Porter High School - Outlook Yearbook (Kezar Falls, ME)

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h ' 1 L lTE1f-eww-E THE SEASONS IN MAINE In Maine, spring is probably the most welcome time of the year. Everyone is happy to see the snow melt into puddles and small streams and disappear. Even the children are tired of their snowmen, and as they melt into heaps then into oblivion, nobody sheds any tears. Warm breezes that quietly rustle are more kindly received than the cold, harsh winds of winter. Trees slowly begin to bud and before many weeks have passed small green leaves can be distinguished. Then comes the most welcome sight of all: the robin with his bright red breast, returning from his long flight lets us know that spring has finally arrived. Spring fever also arrives almost simul- taneously, affecting various people in various ways. Some fall in love. Others daydream. And others cannot resist playing hookey to lie under a big elm tree near a deep pool and fish for trout. Spring slips into summer and schools close for a long vacation. The soft, fresh breezes of spring become the hot, humid quietness of summer. The leaves are large and green. The flowers are dis- playing their prettiest colors. Summer is really blooming. The lakes, creeks, and ponds echo with the laughter of children trying to get cool. Tourists are toasting their skin to a rich brown to show their friends who were not fortu- nate enough to spend a week or a month in the famous vacationland. Summer passes all too quickly and Labor Day marks a close to vacationing. Schools re-open and baseball finals are played. The temperature drops, the air be- comes cool and quite often crisp. Jack Frost visits Maine and tints the leaves in beautiful reds, yellows and browns. The various maple trees probably best display his artistry. Their lovely branches extending far into the sky look as though some wondrous painter had performed a miracle overnight. This beauty docs not last long, for as days become ehillier, the leaves fall, forming a colored blanket for the ground before the snow falls. The turning of the leaves seems to bc

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STUDENT COUNCIL Seated: Nancy Andrews, Patty Moore, Frank Stocks, Chester Merrifield, Hope Hammond, Yvonne Tidd. Back row: Dwight Pierce, Richard Cutting, Bill Garner, Kenneth Wright, Herman Day. STUDENT COUNCIL The Student Council of Porter High was formed to take the place of the Athletic Association. It consists of four pupils from the Senior Class, three from the Junior, two from the Sophomore, and one from the Freshman. The Offi- cers, president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer, were elected from this group. The first meeting was held September 30, 1949. Mr. Andrews presided and explained the duties of the members. A Constitution has been drawn up and approved. Since September 30th the Council has met nearly every two weeks on Friday afternoons. The Council represents the student body and gives the pupils of Porter High an opportunity to take an active part in all school affairs. Each school activity must come before the Council for approval. The Council is a success and will continue its good work in years to come.

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a warning to the birds that old man winter is approaching rapidly. For weeks they gather. A few more come each day until what was a small band becomes a large flock. Then one clay they are gone not to be seen throughout the winter. Again Maine attracts many people to her great out-of-doors for the hunting season. Deer hunting is a favor- ite sport, and many deer are killed every year. The woods swarm with hunters and the deer have no place to hide. Thanksgiving and Christmas with their family reunions are the highlights of the early winter season. By Christmas Day the ground is covered with white, glis- tening snow, welcomed by everyone to make that joyous time of year complete. The high snowbanks pushed back by the plows look like midget mountains. The trees after a storm are loaded with snow and ice. The pines are especially beau- tiful. the green of the branches con- trasting with the white of the snow. February b r i n g s the traditional Groundhog Day, and spring is again just around the next bend. Spring, sum- mer, fall or winter, Maine is a wonderful place to live. Each season brings new, beautiful sights more marvelous than the last. PATRICIA Moons '51 HUNTING WHITETAILS Nothing, in my mind, can compare with the sudden thundering of a fright-- ened deer's hoofs, or the startling crash of brush as he is routed from his hiding place, or the flickering of a white tail waving good-bye as he bounds out of sight. Hunting whitetails brings many heart-pounding, nerve-racking moments as man pits his out-door knowledge and superior power to reason with the ani- mal instinct and cunning of a wise, old buck. A hunter who moves quietly and stops often cannot be beaten unless it is by someone who is extremely lucky. If you move quietly your chances of getting close to a deer are much better than they are if you crash along, paying little attention to dry leaves, twigs, and brush heaps. If you stop often and look around, a deer standing just out of sight might become restless and start to move. This is the kind of a chance you wait and hope for. This type of hunting is called still-hunting or stalk- ing. , Hunters talk about making a drive through a certain patch of woods. This is a technique used when a number of hunters cooperate to find the Whitetail. Deer have regular routes that they 'fol- low through the woods and special places where. they cross roads and high-- ways. When' hunters drive a strip of woodland, they rouse up and frighten the deer. By habit, the deer follow the routes that they have traveled previously and cross roads at the crossings they are familiar with. Men covering these cross- ings have a good chance to shoot the deer as they cross. But, often the deer seem to realize that hunters are trying to drive them across aroad and they will pick their way back between the hunters and many times go undetected. As important as the proper technique of trailing the deer is the question of when and where to hunt. Where you hunt should depend on the weather and the time of the season. Usually in stormy weather deer are to be found in thickets and on the protected side of mountains. At the first of the season they can be found close to fields and meadows, whereas, later on they move deeper into the woods. Although cold mornings make it hard to get out of bed,