Pemetic High School - Pemetic Yearbook (Southwest Harbor, ME)

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Suddenly, returning to his normal self, he shooedNedout the door, saying that a fellow could never earn a cent by dawdling. Ned Parkinson ran down the walk. The grass, hand cut to save money, scraggled across the cement. As he came to the road, Miss Totter, the fourth grade teacher, came scurrying by. Land sakes, Little Mr. Parkinson, what are you doing in there with that old stingy Fogarty. Why, do you know that he's so tight, he won't even give to the Red Cross, and he's had the same suit of clothes for twenty years, and he is the most anti-social . . .! Ned ducked beneath her arm, and with a cough and a sigh of relief, left her talking to the hedge, and ticking off on her bony fingers, the number of reasons that Clarence Fogarty was con- sidered the stingiest man in town. The friendship between the fourth grader and the eighty year old penny pincher, lasted one month. Every day, Ned ate ice cream with the old man and listened, enraptured, to Fogarty's yarns, or just sat in the big quiet house and watched the people on the street. But one day, Ned didn't come, and the old man, the penny pincher, was worried. Ned Parkinson had died of Leukemia. The cough, the tiredness, all had been first signs of the dreaded fatal disease. His parents were heartbroken, but they had six other children to look after. It was two months later, when the teachers of Claryden School started a drive for Leukemia, in memory of Ned Parkinson. It was on December 31, when the Leukemia fund received a check for $15,000. An odd looking check, of heavy parchment, the numbers filled in with deep scarlet ink. CREDITS ODE TO A SURFBOARD William Thurston GAME ............................................................. Paul Walsh (inspired by the short story entitled Game by Donald Barthelme, appearing in LITERARY CAVALCADE, February, 1966) Story on page 14................................................... Mary Hamlin THE DAY PEMETIC STOOD STILL........................................Merle Martel 16 THE GIFT Peggy Robinson

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NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY Membership in the National Honor Society is the highest honor Pemetic can bestow on its students. In order to qualify for consideration, the student must excel in scholarship, leader- ship, character, and service. Our one big project for the year is the initia- tion of new members; however, we are active all through the year trying to live up to the standards for which we are honored. SEATED: J. Stanley, B. Doble, M. Martel, L. Rich. STAND- ING: Mr. Furtwengler, R. Bunker. PRESIDENT............Raymond Bunker VICE-PRESIDENT................Merle Martel SECRETARY-TREASURER .... Linda Rich Compliments of: WHITNEY'S ELECTRIC SERVICE • Southwest Harbor 18