Skowhegan High School - Lever Yearbook (Skowhegan, ME)

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ber was back once again and we all knew what that meant. Back we came-and with a more important feeling now that we were juniors. XVhat fun we had with the poor bewildered sophomores that yearl A very efficient group of class officers was chosen consisting of: jack Alex. president: Earland Briggs, vice-presi- dentg and Montie Cox, secretary-treasurer. Student Council members from our class were Mary Lou Picard, jack Alex. Bob Lord, and Dave Smiley. Football season got started with its usual number of candidates. The squad in- cluded the following Junior boys: Carl, Alex. Lord, A. Turcotte, Briggs, Giroux, K. Tur- cotte. Fuller, Philbrick, Smiley, Finley, Dionne. and Carpenter. Our boys did make more of a showing that year than they had in the pre- vious fall. Football season ended and the boys. as well as the girls, dived right into basketball with great enthusiasm. The Christmas Ball came with a good attendance of junior couples. and then Christmas vacation which marked the and of our fun for 1944. The new year started out with just as much bang as ever and back to school it was for us. There were several concerts during the year and new talent was discovered in Helen Friend, who sang sweetly at many musical functions. The junior Prom in March was the highlight of the year as far as we Juniors were concerned. It went over magnificently, and was enthusiastically enjoyed by everyone who attended. The one- ace plays were held in the spring as usual with Tuscan, -Sampson, XVhite, Friend. V. Phil- brick. Crockett. Day, Dugas, LeBlanc. Drew. Lord. Stewart, Blaisdell, Finley, and Alex rep- resenting our class. Graduation time popped up out of nowhere and we juniors began to realize that it wouldn't be long now before we would be going through these same procedures. VVe marched in with the seniors on their big night-just to see how the thing was done-and then the curtain fell on another ,year of our school life. Once more summer vacation. which had brought the end of the war. rolled to a finish, and we returned for our final good times at Skowhegan High. lYith strong determination in the heart of each of us, we made up our Thirty minds that we would make this year our best. XVe welcomed several Xorridgewock students to S. H. S. They had suffered the misfortune of losing their own school. Class election proved to be more or less a repetition of our junior election, with jack Alex as president: Earland Briggs. vice-president, and Mary Lou Picard, secretary-treasurer. Student Council members from our class were as follows: Bill Carl, president, Lois VVhitney, vice-presidentg Helen Friend, secretary-treasurerg jack Alex. and Walter Blaisdell. Our football season was in- deed a successful one with our Senior boys really exceeding our expectations. The cheer- leaders were right in there faithfully. too. Faye Stoodley and Ruth Bishop represented the Senior class. A Senior Draniatics Club was organized and Dave Smiley was elected its president. Fred Day was vice-president, and Eleanor Crockett was secretary-treasurer. The one-act plays were held in the fall with each class having its own play. Seniors participat- ing were: Lois VVhitney, Joyce Rabideau, Helen Friend, Eleanor Crockett, Fred Day, Irving Drew, Jack Alex, and Raymond Finley. The table crew and cafeteria was made up entirely of Senior class members who fulfilled their duties very efficiently. The Journalism Club, with Lois VVhitney as president, included many Seniors. jack Alex was Editor-in-Chief of the Arrow, our monthly publication. Basketball season came around once more with as many followers as ever. Beverly VVhite was chosen as captain for the girls' team and Earland Briggs for the boys'. Several of our class- mates were away at prep schools this year, and would otherwise have graduated with us. They are: Virginia Philbrick, .loan Turner, Margo Philbrick. Janet Haynes, llob Lord, and Fred Fuller. LEVER editors were elected. with Dave Smiley as Editor-in-Chief, and work was started in order to have the material ready in time to go to press by April I. What a headache it was for some of us! .lust ask anyone! There were several librarians from our class including: Helen Friend. head li- brarian, Ioyce Maitland. Beverly XVhite. Arlie Spencer. Faye Stoodley. Ruth Tuscan, Althea Gower, Margaret Sampson, Helen Eames, La-

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von Adams. and Margaret Palmer. Spring came much too soon again and brought with it the Senior play. Almost Summer , with Lev- ina Webber, Joyce Rabideau. Helen Friend, Joyce Maitland, Eleanor Crockett. Fred Day, Ted LeBlanc, Jack Alex. Irving Drew, and VValter Blaisdell for its cast. Class parts were announced in March as follows: Valedictorian, Muriel Morissette: Salutatorian, If I e a n o r Crockett: and Historian. Helen Friend, This marked the beginning of graduation prepara- tion which was to be followed through until after the big event in june. Many of our '46 JHNIUH NYith .our heads in the clouds and a look of pity Qthat's a joke, sonj for the lowly sopho- mores, we Juniors once more mounted the traditional hill on September 5, for a new year. The class officers elected for the ensuing year were as follows: President, Wallace VVingg vice-president, Gertrude Cleveland, secretary- treasurer, Gailian Wfingg representatives to Student Council. Theresa Audet, June Miller, and Jackie' Greene. Mrs. Geary was chosen Faculty Advisor. Anxious to take revenge on someone for the previous yearis mauling, we began the hazing of sophomores eagerly. Perhaps due to our over-eagerness, the hazing came to an end speedily. Also the annual sophomore recep- tion was designated to be more literally a re- ception and on September 2I this event was run off with a little less color than usual. Durinf the fall the class was represented on the gridiron by Leo Sirois, Billy Cockburn, Charles Hitchings. Francis Lapointe and Wal- lace Wing, Leo Sirois and Billy Cockburn were elected co-captains for the '46 season. which should be fairly successful. Tlzirly- Ttuo boys are in the service now, and probably many more will be inducted or will enlist after grad- nation. It is consoling to know that they are serving under peaceful conditions instead of those that existed last year at this time. We have now come to the end of our high school career and we are making plans for our future years in order to help make this country of ours one we can be proud of, but we shall never forget the good times and worthwhile years we have spent at S. H. - ELmNoR CROCKETT IHHSS Richard Provencher, jackie Greene, Billy Cockburn and Wallace Wing, although only satellites this year, gave promise of holding forth on the basketball court next year. Richard Fogerty, Richard Bilodeau, Leonard Beaulier, Arthur Lebel, James York, Earl Pooler, Oliver Pooler, and Francis Lapointe composed the major part of the J. V. squad, which also should provide some good material for next year's team. Juniors dominated the cheerleading corps with Albertine Turcotte. Lorraine Cyr and Anita Fenderson cheering teams Qfootball, at leastj on to victory throughout the year. The Junior Prom under the guiding hand of Geraldine Turcotte was termed a success, al- though it was held on the fateful Ides of March . Various committee chairmen for this dance were Richard Marriner, Gailian NVing, Theresa Audet. XVallace VVing, and Jackie Jacques. On the whole the junior class gave at least a little hope of being capable of carrying on the responsibilities of seniors in the coming year. -- VVALL.xc1i XVINU