Rangeley High School - Tattler Yearbook (Rangeley, ME)

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The TATTLER themes must be read, themes must be cor- rected, themes must be typed. For that mat- ter, every single page has to be written, read, corrected, and typed. Finally the deadline is three weeks away. And what's done? No one seems to know or be able to find out! And the editors plod their weary way through the endless maze- themes, editorials, ads, jokes, mottoes, quo- tations, activities, mirrors , and anything that anyone might think should appear in the Tattler. Efverytbing passes through their hands. The deadline looms up-days away. Is the Tattler on the way? ls everything collected and typed? That, my dear friends, is a joke, a joke, that is! We have worked and worked and worked our way through red tape. This can't be done until that is, and that can't be done until someone hears from somebody-and did anybody write to some- body? Whew!!! Will the nightmare never end? We decide at this stage in the game that the deadline can't be met-so why should we worry? No one else seems to! Well, I guess we'd better give up and go home. The clock in the Main Room says 8: 30 and Caesar must fight his wars, and the Civil War is still waiting to be won-and we do require a few hours sleep-occasionally. That's the only trouble with this job-there are about five hours in the middle of the night when we haven't a thing to do but sleep! - NIARGARET IRISH '46 BETTY Russmst '47 We regret to report that in last year's Tattler the name of Pvt. Francis I-I. Elling- wood was not included in the list of those Rangeley boys who gave their lives for their country during World War Il. We extend our humble apology for this regrettable oversight. We would also like to announce the fact that, although Sayward E. Pillsbury could not graduate with his class in 1941, he has earned enough credits in the Army to enable him to receive his diploma in 1945. It is with great pleasure and pride that we announce that Priscilla Tibbetts of the class of 1942, now a student at Colby College, has been awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Key, the highest scholastic honor obtainable in any college. Q iw 5, lx yin gf i ,, iii, i , 4 - 2? ' 5?

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The TATTLER gets no credit for, even after spending much time on it. By the end of this year we will have learned from this class absolutely noth- ing except perhaps that the gym floor humps in the middle and sags at the ends. I should make it plain at this point that I'm speaking strictly from the girls' point of view. The boys seem to enjoy their train- ing. Or at least they sound as if they were really exerting themselves. lt's improbable that anyone in the State legislature who has any authority to make provision for money for Maine schools will read this, but if he should, I do wish that he might take some of this to heart. I'm not kidding. If he doesn't believe this, he might come up any afternoon at three o'clock to watch us being put through our paces. lf by chance he should visit us on one of the very few days when several of us girls are trying at least to look ambitious, he would be bowled over by the hot air. It seems that fresh air is not good for you while you exercise! In as much as it is improbable that the State will do anything right away to remedy the situation, would we really be doing any serious harm by going back to the old sys- tem of our lovely thirty-five-minute activ- ity period ? Honestly, now, would we? BETTY RUSSELL '47 ON TEAMWORK Five men work to put one ball through a net, eleven men fight to carry one ball down a Held, or nine men work to hit one more home run. What's behind all this? The point is that it takes five men to make up a basketball team, eleven men for a football team, or nine men for a baseball team, not just one man or even two or three. Let's take a basketball team for instance. Each member of the team is an individual used to thinking and acting for himself. On the team his attitude changes. Here he can do only one-fifth of what he usually does. Every move he makes is governed by the actions of four other men. I-le has to know these four teammates and even be able to read their actions. The center must know the very instant the guard is going to pass him the ball, not because the guard tells him, but because they have played so much to- gether that they can almost read each other's thoughts. On a jump ball the man tapping the ball looks at one of his men, doesn t say a single word, yet the tap goes through to that man. Luck? No. That man knew exactly where he was supposed to be and waited until the right second to get there. What makes up a champion team, any- way? You have to- have good material to start with, a little ability, and the other eight-tenths-well, that is just hard work and practice. A basketball team is much better to watch if all five men are working to- gether, each as an integral part of one unit. Every man on the floor must be fully as good as any other in everything-passwork, shots, or recovery. Every -man must be working for the team, never for himself and his own glory. It's usually the team that has five good players that is the one you like to watch on the basketball court. This word, teamwork, can apply to any- thing that you do-not just to sports. Web- ster defines it as efHcient work done in har- mony by a group of persons for a common cause, no one seeking his own interests. In school, in life, anywhere-the important equation to remember is: individuals plus sound judgment and the ability to think clearly plus teamwork usually equals a win- ning team. MARGARET Iiusu '46 Editor in Chief. EDITORS' NIGHTMARE OR DEADLINE AHEAD!!! Does anyone ever stop to think that the Tattler they like to read fand criticizej so much is a terrific headache to some? The staff is selected in November and is wamed in January-if they're lucky! Some- time in February they convene to discuss what will go into this year's Tattler. Then everyone promptly forgets all about it! That is, everyone but the editors!! For weeks they plead, they beg, they grow grey hair- please won't someone do something! First the cartoons must be drawn and sent away together with the senior pictures 'weeks be- fore the Tattler can be sent to the printers. Oh-the printers-they must have details and more details. Correspondence piles up, tele- phone bills mount--and still we must have more information. Themes must be written,

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