Pennell Institute - Whirlpool Yearbook (Gray, ME)

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THE PENNELL WHIRLPOOL THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL GCominencement Pennell Institute, Gray Maine Stimson Memorial Hall June 5, 1925 Class Motto (Aim High and Hold your Aim) Class Colors (Crimson and White) Music Invocation, Rev. A. W. Brown Salutatory, Warren Hunt Libby Essay, Lena Maybelle Allen Class History, Isabelle Kathryn Sawyer Essay—The Art of Aerial Navigation, Lawrence Wilbert Whitney : Music Essay—Lafayette National Park, Howard Lawrence Humphrey Oration—The War Against Prejudice, Frank Loring McConkey Music Essay—Gene Stratton Porter, Annie Winchester Frank Class Prophecy, Ina Mahala Severy Maynard Brown Colley : Music Essay—Crosswords of Today, Marion Louise Pollard Presentation of Gifts, Mary Etta Higgins Chester Leroy Morrill Class Will, Earle Freeman Stevens Valedictory, Charles Nelson Winslow Music Presentation of Diplomas Benediction, Rev. A. W. Brown 13

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12 THE PENNELL WHIRLPOOL TRANSLATION Carmen 9, Liber 1, Horace: “Steep Soracte glistens with snow, Her forests groan under their load; Thick ice checks the swift rivers’ flow Stars gleam from their lofty abode. Away with thy dread and thy gloom Push another huge log on the fire. Let’s make this cozy old room Resound with sweet strains of the lyre! Bring out your pure Sabine wine Four years have mellowed it well. With our songs let us praise the fair vine Thanks to Bacchus we'll joyfully tell. The same God will care for our needs, Who orders the winds to be still, Whose bidding the dark cyprus heeds, And the mountain ash bends to his will. Fear not what the future may bring Perhaps it may be for our gain. Today we can laugh, dance, and sing, The morrow’ll have sun besides rain. Brave lovers we should not despise, As long as old age keeps aloof, The dance we need not criticise In the joy and the freedom of youth. W. Libby, ’25

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14 THE PENNELL WHIRLPOOL LOCALS At the beginning of the year, a change of teachers was made. Mrs. Elizabeth Hamm of Bangor was elect- ed to fill the position as first assist- ant, formerly held by Mr. Robert Goff of Portland. Miss Dorothy Miller, who was the English teacher at Pennell Institute in the year 1923-24, is now married to Mr. George Chick, and teaches school at Limington, Maine. Mr. Robert Goff, also a former teacher at Pennell, is pianist in a Portland orchestra. Mrs. Dawn Grant, the music teach- er in the town schools, has been com- ing to the Institute, Wednesday, each week, to teach vocal music and to di- rect the orchestra. All the students seem to take an interest in music, and we have a fine chorus of alto and so- prano voices. Each morning in cha- pel, Miss Aubigne Cushing conducts the music in a very able manner. The personnel of the school orches- tra is as follows: Piano, Ralph Morrill Louise Chipman Violin, Marion Hawkes Naomi Roberts Cello Norman Cole Cornet, Everett Morrill Drums, Georgia Young Banjo, Norman Webb The citizenship prize, (five dollar gold-piece), awarded annually by Pro- fessor Guy Chipman, an Alumnus-of Pennell, to some member of the school body, was presented last year to Miss Ina Severy, 1925. A few weeks before the close of the winter term a Latin Club was organ- ized for the purpose of arousing more interest in the Latin language among the students. Any student who has taken Latin, or is taking it during the year, is eligible for membership. So far, we have had eight meetings. The officers are as follows: Consul, Aubigne Cushing Tribune, Everett Ellinwood