Sedgwick High School - Comet Yearbook (Sedgwick, ME)

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4 THE COMET the dance which followed. The Senior class tha11ks those who so willingly helped them, especially the Tapley Electric Co. of Brooklin, that fur- nished the electric fixtures for the stage, and Mrs. E. C. Smallidge, who very kindly loaned many old- fashioned costumes for the pageant. it 'li i As is the custom, the graduation of the Senior class will take place on the last.Thursday of school, June 7, in the Baptist church. The Rec Flying Cloud Middies will furnish the music for the graduation exer- cises and for the commencement ball, which follows in Eureka Pavilion. The program for the graduation is as follows: A Music Invocation Music Salutatory, Riding Pegasus, Margaret Louise Choate Class History ........ Letha Marie Orcutt Music Class Prophecy, Velmour Lee Anderson, Alice Mae Ford Presentation of Gifts, Maud Clapp, Kathleen Louise Brown Music Class Grumbler ...... Leo Forbes Bridges Class Will ............ F-ern Emma Carter Music Valedictory, The Maine Coast, Abbie Louise Sargent Presentation of Diplomas Music Benediction

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Waite is ii lssued by the Students of Sedgwick High School SEDGWICK, MAINE., JUNE, I928 EDITORIAL STAFF. Editors, Margaret Choate and Abbie Sargent Business Manager, Velmour Anderson Advertising Manager, Leo Bridges Exchanges, Letha Orcutt Alumni Notes, Alice Ford Athletics, Kathleen Brown Locals, Maud Clapp Jokes, Fern Carter EDITORIALS. Sedgwick high school has brought its students through one more year of work and play. Perhaps we have not taken advantage of all the op- portunities that it has offered us, but surely no student can say that he is not richer, in some sense, for having attended S. H. S. the last year. if I 8 As a school, we wish to give credit where credit is due, and it is with a sense of what is just that we extend many thanks to those who have placed advertisements in The Comet. R If fl! The enrollment of the year has been thirty. This is somewhat smaller than last year. We have been fortunate in having Mr. Flye as principal and Miss Hazel Abbott of West Brookfield, Mass., as as- sistant. i I 1 A feature making our school year interesting has been the music peri- ods. Miss Dorothy Cotton, of Derry, N 4 H., has been with us once each week and has given us excellent in- struction. :Xf :XI if April 27, saw the Senior class, as- sisted by undcrclassmen, presenting the musical comedy, Marrying Marian, at Riverside hall. The cast was as follows: Simpson, a supposed butler, Kenneth Pert Miss Prudence McWhiffle, an elderly teacher .................. Fern Carter Marian Stanton, a popular student, Margaret Choate Ruth Ripley, Marian's roommate, Letha Orcutt Dr. Henry Bohunkus, head of Hillandale Seminary ................ Leo Bridges Mrs. Henry Bohunkus, by far the better half .................. Abbie Sargent Charles S. Smith, a professor by proxy, Velmour Anderson Cicero Socrates Smith, a janitor by necessity ............ Roscoe McCarthy Chorus of girl students in the Hillafndale Seminary-Alice Ford, Hilda Allen, Kath- leen Brown, Gertrude Orcutt, Maud Clapp, Amy Ferguson, Evelyn Hooper, Martha Simmons. Place-It could happen anywhere. The play was proclaimed a suc- cess by all present. Over 9580 was taken at the door. Cousins' five- piece orchestra provided music for 'iwcgu 2

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THE COMET Che Glass of '28 I Q flbbie Louise Sargent Ab Born at Sargentville, Mar. 22, 1911. College course, class editor, 13 class president, 1, 2, 3, basketball, 3, 45 freshman speaking, Alumni notes, 33 school play, 2, 3, 45 editor-in-chief, 4, valedictory. Age canfnot wither, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Margaret Louise Choate Mig Born at North Broklin, June 2, 1911. College course, basketball, 4g vice-president, 1, 2, 43 freshman speaking, editor-in-chief, 43 salutatoryg school play 4. Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace. Letha Marie Oroutt Lee Born at Sedgwick, Feb. 17, 1910. General courseg class president, 43 secretary, 2, 33 school play, 1, 2, 3, 43 freshman speaking: exchange editor, 4, class history. Joy rises in me like a summer morn.