Sherman High School - Spud Yearbook (Sherman, ME)

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was only my new teacher hitting my desk with a two-foot stick. I was shocked at first, but before the year was over I found this to happen quite often. One thing I remember in my grammar school days, which pleased me very much was a poem I wrote entitled-NDear Old Maine N Hy aunt sent it in and Uncle Ezra read it over th radio I was then eleven years old All children have someone they regard as their ideal I was no ex caption My ideal vas our school bus drivcr Although he was many years nv senior, my favorite valentines went to him, especially the ones which said HYOu are a p ach H and, Ie d ma e a good pair' However, this affair didn't last long, for I 1 s soon to graduate from gramm r school After graduation my teacher took me nd the other iember of my class on a trip to Amherst On th any down ie tonped at the U of M We looked at the buildings and la ns from the oad but did not go inside He also :cnt by a l ree cenetry where thtr a 1 ca ket above the ground It was upportcd by short posts 'h t a vcird sc no 'm sure if someone had hollcrcd Boo' all would h vc croaked hen we got to Bangor we stopped there and saw a double f ture movie and did hungry so decided to go to a restaurant and r x a lunch I Kent up o the soda fountain to get somfthing to drink o si o n sau som th ng which V de me stop nd stare a girl xith sun burned face and T dly muse c h 1 She w in lotr fxactly like Pine At first I thought I had found F1 l twin' Aft r gazing at her a fev rinut r i s ooaw g t ry elf in e mlTTOT which ran along in b k of the fountain surprise, or , -J .4 .L g . .J . . . C . . 7 . . . L x . v, . . - . ' , . v - . i . J v A , Lu . ' ' ii - fi' ' , e , H2 ' .vkl f' '. l X . F . . ug ..a . ' . a 2 a n e H n . - s ' , . , . . e 1-ff v 'v- so L . . J 4 ' ' 'W . ., r f ' . T Va a g- ni A i ,e W s 1 s 1 . v' s - c . H-a ' ! e al In ' A J w II 1 1:-:G V ' 3 1 , . 1 A A 4 A T- QQ I D . . some shopping. That was my first shopping in Bangor. We were getting - ' Q ' f .f': f . v t ' ' .e 'ig ' . As I went t i't d w I ' e i ' ua A .A . a 1, It was I ' v' U - p I e' ,a'r. 1 'as drrsecd ' c r',es e ' .' '. ' . , Q . Q1 .eng-lost HL . e ' - f 1 i' cs I eal'zcd I wa l oYQnv n N s- ' th' ' ' ' ' ' ac' .4 ' . That a '- f

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JIGHLIfFI OF'VY LI'E On the twenty f1fth of October ln the y r n neteen hundred and twenty seven, there was an addltlon to a llttle farll, 1D a small fa mlng town 1D Northern Ialne lS addxt on w s none other than llttle me' ly mother always told me that Doc or Upton brought me 1D a llttle black sultc se I had long black halr that hung down on my neck by nother thought she would r ve to get re perranert b fo e I va a zeek old but my father wouldn't let her At the ge of flve and a half ye rs I beg n school I llked school very well, and I l ked my te cher I tarted school 1n the sub weeks The next year I was promoted to the tllfd grade A lot people told ry moth 1 that he rotldr' l t xe be put ahead, but she declded that, lf I could do the work lt wus all rlght Whlle I W s ln the th rd grade there an an exhlbltlon at Island Falls The teachers of our school beg n to rrepare lor it I w s chosen to be the one to spell from my class To me thls sbeped qulte an honor My mother bought me a whole new outflt of clothes for the OCCHQIOH and I felt pretty proud Another glrl of my class we chosen to speak can st1ll remember her as she stood before the audlence How I shlvered for her' But ste d1dn't seen to mlnd lt a bl v brother spoke also The next thrill whlch I experlenced was hen I passed from the prlmary room to the upper grade room Everythlng w s so trange and the teacher so strlct' One afternoon he 1nforred us that we would all have to study very hard and keep our eyes on our books, After I got my hlstory StHd1Gd I sat d y dreamlng Very soon I heard a tGPPlf1C crash. I thought a bomb had truck somewhere, but to my surprlse lt L J-mS ,. r - ' ' ea i ' f v A r . . . FJ. V . I ' T. ' 1' ' I ' . lil' . ' i la. . 9 Li 4.1. L. . ' ' a . f ' o, n , ,Q . In -. H a I I I e r I :'s v , I A 2 . I, ., , ,ix n . I i c I e . s . ' - primary, but my teacher put me in the first grade after the first few r . ' . t k' . of A re' . sr v 1 . t e Q . . , . ,? Q . ' . 3 . A: ul W A . . . , ' . a I, I ' . Q C 4 . A I ' F . - A h n., . , L , I - ' ' . c S a I ' L - ' f 1 ' . I ' I ' ' 't. N, Q L . ' ' w P ' E - . ' a s . . . ' :L t 5 . . a - I . 0 B H s . C' 1 ' ., . . . .

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I thought I was looking like a Hollywood star! While we were in Amherst, our teacher took us to see the school house where she had first taught school. She also took us to Birchmere Lake Then we wert to Ell vorth to see the large new dam that had just oeen erected After a few days ve returned nome All ol us were tlred bu napoy The next evert of my llfe was my l1TSt day at Sherman Hlgn school It then seemed such a large school As I asc nd d the steps my knees began to xobble, and I b gan to wlsh I was back 1U grammar school The flrst week all I thou ht about was Freshman' Receptlon I had it plctured out as somethlng ICTPlflC1 At last the blg day cam , and all of us glrls had to 1 ar boys' shlrts and p nts w ar a lot of llpstlck and eyebrow pencll In the fternoon we had to do our stunts It was told to me that another freshman nd I h d to d A I n n V r danced before lr my llf , I was somelhat emb rrassed vhen I had to get up before the whole school Ie dld a llttle gumplng and soon lt was all over, much to my rell f After thl I felt much better Before my freshman y r was ov r I w s all ready to qult school for good, but my father told me th t lf would stay he would g t m a hy sophomore y r w s much b tt r b eau ry best frlends f grammar school were nor lH hl h chool My JUHlOF ye r J s rot v ry v ntful Cr r lu tlor eve 1U I was very much surprls d to h ve prlnc pal p s nt wlth CGTt1f1C te for the rlgh s r nk ln school ih c FtlIlC te entltles me to a medal fter th 1 r Put, by the x J ry AP TlCqH H story nd Engllsh exams looked thls qu rter there wlll o o uch c PtlflCqt llke that thls ye r OK Q . . e. I , , v ,a 1- V., ' L + 1 .N , I , , . . I n . L . Y -. . . , 0 U . ' E 1 l l. . f e ' . . . g ,I I 1 S X . . . . I . . . ' u ' ' - e ve . a ' and o Y H . an 2 , 1 1 . H H f a ' a ance. fs ad e e J 1' I ' e v hav a 1 1 1 C I I ru , . . . . . A . g , ' C A M w . l 1 S w . 1 ' A - ea va e a -. ' . ' N s ,-N N A - a I - ' e ez blke. So to get the much wanted blke I grltted my teeth and kept on. J ea a e e o ' Su n 1 H. 0 1 f' . ' -Q , , S D I . ' va va . e e e. . '. g if-a L 1 n g ' ' r. , - ' l 7 x. - ' ' u .W ' the .. - -124 'es HIC? E1 . . V ,. L r . I I .-. F . Q A ' 4 V KJ e fl . . , .ez ez J. a A .e va . , e 'f .- waf a the ' ' i' X a . . A .. LV 1 u X . . X C. ' ' L.: Q 11 e e. er . . KN L- 6