Phillips High School - Phillipian Yearbook (Phillips, ME)

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Zn THE PHILLIPIAN LUM40 ll l 1944 Virgil Sampson - employed in Lewiston. Truman Masterman-U. S. Navy, Serv- Nelda Thompson - Simmons College, ice School Command, Sampson, N. Y. Boston, Mass. Maxine Staples- li. M. G. Hospital, Ban- Everett lValker - deceased. got, Maine. Myr Lyn Vllillmer - employed in Phillips. Dolena Foster, nee Walker-at home in Salem. 1942 lris NVilber - Fishers College, Boston, Maxine NVood, nee Bennett - employed Mass. in Phillips. lean Thompson - Wheelock College, Clovis Blanchard -- U. S. Army, clo Post- Boston, Mass. master, New York, N. Y. Myrtle Voter - employed in Portland, lean Poor. nee Boothhy -- Washington Maine. State. Marilyn Wing - employed in Boston, Lester Coffren - U. S. Army, clo Post- Mass. master. San Francisco, Calif. Ronald Haggan - U. S. Army, Camp Barbara Rowe. nee Shultz - at home in Gruber, Oklahoma. Avon. Curtis Smith - employed in Phillips. 1943 Marjorie Sawyer, nee Stinchfield - at Nathalie lidwards - C. M. G. Hospital, home in Phillips. Lewiston, Maine. George XVood - U. S. Army, clo Post- Charles lillicott - U. S. Army, clo Post- master, N. Y. master. Y. Dorothy NVorthley - at home in Phillips. liarl lfustis - U. S. Navy. Naval Mid Linwood Tyler - U. S. Navy, Sampson, School, Chicago ll, lll. N. Y. Mertie Ahlvott, nee Huntington -at home Lillian Lutkin - employed in Rangeley. in Phillips. Dorothy Mitchell - employed in Boston. Geraldine lienniston - employed in Port- Montford Morgan - U. S. Army, Gowen land. Field, Boise. Idaho. Phyllis Knapp - Concord, New Hamp- Norman Dustin - employed in Portland. shire. Glenice Dustin, nee Gates - at home in William Mills - U. S. Army, clo Post- Portland. master, N. Y. Mildred Gile - Boston, Mass.

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THE PHILLIPIAN 25 This war, with all its heartaches, has done much toward strengthening the character of the youth of the Nation. With the young men gone to war we who were left were faced with new duties and responsibilities. Most of the boys who were old enough ioined the Home Guard. They, too, wanted to do their part to win the war. There was the metal scrap drive, the young people doing their part and earning enough money to buy the chairs for this Community Building, as well as helping the war effort. Young people have learned to save, too. It is astonishing to see how much the school children have put into the war effort, through war bonds and stamps. We've also learned to work. We've had to. We've wanted to. And work is a good character builder. Children and teen-agers, far from being liabilities, have become the nation's greatest assets. Clean, healthy, serious-minded, young Americans are now growing to manhood and womanhood in the shadow of a tragic world conflict. The challenge of the war has brought out the best and noblest in our boys and girls. To predict what will happen to the char- acters of the boys who are in the armed serv- ices is impossible. We who have remained at home, away from the bombs and other horrors of war, can have no conception of what they have been through. It is safe to say, however, that they will take life more seriously than they did before. If this war has made us strong, let's'see to it that we stay strong, let's fight for the right always- not only in battle, but in our daily living- and be a credit to those who fought and died for us. fTribute to the boys who will not returnj The class of 1945 wishes to pay tribute to- night to those who have made the supreme sacrifice during this war: Harvey Lovett, Melvin Prescott, and Hartley Fairbanks, who fought and died that we might keep the four freedoms in this, the Land of our Hearts. ln the words of Lincoln, we pray that these dead shall not have died in vain -that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earthf' fFarewell Speechj Tonight marks the end of one phase of our lives and the beginning of another. Tonight we realize as never before the re- sponsibilities we must shoulder-responsi- bilities to ourselves, to our school, to our nation. Probably we shall never know how many times during this great war we have come near to losing our country, our America. The thought gives us pause. It makes us, the class of 1945, determined to do our ut- most to keep this land of our hearts, the land of the free! Superintendent and School Committee: VVe are especially indebted to you for your hearty encouragement and support. You have labored most earnestly for the benefit of our school and we wish to express our gratitude and thanks. Teachers and friends: VVe are unable to render compensation to you for your zeal and faithfulness. But as you have been faithful to us, so will we be faithful to others. With a deep sense of our obligations to you, and of gratitude for the ability, zeal, and care which you have ever exercised in our behalf, we, one and all, bid you a kind farewell. My classmates: As we linger for a moment around the altar of friendship to enjoy the pleasant recollections of the past, we hardly realize our school days are ended. Outside of these walls, which kind parents have thrown around us, are engaged a band of workers, earnestly striving to promote the four free- doms and the welfare and the happiness of the human race. Let us resolve to discharge fully the obligations we owe to parents and not disappoint their expectations. With the noble purpose that is born of true genuine- ness of character, and that inflexible deter- mination which knows no failure, let us pass out the gate that now opens and enter into the field of life's active duties. Classmates, tonight marks the parting of our ways. Never again shall we meet as a class, but wherever you go, whatever you do, may the best of luck be with you always. Marilyn Mecham

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THE PHILLIPIAN Ruth Mills -- at home in Phillips. Dorothy Gardiner, nee Torsey - at home in Portland. Robert Parker - U. S. Army, Courtland Field, Ala. Burchard Plog - U. S. Army, clo Post- master, New York, N. Y. 1941 Newell Toothaker -- teaching in Phillips High School. Marion Beal - U. S. Army Nurse. Kenneth Smith -- at home in Phillips. Alice Kenniston, nee Torsey - Harling- ton, Texas. Arthur Blanchard - U. S. Army, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Blyn Ross - U. S. Army, Army Air Field, Santa Rosa, California. ' lean Mitchell, nee Edwards - Richmond, Virginia. Lilla McLaughlin - U. S. Waves, Corpus Christi, Texas. Pauline Steward - employed in Gardiner. Helen Meserve, nee Mitchell - at home in Portland. 1940 Robert Badger - U. S. Navy, clo Fleet Post Ufiice, N. Y. Frederick Burnham - U. S. Army, clo Postmaster, N. Y. Kenneth Cushman - U. S. Army, clo Postmaster, N. Y. Nedra Iames, nee Cushman - Ozark, Arizona. Virginia Wing - employed in Augusta. Stanton Davenport- - employed in Port- land. Lillian Meisner, nee Hinkley - employed in Auburn. Eleanor Kempton - at home in Phillips. Waman Mills - U. S. Army, clo Postmas- ter, N. Y. Milton Stinchfield - U. S. Army, clo Post- master, N. Y. Lawrence Voter - at home in Phillips. Everett Russell - U. S. Coast Guard co Fleet Post Ofiice, N. Y. lean Holt, nee Saunders - Golden Shop Portland, Maine. Lawrence Shultz - U. S. Navy, San D1 ego, California. Doris Tyler, nee Walsh - at home in Phillips. Iesse XVhite - U. S. Army, clo Postmas ter, N. Y. ' There are many lands across the sea That we hold as very dear. We think and dream about these lands Because our boys are here. Our precious boy that once we held So gently on our knee, We little thought. that some day he Would sail the deep blue sea. We had not thought of losing him, New hope came with the dawn, VVhen all at once he got his Call And our only son was gone. I remember well those tears that fell As I kissed my boy good-byg But he was brave all through' it all And never heaved a sigh. He said he would come back again And for him I should never yearn, But a voice inside was saying Your'son will never return. Then they sent him on ll mission, I had feared this from the start, Then from Uncle Sam I got a letter, It was this that broke my heart. My precious son had done his part And now his time had come: He had tried to save our country Hut the laps must have their fun. But I will keep my courage up And my heart will Fill with ioy, When I Find that I have done some deed For some other mothers boy. M. Dunham