Pennell Institute - Whirlpool Yearbook (Gray, ME)

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6 THE WHIRLPOOL Owing to the swiftness with which the selectmen of the town are proceeding with manual training, this paper may be inappropriate when it comes from the printers, barring this, however: our subscribers may be interested to know the solution of housing manual training as it has been figured out by the students of Pennell Institute. At the present day there are plain indications that manual training will soon be as essential in a school course as English or Algebra. Pennell ranks as a Class A high school; and to keep this place she must adopt new courses as they become necessary. This means that manual training must come sooner or later. There are also some advantages besides courses of study that Pennell needs in order to keep her place; one of these is a gym- nasium. What naturally suggests itself to you? Is it not to have them both in the same building? Is that not the best way? If a small building were erected for manual training, it would soon be of insufficient size; for the course, as it became more advanced, would soon require more machinery, which would require greater floor space. Further- more, a gymnasium would some time mean another small building, and the expense of both would probably be more than sufficient to have erected one large one, which would have given better satisfaction as a manual training room and a gymnasium, and which would look much better on the ‘campus than two small ones. The high school was a gift to the town. Can not the town well afford to erect a building that shall add to the appearance of Pennell Institute grounds rather than detract from it? It is unfortunately necessary for the out-of-town pupils that come on the car to wait for an hour after school. We do not mind it so much on pleasant days, but on rainy days we cannot walk around the town, and everyone knows that the power station is not a pleasant place to spend an hour in. Then when we have an entertainment at school, and some wish to remain until eight o’clock, on account of having no place to wait, they have to wander around from four until cight. Wandering around gets tiresome after a time. Why would it not be possible for us to have a leader and form a club, where we could arrange amusements for our hour of waiting? On fair days we might plan some short walk or something of the sort. Perhaps we might hire a room in some house near the school- building. If the teachers approve of this plan, why can it not be put into execution next year? All students in any high school are expected as far as possible to produce literary work suitable for publication. The students of Pennell Institute, even with no school paper, have always been encouraged to write with this prospect in view. The work submitted in Tie PiExniiy WHtrL-

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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.

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THE WHIRLPOOI, i | root of 1919, chosen in respect to its literary value, has been taken from the regular work of the classes, and was not written especially for the paper These papers consist of many styles; description, narrative, expositios abstracts, and poetry. No papers of argumentation are included, not be cause we have had no debates, but, instead, because the students debat« from notes, and use no papers for this purpose. We wish to thank the students for their support in submitting their work for this issue, and it is hoped and expected that in the future the interest may increase and that the school paper will act as a stimulus for the students to produce better literature each year.