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

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OAK LEAVES q Q 0 V I , I ow' ' 'ou 50 VSV ' Vnfv? 'XVNN V VW I 'J' Wm f ii lfuflfligzl lllywz ' if N A I mt 0' 1 l l llsisgmgjggql . . , , -as-1 --W - ' n-as so . I I Wynn 'wr llitwoh, . -,v F A i i XXX SA LUTATORY Our Class Day! With what eagerness we have anticipated this occa- sion! Now that it has arrived, We realize the honor that accompanies it and question our own worthiness. We are happy, however, in the con- fidence that our deep affection for our dear Alma Mater fills every place where we may be lacking. Because our school is so dearly beloved by us, this day has a tender significance. As our thoughts turn to the whole meaning of our Commence- ment, we realize that we owe a great debt to you, our Board of Managers. It is the greatest honor to welcome you. We know that what the school is, and what it is to become, rests with you. We are happy to believe that our Alma Mater is in wise and affectionate care. Dear Faculty, it is indeed a pleasure to welcome you. We are finishing a year, made fruitful by your earnest efforts. We have learned from you more than mere classroom studies. We have formed true friendships that will help us endlessly. We are happy in the thoughts circling about our instructors. Our Parents, we know that this day is even more blessed to you than to us. You have cared for us always. You have been self-sacrificing that we might benefit from Oak Grove. Our hearts are filled with joy as we welcome you to our Commencement. Schoolmates, we extend a hearty greeting to you who have shared this happy school life with us. Between us has grown up an affectionate friendship that has meant much to us already and will add new value with succeeding years. Dear school friends, you know better than all others how we have loved our Alma Mater. Today we beg you ever to care for her and always to keep her colors bright and her name fair. You, too, friends of Oak Grove, we welcome happily. Through your 10

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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

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OAK LEAVES influence and help, Oak Grove has prospered. You have shown your inter- est in many ways and as we greet you, we express our appreciation. A flood of tender emotions comes surging in at this hour as we greet you all, managers, teachers, parents, schoolmates and friends. We open our hearts for you to see there the gratitude and love we feel for the com- bined help given us in our training for life. We promise to do our utmost not only to meet and fill well the requirements of our age, but also to be an honor always to you and dear Oak Grove. There are few dawns that have been welcomed with as joyous salu- tation as the one ushered in by the imaginative little factory girl whom Browning has immortalized in his dramatic poem, Pippa Passes. As the little girl bounds from her couch at daybreak, she is eager to make the most of the one holiday allowed her in the whole year. Her heart overflows with intense anticipation as she greets the morning. Day! Faster and more fast, O'er night's brim, day boils at last, Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim Where spurting and suppressed it lay. Oh, Day, if I squander a wavelet of thee, A mite of my twelve hours' treasure, CBe they grants thou art bound to or gifts above measure! One of thy choices or one of thy chances, CBe they tasks God imposed thee or freaks at thy pleasurej -My Day, if I squander such labor or leisure Then shame fall on Asolo, mischief on me! Thus she begins her one holiday of all the year with lofty resolution to make the most of every moment. She ponders as she dresses and won- ders how it would seem to be one of the four great persons of Asolo who seem so happy to her. Although overwhelmed by her own insignificance, Pippa decides that on that day she shall play the role of these four. It is here, as Pippa takes comfort in the message of a New Year's hymn, that the keynote of the poem is struck when she says, All service ranks the same with God, and Browning reveals his theme that each person, no matter how lowly, has his influence upon the world. The little girl from the silk mill hurries up the hillside to the palace where the haughty and unfaithful Ottima is receiving the courtier's homage. Through her singing, Pippa unwittingly arouses their consciences and frees them from their past. Pippa passes next to the home where are the artist, Jules, and his innocent Pheneg and here again, the song of the little girl has an influence all unknown to her. When evening comes, Pippa passes near the Turret as young Luigi and his mother are entering, and 11