Pembroke Academy - Academian Yearbook (Pembroke, NH)

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Under the gay and starry decorat1ons of the Academy audx tonum, over two hundred guests danced to the muslc of Wes l-lerrxck at the Junxor Prom Touches of blue set off an enormous twelve foot srlver star, whmch served as an entrance and mtroduced the theme ' Stardust Adormng the walls were shlmmermg stars scattered about, addlng to the romant1c atmosphere of the dance A huge revolvmg crystal ball sent glrttermg lmages of stars about the gym and reflected xnto the pool beneath, whxch floated sprmg flowers and revealed fallen stardust A path xnvxted dancers to arnble around the pool and 'w1sh upon a fallen star It was 1n th1s beautxful settmg that many people danced at the Jun1or Prom of 1957 Qmwlwwaah at -nur' J'-'ar' 57 .Q l I I , 1 ,f 21,- l S.,- , . ' . . . . . a , ,g.vfw,

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Richard Mozier QVice-President of Salesj, Charles Currier QPresidentj, Lane Dwinell fGovernor of New Hamp- shirel, Norman Chaput QVice-President of Productionj, and Janis Kittredge QVice-President of Advertisement, BETTER BEANIES CORPORATION In order to understand the workings of a corporation, the Problems of Democracy class formed a corporation of their own under the direction of Henry Munroe, Problems teacher. The corporation, named Better Beanies of Pembroke, floated a stock issue of some 300 shares at a par value of ten cents a share which students and teachers eagerly bought. With the capital, members of the corporation purchased material with which to manufacture their product, a beanie of the school colors sporting the letter P . President of the corporation was Charles Currier with Robert Halen as treasurer. Vice presidents Janis Kitt- redge, Norman Chaput, and Richard Mozier headed the departments of advertising, production and sales with the Board of Directors consisting of Charles Bourbeau, Russell Downing, and Richard Mozier. The corporation kicked off the advertising campaign by presenting Governor Lane Dwinell with the first beanie and stock number one. The same staff sent a beanie to American Bandstand and got some advertising on WKBR in Manchester. Soon after the project started, the corridors of the Academy were filled with posters using their catchy slogan Better Buy Better Beanies and urging students to buy. The production department and its workers did an efficient job of making all the beanies5 the sales department, quickly discovering the market to be greater than originally planned on, had to demand that an additional supply come off the production line in great haste. In addition to learning how a corporation really functions, the students made a profit as everyone was paid a salary and stockholders received a dividend. The large number of beanies seen worn by P. A. students witnesses to the fact that still another project of the 1958 Problems of Democracy class has proved successful.

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,, WINTER KI ,, KING TUV' NORMAN FUN, FROLIC, and EXCITEMENT, all are synonyms for the Camzval of '58, a product of the Student COUDC11, wh1ch d1d a marvelous job ln planmng and dlrectmg the events that made up Carnlval Week Dunng the week wh1ch started January 27, and ended February 1, each student partzclpated m at least one of the vanous act1v1t1es Because the whole object of the events was based on pomts, many students part1c1pated ln all the events they could, and a sp1r1t of rlvalry pers1sted Contests conslsted of assemb11es, gym day, a talent show, student teacher day, freshman day, and the annual camlval day Cooperauon was gxven by both students and teachers to make thxs one of the best carmvals Pembroke has ever had Even though hmpmg and smffles were a part of us for the next week, we all had a swell t1me, and w111 not forget for a long t1me the humorous events and ball wh1ch made our camlval the great success It was 58 X X f i Q IQ' Nix ' r 15 da., 'I v I i P V ' . N ' 'XJ V