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

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OAK LEAVES 1946 :l A K. , K A ONE COLT The palommo colt was brave and strong As he stood near h1s mother 1n the field He nelghed and gamboled awkwardly away And stood h1s mane a banner IH the breeze The Wmd behmd hlm rufllmg up h1s tall Just darmg h1m to sway agamst 1tS rrught But dld he st1r'7 He dldn t not one meh Unt1l he frlsked across the sunht grass To where the mare was wa1t1ng pat1ently And when he reached her folded h1s long legs And Cl umpled to the ground all tlred out From h1s brave battle Wlth the elements G P 7 21 . '. 1 1 1 2 r . . . . . . . ., . - T' 1 J 1 7 7 ..,4

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OAK LEAVES 1946 FROM THE FAMILY ALBUMI GRANDFATHER One of the most rnterestrng persons I have ever known was my grand father George Lyman Krttredge To me no other man could be hrs equ rl Although he was '1 learned man and famous as 'rn ruthorrty on Sh rkespeare he also had trme for pleasure and fun He had many hobbres one of whrch was collectrng Indran relrcs from Cape Cod He also was a great gardener and had an orchard vxrth many apple trees The lrttle thrngs whrch he drd such as grxrng my brother and me pennres for brrngrng hrm the newspaper at the table make me real17e how warm and krnd he was ready for a roke any trme rnd gl rd to get 1 chance rt flshrng once rn a whrle These lrttle human ex ery day thrngs mfrde me loxe my grandpa Hrs great lrterary works wrll long be remembered but hrs unny sprrrt w1ll remarn rn our famrly BARBARA KITTREDGE GRANDMOTHER She wasrr t much to look at small thrn and grey harred but tr om her tace shone love and she w rs beautrful rn sprrrt As a chrld of nrne she had been taken from school permanently because of a heart arlment but she con trnued her educatron and overcame her handrcap lowest statron rn lrfe She remarned adaptable to novel srtuatrons and I never consrdered her old because her sprrrt was so xery young She was rntrmately acquarnted vsrth wood lore loved and apprecrated musrc wrs rudely read rn scrence lrterature and hrstory knew rt seemed to me every thrng that one person could I never knew her to hurt any per son or anrmal physrcally or mentally She was consrderate of all and even rn her most parnful excrucratrng hours I never heard a word of complarnt When she dred there was no flagrant drsplay of sorrow Her spurt was so powerful that rt seemed hardly cred rble t'rat she was gone Thrs was a xx omfrn whom everyone lox ed Who w rs thrs person you ask' It wx as my gr rndmother ETHLL Lhwrs DAD Not by any means am I tryrng to forget my mother s ine rnterestrng character when I say that my father rs the most rnter estrng person I have ever known So much do I love hrm that I hate even to classrfy hrm as a person Such a cold word that Dad does many thrngs to me rmpresses me amuses me and rnfluences ust rr few of the trrbutcs from ,L lrttle project rn Englrsh 23 f 1 - ' ' - ' r . , . , r c . c I ' r' c 2 I x If D v 4 1 v . I 1, . ' ' ' f ' , z 2 z r I . . ' u . v. 1 1 'Av Av 7 , y ' Y 4 ' . , , ' . . ' ' kv 72 1 l xv . I 4' , kv v f ' y - She was always cheerful, calm and sympathetic even with those of the v ' ' .' v y - I v . . . V. - ' v . . 1 E H V C S 9 l 1 C I Q 9 -V v ' v 1 w I Y v. . I r I . i ' 7 c ' ' . z s ' s , ' Q '. ' 2 1 '. . 4, . y . . ' v K6 77 I V . -T. u q , Lv 1 4 . '