Mexico High School - Pep Yearbook (Mexico, ME)

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V r 'I P PAGE FOUR I F l 5 THE 1946 PEP No school tomorrow because Colum- bus discovered America 453 years ago. Rally for the game with Madi- son. James Fraser and Robert Leav- itt gave us pep talks. According to the cheering that followed, they made some impression. q We lost Saturday. Leo Maillet made Norman Arsenault blush today when he popped the question. Lorna Doone is quite a book in its romantic spots. The debating team met after school. More recruits are needed for the band. The Juniors have quite a collection for the fair-a chicken, an end table, a cord of wood, and a calf. The end table must fit in somewhere, but where? Lots of talk about the fair. Less talk and more work, says Mr. Norton. Mr. Thomas had us all worried about which class he was going to visit next. Rally for the game with Berlin. The last of the six week exams were given today. The band is scheduled to play Sat- urday. Rank cards were given out. We have four whole days to get over the effects, while the teachers attend the state convention. Q The honor roll was announced. James Fraser led the Seniors, Margaret An- derson the Juniors, Marilyn Rumley the Sophomores, Irene Trembley the Freshmen, and Fern Crossland the eighth grade. Fern Crossland was the highest ranking student of the school. We all envy Arlene the nice car she rides in to school lately. x Tryouts for the play, The Cuckoo's Nest, were held today. NOVEMBER First day of November. Very dull. Rally for the game with Gould. Only one session so we could attend the Gould game that was postponed on Saturday. All the pleasant things seem to happen at once. In addition to getting the afternoon off, we had an assembly-piano music, Chopin and-Boogie Woogie. The result of the game wasn't so pleasant. The eniors are making plans for their Washington trip. The girls of the Commercial Club are busyisoliciting food and money for the footliall banquet to be held after Mon- day'S game. They called on Mr. Nor- ton to put on the pressure for the money collection. The results of the class officer elections were announced. No more school for three days. We had a rally for the Armistice game on Monday. Coach Cobb read greetings from some of the alumni, Robert Allen, Eddie Martin, and ' George Worthley. Jim Fraser, Supt. McGuire, Coach Cobb, Mr. Stowell, Coach Lap- ham, and Cecil Burns spoke. Ru ford beat us yesterday-very muldlm so. We montributed to the Junior Red Cross. We'11e all set for our day off the Fri- day pafter Thanksgiving. We made it up by going to school today. Miss Ruth Harris, a friend of the Nortons, spolqe to us about her three years at a prison camp in Japanese territory. The lbeginning of a short Week-only a day and a half to go after this one. Bas etball practice every day now afte school and every evening. Oneisession, so we had time for only clas es. We're off until Monday. Pla rehearsals and basketball prac- tice A. take up all our extra time lately. opular extra-curricular activity late y is sandpapering desks-no as- sem ly credits attached to it, though. Six eeks' exams are on the schedule onc Fou more. classes-four exams for some of us t day. Girls sign up for basketball afte school-those who had pep eno gh left after the tough day. All in t oys over sixteen years of age met e gym-army, navy or air corps talk . l l DECEMBER We lstarted the week right by getting out, fifteen minutes early-faculty meeting. Thei chairmen of all fair committees disclussed big plans for a big fair. -r i. 1 4

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THE 1946 PEP PAGE THREE D ILY BREEZES SEPTEMBER The school is almost overfiowing with students. The enrollment is three hundred sixty plus a few. lt's too far to walk to the office to find out exact- ly, after the tiresome first day. The teachers must have liked us last year. They're all back with the exception of Mr. Brown. Mr. Lapham is taking his place. It's too soon to tell what he's like. The enrollment is going up, a few were a day late getting here, probably resting up after the summer vacation. Assembly today with Mr. Thomas giving us his ideas of what school is for. Sounds serious. The eighth grade needs a lot of intro- ducing to lots of things, among them the book situation. They'll wear themselves out if they really study the armfuls of books they carry home, besides putting us in the wrong. We got out ten minutes early this noon after a rally for the game with Cony tomorrow. If the outcome of the game depends on our cheering, we were told, we're sure to lose. We can't seem to do things right-too quiet at rallies and too noisy in corri- dors. Record dance tonight. Cony swamped us last Saturday. Mr. Cobb is making sure everyone sees all and hears all by his annual testing of eyes and ears. It would be hopeless to try to get most of us to know all . 'Clarence' spoke to us in assembly about selling magazines. Our goal is 5225.00 net. Rosalie Jamison and John Whytock are in charge of the contest. ' The Juniors received their class rings. One Sophomore girl is Bashing one so soon. Fast work. J ' Softball is under way with Mr. Norton as coach. Rally for the first home game. Wilton won Saturday. Everything seems to be going wrong on this blue Monday, even the magazine sales. Some ambitious Senior sold one sub- scription. Barbara Mawhinney does not think much of the Seniors' sales- manship. There's a lot of, talk about skipping school this week to go to the Andover fair. We don't quite dare, Mr. Thomas might not like it. Debating is being resumed with Miss Bragoli as sponsor. The band held its first practice during activity period. From now on they'll practice every Tuesday. Rally for the game with Farmington. Coach Cobb thinks it's time we won a game. A ocToBER We didn't win the game Saturday. Four new pupils came in today. Mex- ico High is getting popular. There are quite a few pupils from Dixfield. Band practice, Student Council meet- ing, and lots of talk about the Fresh- man initiation that's scheduled for Friday night. Some of the Freshman girls are having their hair done Thurs- day so they'1l look beautiful at the reception Friday night. Wait till the Sophomores get through with it Fri- day morning. Wow! It's money thrown away, Freshies. The magazine campaign didn't go so well-too big a year last year with the two-year subscriptions. The furnace broke down, so we had to go home to keep warm. p The Freshmen came to school all dressed upf' Four of the boys couldn't take it. The Freshies expressed their great devotion to the Sophomores and proved it by carrying their books for them. Rally for the game with St. Dom's. We won a game Saturday and we really did win it. The Seniors selected their graduation announcements and name cards. A few so-called Seniors are taking quite a chance investing money in a grad- uation as things stand right now. Edith Smith is back in school as sec- retary to the principal. Alfreda Smith and Sophie Drakus assist her.

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THE 1946 PEP PAGE FIVE Some are sad, some are mad, some are glad-Rank card day affects us that way. Assembly with Jessie R. Taylor, reader of monologues. If we throw snow balls at noon, we have to go sit in Mr. Thomas's office and wait for him. It's fun throwing snow balls, but it's no fun waiting for Mr. Thomas, it's less fun when he ar- rives-so, no more snow balls. Pintexico Fair preparations-no time for anything else. More fair-Manual training classes are busy building booths. The Seniors finally decided on a definite plan for a booth. It was really no secret-they just cou1dn't make up their minds. The Cuckoois Nest was shown after school for the grade children. First day of the fair. One session of school. The play was good. The Ju- nior booth was good enough to take first prize. Second day of the fair. Auction sale with Mr. Hanson as auctioneer. Prizes awarded-chickens, wood, tablecloths, butter, dolls, etc. . . The dance spon- sored by the student council was the final event. Saturday, the first day of vacation. Clean-up committees clear up the wreckage. The senior committee strolled in between ten and eleven o'clock after being waked up via telephone. Merry Christmas! Someone did some planning during vacation. Lots of changes are going to be made. JANUARY Mr. McLeod begins the New Year right by joining the faculty of M. H. S. Girls' basketball practice. Band prac- tice. First game of the season. We won. The boys are busy preparing Hanson's Field for a skating rink. There's talk of starting a hockey team. The Winter Sports Team is organized with Mr. Norton as coach. Mr. Dyer arrived to finish out the year in Miss Darrah's place. She's getting married. He's married, girls. Girls' gym classes are starting. The boys got their football letters at a special assembly today. We played Rumford. Berlin beat us. I mean--really. The new schedule is working out well, especially the activity period at the end of the day. It's a busy period. Because some of the bus students haven't been behaving, they all have to wait in school until bus time. Big storm. No school. Next Saturday we have to pay for our day off last Friday. We gain a half day, though. We'll be having one session. Everybody connected with school ex- cept the students met at three o'clock, so we went home. The seniors are having their gradua- tion pictures taken. They look hand- some and beautiful all dressed up. The March of Dimes is on. FEBRUARY The group pictures for Pep were taken bright and early, beginning in period one. Did any ten o'clock scholars lose out? A Saturday in school. We didn't win the game with Oxford. We came out on top with Jay. Snowshoe Clubs are organized for boys and girls. The basketball teams went to Berlin. The Winter Sports team went to Beth- el. They placed sixth in the finals. We got criticized for riding on the bumpers of cars. We got criticized for throwing snow- balls. We're being pretty bad lately. Today, We were warned about marking up desks and walls. Today, four boys skipped school. They'll be sorry, because Mr. Thomas found out. How's the makeup work, boys? Lots of prom talk now-informal or semi-formal? Some fun-only one session. What a storm! Back to school after three and a half days 05. We started the day with movies in the first period.