Sedgwick High School - Comet Yearbook (Sedgwick, ME)

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K is for kale we so sadly lackg L is for Leon and Lloyd, and their work is so slack. M is for Mahoney and Mary, who always flunkg N is for Nevells, Who's quite an Unc. 0 is for zero, from which we stay clearg P is for Proctor and Pert, who both are very queer. Q is for question. Who will answer this? R is for Richard, and the baskets he missed! S is for Saunders and Sammy, a most pe- tite duog T is for Thomas, who teaches us a lot of huo. U is for union, which is our aimg V is for vigor from whence cometh fame. W is for Work of which We are scared blue: X is for examples that we like to do. xx X, Tl-IE comm- 21 Y is for yourn, which makes us conspicu- ousg Z is for zero that is so ridiculous. Personal Requirements Elmer Black-' ' Slickum. ' ' Lloyd Buckminster-' ' Dynamite. Harold Gray- More Sea Food. Mary Saunders-HA Little Lamb. Sam Hooper- Sylph-like figure. Proctor Byard-' ' Muffler. Lewis Cooper- A girl. Calvin Hooper-4 ' Eradieator. Gel, the point? R. Carter-4 Research work o11 for- mulasf' Port- A Jimmy. Anderson-' ' Protection. ' ' B. E. Cousins- Bigger and Better. L. Nevells-' ' Relatives. ' ' , E. Saunders-' ' Loud Speaker. ' ' E. Carter- Stilts. R. Simmons-' ' Governor. ' ' D. McCarthy- A little romance. L. Grant-' ' Superiority Complex. ' ' L. Cousins- Naci. E. Mahoney-4 ' Nursery Rhymes. ' '

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20 Mar. 1-Music teacher came. Mar. 3-Played at Brooklin. Mar. 4-Pictures taken. Mar. 7-School went to town meet- ing. tlllar. 8-Washington bicentennial play. Mar. 10-11-Examinations. Mar. 11-Graduation parts given out. Mar. ll-21-Easter vacation. Mar. 22-Music teacher came. Mar. ited school. 28-Debate. Mr. Pollard Vis- POE We take our books home every night, And study them with all our might. We go to school at half past eight. No, we are hardly ever late. Math. comes the very firstg We always say it is the worst, But when our history we've begun We say the worst is yet to come. At two twenty-five, by the schoolhouse clock, The little bell rings right on the dotg With happy faces all is wellg We grab our books and run like h-. l I' i CHEMISTRY There is just one study in high school Which doesn't agree with meg If you want to know what that is, It's that blamed old chemistry. THE COMET Mar. 29-Began play rehearsals. April 1-Abbie Sargent Visited school., April 5-Music teacher came. April 6-No school in the morning. The boys put in the wood and cleaned up the basement. April 8-Pictures taken for Comet. April 13--Seniors went to Bangor to have pictures taken. May 2-Sedgwick high school put on a calisthenic drill at Brooklin. May 25-School play given. -E. C., '34. TRY I take my book home every night, And study with no availg When those formulas I start to write, To remember them I always fail. -R. C., '33. PX: Pl? :BF SCHOOL ALPHABET Als Bis for Anderson, so charming and sweetg for Babe, who has big feet. C is for Cousins, Cooper and Carter-two all toldg D is for David, courageous and bold. E is for Eleanor and Eva, the inseparable pairg F is for Freshmen, none of whom we spare. G is for Grant and Gray, who seem quite alike 5 H is for C. Hooper, who has quite a hike. I is for Idyll, a snappy little miss, J is for Juniors, whose ignorance is bliss.

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THLETICS TRACK At the track meet last June we took first place in a field of three schools. Clifton Hooper won the half'-mile, took first place in the 100-yard dash, 440-yard dash, 220-yard dash, and was second in the low hurdles. Homer Bridges was first in the running broad jump, high jump and discus throw. He took second place in the 100-yard dash and was second in the shot-put. Donald Heath was second in the running broad jump, high jump, shot-put, pole vaulting and in throw- ing the discus. Lloyd Buckminster took third place in the high jump and shot-put. Calvin Hooper took second place in the mile, and we won the re-- lay, which gave us a total of sixty- three points. VVe have been practicing for the track meet which is to be held at Blue- hill in June. Our prospects for this meet are not so good as they were last year, because We lost by gradu- ation fifty-three of the sixty-three point-winners. W'e have in school 11ow only two point-winners of the last year's team-Lloyd Buckminster and Calvin Hooper. BASKETBALL lVe began the basketball season with only two letter men remaining from the previous year. Due to the green material, a slow start was made. The team was making rapid progress until the middle of January, when the grip destroyed it for the remainder of the season. We won BASKETBALL TEAM Q