Pennell Institute - Whirlpool Yearbook (Gray, ME)

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6 THe WHIRLPOOL EDITORIALS GROWTH THROUGH RECREATION The thing we young people enjoy most in life is not wealth or physical enjoyment but growth and development. We all like to ex- plore things and learn more about ourselves, our environment, aud the people whom we watch and admire. We want to live a full life and get the most that we can from life. This can be done either directly or indirectly through play. True recreation is that which is enjoyed most and is the far- thest away from one's everyday work. The same activities are not suitable for everyone. А good recreation for one person may be drudgery for another. However, most schools have enough variety in activities so that everyone may be included. Activity is better for anyone than mere entertainment. It develops one physically and socially and is much more enjoyed. Delinquency is developed in great part where there is very little or no opportunity for activity, and where only poor forms of rec- reation are available. This is why in schools more and more outside activities аге being brought into the daily curriculum. Students who are often seen hanging around street corners would no doubt participate in more activities, were there more activities in which to participate. And yet we hear older people continually saying that all there 15 in high school these days is dancing and ball games. Some even go so far as to say that high school is no good because more time is devoted to activity than to study. But we young people are not conservatives, we are liberals, we want change, improve- ment. Maybe what was good enough for older people is good enough for us. But what 1s good for us probably would have been a lot better for them too. Activities must be learned when one is young and has the en- thusiasm to learn, rather than spending one's younger days read- ing books and spending one's later days trying to learn what should have been learned years before. Possibly in the olden days this was considered the only form of education. But it has been definitely proven that meeting people and knowing how to entertain and participate in different activities makes up the greater part of education. Not only do we like the different courses here such as Arts and Crafts, Music, Athletics, Gym, and Bible Study but we also realize how much value as recreation these activities offer us. We don't want fewer recreations. We want more! ! LurrLrA Воур, '42

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THE FACULTY S. EAntE RicHanops, Principal French, History, Driving, Director of Music, Grad- uation. EvELvN B. Кмснт Home Economics, Social. Director, Dramatics, Arts and Crafts. ErHEL H. Spencer English, Latin, Director of Girls’ Athletics, Се: Club. Jonn D. Loiko Manual Arts, Director of Boys’ Athletics, Boys’ Glee Club, Arts and Crafts.

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Tur WHIRLPOOL 7 FULL SPEED AHEAD Today we are facing an international as well as national emer- gency. After many small defenseless democracies have been swal- lowed up by the dictatorial governments, we see that if we don't prepare ourselves at once these countries which are led by tyran- nical dictators will also try to take over America. Our country is full of spies, sympathizers of Hitlerism, Fas- cism, Communism, and other non-American, unpatriotic groups. We must be rid of these non-patriots, for we won't have any secrets of our army, navy, and defense program as the war con- tinues. The defense machine is now getting into high gear. We are training thousands of men who will fight in our army if we enter the war. We are sending supplies to England and other brave countries which are trying to fight off the Axis Powers. We have only one stumbling block, but this is in our own coun- try. This obstacle is the strikes caused by the Labor Unions. Ex- perts say that we will be in the war by July. If this is true we can't be hampered by the strikes if we ever expect to be prepared and fully armed by then. England, our first line of defense, needs the supplies that are being held up by the Labor leaders who cause the strikes. Let us be rid of those who wish to hold up our produc- tion line. All of us can help bolster our defense. Yes, even the American youth. Of course, there aren’t many of our youths old enough to make airplanes, guns, etc., but we can all help by fighting against spies and enemy agents. We have a powerful defender in our knowledge of what is going on. We are more informed than the youth of any other country in the world. Our health is another weapon. If we keep this we will be phy- sically fit for the Army, Navy or the Marine Corps. We must remember that we youth are the future citizens of America. We have indeed something to fight for. If we rid ourselves of our stumbling block, we will be far ahead on our Defense Program. May the dictators always be op- pressed! ARNOLD Hatt, '43