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

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OAK LEAVES 1943 FROM OUR YOUNGER PENS MOTHER Her face is lov-ely because It is made of lines of devotion and love, Not selfishness and self pity- But she gives everything to everybody. A kind word here, and a smile there, A helpful hand when 'tis needed- Fair advice to growing daughters Who love her very dearly. She never tires of endless jobs Of going here and there, But a lovely smile is on her lips- And encouragement everywhere. CYNTHIA RICH, '46, i..-l1..-li A VIEW AT OAK GROVE As one stands on the front hill of our School, in any season of the year, fall, winter or spring, one is inspired by beauty everywhere to work harder, and to strive with more intensity than ever before. In the fall, the leaves are tipped with a flame of fire and we feel the beauty of nature close to us. The leaves so ve-ry beautiful, make us bright and cheery and we pass this happiness on to others. In winter, the hills above our peaceful valley of the blue and winding Kennebec River, are white with th-e flakes which are so small and minute, yet shining. It gives us a feeling of ex- ceeding peac-e, and makes us wonder why there has to be killing and hatred in this world of ours, when we should stop to admire and love the beauties of God. In the spring, wh-en the trees are just beginning to show green We feel an exhilaration as the wind moves the branches or blows strongly and cleanly against our faces, or as the rain pours down from heaven and gives us a cleansed feeling with new energy in all our veins. We are filled with a new zeal to work hard and gladly in the tasks of today and the preparation for tomorrow so that our boys may soon come home again and so there may never be anoth-er terrible war like this one. PATIENCE LAURIATE, '46, 27

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OAK LEAv1ss 1943 SENIORS ROMP GAILY THROUGH FOREST OF ARDEN IN AS YOU LIKE IT . SENIOR SURVEY 1. Most attractive Jean Abernethy 2. Best dressed Frances White 3. Most sophisticated Ev-elyn Franz 4. Cutest Mary Knell 5. First married Betty Lou Carleton 6. Most likely to succeed Jill Lamarche 7. Most humorous Nancy Ribble 8. Most original Betty Loring 9. Most athletic Shirley Bamford 10. Best entertainer Catherine Williams 11. Does most for Oak Grove Virginia Lyman 12. B-est figure Joan Perry 13. Most artistic Jane Pease 14. Most intellectually interesting Sally Stetson 15. Quietest Barbara Jean Creighton 26

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OAK LEAVES 1943 THE BACKS OF BRIGGS, RECITATION, AND ADMINISTRATION AS SEEN FROM THE EAST GADEN IN MAY. HARMONIES Musicians come from an unknown land Singing great things of a mystic land, Music is not only understood by all But it is the soul with which we call Oth God make us be musical like you So good, so harmonious and true. And let us make music like things he makes The trees and leaves, the seas and lakes. The most perfect harmony comes from God, His music is in all,-Water, Wind and sod. The music is like an onrush of sound That swirls, then fades, around and 'round. But as we listen it forms a line, A perfect but simple, divine design,- The design a human, but Godlike thing, The most Godly thing our souls can sing. Music unites us all in peace, A peace that will never entirely cease, And in that peace our souls soar high Far away, into the clear blue skyg Away from the turmoil and war, and strife. That still are on earth, in this our life. Through God's sublime harmony we had our birth So we brought His music upon this earth, And music will ever be, the song of the soul, Of the good and the badl in the world as a whole. 28