Phillips High School - Phillipian Yearbook (Phillips, ME)

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THF l'lill.I.lPlAN 21 ' GR,-XMMAR SCHOOL BASKli'l'IiAl.l. BOYS Front row. left to right: Weymouth. Heath, 'I'ooth.ilter. Dodge. Rollins, Guerney, llavenport Back row: Coach Toothalaer. Bolduc. McLain, Hardv. Heath. Prescott. Wing would have been very proud of this year's hasltetlwall team and its record. NORTH FRANKLIN GRAMMAR SCHOOL TOURNAMENT On March 23rd a grammar school tourna- ment was held at Alumni Building. The afternoon games were decided hy a draw, Rangeley and Kingfield playing at two o'clock. and Stratton and Phillips at three. The Rangeley-Kingfield game was close all of the way, hut Millluury. with his long shots. finally won the game for Rangeley 25-22. The second game was an easy win for Phillips. Although heaten hy Stratton ear- lier in the season we had no trouble holding the lead on our own floor. Our second and third teams played the last period. The final score was 32-lg. Toothalier was high point man with 12 points. .Ns a result of these two games Stratton and liingheld were to play for third place at seven o'clock in the evening. and Rangelcy and Phillips were to play at eight for the championship of the tournament. ln the first evening game Stratton was no match for the hig Kingheld team. Kingheld took an early lead and held it throughout the game. finally winning 38-18. This gave Kingheld third place in the tournament. The championship game was the most ex- citing game of the tournament. Phillips held a small lead throughout the game. Dur- ing the last quarter the game got rather rough and spectators very excited. We came through and won the first North Franklin County Grammar School Tournament with a score of l7-l-l. High scorers for the tournament were Sim- mons of liingfield. 37 points: Millhury of Rangeley. 255 Toothalter of Phillips. 193 S. lillis ol' Stratton, l8g Atwood of liingfield, I7. No all tournament team was chosen, hut we feel sure that if one had heen, Millhury, Toothalier. Simmons, and Rollins would have lieen selected for this honor.

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20 THE PH lighted when Strong asked for a practice before their championship game at Farm- ington the following week. At the end of four periods we were leading, and then we continued to play for another hour and one half with -the Hnal score 72-71. We have enjoyed our basketball, and feel that we have had a successful season. With only two regular players back from last year's team, and a very late start, we won seven games. We are already looking for- ward to next year with our whole squad back for another year. Strong and Rangeley tied in the North Franklin League and finally decided to play for the championship in our hall. The game was close with Strong finally winning. ILLIPIAN could hardly wait for the hall to be repaired so that we might start practice. Finally, the hall was completed, and 21 boys turned out for our first practice. A A week later, our coach, Newt Tooth- aker, picked out a team and we went to Kingtield to play Kingfield Grammar School. This was our first game and we were afraid that we could do little against the much larger Kingfield team. But to our surprise, and joy, we came out victorious with a score of 36 to 20. Dodge piled up 18 points, and T oothaker got 10 points. A few nights later we went to Stratton. We had a very good game and were tied at the end of ton beat us the regular four quarters. Strat- 30-26 in a three minute overtime. loss for the season. Summary of games played: . 23 Phillips Wilton Phillips 19 Strong Phillips 29 Rangeley Phillips 25 Strong Phillips 3l Kingfield Phillips 38 Stratton Phillips 25 New Sharon ' Phillips 24 Kingfield ' Phillips 35 Wilton ' Phillips 20 Rangeley Phillips 16 lay , Phillips -ll Stratton ' Phillips 26 New Sharon ' Phillips 36 lay 'Games at home Track The girls hoped to play a few games of softball this spring. But after two weeks' practice, we decided to give up softball and enter a team in the track meet to be held in Farmington, May 19th. It is hoped that all schools in Franklin County and Kents Hill will be represented at this meet. No girl now in school has ever taken part in track. But we are practicing each day and having a lot of fun. We hope that some of our girls may win a few points. The events scheduled are: 50 yd. dash, 75 yd. dash,'standing broad jump, shot, base- ball throw, basketball throw, and relay race. A H. B. P. G. S. TIGERS For two years we have felt that 1945 would be a big year for us in basketball. We This was our only Dodge was high man with ll points. Our next game was at Farmington, where we won an easy game with a score' of 20-ll. Dodge was high scorer with 10 points. When we went to Rangeley our tall, Hrst team guard, Basil Rollins, was sick. The game was close and Bob Dodge scored the winning basket in the last 10 seconds. The score was 20-19. Toothaker was high point man with 9 points. Our first home game was with Farming- ton. The Farmington boys were no match for our much larger team and we won 31-18. Toothaker and Dodge had ll points each. Our next home game was with Rangeley. Vile played 'without Dodge, and won 28-20. Toothaker was high man with 12 points and Kendall Heath a close second with 9 points. Our final game before the tournament was at Strong. We got an early lead and kept it throughout the game. The score was 23-12. We had a very successful year, winning 8 games out of 9. In many of the games our second and even our third team played. We are losing our first team and five sub- stitutes this year. But we hope that P. G. S. will have a fair team next year. We appreciate the time and effort that our coach, Newt Toothaker, has given, we feel he deserves a lot of credit for our success. Mr. Bean always took a great interest in our school activities, and we feel sure he

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22 THE PHILLIPIAN LITERARY DEPARTME T E are proud tonight to be able to place Old Glory on this platform. VVe love our Hag. each and every one of us, not only for its beauty, but for what it rep- resents. Land of our Hearts! A free land - free from want, free from fear, free to worship and to speak. Land of our Hearts, where the feet of the aggressors do not tread, where our flag waves in the breeze, a breeze untainted by falling bombs. Land of our Hearts, America! America, that boys from this school, from the class of 1945, are fighting for. VVe have reason to be proud of our coun- try, proud of its size, its resources, its people, its government. XVe like our way of life, a way of life based on freedom for all. When we read stories of conditions in cer- tain of the countries in Europe we realize anew that we would fight to the last man to keep America, American. Before Pearl Harbor, we were very poorly prepared for war. Why? Because America is not an aggressor nation. We are slow to fight. In one day-less than a day after Pearl Harbor we were changed from a peace lov- ing, easy-going people to a people eager to iight, maddened, ready to do anything to avepge that sneak attack by the japanese. Looking back it is hard to realize how fast we got into gear. In almost no time at all we had an army, a navy, and an air corps- not just adequate. but superior. Our factories were changed overnight from peace time production to war time production. Isn't a country that can do a thing like that worth lighting for? So again I say that we are proud to pre- sent the stars and stripes, representing a free people, a free land - the Land of our Hearts. Frank Beal E, the Class of 1945, are glad to wel- come you, parents, teachers, friends and relatives, members of the school board, and our superintendent, to our last gathering as members of Phillips High School. We realize that through the years of our school- ing you have helped to guide us and have taken an active interest in us and our prob- lems. We appreciate this and welcome you, one and all, to these graduating exercises. VVe have chosen for the title of our grad- uation program, Land of Our Hearts. Probably never more than now have we been made to realize how much this land of ours means to us: how very dear it is to our hearts. We look around us-our buildings stand tall and straight. We scan the sky- the planes we see are ours -we watch them out of sight, admiring their beauty and their speed. There is no one here tonight who has not, in the slight degree possible, pictured the terror that has reigned through long years in the European countries - the falling bombs, the smoking ruins, the death, the destruction. There is no one here who does not realize that without our mighty army, our navy, our marines -all branches of the armed services -our land, too, might be in the hands of our enemies. With full hearts we thank God that our land has been spared. Today Phillips, Avon, and Madrid have a total of 227 boys and girls in the armed forces. We are proud of them and will back them to the limit until peace is declared. There is so little that we at home can do for them! But we can express our apprecia- tion and gratitude, and that is what our class wishes to do tonight-pay tribute to the boys and girls of Phillips who have kept America the Land of Our Hearts. Marjorie Gould