Portland High School - Totem Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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F oreword The Totem Stag is quoting the foreword 0f the 1921 book. It reads as follows, Tln publish- ing this Erst Portland High School Book, we have endeavored to make as accurate and complete a record of events as possible, combined with enough of a personal nature to form a book of individuality, not a mere table of facts. We sincerely hope that we have made it what Mr. Jack and the school would have it, a reflection of the varied activities and of the spirit of Portland High School? 1961 was a year of Change. The ninth grade was returned to junior high school, and the school day was lengthened an hour. The Totem Staff has tried to give an authentic record of the year and to show the important role played by its TPilotsT - the administrators and teachers. END LEAF LEGEND A group of island students photographed with Captain Earl Stockbridge of the Casco Bay Lines: Jeffrey Mullin, James McCracken, Ian Sullivan, Kristin Liljeholm, and Philip Fuller.

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DEDICA TION Forty years ago Portland High School published its first annual, called the PH S Yearbook. In 1923 the book was titled Totem and has been printed annually ever since. The Pilots of the first book, ahead of their time, saw the advantages of preserving a record of all events, and so from the beginning Totem has covered all classes and all activities. In nearly half a century of journalistic endeavor, the schoolis Fourth Estaters have kept abreast, with latest book styles. For- mats have changed, the old time favor- ites, the Prophecy and Will, have taken their places in the archives, but each staff has tried to keep its book up to the highest standards. The Totem Staff of 1961 dedicates its volume With affectionate pride to the first pilots, The Board of Editors of 1921. Staff Identification. Top Row: Marcia Geh- ring, assistant editor; Alfred K. Chapman, editor; Charles G. H. Evans, assistant editor. Second Row: Allan Howes, advertising man- ager; Malcolm Allen, business manager; Mary Putnam, art editor; Kenneth Naylor, me- chanics. Third Row: Greely Sturdivant, cir- culation manager; Hazel Harmon, art editor; Lewis Weinstein, activity editor; Raymond Ward, activity editor. Fourth Row: Wil- liam H. Gulliver, circulation manager; Paul Myers, athletic editor; Helen Sanderson, ex- change editor; Winfred Nickerson, circula- tion manager. Bottom Row: Raymond Reid, athletic editor; Moses Huberman, exchange editor; Albert W. Tolman, literary editor. Board Of Editors 1 921

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T otem-A -La 1921