Richmond High School - Garnet Yearbook (Richmond, ME)

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WHAT THE 4-H CLUB MEANS TO ME The 4-H Club is one of the best organizations in the world for boys and girls between ten and twenty-one years of age. It teaches them self-preservation and how to do things for future years. 4-H stands for head, heart, hands and health, and the club motto is, To make the best better, That means a lot if you just stop and think. It means that there is nothing you can't do better than the best, I have been in the regular 4-H club for five years and this will be my fourth year in the Sagadahoc Cattle Club, and believe me, there is not another or- ganization in the country that I would rather belong to. The boys can show their cattle and vegetables at the fairs and sometimes girls show cattle, Some of the best farmers in the country are women, In the 4-H club girls take cooking, home improvement and sewing and when they show their exhibits at the fair, they make the older men and women's things look like nothing, There is an organization in the 4-H club called the IFFY program, IFFY stands for the International Farm Youth Exchange, where a mem- ber of the 4-H from Richmond could exchange places with a boy or girl in France or some other colmtry for a few months, until they learned the farming methods of that cotmtry. 4-H'ers are the cream of the crop and Tomorrow's Leaders of America, Frederick Raynes '57 n THE SEASONS Autumn is when squirrels gather their nuts, build their homes and little huts, Winter is when boys and girls all like to play, and Santa comes in his little sleigh, Spring is when the old folks come out and breath the air, and the children play without care, Summer is when all the people are gay, and the farmers are out cutting their hay. Alden Dore '55 SENIORS OF R, H,S, We are the Seniors of R, H, S, , and of course we think we are the best, The halls echo with our footsteps clear, and the Freshmen cringe when we appear. Next year the Juniors will step into our place, but of course they won't do it with quite as much grace. As we said before, and it's said by the restg We, the Seniors, are still the best, Dorothy Wheeler '55

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THE NEWCOMERS TO OUR COMMUNITY During the last two or three years we have had many newcomers to our community, These newcomers are White Russians--Displaced Persons. These Russians do not speak very good Englishg some of them don't speak any, But some of them speak as many as four or five foreign languages. And now you say, that is all very well, but here we speak English, Well, these people are learning to speak English too, but one must remember that the Russian alphabet is completely different from ours. These people have come to this country seeking refugeg for to them America is the 'Promised Land. We should not tum our backs to them just because their grandfathers did not come over on the Mayflower, or because they were not born in this country. We should welcome them with open arms just as the Statue of Liberty welcomes them as their ship sails into New York Harbor, for on that great lady are these words: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to break free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore,send these the homeless, tempest tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door. These White Russians have come to our community, they have bought farmsg many of which we had given up, thinking them worthless. They have cultivated them and made them produce, One need only to look at their headquarters to see a great improvement, A great many people do not like the Russians, They turn their backs and laugh at them because they look funny, Many people think they are communists, These Russians are not communists, in fact, they hate communism more than you or I do. For to you and me communism is not much more than a wordg we do not really realize what it is. Many of them have lived under it, They have worked in slave-labor camps, their children were bom in concentration camps, Oh yes, these people know what communism is, These White Russians make you and I better citizens. They make us realize and appreciate the great country in which we live, A short time ago a friend and I were arguing about these Russians and this friend said: 'Why don't they leave America to the Americans? I immediately asked this person, and I ask you, What is an American? Diana Giberson '58 LATE FOR SCHOOL Late for school, that is my motto, I sometimes think Ishould buy an auto, The teachers say it would be nice., If I were on time just once or twi.ce. Gretchen Hodgkins '55

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BOYS I think that I shall never see, A boy who quite appeals to me, A boy who doesn't always wear, A streak of grease upon his hair. A boy without a silly grin, And one who tucks his shirt-tail in, A boy whom cars mean nothing to, But boys like this are very few. Upon whose mind has always been, Sports and cars and sports again. Boys are liked by girls like me, But a perfect one we'll never see! Cynthia Anderson '56 Phyllis Hurley '57 R, H, S, PUPILS OF RICHMOND HIGH Richmond High School, We, the pupils of Richmond High Best by far, Are trying very hard to strive, In all our sports, We're up to par. We have the best In Glee Club and Band, We have the finest in the land. Dolores Kennedy '57 We work and play, and then We say: Farewell, Farewell, to Richmond High, ' Faye Hanson '57 HURRICANE HAZEL The wind howled and the rain came, And many a tree didn't stand the strain, The flood waters rose until at last, The people were forced to get away fast, But as quick as it came, it went away, And the people haven't forgotten to this day. Barbara Wheeler '58 ' so. s o 'QQQAQOQ' I.. 6 5