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

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K LEAVES 19 secondly able to put hrs work across to the s udents on a oncpreherrdrble ley el thrrdly a well rounded scholar rn order to relate hrs subrect to others and finally that a teacher rs definrtely y orth more than he gets although no one partrcularly wanted to pay hrm rrore' All rn all after takrng a yote as to how many of us a tuallv rntended to be teachers I belreye 'VIr Shaplrn had good reason to be dr turbed oy er the lack of actrye rn terest rn educatron today and I for one may someday decrde to 'yttend Harvard s Graduate School of Educatronl BETSY PALMER 5 COSMOPOLITAN Our Oak Grove rs unusually cosmopolrtan Srx of our teachers were born rn other countrres nrne others have studred rn other countrres whrle strll others have trayeled rather wrdely and thrrteen students are from other countrres Our world mrndedness does not stop here howeyer and we seek constantly to make ourselves rnternatronfrl crtrzens In December four of us represented New England at the annual Inter natronal Youth Semrnar rn Washrngrton and later rn New York at the Unrted Natrons The garns we made from broadenrng our mrnds and makrng thrrllrng new contacts cannot be expressed on paper It made us eager for our own Youth Conference rn January at Oak Grove when we agarn welcomed Wrnrfred Barrett and our specral rnternatronal guest Herberto Sem Wrll any of us eyer forget the closrng off the conference when Senor Sern read hrs poem w hr h has been adopted as the poem of the Unrted Natrons Unrted Natrons Its Yours '7 We were among, the hosts whr h also rncluded Presrdent and Mrs hrsenhow er to have the honor of entertarnrng the presrdentral party from the Republrc of Hartr Under the expert tutelage of the Maglorre srsters we learned therr natronal anthem for the occasron and sang rt along wrth The Star Qpangled Banner for the gracrous and charmrng Oak Croye mother Madame Maglorre In Aprrl five of us rncludrng the three older members of the student councrl went wrth Mrs Brown to the Nrzz York Herald Trrlruru Inter natronal Youth Forum Frye berng an extraordrnarrly hrgh number or delegates from ey en an enormous school we felt prrvrledged and thorough ly enjoyed try rng to lrye up to the honor Throughout the year we w ent rn groups to Colby College to attend the Gabrrelsorr Lectures on Internatronal affarrs and returned to our hrll full of the hrstory now berng made to prepare for the day when we too may haye a part rn the ey ents of the world Indeed we are most fortunate to haye close alrye yryrd contact wrth the whole wrde world and rts mvrrad phases and facets May our rnterest and actryrty contrnue to rncr ease ELIZABETH DOENGES 56 7 OA 0 0 v ' . . L 1. ' , L, , r. .. . . ' V y . ' . . ' ' -. Y g, 7 . Y 0 1 1 . A v Q- A . V r r . , A v V v fr ' ' ' '-' . 9 A '. 'Sw . ' ' - . v ' . . y v Y . , c . 7 ' ,- , O . . I 4 A Z ' y I. K Y . . ' I .' . , . ' I . v v . , ' . U y y V I . , . C .X . . , r .. v , ' 4 .' ' A , . Y ' 1 . 1 rr Y . . Y Y . ' ', ' v 'In , ., . ' ' il ' ' 7 ,Y Y ' 7 ' 7' 'N , ' 2 L' . T' v ' ' . ' ' . v - x ' ' 9 r 3 r , . . V . . I i . . Y. ' 7 Y as , yr , ' ' . W . v -k . 1 r , , . V . . X B Y 7 ' ' v 1' v , . . . - - -' , W .- Y 7 ' 7 - X ' . Y . ' . . v - f. . , , - . Y V. . 7 v w Y v I r r '4 v v ' 1 v 1 u, Y Y 7 nf I V . v W X u v . , . y . v v. Y. X . . Y . . 1 7 sf . X Y . . . v. . . n I . I l 1 . . 1 , .

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K LEAvEs 19 1 CHEEORTA Last xea1 there xxere a fexx rumors that Oak Groxe mlght haxe a nexx fl19plCOf stable sorre dax and xxe all thought lt xx as a good 1dea Then came xxord IH Augu t that the foundatlon xx as gomg 1n and vxhen xxe aruxed the walls xxe1e up so xx ha e had the fun of xxatchmg It groxx but nex er m our xxlldest 1mag1nat1ons had xxe plctured hoxx xxonderful It xx ould actuallx be Modern as toncorloxx there ale stalls up the center fo1 e ghteen horses wlth a gallelx aboxe for spectators and unmounted puplls xx a1t1ng for a lesson xxho can watch the omplete cncle of r1ders It IS yu t thrllhng to know that Wltll a xx onderful Rldlng Master l1ke Sklppel we need nex er m1ss a day of les ons hereafter The hol ses are as sweet as lambs mdtors we haxe had such fun rldlng bareback and ex ery detall IS nearer perfectlon than anythlng xxe could haxe lmaglned lncludmg a dxmkmg fountaln The tack room IS finxshed 1n knottx p1ne Sklppel has a llttle ofhce beyond It and lVIr and Mrs Sklpp r haxe an apartment w1th wlndows to the east ox ellooklng., the nearby pond the httle orchard to the outh and the mountams auoss the rlver Our oxvn dresslng room also 1n knottx pxne IS a llttle dleam loom There IS a retlrlng room for fathers xx h1 h vxxll be parallel to xt the grounds are belng landscaped the curvmg lane f1 om the h1ll doxxn to the stable IS alreadv lmed xxlth old fash1oned hlacs and along the full length vxe are settmg out apple trees for pmk blossoms 1n the spring and luscxous frult ln the fall To oul a1ch1tect xx ho deslgned and supcuntended It xxe take a sxxeepmg boxx for the wax she lode out the cr1t1c1sms dax after dax of those xxho ould not x1sual1ze It and who has her thr1ll1ng rexx ard 1n the unammous adm1rat1on and enthu lam of us all fol Cheeorta Stable 'X x x, 1 9 O A ' 5 7 2 V . Q S . Y . . Y v v .' v v, V . , A ve T , ' ' V, ' -V I 1 I A v V, 1 ' I v , l I -tv v L . Ku , ' ' 2 ' ' . ' ' ' S . ' ' . N , v . ' , V . 1 Y v . . , . ' A ' . . . ' e ' . ' T ' ' v . ' ,- , v ' ! s , - '- le . , - , ' . V v Y . . A ' ' V and then a five room apartment above. Work has started on the new ring V C y .y 4 . y . ' A .' ' v v ' V . y , ! u ' ' .' .' -' ' 3 ' l A , 1 ff, A .' , f-L N gf ll ,f fm, Kd -X X 11 ' ' ' , , if ,M s x .l'3, 'lr 'T 2 qt D fw a Q , , ll' if ' 1 v - WK-5,