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

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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

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OAK LEAVES portance to mankind of the experiments which are being made in the laboratory impressed us beyond the power of words to explain adequately. After all our lessons and observations in the laboratory we were invited to the home of Dr. Little, where hospitality and bounty awaited us at a delightful luncheon. Immediately after this cars appeared at the door and Ur. Little invited us for a motor ride through beautiful Acadia National Park and around the scenic shores for which Bar Harbor is noted. It was just as though a fairy had come and given us all the wishes we could ask for as we reveled in one beauty and delight after another. When the time came to say good-bye to our wonderful host words seemed very futile to express the gratitude and happiness which were in our hearts. We reached Bangor in time for supper together and a bit of shopping before we took the late train back to Waterville, where our good principal met us very late and brought us back to Oak Grove at the end of a Perfect Day. All but two members of our Science Club are graduating, but they will be a nucleus for the club next year and what competition there will be for members, since Dr. Little has invited our club to come to Bar Harbor again next year. GREETINGS FROM ALUMNAE Commencement again-another group of Seniors join the ranks of our Alumnae. We welcome you, new graduates! You are our younger sisters and we are proud of you. We like to feel that there is an invisible badge which distinguishes every Oak Grove graduate. It shows in the power and charm of character that has developed as the Oak Grove ideals have become instilled in us. This ideal of Oak Grove holds a very definite place in our lives. You have now received your badges, your Oak Grove marks of distinction. The Commencement wish of the Alumnae, now your graduate sisters, is that your badge may ever be a controlling influence in your lives, an influence which will guide you always to that which is most noble, womanly and beautiful. It is our desire that you, as our new graduates, realize this and that as your lives deepen and broaden during the coming years,ethis influence of Oak Grove may lead you closer to the attainment of your highest ideals. Lovingly a11d confidently yours, BEVERLY POWELL, '27. 9