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

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6 M for you to study an hour or so each day. And, if you prefer vocational training, the Government will pay for your tools and materials, and will give you SSO a month while you train. The High Schools, too, are apt to under' go changes after the war's end. Compulf sory military training should he a part of every boy's education, I think. Readiness for war is no less important than education. Perhaps our education system will be pat' terned in part after the very successful one worked out in Denmark. There, students .F. H. S. PILOT leave school at fourteen to work or to enter military service. If, at eighteen, they have the desire to learn some special thing, they are allowed to go to school part of the year. Of course, this plan would work only if the people earnestly wanted to learn. Education is what remains after we have forgotten all we have learned. It must train the three aspects of man: body, mind, and character. And neither mind nor char' acter can he built without a spiritual element. HUBERT Woonsum '47 'X''lvlvl''I l I X l ! ! ! X''X X l l X ! ! Z X I I ! !0! X ! I''X !-'X X- 2: -If 3 I IN MEMQRIAM 1 Z ROBERT CROOKER 119331 :Xt ROYAL JEFFERSON 119355 all 2 CHESTER RAYMOND 119371 :xi Z ' EDWARD j. KING 1Exf193SJ 'X' -xf I EPITAH FOR A SOLDIER 2 E Where alien skies If :XXI Eternally are blue, fi: i Beneath an aged fi: :XII Sliellftorn olive tree Z Ll: And trampled flowers, 5: Z One sleeps 3: Z Who loved his life 3: 1 As we love ours, if I Yet fought and died 'f' 3. 'X- ,f, For those he never knew. i E Copied from N. T. Times 2 3 MARION J. COFFIN '45 fi: 3 ri rj: 4, 'X''! Z X X ! X X X Z ! I''X X X X+'X X l X''X X'-X+'X+'l ! l0! l X !+-X I''E

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M. F. H. Contentment, like ambition and most other human qualities, may be either a virtue or a vice. To be discontented and do nothing about it, except to make everyone wretched is like having a bee in one's bonnet because he enjoys the buzzing. It has, however, been chiefly responsible for our comfort, pros' perity, and civilization. The dissatisfaction of Julius Caesar, Pericles, Aristotle and Solon caused them respectively to drive the barbarians from Rome, to have the Parthenon of Athens built, to expand a philosophy, and to compile the earliest code of laws. Discontentment is responsible for the achievements of Christopher Columbus, Cy' rus Field, Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford. Clara Barton's dissatisfaction with military hospitals led to the organization of the Red Cross, and jane Adams' resentment of the slums in Chicago created Hull House. There are people who are discontented with their government but, who do not take the trouble to inform themselves or vote. This sort has wrecked more good homes and created more general wretchedness than all the floods and cyclones in our history. The lazy sterile brand leads to nothing but parlor oratory and the suggestion that somebody should do something about it. Who's Who in America is full of names of leading citizens who must have been equally dissatisfied. Their names are where they are because they did their work well and prepared for advancement. This is what the poet calls divine discontentnicntu. Contentment, too, can have elements of divinity. The man or woman who has little and loves it, or has much and loves that, is an enviable person. The man or woman s. Prto-r 5 happy in his or her home with an occasional glimpse of mountains or sea reach the height of contentment. That other nagging something produces Fords and Edisons but, it also produces Han' nibals and Hitlers. The wisdom and virtue consist in being content with what we have and not with what we are. This wisdom has made America a great nation, and it will become greater. Our country is made up of human beings behaving humanly, in American freedom. The best of America for Amerif cans is yet to come. CAROLYN PULSIFER '46 POSTWAR EDUCATION Right now, in looking forward to the postfwar world, many are wondering just what will be the educational possibilities. Many men in military service are asking themselves questions like these: Shall I be able to continue schooling when I get home? Shall I receive any help from the govern' ment? and Shall I be too old to study? Certainly, you will be able to continue your studies! The Government expects to provide educations for millions of veterans, by paying each man S50 a month and his school expenses up to S700 a year. Of course you won't be too old to learn. It is much easier to learn when you have developed a greater desire for knowledge. Some veterans are already studying, and of them it has been said: There is less nonsense about the veteran than about the prefward collegian, and he has a greater appreciation of the value of an education. He makes more intelligent use of his avail- able time. You'll have to Hnd a job as soon as you get home? Even so, it would be possible

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M. F. H. S. PILOT ALUMNI IN SERVICE Preston Bailey 119321 Harold McAllister 119321 Courtney Pike 119321 Francis Taker 119321 Charles Whittier 119321 Frank Allard 119331 Harold Raymond 119331 Elton Pulsifer 119331 Herschel Bryant 119341 Donald Cole 119341 Elwood Goss 119341 Willis Harmon 119341 Kenneth Mitchell 119341 Leon Paine 119341 james Sheridan 119341 Wendell Teague 119341 Lawrence C. Tripp 119341 Everett Benson 119351 james Chase 119351 Lester Emery 119351 James johnson 119351 Robert Keene 119351 Frank Millett 119351 Robert Price 119351 Millard Strout 119351 Robert Walker 119351 . Stanley Banks 119361 Franklin Chapman 119361 Charlotte Clark 119361 Clarence Clark 119361 Leland Farr 119361 Gilbert Fifield 119361 Ara Goss 119361 Robert Howes 119361 Milton Keene 119361 William Martin 119361 Esther Pike 119361 Arthur Richardson 119361 Clayton Strout 119361 Robert Taker 119361 Gerald Watson 119361 Keith Cole 119371 Albert Durgin 119371 Allan johnson 119371 Richard Keene 119371 Donald Lewis 119371 James Maxim 119371 John Merrill 119371 Ruth Millet: 119371 Stephen Smith 119371 Malcolm Strout 119371 Clarence Swift 119371 Frank Williams 119371 Charles Bridgham 119381 Richard Bryant 119381 William Coolidge 119381 Robert Haskell 119381 Leighton Hutchinson 119381 Raloh Libby 119381 Leon Magnus 119381 Donald Mills 119381 Dana Raymond 119381 Clifford Strout 119381 Richard Wells 119381 Bertram Woodcock 119381 Ralph Allen 119391 Pauline Danforth 119391 Arthur Davis 119391 Orville Farr 119391 john Hemond 119391 Arnold Leavitt 119391 Charles Merrill 119391 Foteos Mitchell 119391 james Plummer 119391 Donald Winslow 119391 Edward Churchill 119401 Wilfred Duchette 119401 Robert Elliott 119401 Martin Farr 119401 Ernest Frazee Jr. 119401 Gerald Harwood 119401 William Hobbs 119401 john Nason 119401 Russell Penney 119401 Maurice Prince 119401 Norman Rowe 119401 Donald Spiller 119401 Willard Spiller 119401 Alfred Thurlow jr. 119401 Norris Varrell '119401 Arthur Whittier 119401 Donald Abbott 119411 Wesley Bradford 119411 Frederick Edwards 119411 Roy Frazee 119411 ' Edward Frost 119411 William Greenwood 119411 Lewis jordan 119411 Robert Jordan 119411 Lyda Mitchell 119411 Donald Needham 119411 Richard Piper 119411 Milton Purington 119411 Gilbert Richardson 119411 Edward Sawyer 119411 Robert Thayer 119411 Carlton Wass 119411 Wallace Andrews 119421 Elon Bradford 119421 Philip Davis 119421 Domenic DeBiase 119421 Linwood Fitts 119421 - Wallace French 119421 Ray Goss 119421 ' Robert Goss 119421 Richard Klain 119421 M Raymond Morrill 119421' iv james Quinn 119421 Carleton Quinn 119421 Ivan Reynolds 119421 Norman Sawyer 119421 Marjorie Wilson 119421 Norris Hanscom 119431 Harlan jewetl. 119431 Richard jones 119431 Charles Jordan 119431 Almon Keene 119431 Donald Keene 119431 Shirley Keene 119431 Helene Philips 119431 Rupert Robbins 119431 john Trinward 119431 Beatrice Felker 119441 Glenn Fifield 119441 Thomas George 119441 Gordon Harwood 119441 Bessie Lawrence 119441 Albert Stronach 119441 Francis Whittier 119441 William Scanlon 119441 ALUMNI IN MERCHANT MARINE Ellsworth Blair 119421 George Mitchell 119431 Roger Williams 119431