Rangeley High School - Tattler Yearbook (Rangeley, ME)

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Editorial Where's Your School Spirit, Students? In recent years you have read many essays on what our school lacks, not in the sense of equipment, but in what the students fail to show. What it lacks can be only one thing, school spirit. Many people believe that school is just for studying and extra curricular activities such as clubs and sports. M3-Ybe that is all a school is for, but it also includes the attitude . of the students toward these activities, Take one example. Usually we have a rally before each basketball game. This year we have had them only for the import- ant games. The spirit just isn'tthere. What have we lost, students ? Why, in big schools every last person attends and they all pitch in and make all the noise they possibly can, Here many students actually leave the school before the rally begins. They just don't care! Why don't they care ? There could be a number of reasons. I don't know. Now, don't think this is the way all our students feel, for Rangeley has some of the best sports and ardent rooters that I know. If we students of Rangeley High School could visit a college campus to view the pep rallies and demonstrations before each and every game, I sincerely believe we would be overwhelmed. The spirit and enthusiasm they put into it are tremendous. Another instance is the student body's being asked if anyone will 'volunteer to help do some little task. Only a few are willing, Again, there are many reasons that enter iI!t0 the situation, but probably the main one is the lack of interest on the students part. Sooner or later something will have to be done to lift our spirits out of the doldrums, and it's all up to us students. We must take an active interest in all phases of activities no matter what they are. I believe that if we students showed a little more spirit and willingness to do little chores, we would further ourselves in more ways than one. The teachers would, un- doubtedly, give us a little extra, and maybe the townspeople and taxpayers would re- ward us with many of the necessary articles which we don't have. This may seen to many students like a sermon delivered by a preacher, but it is the absolute truth. lt is my belief that if this lack of interest continues, Rangeley will gradually get a blacker and blacker mark beside its name. It's all up to us students! So let's all pitch in and do our share! ! Gary Priest '55 Do You Know What are you going to do when you graduate? If you go on to higher education, where will you go? Are you sure of what you want to do ? All these questions are asked of students, but all too many answer, I don't know. But they should know or at least have a general idea of what type of work they want. Too many, when they graduate, find just any job that is convenient whether they like it or not. Perhaps it is a job that could be done by almost anyone and one which has no future. Still they seem not to care. They miss the fun and adventure of getting out and meeting new people and seeing new places and learning an interesting occupation. Still they seem content, or, if they're not, usually they just grumble about it instead of doing something, Some students don't take the college course because they think that they don't want to go. Two or three years later they decide they dO. but of course they don't have the credits. They are left behind trying to make up those credits, and much time is wasted. They seem to forget that what they get for ranks will make a big difference later in life, Many seem unable to understand that their future depends on what happens now, for Now Is The Future. Don't let this happen to you! Prepare to- day for tomorrow. After all, it is your fu- ture. What are you going to do about it. Eleanor Hinkley ' 56N

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THE TA TTLER Vol. XXXIX The Commencement Number 3 No, l 6666- get is, vw-Qu is Tattler Board STANDING: Left to Rightg Mr, Lamb, A. Quimby, R. Haines, J. MCLafff2I' L, Spiller, J. Quimby, M, Thompson. SEATED: R, Belisle, E, Hinkley, G, Priest, M, Steward, J, Mills, Editor-in-Chief , , Assistant Editor ...... Business Manager ..... Assistant Business Manager Athletic Editor, Boys' . . . Athletic Editor, Girls' . Alumni Editor .,,,, Exchange Editor . Typists ..... Editorial Board 5 6 ty, J. Fox, S, Holman, . . Gary Priest , Eleanor Hinkley . . Ronald Haines . , , Alice Quimby . James McLafferty . Mary-Lyn Steward . . . Jacqueline Fox Margaret Thompson Josephine Mills Lorrain Spiller Rose Belisle Janice Quimby '55 '56 '56 '56 '55, '56 '55 '55 '55 '55 '56 '56

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