Portland High School - Totem Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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Theirs is ez Career 0 Devotion and Service Portland High School is a thriving, bust- ling community composed of more than fif- teen hundred men, women, girls, and boys who live in close association with each other the best part of each waking day. It is also a creative, active community in which stud- ents learn, and teachers faithfully accomplish their appointed tasks. It takes lots of doing to keep the wheels of such a group turning in an orderly fashion and much of this is done by the devoted office staff, Miss Mary Con- roy and Mrs. Iola E. Bloomer, patient, kindly and efficient, who handle the hundred and one administrative and clerical details that keep P.H.S. functioning so smoothly. The students and the faculty owe a great deal to Miss Conroy and Mrs. Bloomer for their careful concern of everyone's problems. NO MORE CHEERFUL and courteous secretaries ever graced a high school office than Miss Mary j. Conroy, seated, and Mrs. Iola E. Bloomer. ITS A LOT OF FUN to work in the office , according to office helpers: Alta Minervino, Patricia Jy oanne DIPICITO Florence Rourke Annette Ciriello, Maryann Colello, Susan Murphy Dolores Cmello Francha Murphy Anne Reinhardt, and Judith Young.

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Principal Howard C. Reiche, able administrator of Portland High School and sympathetic counselor of its boys and girls, is never too busy to take time off for a few minutes of friendly conversation with one of his students. Legion are the problems, personal and scholastic. that lake the girls to the Dean of Girls office. These diiliculties are quickly straightened Ollt by Miss M. Adelaide Lehan's patience and warm understanding. A genial smile, a kindly pat on the back can make almost any problem less perplexing. The boys find choices of action easy to make under the guid- ance of Submaster Theodore S. johnson. P. H. S. Applauds I is Leadersbzp , ,....,. it -Q.. if f Q-di Z K, LBJ -X

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swff kw- xt- ' '-if XJ wi wed 1-1-P-1 P.T.A. OFFICERS: Mrs. Dorothy Clark, Mr. Edward McLaughlin, and Mrs. Leonard A. C. Dunn. P. T. A. Brings School and Parents Close Together P.T.A. OPEN Samuel Segal, lef Herbert Kennedy, 0. Campbell, and What would the school do without its Parent-Teacher Association? This wonderful group of mothers, dads, and teachers work loyally during the year to give the little extras which mean so much to school life in general. This year the P.T.A. earned money for scholarshipsg purchased a page in Totem: served refreshments for the annual Freshman Receptiong and spon- sored the May Open House. Meeting each month in the cafeteria, the group had educational programs, followed by a fellowship hour when qIohnny's parents and teachers could get acquainted over a cup of tea. Ofiicers were Mrs. Dorothy Clark, presidentg Miss Frances Lombard, vice president: Mrs. Leonard A. C. Dunn, secretaryg and Mr. Edward McLaughlin, treasurer. HOUSE COMMITTEE, seated: Mrs. AT THE FRESHMAN RECEPTION, left to right Mrs t, and Mrs. jules Krems, standing, Mrs. Claire Vining, class adviser: .Ieanue Dunbar Mis Harold Mrs. Howard C. Reiche, Mrs. Edward Dunbar, Principal Howard C. Reiche, Carol Murphy Mr Mrs. Louis Newman. Martin Fehlau, class adviser, and Mr. Ihomas Murphy K' Qtr Aura ffl'