Pembroke High School - Mattakeesett Yearbook (Pembroke, MA)

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assisted by Mrs. Ruth Cote and Robert Prendergast, members of the teaching staff. Town selectmen furnished the student uoters with regulation ballot bores and voting booths. Walls of the school have been liberally supplied in recent weeks with campaign posters of the student candidates. Prin- cipal Creighton also permitted use of campaign speeches orer the school pub- lic address systems. During the past month, student groups haue interviewed the town's elected and appointed officers. They asked the officials questions about their duties, the length of time they had served and what qualifications were needed. Their questions were from prepared lists and the interzfiewers read the replies in classrooms. Nomination papers, requiring at least 16 signatures, were carefully checked by student registrars. The name of only one candidate for town clerk was printed on the ballot after another candida-te's n-ominaftion paper was found imperfect. -Brockton Daily Enterprise Wednesday, February 4, 1953 THE YOUTH FINANCE BOARD IN ACTION! MAREN SToLL, '56 AND SARA HAVEY, '56 CAMPAIGNINGl YOUTH TOWN MEETING All town officers having been previ- ously elected in a siznzdated town elec- tion, the first Youth Town Meeting of its kind in this section of the country was brought to order at nine-thirty on 16, 1953, by our Monday, February Moderator, Warren Call. Anne Creeden in her role as Town Clerk took her place the moderator and on the stage with kept careful records of each phase of the meeting. The Finance Committee, consisting of Richard Hall, Jane Cor- son, Donald Romine, Evelyn Fogg, Eugene Grant, and Randall Kunz, was on hand at the front of the hall to serve as an aid to the voters and the modera- tor with their recommendations on many articles. After choosing Addison Learned and Janet Gage as tellers,

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Will the lunch period be any longer? The lunch periods will be staggered as they are now, but the lunch period will be somewhat longer, ten minutes, as a matter of fact, so that they will have two lunch periods 30 minutes in length. Will the Junior High be a definite part of the school? The Junior High classes will use the facilities of the Wood Working classg however, for the most part the Junior High classes will be held in a separate wing. Whereas the Seventh grade in Pembroke now doesn't even change their classroom, they will have the oppor- tunity of changing rooms in the new building. Will we have greater interscholas- tic sports ? I feel that that is a natural out- growth of the increase in the size of the school. Where almost everyone who goes out for basketball or baseball here at Pembroke is almost assured of a place on the team. That condition will not be quite as ideal in the new school and yet these people are still interested in sports and want to play them. Because we have an increased faculty group we will probably have 3 men coaches and 2 or 3 women involved with sports. It is logical to believe that we will develop an intermural program. Do you think that we will be able to offer a first year language every year? There will be no alternation of courses and every course that is given will be given annually. The only excep- tion to this will be pcrhaps in your very advanced classes, Latin 3 and perhaps Latin 4, Mathematics and the very high Regi mal School A rlmifnistrators Principal LLoYD CREIGHTON Superintendent CHESTER T. RAY Assistant Superintendent M. FRANCIS MORAN branches Trig and Solid Geometry, may not be offered annually, but they will be offered if 5 or more students Wish them. That is all of the questions I have. Thank you very much, Mr. Creighton. DEBORAH JONES, '55 YOUTH TOWN ELECTION Monday, February 2 1953 UFFIGIAL BALLUT Fon PEMBROKE PEMBROKE PLAN STUDENT TOWN MEETING The ballotfiig ions clone at Pembroke High School airditoriurh, usual voting place of the toiorr, under supervision of Principal Lloyd M. Creighton who was

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Moderator Call proceeded in taking up each article in its turn and putting it through the proper channels to be passed or defeated as the voters saw lit. At 11.15 the meeting was recessed until 12.00 at which time it was recon- vened until the close of school. When time was running short, it was moved and passed that we should skip to the end of the warrant to the articles sub- mitted by the students and then go back to the articles which had been passed over. Time ran out that day and the meeting was adjourned until 8.30 the following morning when it was taken up with all the exuberance of the pre- vious day. Information was handled skillfully and arguments ran thick and fast among the Selectmen, Robert Clarke, Michael Zacchilli, and Howard Mathews. The Youth Town Meeting was a tre- mendous success and proved profitable to the teachers as well as the pupils. We wish to thank the American Legion and all others who made this marvelous opportunity possible for the youth of Pembroke. Respectfully submitted, SALLY BALTZER, Tax Collector TO HOLD IN MEMORY We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone seafbreakers, And sitting by desolate streams: World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ARTHUR O'SI-IAUGHNESSY CHOSEN WARREN CALL President of Senior Class Active in Youth Politics PEMBROKE-At a recent election held in Pembroke High School, Warren Call was selected as the Pembroke High School good government day represen- tative. Call will participate in the functions of State government on March 13, at the State House in conjunction with other boys from High Schools all over the State. Call is senior class president, moder- ator of the Pembroke Youth Town Meet- ing and Boys' State representative. He will be graduated in June and plans to further his education in an engineering college. H -Brockton Daily Enterprise Thursday, February 5, 1953