Somerset Academy - Athenaeum Yearbook (Athens, ME)

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SENIORS MARIE PATTERSON Softball 1, 2, 3, 43 Dramatics 1, 2, 3, 43 Freshman Speakingg Year- book Staff 3, 43 Track 33 Magazine Campaign 43 Perfect Attend- ance 3, 4. PAULINE TOLMAN Softball 1, 2, 3, 43 Track 33 Basketball 3, 43 Basketball Co-captain 43 Dramatics 1, 2, 3, 4g Freshman Speaking3 Yearbook Staff 3, 4g Class Secretary ZQ Class Vice-president 43 Secretary of School Asso- ciation 23 Treasurer of School Association 3. School Association 3. Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate, As we voyage along through life. 'Tis the set of the soul That decides the goal And not the calm or the strife. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, hear- When you are the hammer, strike. EDWIN MARKHABI 7

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SEN IORS GERALDINE MISHOU Basketball manager 3, 4, Soft- ball scorer 2, 2, 3 Dramatics 1 3 4 7 2, 3, 4, Track 3, Business man- ager of magazine campaign 4 Magazine campaign top sales- man 4, Freshman S pe a k i n g HERBERT NORMAN Baseball 1, 2, 3, 4, Basketball 3, 4, Track 3, Dramatics 1, 2, 3, 45 Freshman Speaking, Yearbook Staff 3, Class President 4g School Association 4. 6 MADELYN FARRIN Softball 1, 2, 3, 4, Track 3, Dramatics 1, 2, 3, 4, Basketball 3, 43 Freshman Speaking, Yearbook Staff 3, 49 Class President 3, Vice- president 2, Treasurer, School Association 4, President, Home Ec. Club 4, Salutatorian, Senior Class. Magazine Sales Award 45 Assist- ant Editor of Yearbook 3, Edi- tor-in-chief of Yearbook 43 Class Secretary 3, 45 Secretary, School Association 4, Dirigo Girls State Representative 33 Valedictorian, Senior Class.

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LITERARY Jack Frost's Magic This morning as I was eating my breakfast, I glanced up and right before my eyes was a beau- tiful picture. I saw a grand old castle resting atop a slope, around the castle was a moat filled with sparkling water, across the moat lay an old, sturdy drawbridge. A knight in shining armor stood erect, his battle-axe raised in his hand for attack. Through the castle window I could see men moving about, and once in a while the bob of a helmet disclosed the presence of guards. I saw an old king, his jeweled crown sparkling like crystals, slowly descend to the drawbridge. But as the sun rose, it threw the complete scene into confusion. The castle crumbled and fell to the ground, the drawbridge sank slowly into the moat, which, in turn, seemed to evaporate into air. The old king and his knights just wilted and died before my eyes. Soon nothing was left but a crumpled heap, even this slowly dissolved and finally an occasional drop of water slowly finding its way to the window sill was all that remained of what was probably the world's greatest mas- terpiece, sketched on my window by that master magician, jack Frost. GERALDINE Mrsr-rou '52 Excuse Me The winter that I was ro or 1 1 years old, Uncle Harry and my father were going to cut zo cords of firewood for my grandfather and some for their own use. The place they had picked to cut the Wood was half a mile straight back into the woods. As it is hard for Dad to walk, they decided to build a shelter, make a stove out of an old oil drum and eat their lunches in the woods to save walking to the house and back. The men built the frame- work and Norman, Gib, and I filled it in with boughs. It was our job every noon to take the lunches into the woods and prepare them on the oil drum stove. One noon as we all sat around on the boughs after finishing dinner, a rabbit came across the road and whizzed through the door. Five bodies 8 simultaneously made a lunge for it but came up with only a handful of dirt. We tried to figure out why the rabbit ran through the camp and finally decided we must have built the camp over a rabbit run and it was just a routine trip for Mr. Rabbit. Rossini POLAND '53 Education for Success Education for life does not consist wholly of book learning. Many of our country's greatest men never had any more schooling than a stu- dent in grammar school has today. The person who really wants to learn will become educated regardless of how little he goes to school. Listen- ing to well informed people, asking questions, and remembering information are ways of learn- ing, but experience, of course, is the best teacher. Great men like Franklin, Lincoln, and others of humble or average parents, who rose to great heights, had to work hard for that education which didn't come from books. WELDON FRENCH '53 Modest I During World War Two there were many in- cidents that failed to come to the attention of the public. In one of these Cprobably a major turning point in the WarD a very important per- son played a prominent part-I. The story I am about to relate took place April 13, 1945, the day before my birthday, the location I will not dis- close, for it might tend to embarrass some very prominent people. At this time of year this place is generally foggy and the day I speak of was no exceptiong in fact the fog was so thick, it was impossible for one to tell where he was going. The time was two o'clock in the morning and I had just come in from a walk when suddenly the air was split by the wail of the air raid siren. I was out of the house Cbeing a privileged charac- ter I was granted a house instead of regular bar- racksD and into headquarters in a matter of min- utes. For some reason which I can't seem to recall all planes but mine were grounded. It was decided that I would go up alone and try to hold