Mattanawcook Academy - Pine Needles Yearbook (Lincoln, ME)

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MATTANAWCOOK ACADEMY SCHOOL DIRECTORY School Board ....., Superintendent of Schools Mr. Carleton Holmes ...... Mr. Charles Parsons ,... Miss Arline Wray ,....,... Miss Virginia Blood ....... Miss Thelma Folsom ....,. Miss Helen Briola ...... Mrs. Kenneth Cook ......,.. Miss Althea Barstow ........ Mr. Sherwin Stanley ......,. Mr. Glenroy Lamb .,....., FACULTY . .............. Mr. Myron Buck Mr. Leamon McKinnon Mrs. George Whittier Mr. George Bragdon Principal, Math -Coach of Baseball .. Math and Science Language and Social Sciences Director of Dramatilcs Commercial Subjects Coach of Girls' Athletics Home Economics Social Sciences English and Social Science Adviser of Pine Needles Tatler Adviser . ..,...,..,,......,,..............,,...,... Science Coach of Basketball and Track Music Director AWARDS 1945-1946 Scholarship Medals: Betty Afholderbach, Virginia Holmes, Dale True, Allison Briggs. Athletic Medals: Nadia Barton, Melvin Lane. Activities Medals: Rachael Weatherbee, Robert Ball. School Spirit: Doris O'Dell, Allison Briggs. Becker Award: Mary Leah Whalen. D. A. R. Good Citizen: Kathleen McMullen 119461. D. A. R. Good Citizen: Kathleen McMullen 119462

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4 PINE NEEDLES 'LPINE NEEDLES BOARD Front Row ll. to r.r: Leola Jipson, Juanita McMullen, Lois Cook, Elaine Smart, Norma Clay, Kathleen McMullen, Marilyn Wyman. Second Row ll. to r.l: Albert Weatherbee, Bruce Griifin, Bertha Clark, Eleanor Jordan, William Clark, Robert Weatherbee, Paul Aldrich, Malcolm Osborne, Dale True, Mrs. Cook lfaculty supervisorr, Ramona Lancaster, Pearl Hawkins, Shirley Davis, Marylyn Lee, Jeanne Nichols, Richard Jordan, Jennings Sproul, Jack Weatherbee. Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editor Literary Clubs Sz Activities Girls' Sports Bays' Sports A1't Exchange PINE NEEDLES BOARD Elaine Smart Lois Cook Norma Clay William Clark Marilyn Wyman Juanita McMullen Marylyn Lee Kathleen McMullen Robert Weatherbee Bertha Clark Bruce Griffin Pearl Hawkins Alumni Dale True '47 Malcolm Osborne '47 Personals Shirley Davis '46 Eleanor Jordan '47 Business Managers Jeanne Nichols '46 Ramona Lancaster '46 Ass't. Bus. Managers Jennings Sproul '48 Paul Aldrich '48 Class Editors Leola Jipson '46 Albert Weatherbee '47 Jack Weatherbee '48 Richard Jordan '49 Senior Typing Class Faculty Supervisor Mrs. Kenneth Cook Typists

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EDITORIALS There just has to be a war to clear the strained atmosphere between Rus- sia and the Allies. As long as the Reds are communistic and we are demo- cratic, there will be international fric- tion. Thus spoke a high school dent. Did it occur to you to wonder why He's he's who stu- that person believes as he does? never been to Russia, perhaps never even talked with anyone has traveled in Russia. Where did he get the idea that war is inevitable? Tough brainwork isn't required for the answer to that question. The idea came from magazine articles, news- papers, radio commentators, motion pictures, and bits of conversation picked up here and there. It is the combination of the thoughts of a great many people, some well informed and others not so well informed. There is an untold amount of danger in a nation of people who do not take the time and effort necessary to spend in getting to the core of a matter. It is in such a nation, that propagandists find their most fertile fields-in a na- tion where people quote commentators and authors as if the statements they deliver are indisputable, in order that they may make themselves appear very apprehensive. There is one real method of form- ing an opinion that can be justly called the opinion of an individual. Collect- ing facts, many facts, about a situa- tion and the nation or peoples involved gives a person a strong foundation up- on which he can base his conclusions. He will have his own opinion then- something that he will be able to de- fend against criticism. This all points to one fact which cannot be denied-we must rely on ourselves for vital decisions. We as a nation need more thinkers! -M. A.- ATOMIC POWER Atomic power is the greatest dis- covery that science has ever made. It is the greatest, because it can be used for more purposes than any other dis- covery. It will entirely revolutionize the world and man's way of living. How do we know, say one hundred and fifty or two hundred years from now, what the future generations may have for physical characteristics: what they may have for food, and what clothes they may be wearing? Do we know if there will be any kind of life on this earth? Will everything and everyone have been blown to bits by this great power? Those are the things we must think about and very seriously too, as high school students. In three or four years, atomic energy will be at its highest degree of power, and this is the time when most stu- dents will be going out to start lives of their own. They should be very care- ful in considering what they would do, if and when they should ever come in contact with this great power. It will most certainly be up to them and to their offspring. A great man has said, Man's pro- gress compared to the progress of sci- ence, is as to that of a turtle. Think what these words mean and the great significance they have. Atomic power