Lunenburg High School - Echo Yearbook (Lunenburg, MA)

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g7r',V- W 'iq' ' -' SENIOIQS AND THE Siifblifgi By Stanley Page In every senior class there are two classes of students: first, those who intend to go to higher institutions of learning, and second, those who will, in all probability, go out and get a job after gradua- tion. Those who are in the first group can help the government more by going to college than joining the armed services, because the govern- ment needs men with college training. Those in the second class have-two alternatives. First they may go into industry or some other work after graduation, or they may join the armed services before graduation and still get their diplomas pro- vided their marks are passing. Some boys in this second group may feel that they can help the government more by getting into some industry that is manufacturing material for the government or by getting a job on some fann. Or they may feel that they may make more money by getting a job. But I think that if they are patriotic they should join the armed services because the services need men desperately. These boys have nothing to lose because they will get their diplomas. Therefore I think the lenid boys should think this over carefully. r fd fd Q g'I-l as I ' 5 fd 3 dl L, Vx.. L 1, JI l-QJ.1xf.-Xue By Martha Harrington Bicycles are presently going to be the only mode of transporta- tion. They, like auto tires, are costing more and more. The youth of America are buying bikes for joy rides, or just plain laziness. Pretty soon the bicycle tires will be as scarce as auto tires, then the work- ing men, as well as the happy-go-lucky youth, will have to walk to his work. Isn't it better to determine who buys the bikes? If they can't get rubber for cars neither will they be able to meet the bike demand. Therefore, I suggest that the youth of America either stop buying new bikes or at least be willing to sell their old ones to people who really need transportation for their families' livelihoods. 55-IOIQTEK SC HOOL HQUK S By Nellie Maki In order to have more time to spend working, the school day should be shortened for the duration of the war. If we started school earlier in the morning, we could get out early in the afternoon. If school started at eight o'clock in the morning and classes ran right through until one o'clock with twenty minutes for lunch, we could get just as long periods every day as we have now. An hour for lunch is just a waste of time, for everyone Cexcept those who go home to lunchl spends his time hanging around. If we got out at one o'clock there would be a long afternoon to do other things---boys could do partetime work on farms and girls could either work at home to help their mothers who are employed in the defense plants or work for other women who are employed. 7 2. '

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MAY V. . :g'FJX, iaCJO1i William Hidden -Miss May Viola Estabrook will always be remembered by everyone connected with Lunenburg High School as a person who has been deeply interested in the school and all its activities, and as a person who has been anxious to help membered especially by her greatly'interested in each it in every way possible. She will be re- former pupils as a teacher who was always one of them, and who has kept that inter- yuars since she left Lunenburg High. Many under her now have children attending the est during the twenty-four of the people who studied schoolgu and two, Miss Blanche Lancey and Hiss Willa Harley, are teachers in the Center School. Although Miss Estabrook taught in manv different schools during her career, among them Fitchburg, Randolph, Vt., and Gardner, she spent her happiest years in Lunenburg, her home town, where she nas a teacher of History, French, and English from l899 to 1918. She took part in many of thc activities of the town, especially the Christian Endeavor, the Grange, and the Woman's Club, of which she was a char- ter member. ' - When Miss Estabrook taught in Lunenburg, the high school was not as we know it now. What is now the Center School was thc high school building, and there were only two teachers, instead of the eleven we nowfhave. Yet despite the school's ancefoccurred during her career. In 1905, the Senior Class went accompanied by Rev. A. J. Kempton. many of the townspeople, went to We small size,many events of import- on a trip to Boston and Plymouth, The Class of 1917, encouraged by shington D. C., in their senior year. The High School was granted the right to certify pupils to Worcester Polytechnic Institute, l rgely because of the records of George Gilckccst, ako entered th institute in 1938, and John E. AlIen,fwhw entered in LQLJ. Duvirg hor teaching career here Marshall Pdrk'was'purchastd by the town, and has been of great use to the school since as an athletic field. Five public debates with Townsend High were held, Lunenburg winning four. It was while Miss Estabrook taught here that the forerunner of the present assembly period was instituted in the form of a weekly club period. It was also the custom for the Senior Class to put on an entertainment each year, and this has resulted in the present day Senior Class Play, one of the most important school functions. As a token of its admiration for Miss Estabrook, the Lunenburg Woman's Club presents a yearly prize in her honor to the member of the Junior Class who makes the greatest progress in English. In this way, the Woman's Club rewards her interest and devotion toward the school and its past and present pupils. Now in her eighty-first year, Miss Estabrook expresses apprecia- tion to the nEchou staff for its welcome into Lunenburg High School as it is today. With special admiration for the various progressive activities, sho wishes all--Bon Voyage. ' 7 1

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'firms Fowl! MILE SPEED LIMIT By Copeland Hague Recently,the state passed a new speed limit holding all Massachu- setts automobiles down to forty miles per hour. They set a penalty of not more than five hundred dollars fine, a year in jail, or both. This law is neither being obeyed by all of the public,nor are the penalties being enforced. I have driven many miles at forty miles an hour since the passage of this law. Others have passed me making me look as if I were standing still. On the straight-a-way, the cars do much more than forty. This would make me think that this law was passed to keep those who would ordinarily go sixty, down to fifty. Why !tn't something done about it? Then there is the penalty. No one has five hundred dollars for a fine these days, and, consequently, would have to take the year imprison ent. Perhaps there will be a new nJail Draft' to decide the order in which the thousands of violators will serve their time. If this law is going to be, enforce it, and lower the fine. A SLIP CDF THE LIP ' By Ruth Arnold The request has been issued by the government for people not to talk about Army, Navy or Governmental work that might help an enemy nation. The people should not only hear or see this but take heed and obey it. Although it is not a law, people young and old should real- ize the vital importance of the request, Many ships have been sunk and lives have been lost because a person has talked in public or to a person he thought was a friend. To this person has been revealed when a boat left port, where it was going, or sometimes even what was on board the ship. All Army plans as well as Navy plans must be kept seoret and are important to the safety of our nation. So if you are a true American, nDon't talkn,for remember--NA Slip of a Lip, Might Sink a Ship.' - 5P0i'4,'f5hfl.LXN5HIP IN HSHJNG By Robert Foster Nowdays thousands of sportsmen go out every day and catch fish. Bmne of these so called uSportsmen' go out in the morning,catch their limit of fish for that day, return homo, put their fish on ice, and then proceed to go back in the afternoon and catch some more. People of this type are not sportsmen to my way of thinking. These people Oven have so much gall as to go out and brag of their so called 'a- chievementn. I think these people should be punished, Ybu probably say, nwell some of them aren. Yes I admit 'semen are,but what about the ones that don't pay for their crime. They go out the next day and the day after and do the same thing over again. I think that the state should have more game wardens on duty in order to protect the rights of the law abiding sportsmen and to punish the law breakers. 75