Milbridge High School - Light Yearbook (Milbridge, ME)

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TI-IE LIGHT 25 HAUNTED HOUSE In a small village where there were many de- serted houses lived a little boy. Many of the older folks of this town told him the old mansion was haunted. The old mansion was a large house at the edge of town and Jimmy, the little boy, had to pass it on his way to school. The older people told him they had seen shadows moving by the windows of the old house at night. One night as Jimmy was on his way home from the movies he saw a light passing by the window. This filled him with curiosity. He started toward the house and as he neared it he heard voices. He listened and found out the voices were of foreigners. He immediately recalled his father's telling him about some German prisoners who had escaped several days before. He crept closer and looked in the window. On the floor he saw many rifles and much ammunition. He started toward the police station immediately. He told the police what he had seen and they investigated. They captured the spies and broke u-p the spy ring. Jimmy, a thirteen year old boy, had aided the police in smashing the most danger- ous spy ring in America. -Earl Dow, '47. V-I DAY August fourteenth, nineteen hundred forty-five is a day very few people will ever forget. It was August twelfth, however, that the Japanese began to talk peace, causing the people here in the United States and our armed forces to go into an uproar. Many of our citizens remained on the VVhite House grounds waiting for President Tru- man to give the official announcement. Many of those people slept on the ground or on the park benches. Everybody's heart leaped with joy when, at seven o'clock on the night of August 14, 1945, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States, gave the official announcement that the Japanese had accepted the unconditional surrender terms of the Potsdam Ultimatum. Almost a second later the United States Went wild. Boys and girls danced in the streets, went on drinking parties, and made all the noise pos- sible. This was carried on all through the night and part of the next day until everyone grew weary. The negotiations were signed by the Japanese on the battleship Missouri on September 2, 1945, thus leaving the world to rest in peace with the excep- tion of worrying over the atomic bomb, which forced the Japanese surrender. -Robert Sprague, '47. A MANIAC IN NEW YORK Archie went to a butcher's to purchase some meat, But ,twas there Archie met defeat, Said the butcher, 'Tm sorry you're out of luck Alas! Some workers' union has struck. To cool off his temper and settle his strife Archie decided to call little wife, He dropped in his nickel but what did he hear? 'Tm sorry we are picketing here. This threw Archie into a great turmoil, VVhen wifie heard this her blood would boil. I'll get her a souvenir to please her, thought he, 'Tll visit the Statue of Liberty. He rushed to the waterfront to hop on a tug When he was stopped by a Brooklyn thug, Listen, youse squirt, youse out of luck Hadn't you heard that we have just struck? Strikes, strikes, that's all I hear I expected things to be different here, You can have New York, for here nothing clicks, I'll take Maine and stay in the sticks. -Evelyn Sawyer, '47. SCENES Beneath the rambling trees was heard A whistle, a shrill and the singing of birds, And far below was a shady nook, VVhere bubbled along a tiny brook. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, It adds splendor to its opening flower As each petal drops hour by hour. Each tree is' painted green and brown, With the branches falling straight to the ground, The flowers soon hang their heads in despair, For soon they knew winter would be there. Scenes will change like day and night, The earth will be green and sometimes whiteg As time goes on we will see The change in flowers and in the trees. -Jean Leighton, '47.

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24 THE After we had settled down we elected our class officers: Elsie Faulkner, president, Jean Leighton, vice president, and Donna Burke, secretary. Then on October 15, came what we had been dreading, Freshman Reception. But we all will- ingly took part in it and put it over with a bang. On October 20, Mr. Sprague visited us and got us started on the school magazine drive, and we Freshmen really did our part. Now it was the 19th of November and the Bazaar was here and the play Herbie and the Mumpsf' Most of the Freshmen took part in the Bazaar and Evelyn and Elsie really made the play a hit. After the Bazaar the organizing of the basketball squad was under way. Jean Leighton was the only Freshman girl that played on the girls' regular team, although Jean Mitchell, Janice Upton, Elsie Faulkner and Evelyn Sawyer played as substitutes. Earl Dow was the only boy that played on the boys' team. , During the year we had one more Freshman added, and that was Waide Sawyer. He left, however, after a short time. Five members of our class left school. They were Charles Burgess, Franklin Coffin, Oscar Sprague, Althea Hall, and Winona Rumery. When school was closed in June for the surn- mer we had been reduced from twenty-one to sixteen. After a Joyful vacation we came back to M. H. S. September 12, 1944, as gleeful Sophomores, numbering sixteen. We were certainly glad that we were Sophomores as we had cut the four years down to three. Our faculty remained the same with the excep- tion of Miss Bacon, who had become Mrs. Varcoe and had been replaced by Mrs. Georgitis. We also had a new superintendent, Mr. Leach, to begin our Sophomore year. A few weeks rolled by and we had a class meeting to elect our class officers. Janice Upton was elected president, Jean Leighton vice presi- dent, and Donna Burke secretary. On the evening of October 18, the play The Hummingbird Hiccups was presented. Elsie 'and Jean Leighton were the only Sophomores that participated in it, but their very fine acting helped very much to make it a success. Then on November 17th, the Bazaar was here again, and the play Wedding Kne1l. Although LIGHT no Sophomores took part in the play they worked very hard in making the Bazaar a success. Now that the Bazaar was over it was time to start organizing the basketball squad. Jean Leigh- ton and Janice Upton played on the girls' main team and Evelyn Sawyer played as a substitute. Earl Dow was the only Sophomore boy that played on the boys' team, and he played on the regular team. On February 1, we had aptitude tests. Then came June, time for school to close for an- other summeris vacation. Our class now had been reduced by three. Elsie Faulkner had moved away and Rolla Anderson and Harry Strout had left school. This had reduced our class to thirteen. We wondered how many we would have left by our graduation in 1947. On September 10, 1945, we came back to M. H. S. as Juniors. Now we were really coming down the home stretch. Our class had increased by two as Elsie had come back again, and Ramona King- hom entered. We now had only two teachers to begin school. Mr. Jellison had gone to Ellsworth to teach. Mrs. Ceorgitis had left and only Mrs. Strout remained. Mrs. Strout and Mrs. Schoppee started school, and taught for a few weeks before a principal was obtained. Mr. Stinchiield, an Army lieutenant, was released and took over the principal's job and we started school normally again. Now it was time to elect class officers. Evelyn Sawyer was elected president, Keith Leighton vice president, Jean Leighton secretary and Elsie Faulkner treasurer. Then came the Bazaar and the play Thin Ice in which Jean Leighton, Elsie Faulkner, Joyce Fickett, Ramona Kinghorn and Evelyn Sawyer took part. The play was a big hit and enjoyed very much by the audience. After the Bazaar was over it was time to organ- ize the basketball squad. Earl Dow was the only Junior boy that played on the boys' team. Janice Upton, Jean Leighton, Evelyn Sawyer and Elsie Faulkner played on the girls' team. Mrs. Schoppee left us at Christmas and Mr. Strout substituted for her for a week. Then Mr. Wieden took his place to finish out the year. Our class now has been reduced by one more as Juanita Ray has left school. We hope that it will start increasing rather than decreasing. -Keith Leighton, '47.

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26 THE LIGHT SCHOOLMATES Here I sit on this lovely sunny day With pen and paper in hand, Trying to think of something to say. On my left is Donna Burke, Gracious, does that girl work! She has brown hair and hazel eyes Ask hier all the where and whys. And what about that boy in the Navy? Ile likes her like potatoes do gravy. Right ahead there sits a girl Who has blonde -hair, and does it curl??? She just loves to go over to the Eastern Spa, Most of all in a Harrington car. Almost in hack whom do I see But the girl I would most like to be? Shi-'s a goozl personality and complexion is light And when she plays basketball. you see some fight. Everyone likes her, even me- She's iust as nice as she can be, lt's Slu':':'v Mai-l.e:tu--coul 'n't you guess? Wi- hope she always has the best of happiness. --Elsie Faulkner, 517. PLANS It was all planned and settled. They would bm- marriecl soon, ' think that Elsie had decided on an early day iw June, N ' Pifzer chuckled as he watched her in In-r clficient way Plauni nt 1-Qirlj-J for that coming wedding dav. I sat bv a d watchel. and I chuckled to myself As l'Il'fi-- tol.l what pots and pans would fill the pautry shelf, And I chuckled as shi- tall nu' what furniture they would buy, Or what things friends and relatives might supply. And when the little house is linished it will be a dwelling grand, Which Elsie and Roger had for a long time dreamed and planned, And when they turn very old and gray, They will still have their little house on the south side of Dow Bay. -Janice Upton, '47, THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION- WILL IT SUCCEED? Will the United Nations Organization succeed? This is the question that is foremost in the minds of the American people. On this organization lie our hopes of world peace and security. Its success will decide if civilization is to continue or be extcrminated. The United Nations Organization is the most important and the most necessary organization ever to have been proposed. If it succeeds it will surpass the League of Nations by far. Its success depends on the nations' ability to settle disputes by peaceful means, as arbitration, rather than by force. Will the nations abide by decisions handed out hy the Security Council? The United Nations Organization is just an infant and yet it was confronted with disputes before it was organized. Iran and Russia have appealed to the Security Council for aid. If the Council decides in the favor of Russia in the Iranian dispute the smaller nations may say, Well, it's no use for us to stay here, we might as well go hom:-.H If, however, the Council decides in Iran's favor, Russia may have the same attitude. This is what must be prevented. Another had feature of this organization is the vc-to power which the Big Five hold. Any one of these firm- can stop an act of the Security Council bv vetoing it. For instance. if the Council decides 'fi order Russia out of Irm Russia can veto this move and it r-an't be dove. It is dubitable if any of the Big Five would dare oppose the other four. New-rt-lu-less, this is a possible source of discord in thc organization. If the organization is to succeed the American people nmst be behind it one hundred per cent. Every time that difficulties arise we must not get discouraged. Tyding's attack on the U. N. O. is an exam-ple of this. President Truman's speech sums it up If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace. -Evelyn Sawyer, '47. UNEXPECTED CALLER As the bus came to a standstill at Union Sta- tion in San Diego, a young, attractive girl fRutl'l Lewis? descended from the rear of the bus and stepped off, onto the platform. Ruth's parents had been recently in an auto- mobile accident and she was going to live with