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

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K LEAVES 19 'WN fl!47rM X A , EDITORIALS My A TRIBUTE Student government can be a hlghly controverslal subject to dlscuss even on paper but here at Oak GIOXG we owe a trlbute to that small but excellent group the Student Coun 11 In many secondary schools no such group exists or havmg once fa1led no longer functlons Thanks to the vusdom of our Prlnclpals and the hlgh callbre of past Counc1ls our student gox 81 nment lS a xltal useful organ Th1s year s Councll headed by an unusually dlllgent and creatlve P1 es1 dent has both led and sened the school Wlth w1sdom and force The pos1t1on of a Councllor IS occaslonaly glor1ous rarely appreclated and nexer easy To legard one s frlends objectn ely to place the good of the group before personal pleasure and to take an actlve hand 1n the dlscxphn of one s peels are Jobs whlch take unusual courage ab111ty and strength of character To the the g1rls who haxe done so much for us th1s year we glxe th1s trlbute for work well done ELIZABETH DOENGES 6 CUM LAUDE AT PHILLIPS ANDOVER Elght Oak G1 oxe lepresentatn es xx ent dow 11 to the annual Cum laude meetlng th1S May at Andox er Desplte the large Inajorlty of boys present we managed to have an rntelleotually 1nterest1ng tlme' Our TOPIC was Who should teach and xx hs I and oul speaker xx as Judson Shaplm soclate Dlrcctor of the G1 aduate School of Educatlon at Hanard Hls spee h concerned mth the CILDIQSSIIIQ' sltuatlon educat1on faces today was gn en after a fine lunch, beforehand, we had met 1n small groups to flS cuss VHIIOUS sub top1cs, such as What do vou l1ke or dlS1lkQ IH a teacher , Should a teacher be a scholar V , and How much IS a teacher worth 9 F01 a group of teenagers, those bones had plenty of meat' Oul group came to about the same concluslons as the others We dec1ded that xezsa t1l1tx, consxstency, f3.1I'll6SS, and maturlty were lespected qualltles m a teacher, that a teacher should be, fir st of all, well lnformed ln h1S field, 5 0 A 5 5 FT. Ja' , --'T ' , ,v ff I 'Qt 41,173 f' - gill' 1 ft' r If-1 aa! ., '-T ' 9 , 1 - --ai f 'W' - ef f' f, 9-It VV 'V I' ,. U P. 2: . dn: ig: .v Qxfi' nl' 3 'Sep , L V' V if ' ' ,nj H- Ka-5. 2 ' ' .Hr J- in , -1 , 1:33243 V V, X ,V V . f' ' fy? X , , ' QEVVVV V' . Q . ,HV , V., ,V V . V T N X Q '-sa , g . X Ng 1 X V Y ' 2' . f, '12 ' V V+ 'r , 7 . 4, , , f bg ,, 3, ' T Qs pass, 'Ear 2 ' 5 A' '1- A ,WW '1 N V V -QL ' r I ::'l S' ' - W. ' :Z - 'Wk El iw I :ss A .' :Daze I . . A ffl, .1 . f.g, . 4 R RA. .. A . -Qlfgl' . , V V v V . 7 -' Y 7 1 'C - s . V V V V V V. . . . . . ' a Y ' 7 V . . , . V V . . V. V .- . v ', ' , V . , V , V V V. V . V V V V , . V . . V ' a , I 9 , V . V . . . . V . v Q. v ' v Y . v - fr' , 0 . . . . Y L . V J , v , V . Y v V V V ,,. V . . V,, . V V . V it w v ,, n u v 1 I V I . , As- ' ' A , .. 1 ' . v ' 3 V . , . N . . V V V

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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 , .