Pennell Institute - Whirlpool Yearbook (Gray, ME)

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Ka Although the Freshman class has not spe: sored many activities, we feel we have donc enough for the first year. The Freshman class has contributed its share of basketball players this winter and we hope some will be chosen for baseball. Ken- neth Hayes and Burchard Dunn were on the varsity basketball team, and Stearns Caswell and Richard Barter were on the Junior var- sity. Judith Butler and Patricia Libby played for the girls’ basketball team. The boys who went out for fall baseball were: Kenneth Hayes, Robert Gibbs, Stearns Caswell, and Ruel Ordway. The cheerleaders from the Freshman class were: Judith Butler and Ruel Ordway. Our second year at Pennell now nearly com- leted, we find it time to “take stock and look ack over our achievements. At the beginning of the fall term all our old classmates wer e back, twenty-two students; and the following officers were elected, for the year: Ruel Ordway, President; Richard Barter, Vice-President and Student Council Member; Ann Dingwell, Sec- retary; Phillip Richardson, Treasurer, and Patty Libby, Student Council Member. Early this year, Phillip Richardson moved to Texas, and we elected Burchard Dunn to take over the duties of Treasurer. Mary and Josephine Lockard joined us after the middle of the year. SENIOR Cy CLASS REPORTS The class officers were: President, Ruel Ordway, Vice President, Wayne Sherwood, Secretary, Robert Libby, Treasurer, Judith Butler. The members of the Freshman class were very co-operative in paying their dues. The class consists of twenty-nine pupils, seventeen boys and twelve girls. Although the Freshman class had the low- est average in rank during the first term, we climbed to the highest during the third and fourth terms. Rue Onpwar, '53. STEARNS CASWELL, '53, So far, we have sponsored two dances, and three one-act plays. We did well on the dances and the plays were not only a great success, but a lot of lun as well. Representing our class in basketball were: Patty Libby, Joanne Foster, Kenneth Hayes, Burchard Dunn, Stearns Caswell, and Richard Barter. On the cheering squad were: Judith Butler and Ann Dingwell. Representatives on the awimming team: Patty Libby, Richard Barter, and Stearns Caswell. This year has been quite successful, and we're hoping the next will be even better. Ann Dingwell, '53 We started the year with twenty-four students. Josephine Lockard and Lois Henry left and Robert Gibbs moved away. Our class officers are the following: President Ruel Ordway Vice-President Richard Barter Secretary Nancy Reed Treasurer Kenneth Hayes The Juniors who participated in basketball are: Kenneth Hayes, Richard Barter, Bur chard Dunn, and Patty Libby. In baseball: Kenneth Hayes, Richard Barter, Burchard Dunn, Stearns Caswell and Ruel Ordway. We had one cheerleader, Patty, Libby. The annual Junior Prom was held in November, it went off very nice- ly. We have held quite a few dances and put on three one-act plays. We also took part in the Minstrel Show with the Seniors. Everything was quite successful. The Junior Class has really had a very sventful year and we hope our senior year will be equally successful.

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| e SENIOB LITERARY Pio 1950 % id) VALUE OF ATHLETICS Some people believe that too much stress is placed on athletics. They believe that it is all right to have sports, but that when athletics are put over school subjects it is time to stop. One of the reasons is that in many of our present colleges money is given athletes for playing. Sports are a source of income for many of our high schools. The receipts are used to buy sporting equipment in most high schools and colleges. Some people belicve athletics develop sound, clean minds and a will to strive for success, and that athletes make better citizens. To be sure, athletics develop a rugged, competitive spirit, but is this sometimes destroyed by too much glory? How much better citizen wi l the plain non-sportsminded fellow make than the athlete? To me athletics are worthwhile and im- portant to a democratic nation. It is one thing in which everyone has an se chance, and whether a man is dark or white, it does not mean he is a better athlete. Kenner Hayes, 53. gm, e A ] ! o. A 951 LA ZDE STARTING OFF IIt's a cold frosty morning, And the fire feels so good; TThe coffee's gently perking, While the stove is stoked with wood. It's mighty hard to start, But we drag ourselves away FFrom the heat of the kitchen As we start our hunting day. He's five o'clock already, With night's darkness hardly gone, BBut there's light enough to see by, And the deer are up at dawn. IFor a second all are wishing That they might be home in bed; IBut the moment quickly passes, And cheer comes in its stead, We are ready for the day, And here comes the sun; The guns are loaded quickly And hunting has begun. Stearns Caswell, '53 a 1951 Dr THE TREE The tree, Nature's gift, so high, Towers upward to the sky; Its age depends upon its rings, Which are peculiar looking things. Its roots are long and round, With no end to them beneath the graund; These roots arc its strength and, in time, Make it stand erect in storm or shine. Its limbs stretch out from every side, And on most trees are large and wide; In evergreens there is no end, And, when winter comes, snow makes them ben The leaves are its source af food, Though they're of many shapes and crude; They protect the birds from summer's wind a rain, And hide the squirrel from the hunter's brain. The tree's a wondrous thing on our great earth; It was here before our forefather's birth; And on a cold aad windy night It burns in the fireplace, warm and bright. Ruel Ordway, '5: kConom 1951 CYCLE OF DREAMS Did you ever, at summer's end, Sleep beneath the maples tall, Dream and think of all the things That go along with the coming of fall? Of children hurrying off to school To study, and learn their lessons well. Of the flocks of birds now flying South To remain there for a tropic spell? Half dreaming, as you look around, You rest your eyes upon the trees And on the leaves of gold and brown That flutter in the autumn breeze. But better stop your dreaming now. To think of still another thing: Of winter that will come and go And the coming of the spring. And as you go to school each day Wishing that spring were here, Take each season as it comes For together they form a year. Nancy Reed, ‘53 THE STAG From the twilizht of the rushes Forth into the flush of sunset, He moves with bending Grace. Head erect, with crown uplifted, Nostrils tense, hie eres depict Accsution ncesurcd in his stetely pace. Minutes seen to me like hours- KEY TO SENIOR BABY FICTURES: While dE: enreloved by the silence, E EE 7. W. White Fear a Dreat will olundcr such a sight. p F ne Divný i T ER A gentle breeze now stire the lines- WEN Kee: 18! EN TEE And tre atag eware nov of my vresonce 5. T. Butler Ti POE, Disaonerrs into t c waning lirbt. 6. R. Ordway 12. S. Bowen Ann Dingwell !53