Oak Grove Coburn High School - Oak Leaves Yearbook (Vassalboro, ME)

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OAK LEAVES ful of others and steadfast in her beautiful faith, Elizabeth wrotethe last chapter of her life even more triumphantly than the others and lives on as an eternal influence for earnestness, loyalty and beauty. Elizabeth's loyalty, her power to apreciate, her grace of expression and her own radiant life shine out in the lovely Christmas booklet with an exquisite little engraving of Notre Dame, which Mrs. Owen cherishes. After the formal greeting Meilleurs voeux pour un Joyeux Noel et une Heureuse Aimee Elizabeth has written in her own fair hand, All of which means: A happy, happy Christmas and a blessed new year to dear Mr. and Mrs. Owen and to all Oak Grove. You would be surprised how often I think of you and Oak Grove. I adore College and have some dear friends there 'but somehow, Oak Grove seems still a sort of second home to me. As Father said once, it was my 'first love.' One doesn't forget 'first loves' and I can assure you that my love for Oak Grove and the Owens never lessens. When I come back, it seems strange to see new faces b-ut I find the spirit.always the same,- that of a large, loyal family. Best wishes and much love to the Owens, specially-Elizabeth. , No more beautiful salutatory has been written at Oak Grove than Eliza- beth's, and as a tribute to this beloved daughter whom Oak Grove was waiting to welcome back as a teacher, the Editors are publishing it as the first article in the literary columns. To Doctor Martin, our dear pastor, and to Dorothea of our Junior Class our hearts go out in united love. VARIED CONTRIBUTIONS Oak LEAVES tries to be a magazine of more than the English Department and for some time has invited and used articles in other languages. This is the first time we have used translations from the elementary Latin classes and some are included because the Department thinks it well for everyone to know Latin at Oak Grove is decidedly alive and includes more than the traditional books of Caesar, Cicero and Vergil. TO OUR ADVERTISERS We wish to express our cordial appreciation of the magnanimous gen- erosity of the many patrons whose names appear in the advertising section of OAK LEAVES. Without their fine cooperation this magazine would have had to be much smaller and with fewer illustrations. We do not expect that all of them will receive any direct profit from this generosity but we do pledge them our enthusiastic good will and pledge ourselves to patronize them at every opportunity. Not only the managers of OAK LEAVES but the entire family at Oak Grove join in this expression of thanks. 6

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OAK LEAVES A NEW CLUB EVOLVES Science has become real and fascinating this year under the teaching of Miss Shockney, whose enthusiasm many of us have caught. After three members of the Science Club had finished reading Microbe Hunters we were eager for more scientific knowledge than the time of the recitation could give us and we found Miss Shockney delighted to sponsor a Science Club. It was decided from the first that the club must be small and exclusive with only those admitted to membership who were sincerely interested in Science and seven was set as an ideal number for the first year. It seemed symbolic, too, as we were striving to break the seven seals of Science. The organization of our club met with the approval of Mrs. Owen. who has done a great deal to help us. From the first we agreed that our club should be seriously intellectual with regular meetings at which some pre- pared scientific subject should be discussed. Margaret Chase was elected president and Janet Appleton, secretary. We chose for our colors, green representing nature, and white for clarity of thought. We subscribed for a scientific magazine, Mrs. Owen arranged for us to have a table in the dining room so we might discuss scientific subjects while dining, and Miss Shockney has constantly contributed material and enthusiasm to our club. One project that met with Mrs. Owen's favor was for the Science Club to provide a speaker for one of our Wednesday ad- dresses before the entire school. We were most fortunate in securing the promise of Dr. Clarence C. Little, formerly president of the University of Maine and the University of Michigan, and now Director of the noted Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Research Laboratory in Bar Harbor, for our speaker. His address was one of the finest ever delivered at Oak Grove and it made us very proud and important to have had a part in bringing him to our school. Our importance and pride, however, were soon destined to break all bounds, for when we met with Dr. Little after his address he actually in- vited our entire club to come to Bar Harbor the following Saturday to inspect his laboratory. Our Principals nodded happy assent and we felt like the most favored of important persons in seven cities. The day itself, however, was conclusive proof to us that realization can far exceed anticipation. We arose very early the next Saturday morn- ing while all the house was silent to find Mrs. Owen expecting us in the dining room immediately where she had had a most delicious breakfast prepared. Just as we finished and three minutes before the time scheduled to leave, Peggy Chase's sister arrived in a big car and we were on our way to Bangor where Dr. Little's own car met us on the never-to-be-forgotten trip to Bar Harbor. The interesting research laboratory explained so clearly to us in all its departments by Dr. Little himself 3 the hundreds and hundreds of mice, the brown, yellow, light, dark, big, little, thin, fat, sick, and well, with which the experiments were performed: and the great im- 8