 t1on has beell to get ma111ed But du1111g the htteen 1nte1ven1ng years not a slngle man or lllarlled e1ther has popped the quest1on I 'tm IIOW th1rty thtee vears old and heartllv d1scou1aged oyer mv fate Should vou know of a man who wants a capable hfe companlon please 16191 to h1m my name Slgned Ltna IVI Gordon 'I'l1o1ougl1lv d1sgusted w1th lNew YOIk news I yye11t to Boston It yyas the tlme ol yea1 XNIIQII all ot Poston had t111 ned out to attend the N'la1athon lace bo I yyent too The IICQ yyas almost oyer when I got there a11d I saw the w1nner ru11 1n exhausted I not1ced some Ihlllg IZ1ll1lll tI about 111m I pressed nenu and to my del1gl1t beheld Carrol fard I felt proud a11d glad not su1p11sed It was JIIQI what I had expected He always had betn 1 great unner why 111 the course of a te11 mlnutes talk yy 1th Carrol l1e would run ey SIX body lll the Lubec Hlgll School l 11oyy declded to make the t11p across COUHIIW the next stop was at C11eeny1lle Penn 1 small place wl1ere I stopped bet tuse ot a l1ttle tl0l1lJl9 w1th the engme Attex F'l9Dh0lllIIg the IIGHTQSI c1ty for HSSISIEIIICQ I yy1lked down the largest street of the town naklng OIJSETXHUOIIS as I yyent I had gone a ew steps yy hen I sayy a yy Oman Who looked 1am1ll'11 ente1 a small bu1ld1ng Seelng lt was 1 IICXVSIIEIDQI ofnte I 1nade an excuse 1nd tol lowed hex hODI11g to verlfy my SHQDICIOIIS Sure enough lt was 'NIarga1et Gllmote l1ttle lh'lllg9Il smce l1e1 schooldtys and ll0SlIlt he1 stood PPHIIICC Ingalls No wo11der they had 1l11l1ty enough to lun a newspaper' Ilo h had lad plenty ot experlente Ill runnmg the class o n111eteen twenty Hom P6llllQXlX'iIIl3 I tlayeled to fhlf'lg0 when I qllxfd a teyy d1ys as I had busmess o YIWIISICI w1'h 1 te1t11n flrm thete It yyas m1ly 111 the Il'lU!ll1lIg whtn I stepped Olll f th elty1to1 and stnted l0XN'lId the 1001 yyl11el1 D010 the nrms lllllle When I drew ll t r d d 111l l h1ppy laugh wh1ch somemyy Q T H E ' D Y H T 3' ' V ' . . - ' V y' K ' ' ' 1 ' 1' .i V ' ' V - r v, ' ' V .V V L v ' , ' . 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