Pennell Institute - Whirlpool Yearbook (Gray, ME)

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Editor-in-Chief Business lanager Literary Editor Local Editor Alumnt Editor Athletic Editor Art Editor THE WHIRLPOOL Board of Editors Merton SWEETSER, DEPARTMENT EDITORS FRANCES CUSHING, Manion LEeacn, FRANCES SOULE, ANDERSON MORRILL, IeaMity Fievp, CLASS REPORTERS ALLAN COFFIN, 719 Laura Snow, ’20 Faculty Adviser Roscor Sawyer, ’21 Karu Linpy, 72 ’20 Joun WaLKEr, 722 Miss BaILity

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THE WHIRLPOOL 5 It has been years since Pennell Institute boasted a school paper. With this issue, the first of Te PexneLL Wutriroot, we wish to interest the scholars, the parents, and especially the alumni to such an extent that they will all co-operate to have one published every year. It has been planned by the present editorial board, which consists mostly of Juniors, to pass the honor as well as the work of managing the school paper to the class below us as soon as they have become Juniors, leaving the management of the paper always in the hands of that class Perhaps you wonder why the Seniors do not manage the paper; if you will stop to think, you will easily see that at the time when the paper needs the most) attention, they are working carnestly to complete their class parts. Since the Seniors are counted out, and the Juniors hold second place in the ranks of the classes, the task naturally falls to them. Tach class, however, is represented by a class editor. The financing of the paper is not a very easy task. Anyone who has had much to do with printing at the present prices will realize how nearly impossible it would be to make a paper pay for itself in a small school like ours; but thanks to our advertisers, our good-will subscribers, and the people who patronized our minstrel show, the circulation will not have to pay the costs of the paper. The success of the paper, however, does not depend entirely on the financial success, but upon the way it is received by the alumni and parents. It was undertaken in order that there might be a more friendly feeling, a better understanding, between the alumni and students, that people in- terested in school affairs might have some way of seeing what is being accomplished by the different classes. Not enough parents and friends visit the school; and we hope that this paper may arouse some who are lacking interest in school affairs to wake up to the fact that upon the school rests the future of the town. The work of making people realize should be largely done by the alumni, who may support and improve the school, which should be dear to them.