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

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MEHSPIZOT VOL. XXXV Mechanic Falls, Maine, Iune 1955 ANNUAL EDITION Published by the Students of Mechanic Falls High School. F PILOT STAFF Front Row, left to right: Richmond Adkins, Petra Brown, Robert Bryant, Ernest Roberts, Maud Curtis, Jerome Scanlon, Kenneth Roberts. Second Row: Charlotte Bonney, Sue Bryant, Eve Goss, Patricia Albison, Joanne Harriman, Eleanor Jewett, Louis Martel, George Edwards, Phyllis Cotton, Eunice Almond, Patricia Yates, Sandra Dolan, Susan Adkins. Co-Editors . .,..........,.. . First Assistant Editor .. Second Assistant Editor Associate Editor ......,.........,,.. Literary Editor .... ,..... Business Manager ..,..., Ierome Scanlon First Asst. Bus. Mgr. Second Asst. Bus. Mgr. Joke Editor ...,.....,.,...,........... Boys' Sports Editor ...... Girls' Sports Editor ..... Alumni Editor ........,. Exchange Editor ....,... mf sw Ernest Roberts Richmond Adkins lane Goss Maud Curtis Charlotte Bonney Richmond Adkins Petra Brown . Kenneth Roberts . George Edwards Louis Martel Sally Stanton Sue Bryant Eunice Almond Senior Class Reporter ...... .......,.... E ve Goss lunior Class Reporter ...........l...... Patricia Yates Sophomore Class Reporter ....,..... Susan Adkins Freshman Class Reporter ,..,.. Ioanne Harriman Typists: Patricia Albison, Eleanor Iewett. Phyllis Cotton, Sandra Dolan. NVe wish to thank the members of the Pilot Stalff of 1955 for their co-operation and support. VVe also appreciate Mr. Iordan's efforts toward the assembling of the material for this book. We hope you will enjoy this book and that it will serve as a remembrance of the class of 55f' Richmond Adkins and Ernest Roberts

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Ebechcafion The Senior Class of 1955 takes pleasure in dedicating this issue of The Pilot to MRS. LULA BRYANT in sincere appreciation for her unceasing efforts on our behalf. H

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YOUTH The youth of today have been severely criti- cized by newspapers, periodicals and even radio and television. Much has been said and more has been written on the waywardness of today's youth. The speakers and writers on this sub- ject usually back up their contentions with sta- tistics. These critics blame the parents, the teenagers, themselves, and almost anything else. Some insist that youth has been the cause of his own troubles, because, Look, 'i say they, at the advantages our American boys and girls have, yet the rate of delinquency is far above that in Europe. That the rate actually is higher is debatable, but there are other rea- sons for tempestuous teenagersg one being the fact that they are required to make an abrupt and complete transition from childhood to maturity. They are like someone moving from one house to another: there is much confusion and clamor. Another reason for upheaval among youth comes from the fact that American young peo- ple are not young. They are expected to be- come adults before reaching the age of eighteen, yet even then, are not entrusted with adult responsibilities. The young people are prepared, both by education and experience for the re- sponsibilities of majority, but Society does not want them as adults. They are not twenty oneg still, they have to conformg they pay taxes if self-supporting, are expected to fight for their country, and are penalized by majority laws about which they have nothing to say. In parts of Europe, a young man is of age when he becomes eighteen. He is allowed to vote and receives all the responsibilities and privileges due one who has come of age. Elsewhere in Europe the situation is akin to that here in the U. S., with this difference, teen- agers are expected to act youthfully until they are of age, thus when something foolish and precipitate occurs, it is not recorded as a crime by a delinquent, but is chalked up as youthful foolery. Therein lies the difference, for while the youths of the continent are schooled and pre- pared as well as endured, American youths are hardly trusted or tolerated. Because of this, youth is like a child, un- taught save by imitationg if a mirror is warped its rellection will be also. VVhen a young man comes of age, he already knows what mankind expects of him, but has experienced only its restrictions and not its freedoms. gckforia 5 Society has not the time for foolery, it is too busy planning conquest, both peaceful and hostile. The adults are too busy playing at war and finance to teach today's future the way to tomorrow's present. Why? R. Adkins TODAYS SCIENCE Science is a subject of great value to every man and woman living under God that wants lasting peace and freedom of powers that can and will prolong humanity. The growth of Science actually has been ful- filled during our generation. Each nation has had to be one step in front of the other in order to exist. Smaller nations have fallen prey to larger nations. To be a country of power and leadership a nation must constantly improve her defense in warfare and threat of warfare. She must actu- ally invent and produce a stronger nuclear and mechanical defense program than her enemy. You may ask how does science enter into a nation and her ability to withstand other na- tions. First of all this is the Atomic Age. Al- most every new invention is supervised by the government. The weapons now invented are atomic powered or have been made by atomic machines. Without Science we would still be Houndering around with swords and horses. Of course scientists existed in the middle ages, but they didn't so much invent and produce things, as they laid the background for the modern scientist. Today's world entirely relies on the scientists that can keep producing a threating advance over his enemy. Of course the world also fears what the scientist has done and will con- tinually do. Most countries, large or small, have to admit that they have to overlook fear if they want to continually have freedom and peace of mind. We who have always had freedom of speech, religion and press must be willing to put our entire future into the hands of our scientist. Ernest P. Roberts WHAT I-IIGI-I SCHOOL IS FOR If someone should ask you what high school is for you would probably say, It is where we go to study and learn. But, is that all it is for? In the athletics we learn to be good losers and generous winners, we learn to think quick- ly and to know what to do at the right time. Socially, we learn how to act among people.