Mechanicville High School - Halfmoon Yearbook (Mechanicville, NY)

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Cm Paper Mill A tree is planted! As it grows, it requires care if we want it to serve a useful purpose. Soon many trees arc planted around it. When these trees have reached maturity, they arc sent to the great factories that will make them into something useful—paper. After these logs have been cut, they are assorted and piled in the yard, waiting to be brought to the chip house. In this manner, a student starts to work his way through school. He enters grade school. As he advances from grade to grade, he needs good training, if he is to make something of himself. While in grammar school, he meets many other children. After these boys and girls are graduated from eighth grade, they enter high school where they begin four years of study and school activities. These ‘logs’ of our paper mill are the freshmen. The pulpwood logs are delivered to the chip house. Here the bark is removed and the logs are cleaned, inspected, and cut into small chips. As the logs undergo a change and become small chips, so the freshmen tackle their studies and before long become sophomores. They have undertaken the ‘process’ of examinations, and they have come out on top. These ‘wood chips’ are our sophomores. The chips are then put to the process of cooking for a certain period of time. The pulp is now screened, bleached, screened again, and stored. Then the pulp is taken to the paper mill where it is bleached and ingredients arc added. Similarly, the sophomores have taken advanced steps; they are now juniors. The subjects which they are studying are more involved. These juniors, our ‘pulp’, are learning to apply their knowledge. The next process takes the pulp to the paper machines where it is screened again and delivered in a liquid state. At this point the pulp, now in the first form of paper, is formed a continued strip on an endless wire screen. As it moves along, the paper is dried, surface-sized, watermarked, and finally wound into rolls. The paper is then finished according to the needs of the consumers and is made ready for shipment. Perhaps it will be sent all over the nation to fulfill its final use. Our seniors are ‘paper’. They arc the final ‘products’ of the ‘processes’ which have taken place during the last four years. As the paper leaves the mill to take its place in homes, schools, and business, so will the seniors leave high school to take their places in homes, schools, and the business world. Joyce's Log Tavern r is i

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faculty Miss Mastrianni, Miss Goodrich. Miss Bvrnc, Miss Ryan, Miss Cookingham, Mr. Cavanaugh. Miss Hinckel. Mrs. McCormick, Mrs. Watt. Miss Tilly, Mr. Chandler, Mrs. Kellogg, Miss Antolick, Mrs. Welch, Mr. Korkosz, Miss Golden, Mrs. Mehan, Mr. Whitbeck, Mrs. Sheffer. Mr. Brown. Louis Kur's Camera Shop

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