Milbridge High School - Light Yearbook (Milbridge, ME)

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TI-IE LIGHT 37 kissedf but the girls nowadays do well if they can say 'sweet sixteen and never been marriedf Boys are terribly independent. I'm glad I never had anything to do with them. I don't know what the world is coming to, I just don't, said Hatty. This younger genera- tion is terrible. Why, just yesterday I-U Oh, look, interrupted Rosetta, there goes julie Anderson in a car with that young whipper- snapper David Parsons and joe Blowf' All of the women leaned forward in their chairs and looked out the bay window Cwhich, I might add, was the purpose of the semi-circle in the parlorl. Why, that Joe Blow is always running around somewhere. I should think his father would make him help around the farm. Lord knows that man works hard enough, Rosetta rambled on. Hatty peered over her horned rim spectacles at Willmina Van Snoad and asked, Don't you think it is simply disgusting, Mrs. Van Snoad? I think, replied that prominent lady, that we older people do not realize that the world is changing. We don't give the younger people credit for their good judgment. There is no harm in a girl riding in a car if she wishes. Perhaps our mothers didn't let us go out but I can recall several times that I defied my mother's word and I'm sure you can, too. I also think that the younger generation are justified in the fact that they have sense enough to enjoy themselves while they are young. Why, of course, Hatty hastened to agree. I must admit I never thought of it in that way before. Times have changed. You are quite right, Willmina. Of coursef, gushed Matilda and Rosetta to- gether. They were so anxious to please Mrs. Van Snoad. I remember now once when I went to a baseball game with a boy when I was sixteen. I wasn't supposed to, as I said before, until I was seventeen, said Rosetta Huff. She giggled fool- ishly as if she were a bobby-soxer. She thought she was very devilish. Willmina glanced about with a satisfied look. She had won one more battle for the boys and girls of the town. Matilda noticed the grandfather clock in the corner and got up hastily. My goodness, she exclaimed, I must go home. It's nearly dinner time. The other ladies looked at the clock and they, too, rose and, with murmured apologies to Hatty and one last look out the bay window, the ladies departed. -Marjorie Anne Wallace, '49. -Iona Sorenson, '48. A MOTHER'S SON That morning as Mrs. Brown waved goodbye to Jimmy, who was leaving for an Army training camp, she little knew what was to come. If she could 'have looked into the future I'm sure she wouldnit have let him go. She appeared to be very brave, but she really felt like crying. The house seemed so desolate since Jimmy left. She expected a let-ter from him today and was anxiously waiting the arrival of the mailman. The letter she received from him told her he missed her but was having a nice time. A month later she received a letter from him telling her he was going -overseas. This news was very appalling. A day after that a card was sent with his overseas address attached. She heard from him later, but, of course, he couldn't tell where he was but she knew probably that he was in New Guinea. The fighting was tough and the going was hard, but he told her not to worry too much. That night as she went to bed she prayed: Dear God, watch over Jimmy and send him home safe to me. -Bernice Steele, '48. MOVIE TITLES Main Street After Dark-The one in Millbridge. Together Again-Teachers and pupils after vacation. The Town Went Wild-After a victorious game of basketball. Oh, What a Night-Night Hobgoblin House was presented. Experiment Perilous-Playing hooky. Don't Fence Me In-A plea to the teachers on a sunny day. Military Secret-Where -Mr. Stinchfield gets his curly hair. You Can't Ration Love-So the Senior girls say. A Great American Romance-Bunny and her Dapper Dan. The Notorious Lone Wolf-Irving Phinney.

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THE LIGHT FRESHMEN Back row----Gordon King, Amold Stunwood, Paul Mitchell. Second row-Sherry McLean, Beryl Holland, Donna Burgess, Ioanne Freeman, Beverly Pinkham, Arlene Tibhetls. Merna Drisko. Front row--Maxine Sprague, Marjorie Anne Wallace, Doreen Strout.