Newport High School - Live Wire Yearbook (Newport, ME)

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NEWPORT HIGH SCHOOL But if you can find a guide, You'll always remember that day You went on a buggy ride. If you stay home by your radio, In comes a flash of news. That will start you thinking About those ration blues. Rosalie Jones. OUR FLAG It hangs in every class-room This flag of our land. It's in the hearts of our boys Who fight in united bands. It's before us every moment And each one saves a place To cherish it with love And ever burning grace. It's stripes fly high-the symbol of The things which we believe. The love we shower over it Will never be relieved. And when our day of Victory comes Old Glory shall fly high, Her folds unfurled to every breeze Which blows through peaceful skies. Betty Turner. HOME Where's the place you long for When you're many miles away? Where's the place you're thinking of As your thoughts race -by each day? The pasture's always greener On the other side of the fenceg But it seldom seems to be that way When you use your common sense. It's easy now, to bluff it out, We all would like to roamg But I'll bet my hat, we'll all be glad When it's time to start back home. John H. Webb, Jr. l24l

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THE LIVE WIRE Or golden fairies slide. Like diamonds they glitter, A most enchanting sight, Piercing through a velvet blueg A hazy Wreath of light. Clusters of precious jewels Shine thru' a clear, cool night, Faintly smiling down at us. That misty cloud of light. Phyllis Whittaker. LOVE What is love? said Johnny Brown To his older sister Sue. I can't understand about it at all. Do you really think you do ? Well, Sue began to tell him . The accurate meaning of love She said, It was angels blessings Sent from the heavens above. Love's like a case of spring fever. It makes your heart play a tune, And it may end With Wedding bells In April, May, or June. Love's like a sandman's pleasant dream, With all beautiful things surround- ing. Love's like a garden of trees and shrubs, And beautiful flowers abounding. Now do you see, said Sister Sue To little Johnny Brown, What love is and Why the angels Order it sent down ? Yes, said John, I think I do, And his face began to blush, It's all good things put into one I And ends in kisses and mush. It's when a guy looks at a girl And thinks she's like a dove, ' And, if he finds she has some dough, Well, Brother, he's in love. Joyce Emerson. ODE 'FO THE ANT A curious creature The industrious ant. A double feature Of rambling and rant. Entomologists rate him A creature of brains. They record his cities, The armies he trains. He professes religion, Casts ballots, holds slaves. Holds courts of conviction To sentence his knaves. Entomologists can claim Educational training. But I don't give him credit To go in when it's raining. Theo Wiers RATION BOOK BLUES We haven't any sugar, We've used our points for shoes, We haven't much of anything, Except those ration blues. But why should we be kicking About our ration books, While our boys are out there fighting To wipe out the Axis crooks? Weive had to give up pleasure driv- ing, But don't let that get you down. There is still a horse and buggy To take you into town. Some say you can't have any fun, I .

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THE LIVE WIRE I LQCALS SENIOR PLAY Back Row, left to rfght-N. Stevens, M, Fletcher, J. Webb, D. Carsley, E, Parent, Miss G. Haw- kins, coach, E. Dow. Front Row, left to rightfL. Chadwick, L. Clement. B. Foss, B. Leavitt. SENIOR PLAY 'LDon't Darken My Doorlu the an- nual Senior Play, produced at the Town Hall, January 26, was coached by Miss Genevieve Hawkins, and in- cluded the following cast: Roger Kent, a bachelor Lyle Chadwick Rosemary Kent, his romantic niece Dorcas Carsley Tom Garrick, Rosemary's persis- tent suitor John Webb, Jr. Poppy Foster, maid-of-all-work Beulah Leavitt Alec Stebbins, Poppy's devoted swain Bernard Foss I Jane Perkins, a writer of romances Lorraine Clement Louisa Featherstone, a maiden lady Emily Parent Susie Featherstone, her younger sister Eva Dow The story: 4 Rosemary, influenced by Jane Per- kin's books of romance, scorns all of her would-be lovers, until Tom Gar- rick appears on the scene and stub- bornly refuses to give her up. He is aided by Rosemary's uncle and Jane Perkins herself, who both wish Rose- mary to be married to Tom. Accord- ing to their plans, these three make I