Pennell Institute - Whirlpool Yearbook (Gray, ME)

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12 Tur WHIRLPOOL band number one, and Susan Grimes is looking for husband num- ber two. Hi Hawkins and Sis Spooner are a typical pair of coun- try kids in love. Philip West, a young lawyer, is in love with April, Mrs. Starr's daughter. There is much trouble about oily water, but everything turns out all right—Roomer is outwitted because of the worthless check Susan gives him. Lucindy finally accepts the heart of Ambrose, the local horse doctor, who has been wooing her for fifteen years. Susan is still left looking for a man. Much of the success of the play we owe to the juniors and sopho- mores who helped us produce it. RUTH SMITH. JUNIOR NOTES The Junior class launched into its third year at Pennell with an enroliment of eleven students, but when noses were counted for a second time, we found we had only ten pupils. The eleventh left us during November. At our first class meeting we elected the following officers : TOF ESIC GT ees Мио CUMMINGS ПЛЕЕРЕ ON. teens. GILES Carr SGH LORS нЕ нна SHIRLEY KUCH ЕПУ art ec EE eS Martin LASHUA Glass. dde lS EP enin ы RS Miss Rerp To represent us on the Student Council we chose Jeanne Smith and Arnold Hall. In girls' sports was Jeanne Smith, who starred on the Softball team and also on the Basketball team. In boys' sports more Jun- lors participated. Earle Wilson, Milo Cummings, and Martin Lashua were on the first team for Basketball, while Arnold Hall and Giles Carr were substitutes. Arnold Hall took part in Track. Martin Lashua and Arnold Hall took part in the Senior Drama. Milo Cummings, trumpeter, is our sole representative in the Orchestra this year. When we enter Pennell next September as Seniors, we hope to accomplish more than we did this year. SHIRLEY KUCH. SOPHOMORE ACTIVITIES On September ninth, twenty-two of us who were formerly Freshmen entered the Sophomore Room to become sophisticated Sophomores. However, our number is now reduced to twenty. After this lively class got settled, we elected the following class officers; President, Clifford Purinton; Vice-President, Walter Stewart; Secretary, Merilyn Cole; Treasurer, Norma Humphrey. Then we elected Robert Purinton and Colleen Blake as the Stu- dent Council Members.

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Tue WHIRLPOOL 11 SENIOR ACTIVITIES The class of 42 returned to Pennell this fall minus two mem- bers, leaving a grand total of seven “dignified seniors. The main room would have looked much larger if we hadn't had the five P. G's to help fill it. We elected Madeline Grant to represent us in the Student Council and chose the following class officers: Ruth Smith, Presi- dent; Mae Muzzy, Vice-President; Dorothy Colley, Secretary and Treasurer. In spite of our small class, we have been prominent in extra curricular activities. Three senior girls were on the regular bas- ketball team—Dorothy Colley, Mae Muzzy, and Ruth Smith. Badminton, volleyball, and softball were played and enjoyed by all. We were terribly disappointed because we couldn't take our annual trip to Washington, but Mr. Richards introduced a good substitute. He suggested we go to Boston for a few days. To secure money for our Boston Trip and graduation, we sold chances on defense stamps, had the annual Senior Fair, and reaped a good reward on our Class Play. In United States History Class is the only time at which we are all together (at one time there were only three of us). Even if the class of 742 is small, every one of us is proud of it; and as graduation rapidly approaches, we get a strange feeling deep down inside. Nevertheless, we are all looking forward to gradua- tion, but soon it will be all over: and no matter what vocation we choose, we shall always owe our success to the superb training we received at Pennell. Котн SMITH. SENIOR PLAY “A Pair of Country Kids” On November 27th and 28th the Senior Class presented the play, A Pair of Country Kids, a three-act comedy. The characters were as follows: Mrs. Sarah Starr (proprietress of the Starr House) ............ Madeline Grant April Starr (her daughter) Ruth Smith Philip West (a young lawyer) . Martin Lashua Sis Spooner (maid at the Starr House) жое Ve erts eene Colleen. Blake Lucindy Appleby (a husband-hunter) ...... Dorothy Colley Susan Grimes (after a second husband) ues Mae Muzzy Hi Hawkins (the village pest) eee en nn Robert Purinton Ambrose Sneggins (a horse doctor) esse Roland Humphrey Arthur Roberts (a guest at the Starr House) sess Arnold Hall Albert Roomer (another guest) esses e Harold Cooper A Pair of Country Kids takes place in a humdrum little town at Joggins Junction. Mrs. Starr conducts the Starr Hotel, and all the action takes place there. Lucindy Appleby is looking for hus-

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THE WHIRLPOOL 13 The members of the class who are in the Orchestra are Merilyn Cole, pianist; Harold Cooper, drummer; and Ethel Tripp, clari- netist. In Glee Club we have more students showing a musical inter- est. The members are Merilyn Cole, Gloria Grant, Peggy Small, Ethel Tripp, Shirley Purinton, Emily Maxwell, Norma Humph- rey, Marion Thompson, and Colleen Blake. In sports we have had quite a few show interest. First, there was Softball for the girls in the fall. They played two games, one with Cape Elizabeth and one with Greely. The girls who were on the team are Janice Doughty, Shirley Purinton, Ethel Tripp, Emily Maxwell, Betty Atwood, and Colleen Blake. In the fall the boys played Football and almost all the Sophomores partici- pated. The next sport was Basketball, including both girls’ and boys’. The girls who came out for practice were Betty Atwood, Emily Maxwell, Ethel Tripp, Shirley Purinton, Norma Humphrey, and Colleen Blake. Those who played on the team were Emily Max- well, Ethel Tripp, Shirley Purinton, and Colleen Blake. The boys who played were Robert Purinton, Walter Stuart, and Harold Cooper. Along with the arrival of spring we have the annual boys' track meet. The boys from our class coming out for practice are Harold Cooper, Robert Purinton, and Clifford Purinton. The last part of October the Seniors had a “try out for the roles in their drama, “А Pair of Country Kids. When the drama was presented on the stage we recognized as prominent members of the cast three Sophomores: Robert Purinton, as Hi Hawkins, the village pest; Harold Cooper, as A. Roomer, a guest at the Starr House; and Colleen Blake, as Sis Spooner, maid-of-all-work at the Starr House. АП tried their best to keep the audience laugh- ing and all of us enjoyed helping the Seniors present the drama. Now the committees for the booths are busily planning. The committee for the girls’ booth, Prize Cake and Guessing the Num- ber of Beans in a Jar, is Gloria Grant, Betty Atwood, and Colleen Blake. The boys have a Fortune Telling booth; Robert Purinton and Harold Cooper are in charge of it. Clifford Purinton is in charge of the Penny Pitch booth. The class has five students who are taking First Aid at the course Doctor Beck is teaching for the students. They are: Gloria Grant, Ethel Tripp, Merilyn Cole, Shirley Purinton, and Colleen Blake. The Sophomore Class had one calamity befall us when our class adviser and leader, Mr. Record, left us to help Uncle Sam