Oxford High School - Clarion Yearbook (Oxford, ME)

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Freshman Class Back Row Ralph Everett Myron Wmslow Stanley Exerett Clyde Meserve Wllllam Frye Robert Judluns C' ary Kane Front Row Betty Allen Shrrley Ames Joyce Bartlett Jeanme Duquette Ohve Hall Ruth Mayberry L1ll1an Davls Edward Young School opened September 5th w1th slxteen students m the Freshman Class During t e year e number of Freshmen remamed the same At the first class meetmg the followmg ofli cers were elected Presldent Jeanme Duquette Vlce Presldent Ohve Hall Secretary and Treasurer Ruth Mayberry Representative to the Student Councll Joyce Bartlett Ruth Mayberry Joxce Bartlett and Ohve Hall were actlve ln glrls basketball Robert udkms Wllllam Frye and Clyde Meserve part lClpatCfl ID boys basketball Ohve Hall and Wllllam Frye were chosen to represent the class at the Wmter Camlval Ball Jeanme Duquette Ohve Hall 'md Joyce Ba rtlctt wnll represent the class ln the Freshman Sophomore Pnze Speakmg Contest The class sponsored a roller skatmg party early ln the Sprmg We hope that all slxteen members of the class xull be wlth us durmg our next three years Joyce Bartlett I . V .. ' a x 1 Q J ',r . - n 1 1 9 2 1 a - . . . .n V . x , a . .. .. . n I , 1 ' I , cc '

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The Sophomore Class Back Row Manlyn Cray Ruby Phelps Ronald Rayho Ronald Meserve Robert Grover Kenneth johnson Maureen Albxson Conme Davis Pront Row Charlotte Iackson Beverly Hemck Marlon Byrd john Pike Patncxa Owens Evelyn Frltz jane Percy Lewxs Poland At the openmg of school m September fourteen students were enrolled ln the Sophomore Class Dunng the year Maureen Alblson retumed to school We were requxred to enroll m the Enghsh and Soclal Scxence Classes wlth a chorce of elther General Sclence Busmess Mathematics Algebra II French or Latm At our first class meetlng the followmg oflicers were elected Evelyn Fntz Presldent Patncla Owens Vlce Presxdent Iane Percy Treasurer Lewxs Poland Student Councll Representatlve Members of the Sophomore Class who partlclpated m Basketball were Iohn P1ke Ronald Meserve Patrlcxa Owens Beverly Hernck Evelyn Frltz and Maureen Alblson Patncra Owens Evelyn Fntz and Ruby Phelps wrll compete nn the Freshman Sophomore Pnze Speakxng Contest We are all hopmg that our next two years v. 111 be as enyoyable as our first two years have been Evelyn Fntz 54 l : . Y l 3 , 7 1 , . y If I l I v 1 o 3 . y y 1 1 v . . . . . 1 . . . a I . 9 1 x 1 ' john Pike .................,,,...s.A.....,..r...s...........,,....,.,.....,.. ,..,.s,.......... .,................,..... S ec retary . . . : . , 7 . D 7 I 9 l 7 ' 9 1 - ' I . n , .

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Freedom of the Press Freedom of the press m Amenca rs a wonderful thmg If It were not for thxs good govem ment would be nmpossnble Some people beheve that through the press propaganda IS spread They beheve that be cause many of these papers are pnvatelv owned the behefs of the wealthy owners are over stressed and that they try hard to sway the pubhc they also say the papers try too hard to please the advertlsers thus g'un1ng more patron age In order to please these advertlsers they must take thelr vxewpomt In general they belle ve that the newspapers are on the whole an mstrument used agamst the people Over agamst these vlewpomts we have the fact that we have the best reportmg and news coverage ln the world Granted a posslble blas th1s way or that on the part of some newspaper edntors our best papers have as complete a sep aratlon of news and op1n1on as IS humanly posslble wxth the pubhshmg of the vlewpomts of such speclal edrtonal wrlters as Walter Lxpp man Dorothy Thompson Mark Sulhvan Davld Lawrence and others that are often exactly the 0pp0S1t6 of the ofliclal ed1tor1al op1n1on Furthemxore our forelgn news coverage IS unexcelled and m the field of crlme and cor ruptlon exposure we have the notable examples of the pubhc SCYVICG rf such newspapers as the Phlladelphla Pubhc I edger and one has but to examrne the records of the Puhtzer awards for any year to Bnd examples of the Crusades 'lgamst crlme IH the Held of youmahsm Freedom of the press rs an essen nal m democracy so that the best ldeas mav prevall and progress may be made The way to dest oy a bad 1de'1 IS to present '1 better one Although the r1 t of freedom of the press may be abused by a few people there has not been dlscovered 1 better way to prov1de the members of '1 democracy wlth the facts that they need to know Censorshlp would produce even greater abuses more and more censorshlp would be demanded F rancxs Hernck 52 Education Educatlon started back m Fgvnt along the Nlle about five or SIX thousand years ago The people were taught m groups by a leader who taught all that he knew to the group Thev then could pass the knowledge on to thelr chlldren Sometmmes they wrote on slates such as Abraham Lxncoln used After the slate was filled ltwould all have to be erased Thmk how far we have come today to have all the thmgs me have 1n our schools All past knowledge IS available to us m books We have dlfferent teachers for dlfferent sublects Vl e have tools and equipment for work and study We have dCtlVltl6S for health and entertalnment It used to be that hlgh schools prepared only for college Now we can also leam how to work and eam fi hvmv ln schools today whlch IS 1 great adv mt lge to those not able to go to college Therc IS need for tramlng m manv skllls whlch can be used for employment after gradu ation QCl10Olbll'1VC to prepare now both for collc L and for fI'lilbS The re are many courses taught today as Shop Drlvcr Edutltnon Dome hc Suenu Nlusme md Art Edumtlon cannot go backward It must go forw 1rd Bemard Dunn 53 a , A 1 - ' . v ' ' . , 1. . 1 , , 1 ' 7 ' 1 3 i . . y . , ' I li ,P KK l 0 ,I s 3 , 7 ' 7 I 7 , . . 7 . . - , L A l l ' . J Q . . . Q. . . . . . , , 1 and in the end our democracy would be destroy ed and in its place wc would have dictatorship. , . I I I I I x A . rv ' I l 1 1 . I - , 1 L . . D . , . . L 2 2 ' ' . ., ' . . 1 Eg X 1 1 ' . 2 . ' ' 5 r , I ' 7 ' 4 '1 l x A3 I h K 1. X H I, A J. u, R - 4 lc . r . . , ' R u