Pennell Institute - Whirlpool Yearbook (Gray, ME)

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In CMemoriam ANNIE E. BAILEY We, the Junior Class of Pennell, wish to pay our last respects to Miss Annie E. Bailey. In 1919-1920 Miss Bailey taught at Pennell and, under her supervision, the first edition of the WHIRLPOOL came out in 1919. Miss Bailey had a distinctive teaching career and in 1926 was given the award as the outstand- ing teacher in the State of Maine. She spent many years of her life in Gray and will remain in the hearts of the townspeople as one of its outstanding citizens. She passed away April 11, 1937,

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(Dedication GEORGE W. NEWBEGIN We, the Junior Class of Pennell, wish to dedicate this, our edition of the WHIRLPOOL, to the late Mr. George W. Newbegin. Mr. Newbegin will ever remain tn our memories as the kind and interested benefactor of our School.

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EDITORIALS Stick-to-it-iveness Jim Fisher had como to Smith University a year before, Although his parents were not very wealthy and would have to enduro many hardships, he was sont to his father's Alma Mater. Everything had goné well, until about two months from the end of his first year, Then in one of his father's letters he read this: Our financial situation is desperate. I am afraid you will have to come home. Jim wrote right back and this is what his father read: I wouldn't come home now if I were paid to. I will make out somehow. His father wondered at this, but when Jim came home at the end of the year he told his father a very queer story, which made his father very proud. This was Jim's story: Immediately upon my arrival at college Jack Johnson, the millionaire's son and his crowd began to taunt mee I was not as good as they because I roomed at the 'poorhouse! and ate at Mrs. Murphy's dining room. They called me a Ysissy' and many other names. It made me angry and now I've decided to go back next fall and beat them at their own game, football. But son, I have no money to send you to college, replied the father sor- rowfully, I don't care, father, I heve a job at college. I wait on the training table at meals and every day I tend furnaces about the college. Well, son, it's up to yous If you think you can manage it, I'l] help you all I can. When September came, Jim again started for Smith University. When he are rived, the first thing he did was to add his name to the list of football vole unteers, posted on the bulletin board. Next day was the first practise, at two-thirty in the afternoon, Jim got there early but at the appointed time he found many other boys there and ho began to wonder how he could ever make good, but he stayed. The boys were told to report to the difforent coaches and as- sistantse Jim went to the backfield coach and told him that he would like to try out for the right halfback position, for that was the position that Jack Johnson hzldon the varsity. Jim knew nothing about football but he had a fine mind and paid attention every minute. Jim had a wonderful body, broad shoulders, slim hips, and well muscled legs. Although Jim had such a body as this ho had always been a stu- dent not an athicto, but he wes destined to change his ways. He developod very quickly into a good football player, all he needed was experience, In his sophomore year Jim playcd in only o few games. He played two full games, while Jack Johnson was recovering from a sprained ankle he had received in a football gamee Ho went in for a few minutes in nearly overy games Jack Johnson did not think much about it but in Jim's junior year Jack became alarmed at finding himself on the bench more and moro, He plottcd against Jim and the coach but he was found out and expelled from college. Jim then played all the gamos, He was the best all round player that had