Mattanawcook Academy - Pine Needles Yearbook (Lincoln, ME)

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MATTANAWCOOK ACADEMY ll want M. A. to be a mere copy cat? Other schools have either tune or words similar. We want to be original. How shall we obtain a new school song? By writing a new one. A prize of three dollars is offered to the stu- dent who brings in the best song. The music doesn't have to be original, but it must not be too familiar. The tune should be stirring, martial, peppy. The Words should be original, some- thing new but suitable, with allusions to familiar things. Come on, students! Not only will you be covered with glory, but you will receive a monetary reward. Get busy! Q Q WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT M. A.? Answers 1. First and twenty-fifth. ' 2. Mattanawcook Academy in 1857. 3. Dr. Adams' mother, who used to teach here. 4. Mr. Charles Cobb. 5. In the Lobby of Cobb Hall. 6. The school children of Lincoln. 7. Sixteen. 8. 1857. 9. October 15, 1933. 10. Crimson and Grey. 1 lf ttgr A . V213 ,X ,ph ,, 1

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10 PINE NEEDLES pressing the desire for a new gymna- sium. In 1917 a commencement number was printed in which we find an ac- count of the several boys who had left school to enlist in the army to fight in the World War. These students re- ceived full credit for the year's work. Since we have not been able to find a Pine Needles between 1917and 1925, we assume that no Pine Needles were printed between those dates. In the 1925 issue the students express their gratitude for the new Lincoln Memo- rial Library. Pine Needles have been printed in 1927, 1931, 1932, and 1934 to 1937 inclusive. We hope that the idea of a school magazine has now been firmly enough established so that it will be a regular publication from now on. There has been no file kept of the Pine Needles, and we should appreci- ate very much the donation of a set of these magazines. We feel that our school magazines are a vital part of the history of our school. Now that we have every facility for keeping them, we feel that that we should make a special effort toward getting together a complete file-which can be added to each year-of Pine Needles from 1906 to the present. -H. Moody, '38 -M. A.-- WHY DO WE DO IT? Here is a mystery-one to which I shall probably never find a solution. Why do we do it? Why do we work and slave, face fatigue and hardships, just to get a few miles away from ra- dios, electric lights, and automobiles? Why is it that many of us look for- ward to hiking over nine or ten miles of rough, jarring trail with fifty pound packs on our aching backs? Is it be- cause we have became addicted to the drug of Nature's out-of-doors? Why don't we prefer sitting cozily in the family circle, watching the lat- est movies, or playing about with a group of friends, to making a cold, dry camp, twenty miles back from no- where? Doesn't it seem more likely that we should prefer a soft, warm, comforta- ble bed at home to a couple of blan- kets, spread on a heap of spruce boughs? Why doesn't one notice a piece of charcoal or a few grains of sand in the soup when seated by a wilder- ness campfireg we know very well that he would approach apoplexy if such a thing occurred at home. Doesn't it seem strange that one will work at the camp wood-pile un- til his back screams in protest? But when mother asks him to fill the wood- box, he is suddenly afflicted with sun- dry aches and pains before he takes a step? Why is it that when one stumbles back from an excessively tiring trip in the wilds, he swears never to do it again, and goes wearily to bed, and two days later he is enthusiastically planning a similar trip? Therein lies my mystery, will someone please ex- plain? -C. Wakefield, '38 --M. A.- VVANTED: A NEW SCHOOL SONG Students, we need a new school song! Not only is ours old and worn out, but many other schools have the same one. The words and music were- n't original in the first place, do we

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.a , ,I 'f ' .. . fag PINE NEEDLES SENIORS LOUISE BAILEY Commercial Club 12, 3. 471 Minstrel Sh0W 1273 Soft- ball 12,373 Basketball 11, 2, 3, 475 Tatler Board 1472 W. S. P. Club 117. Louise likes to ride in a brand new car That comes from away, but not very far We students think that she's quite lucky To win the heart of a boy like Bucky PHYLLIS BANKS Sec. to Miss Pease 1473 Sec. of Commercial Club 1473 Commercial Club 1373 W. S. P. Club 117. Flip is a quiet girl She hardly makes a sound But take her to a basketball game And you'1l know that she's around. GALEN B Football 12, 3, 473 Track 1375 Basketball 147: Orch- estra 11, 2, 3, 473 Glee Club 1173 Senior Play 1473 Dra- matics Club 1473 Commercial Club 1473 Pine Needles Board 1375 Tatler Board 1473 A. A. Board of Directors 1473 Class President 12, 3, 47. Galen is a quiet boy - None of his teachers does he annoy Big gray eyes and curly hair Are some of the things that get him there. MADELINE CARLOW W. S. P. Club 1173 Basketball 12, 3, 47g Softball 13, 473 Commercial Club 13, 473 Treasurer of Commercial Club. 1475 Sec. to Mr. I-lolrnes 147. Basketball is her sport She plays it very well N But as for her future Only time will tell. FRANCIS CLIFFORD Treasurer of Orchestra 1273 Manager of Basketball 1475 Assistant Manager of Basketball 137: Orchestra 11, 2, 3, 473 Commercial Club 13, 473 Dramatics Club 1473 Senior Play 1473 Minstrel Show 11, 27, Musical Comedy 1375 Baseball 1375 Class Basketball 13, 473 Class Treasurer 137, Assembly committee 1479 Pine Needles Board 1473 Tatler Board 147. Mikie is our humorist He's really quite a lad We wonder what he'd be like If ever he got ma.d.