Portland High School - Totem Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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Prelude O each of us life is like a grand musical composition divided into various movements . . . a symphony composed by the Great Creator. As the musician seeks harmony in the sublime profound regions of expressive music, each of us in our own lives, seeks out consonance and joins in concord the permanent bond between human life and fine music. Thus at Portland High School our four years of study and enjoyable fel- lowship combine into an enthralling symphony of four movements. Our introduction, full of gayety and vigor, portrays both the fast moving reception of the group by the school and our blending into the school routine during our freshman year . . . Allegretto - The Greeting On realization of our individual parts in this true life symphony we settled down to conscientious endeavor and so created the second movement our sophomore year . . . Cantabile - Fine Achievement Through Study Under the baton of the faculty we concentrated our efforts and approached the climax of the now predominating symphony. Our minds more easily grasped the varied and mystifying essence of the vast world surrounding us. Through the third movement we transmitted this vigorous feeling of under- standing . . . NFO rtissimo' l With the Hnale of our symphony in view and lofty notes echoing the thoughts of accomplishments, friends and future plans, our student sym- phony members raised their instruments of education and self confidence and the vibrating tones of majestic brilliance resounded with the fourth and Hnal movement . . . Grandiose', - in Caps and Gowns 1123

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mvifmlgylil 'J K QQ sf Mk'QQQ?RvY WMJWTHE TOTEM 1949 Theme: SYMPHONY To live content with small meansg to seek elegance rather than luxury, refinement rather than fashiong to he worthy, not wealthy, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly. In a Word, to let the spiritual, unhidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to he my symphony. -WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING VOLUME XXX PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL PORTLAND, MAINE ALLAN COOK AND RALPH LEVI, Co-editors' MISS BARBARA JOHNSON, Faculty Adviser

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Dedication The Staff of the 1949 TOTEM gratefully dedicates this edition to three teachers, Miss Amy P. Wiswell, Miss E. May Tolman and Miss Frances E. Haskell, who are retiring after serving many years as beloved members of the faculty. It will, indeed, be difiicult to find new educators to H11 the gap created by the departure of these fine women. Their combined service was more than 75 years of teaching in PHS. Miss Wiswell, in her biology classes explained Dame Nature's wonderful ways. Her devotion to her subject and her delightful dry humor were an ever delight to her students. Miss Tolman, for many years, head of the Department of History, also taught love for one's fellow beings and to her many ufolksiesv the inspiring philosophy taught by this unusual teacher remains as much in their memories as her wonderful tales of early civilization. Miss Haskell with fingers as nimble as a great pianistis, imparted to her pupils her knowledge of the typewriter keyboard, along with a zest for living and a credo for friendliness. just as the notes in a symphony are arranged to produce harmony so did these three teachers bring about harmony in their classrooms. Like strains of a familiar melody, they will linger in our memories. li 3 il