Rangeley High School - Tattler Yearbook (Rangeley, ME)

Page 8 text:

Although ll has been my prrvllege to be wrth you only for the present school year rt has been most gratrfytng to share tn your aca demxc and co currlcular endeavors rn whlch you have partrclpated with so much consclentxous enthuslasm and cooperative splnt Thls has resulted ln success ln all that we have attempted and may these experrences serve as examples of the success that may be achieved by you throughout your lrfe by s1m11ar attitude and spurt To the members ofthe Class of 1957 to whom th1s 1957 TATTLER IS somewhat a monument I extend smcere wtshes that each of you wlll fmd happmess and success rn whatever freld you may choose to follow You have taken advantage of the opportunrtles offered you by your Hrgh School I hope you w1ll proflt from them You have con trrbuted much to your Hlgh School may you contribute fully as much to soclety by means of a nch full and honorable lrfe J Douglas Thompson Sponsored by Phrllrps I w RUSSELL FIELD PULPWOOD COMPANY PHILLIPS I G A TRECARTIN S PHARMACY BY FARMINGTON S THE RED STORE

Page 7 text:

EDIITORIIAL BOARD Standmg left to nght Mr Horton Kathleen Ross Jane Saunders Llsette Dumas Sandra Hunt Jean Brackett Sally Sandstrom Penny Mitchell Judy Davldson Susan McLafferty Barbara Judklns Brenda McLafferty Errol Wentzell Mr Lamb Jane Durgm Seated Lee Vaughn Clance Qulmby Wallace Eusus John Phxlbnck Agnes Hamse Carl Eastwood Edlth Bachelder Ed1tor UI Chlef JOHN PHILBRICK Assxstant Ed1tor AGNES HAINSE Business Manager WALLACE EUSTIS CARL EASTWOOD Lxterary HELEN MITCHELL Athletrc Editor Boys ERROL WENTZELL Athletlc Ed1tor G1r1s SUSAN MCLAFFERTY Alumm Editor BRENDA MCLAFFERTY Class Reporters HELEN MITCHELL 57 JANE SAUNDERS 58 SALLY SANDSTROM 59 LISETTE DUMAS 59 B J JUDKINS KATHLEEN ROSS 61 JANE DURGIN 62 Typnsts JEAN BRACKETT 57 EDITH BACHELDER 57 LEE VAUGHN 57 SANDRA HUNT 58 JUDITH DAVIDSON Sponsored by FARMINGTON S FLOOD S SHOE STORE GERARD S WILLIAMS Attomey at Law I . -. - . --------.-..--------- ,57 ' ' ---------------------- 'sa -------------------- '57 Assistant Business Managers ---------------- CLARICE QUIMBY '58 '60 ' -------- ------- ---- - - '57 . . . , -----.-- -.------- , 5,7 . . ' . , ---.------------. ,59 ' ' -------------------- '57 ' . ' . . . '60

Page 9 text:

IEDIITORHALS As the ftrst graduatmg class of the Rangeley l-hgh School ftfty years ago we have been asked to wrtte an arttcle for the 1957 TATTLER, we would ltke to begm by telltng you where we went to school that ts the drffer ent butldmgs Our fxrst schoolhouse was located near the present resrdence of Kenneth Hmkley and we went to school there both downstaxrs and upstaxrs About 1898 the schools were graded durrng the supermtendeucy of Mrs Sylvader Htnkley and the upper grades were transferred to the butldmg now occupied by Brackett and Bradbury whrch at that trme was the town hall In 1903 the fust school butldtng was buxlt on the present srte of the grade school and that was where our class and several of the others completed thetr hxgh school educatron The hrgh school room was the end room on the second floor next to Pleasant Street and was butlt to be a laboratory but the school was so small they used tt for the htgh school for several years Mr Harry L Bradford who we all hope w1ll be able to be wrth us on the Ftftreth Annxversary was prxnclpal of the hrgh school for three of the four years that we were 1r1 hrgh school As we remember rt there were two courses college preparatory and Engltsh Course and most of the puprls took the college preparatory course At that ume m the hrgh school there were th1rty sxx weeks tn the year and the other grades were thlrty so that two weeks of each term we had the school butldlng all to our selves and were gtven a pretty free rem wtthm reason and one of us fyou can easrly guess whtch onej certamly made the most of those OPPOITLIIIIIICS We had practtcally no athletlc program The gtrls had none and the boys were al lowed to box tn the basement usually under the supervxslon of the prmctpal In fact we had boxmg gloves back m the ftrst butldtng we attended The only other athlettc act1 v1t1es up to the ttme we were graduated were two games of baseball played agamst the West Rangeley team of whrch each team was the wtnner once The last game whrch we won went we thtnk twelve or fourteen tnnmgs and Lynwood Carlton p1tched the whole game We would lrke to mention that rn the fxrst Track Meet held at Phlllrps rn 1908 rn whxch there were ten events Rangeley dxd not have a poxnt unttl the ftfth event when Lynwood Carlton won the football krck and started the ball rolltng and from there on Rangeley l-hgh School gathered twenty mne potnts to win the meet Thrs has seemed to be a charactertstlc of R H S more or less ever smce as we belteve lf you have followed the basketball teams you will ftnd that generally speakmg they have scored more pornts tn the last half of their games and as you well know they pay off at the wtre when tt came ttme for graduatron tt took practtcally the whole htgh school to make a graduauon The 1907 program shows that of those takxng part all are ltvmg but one Phrlxp O Pxllsbury Class of 1908 who passed away shortly after graduatmg from the Umverstty of Mame Betng a small class and havxng no way of raxstng money through the years as IS done now when the questton of music came up the bustness men of the town, under the leadershlp of John A Russell pard for an orchestra from Farmtngton Mame We have always apprecrated thls The superintendent of schools m 1907 was Francls E. Russell the brother of the above mentroned John A Russell and the school commrttee conslsted of Olm R Rose John A Russell and Gerne A Proctor Sponsored by THE HERBERT Krngfteld Mame I I v ' . , Q 0 I I s o 1 . . . g 1 . ' -- , . . . . . - . . 9 I - s I . . , ' Q Q I I I I ' I s u 1 v ' I I I I 3 p n ' s I O ll I I I I 1 n s s v l n 9 U I I I 0 s s . u s 0 . g , . . . .- - r - , . I - - I I