Mechanic Falls High School - Pilot Yearbook (Mechanic Falls, ME)

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4 M. F. H. S. PILOT It is not hard to be courteous. It is easier to say something kind and in return receive a pleasant smile than to say something rude and thereby injure your own chances of friendship. Surely it will be worth while to try to be courteous. Then you will find that you will have more faithful friends. Don't antagonize your teachers! Remodel your character so that they will enjoy your presence. You will need friends laterg be courteous to your teachers and they will always befriend you. Courtesy pays. A teacher rebuked a pupil for his rude answer to a polite- ly asked question. After class his classmates were talking of the matter. They seemed glad that their disre- spectful classmate had been scolded. Another pupil in the class was always courteous. The teacher was often heard to say that it was a pleasure to teach such a well-bred person. This will help to show you how much you are hurting yourself when you act discourteously. If you will accept the words Be Courteous as your motto you will stand a good chance of winning many faithful friends. E. Bridgham Be Ashamed to Catch Yourself Idle Why study? is a question often de- bated by careless students of High School age. Many of these would-be- scholars have a strange system of ranking by which they judge their abilitiesg jones takes his books home, studies every evening and gets an average of ninety. I spend my even- ings having a good time and I get an average of seventy. So I'm really the smarter of the two, I wonder if these same students ever think of the world's ranking system. After they graduate from High School and go into business for themselves, will they be ranked by what they might have done? Will they gain success through the talents which they do not use? No. In the later school of ex- perience, they will find harsher judges, who give their decrees entirely on cir- cumstanial evidence. If these fun-loving pupils could only realize that what they call fun is only a thief who is robbing them of their right to success and happiness, they would surely be ashamed to catch themselves idle. I. H. Chase

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M. F. H. , WN I 5, BUSY if vm' li Do Your Best XVhen you undertake a thing' do it to the best of your ability, whether it be a duty or a pleasure. You may look upon your school work as a duty. or perhaps you are one of the few who study for the love of it. However you may interpret it, do your best. You are asked to sub- mit a certain piece of work at a Stated time. XVill that work be done and ready to hand in at the specified time or will it be in the processn? Are you going' to say. lt won't matter much if it isn't done well ? Ur are you going to put forth your best effort and get that work done and well done? Remember, anything' that is worth doing' at all is worth doing well . Your excuse may be that you are not as smart as the other fellow . The excuse is poor because that does not hinder you from doing' your best. You may have to give more time to it, think harder and study longer but you can do it just as well as the one whom you consider to be smarter',. Not only is this true in school life but it remains true after you have left the familiar old desk and the text S. PILOT 3 191-ials books, You will often be called upon to do some piece of work, and, how- ever small it may be, do it the very best you can. Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to youf, G. Burns Courteousness Vvlhat is courteousness? Are you courteous? These are good questions to think about. To be courteous is to be kind, polite. and respectful to others. llow many of us are kind and respectful to our teachers and parents? Many times a day do we hurt them by using' sharp words which are alto- gether unnecessary and disrespectful. NN'hy not help our teachers by being courteous? A pleasant -word smoothes a rough path. The paths trodden by parents and teachers are often very rough. Surely we won't begrudge them a kind word that might help them on their way. I am sure that we do not enjoy having people rebuke us so why not do unto others as you would that they do unto you .

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KERMIT AUSTIN ' Kerm Baseball Cl, 2, 3, 45 Basketball C2, 45 Captain Baseball C45 Senior Drama C45 Glee Club C45 Eamed Letter in Basketball C45 Baseball C2, 3, 45 Absence of occupation is not rest: A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. RODNEY AUSTIN Lefty Baseball C2, 3, 45 Treasurer C35 Basketball C35 Glee Club C35 Eamed Letter in Baseball C3, 45 Genteel in personage, Conduct and equipage, Brave not romanticg Learned not pedanticg Frolic not frantic 9, This must be Rodney. PRESTON BAILEY Pret Baseball Cl, 2, 3, 45 Basketball C3, 45 Track C3, 45 Earned Letter in Baseball Cl, 2, 3, 45 Basketballt C3, 45 Track C3, 45 We hope Pret will be as success As he has been in athletics. ELVIRA BIRNEY Elviry Class Editor C35 Prize Speaking C35 Senior Drama C45 Joke Editor C45 Debating C45 Secretary C45 Valedictory C45 Earned Letter in Debating C45 Always studious, always good, That's Elviry itis understood, .L M. F. H. S. PILOT ful in life