Spaulding High School - Red and White Yearbook (Rochester, NH)

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8 THE RED AND WHITE Songs have been written about everything imaginable from birth to death, love to hate, tiny people to gi- gantic nations, trickling brooks to mighty oceans. There lies the ma- terial, why don't you say it with mu- sic '? Television Telephones Q BETTY-LOU BICKFORD, '52 Barbara-Barbara, you're wanted on the phone. ' 6'Who is it? I think he is Peter Murphey. I have never seen him this close be- fore. What, you say, she gets a phone call but you see him! Well, this seems to be the place to explain that this is the year 1982 and we have a television telephone. I wonder what it was like back in the Holden days when they had phones that you could only hear the other person, and not see them. It must have been awful having to guess who it was and to tell your name everytime you called someone. Take us today in comparison when we pick up the receiver and see the person calling. If we don't Want to talk to them we don't have to push the contact button on the receiver, but merely replace it on the set. When we want to talk our picture goes on their screen and we hold our conversation. There are a few disadvantages, however. My sister, for instance, had a call today while she was in her pin curls and pajamas. She simply had to make her best appearance so her first move was to run upstairs and put on her good clothes and HX her hair. When Mother was a little girl, can you imagine, she had only one tele-- vision viewing set. She says the whole family gathered around it in the evening to watch the programs in black and white. We have one main set now but there are screens in - 'X pea 4-1 T -i Q nba ag We. every room so we all do our work but still watch the programs. She also said that everybody didn't have them then either but went to something called movies for entertainment. It must have been very tiresome and dull just sitting and watching one big screen for two hours. Now we have color television sets in our cars and television telephones, too. I am just very thankful that I didn't live when my mother did and have to put up with all the hardships an-d inconveniences that she had to endure, ,L.l1...1- When Television Telephones Are In Use PATRICIA BICKFORD, '52 I would like to introduce you to Mrs. John Brown. She is an average and typical housewife, who has an average husband, namely ' John Brown, and three average children. It is about nine o'clock and Mrs. John Brown has just managed to get her family oi to work and school. Now the telephone rings. Mrs.

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THE' RED AND WHITE I 7 to this case with another array of articles that are very interesting, ine cluding an old ink well with two quill pens in it, which was said to have be- longed to Captain John Smith, the man who started the Virginia Col- ony. Another item on display is a pair of spectacles that were made over one hundred years ago, in Belgium. The bows and rims of these glasses are made of silver and are very nar- row. A very large bellows stands against the wall next to an old furnace that was used to heat the schoolhouse. An- other cobbler's bench is next to it. On this one there are still two pairs of shoes. Above this is an old lantern which was used on the Wakefield Con- gregational Church beside the door. A silver communion set which be- longs to the Congregational Church is very beautiful also. A pair of milk pans that were made by hand tells us how handy the peo- ple in the colonies were. Two little dancing costumes that were worn by some child are also on display. As one leaves the room a map of Carroll County, which was made in 1850, faces him. Something which probably inter- ests the boys more than the girls is an old surveyoris instrument with a compass in the center of it. I have tried to describe every article of interest, but I find I have left some- thing out. The old red sleigh in front of the school house belonged to none other than New Hampshire's own Daniel Webster. - I think it is wonderful that people could get all of these items together. We read much about our American Heritage, but, I think we do not ap- preciate it until we see with our own eyes the articles our ancestors made with their hands, Say I z' Wz'th Mlzsic BETTY LUNT, '53 There come times in the lives and experiences of most of us when our emotions are so profound that it is not possible to express ourselves ef- fectively with words. Through music only can the stronger sensibilities of human emotions be eiectively ex- pressed. Lovers find it far more expressive to say, I love you, with music. Many lovers have given to the World the great masterpieces of their own passion, which are still sung, played, and appreciated by people today. What person hearing Liebestraum is not deeply moved by the tender, surging passion given it by its great composer, Frantz Liszt? The majestic chords and moving in- ner parts of Rachmaninoffvs Prelude in' C-it Minor leave an audience in a state of thrill and unbelief. These men, however, are not the only greats. The preludes of Chopin are extremely touching and moving. Many men have written music at times when life had been difficult for them and sorrows were frequent. This music is moving enough to tear emotional people apart, so to speak.

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THE RED AND WHITE 9 Brown with a one-track mind thinks only of her friend Mildred calling. She hurries to the telephone with her bathro-be on, hair in curlers, and mud pack on her face. Hello! she said. Then came the tragic moment-she remembered that yesterday the telephone company in- stalled their new television telephone, and there on the line is the mayor of Sunnyvale. Yes, His Honor, the May- or, is right there before her on the little television screen. Thoughts ran quickly through Mrs. Brown's mind. Should she hang up? Should she talk as if she were dressed properly? Or what should she do? She decided to hang up, for if she didn't she knew her self-respect and pride would be hurt. If the mayor wanted anything special, he would surely call back. After putting the receiver down, she only hoped the mayor hadn't rec- ognized her with the mud pack on her face. The safest thing to do she de- cided was to go dress in case the may- or called back. The next time the telephone rang it was her friend, Mildred-. They talked for an hour or so and agreed nothing could be finer than to be able to see each other as they gossiped. Mrs. Brown's next move was to call one friend after another, especially the ones she hadn't seen lately. She knew it was silly, but she was like a child with a new toy. Soon Mr. Brown and the children came home for lunch. Lunch? Was lunch ready? No, it wasn't, for Mrs. John Brown had been too busy calling to get lunch. Sandwiches were easy to make, so the family had sandwiches for lunch. While Mrs. Brown was washing the dishes, her youngest son, Jimmie, was busy with the new telephone. He had the telephone book and was call- ing up everybody just to see what they looked like. He was already fCo'ntimLecZ on Page 151 2? M y Make-Belz'eue Life CORINNE BOUDREAU, '52 If I were able to turn back the hands of time to make-believe life, I would like to be a poet of nature. You ask me why? To me there is nothing so beautiful and serene as the makings of God around us. I would put on paper the messages of nature, with the frosted windowpanes and glistening snow of winter, and the breaking of ice and fragrant air of spring. Of the ripple of water and glorious sunshine of the summer, and the golden splendor of fall. But alas! It is beyond my reach to grasp the words that will describe our picturesque surroundings. I would take my book and pencil and wander on a sunny day up the side of a mountain or into a green pasture. Here amid the vigorous green grass and coolness of the tall timber I would put on paper for the world to read the messages of nature. I would describe the valleys hollowed