Old Orchard Beach High School - Oceana Yearbook (Old Orchard Beach, ME)

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l Top row: Marjorie Spraguejean Mewer, Marjorie McLaughlin. Znd: Jimmie Mullen Harold Angis. Srd: Betty Taylor, Shirley Jones, Howard Slaney. 4th: Betty Crossert Howard Slaney. 31

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LITERARY WINTER SONG Winter is dancing all over the land Singing the song of snow. The music is hushed, yet the fiakes all keep time, As round and round they go! By PRUDENCE SMITH, '48 FAITH The sun shining through the stained glass windows of a small Russian church brought the only touch of beauty to the wrecked land outside. Within, knelt a poor, shabby, peasant woman praying. Need you ask about what? The roaring guns, shrieking cries of women and children still lingered, and all around, hunger, filth, and poverty hovered, almost smothering the people. It was almost sunset when all is peaceful, but the uneasiness seemed to stay The bell in the church chimed seven and with it came the roaring, thundering sound of airplanes. Could they be ours? were the words that sprang up among the people. Then the warning sounded. The townspeople scattered. The time passed slowly that hellish night for the peasants, with little or no sleep. The morning sun seemed to add a little something to their lives. The horror of the past evening could be plainly seen, but the lives of all continued: father to the fieldsg mother to her housework, if any house to cleang the children to play in the bomb-shattered earth. With the coming of dusk, the only refuge still remains the church, clean, pure and untouched. Again we see the poor, bent, peasant women praying, deep in thought, and untouched by the turmoil without. With this faith and hope, how is this little Russian town to be lost forever? True faith endureth forever. RITA FITZGIBBONS, '47 WHO Who knows the cause of happiness Ur from what source it springs? We only know it's something That gives our spirits wings. PAULETTE LACOURSE, '48 . 32