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

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BRAIN TEASER A motorist was one hundred yards from an open railroad crossing, pro- ceeding at 'dfty miles per hour. A train, coming down the track at sixty miles an hour was three hundred seventy-Iive feet from the crossing. Problem: Did the motorist get across? Solution: Yes, the motorist got across. A beautiful marble cross purchased by his widow from his in- surance payments. When atomic power Reaches its peak. Perhaps we'll have A no-hour week. CC. W. Philadelphiaj A girl doesn't mind going out with a strong, silent man if he has plenty of money to do the talking for him. Voice from the floor of a Gonic bus: A-a-sh, someone's leaving. Now we can get a place to stand up. Mother: Whatl You flunked that course again ? Fred Perkins: What'd you ex- pect she gave me the same test ? Paul Clark: 'Tm thinking of ask- ing a girl to marry me. Do you think that's a good idea ? . Yvonne: Yes, if you ask me. Mrs. Valley was explaining to the class some of the mysteries of the French language. She told them that madame means a married Wo- man, Hmadamoisellev means 'an un- married woman and monsieur means a man. Then, to see if the class understood she asked one of our brains,' to tell the diierence be- tween madame and Umadamoi- sellef' Immediately the boy an- swered: Monsieur, ' A New Arrival CAROLYN WOODES, '56 In our family surprises are quite common, but one night last week we got an unusual one. We now have a new baby in our house. Oh, she's such a pretty thing. She weighs about one hundred pounds. Of course she is a bit large for her age. We stay up quite late with her on Friday and Saturday nights. All the neighbors come over for her feeding and they stay till 12:00 or 1:00. She costs quite a bit as all babies do. But we enjoy her so much that it makes up for her cost. She has a twenty-inch face. She comes in very clear on almost every night, even though it's snowing or raining. We christened her Philconnie but her real name is Philco. Have you guessed yet who our baby really is? ? ? ?

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THE RED A ND. WHITE -'--A- --U29 the Raiders 57-40. The Clippers took advantage of a two-platoon system to run the Spaulding quintet ragged. Spaulding stayed in the battle until the third period when Coach Ed Petras' boys turned the game into a runaway. Bob Vanasse's 13 points and John Carrigan's 12 points were not enough to keep the Raiders in the game. It was the Raiders' second straight loss and their record now stands 7-5. ' BERLIN 71-SPAULDING 44 The Berlin High Mountaineers tag- ged the worst defeat of the season on the Raiders at Berlin, 71-44. Spaul- ding was decidedly off and looked little like a team who previously boasted a six-game winning streak. Bob Vanasse was the only Raider to hit double figures, while MacArthur, with 18 points and Sullivan, with 13 points, led the Northern crew. Berlin jumped to a 19-9 lead in the first quarter and never lost it. The Raiders must win one of their next three games to qualify for the tournament. DOVER 44-SPAULDING 38 Spaulding dropped its third straight game the hard way to the Green Wave at Dover in overtime, 44-38. A slow first period revealed a score of 6-5 in Dover's favor. Dover outscored the Raiders 17-9 in the second period to hold a nine-point margin at the half. Spaulding. bounced back to outscore Dover in both of the final frames to tie the game. With Vanasse, Patch, and O'Brien out in the overtime, the Raiders were unable to counter Dover's six points. Diud Flaker and Bob Vanasse dominated the scoring departments for Spaulding with 16 and 9 points respectively while Jack McNal1y's 15 points were high for Dover. Spaulding previously whipped Dover 56-32 at Spaulding. SPAULDING VS. WEST Spaulding continued its winning streak to six straight games as it de- feated West High 36-29, at Manches- ter. This was an important victory as Spaulding has always been jinxed while playing at West's little horse- stall gym. The game was rough at spots but the personals were only ten for Spaul- ding and nine for West. - Don Patch with 11 points and John- ny Carrigan with 10 points carried the scoring burden. The Raiders held a modest 17-11 lead at the half, but only managed to outscore West 19-18 during the last half, with West clos- ing the gap 24-28 in the final quarter, but Spaulding was determined not to lose this one as they had in previous years. The JV game was canceled when the Spaulding team arrived late. SPAULDING VS. DOVER The Spaulding Raiders literally swamped the Dover Green Wave to roll up a surprisingly easy 56-32 vic- tory over its oldest rival. The outclassed Dover quintet failed to dent the rompaging raiders who outscored them 32-14 in the second to tuck the game away. Once again it was Duddy Flaker who held scoring honors, dunking in 17 points, with Vanesse scoring 14 points. By winning, Spaulding kept its winning streak going to five straight games. In the preliminary, the Dover J V's edged the Spaulding JV's 24-23. .SPAULDING VS. LACONIA The Laconia High Sachems hit from all corners of the court to run up afquick 18-2 lead in the first per- iod which the Raiders never could erase. fContinued on Page 31,2

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THE RED ,AND WHITE -BA- 31 Letter of Condolence 106 Main Street Rochester, N. H. January 10, 1952 Dear Uncle George: I can see you now, having a won- derful time relaxing and sporting around now that Aunt Mary has gone. You won't have to bother getting her meals, running after this and that so she will be comfortable. You know I always thought she was joking about her illness, but now I know she wasn't, since she's dead. Now you can have a real good time, going to the places and clubs you al- ways wanted to attend. When you knew Aunt Mary was going to die and you got a twenty-thousand dollar policy, I thought you were a very smart business man, as that was a smart business move on your part. Sorry I could not come to the fu- neral, but I suppose that you were in a hurry to bury her and did not care to have too many people there- else I should have been notified. So long for now. Your loving nephew, . Roger Beaudoin. Letter of Sympathy? To One Hospitalized 5 Richer Court Rochester, N. H. January 16, 1952 Hi Ya, Kid: Heard you 'had a slight accident. How come you couldn't get out of the way when you saw the train coming? You must have had your foot caught in the tracks just as they do in the movies. How did you feel when the train was a few feet in front of you and you knew it was too late to get out of the Way? It must have felt funny to lie in the ambulance and watch them pick up your leg and throw it into the rubbish truck. I know you can't answer this let- ter because of the shock you had which paralyzed your right arm. You won't be able to play basketball this year, will vou? Your girl sure feels bad about it all, she hasn't eaten or slept since the accident. You are go- ing to have a wooden leg now, I guess. You know it will be hard to learn to walk again. If it were anyone but you, I'd say he would .never learn to walk, but I know you can do it. You can't keep a good man down, is what I always say. Do you think you will have to repeat this school year? If you do, you won't be able to graduate with all your pals. Remember that night Sally saw a man with a wooden leg dancing? She said she would never go out with a person who had a wooden leg, so yo-u'd better get a new style plastic leg or KContimtecZ on Page 31,2 THE VALUE OF A COLLEGE EDUCATION fCom:imted from Page 1,2 tion in this field which he carried with him throughout his life. In much the same way, one can benefit by a college education. First one learns the fundamentals. How- ever, the basis for education is not to learn from books, by rote word for word, etc., but to learn how to reason quickly and accurately. In our college life we shall also make many acquaintances who will prove to be definite assets to us in later life. A college degree opens the door to many jobs and positions of- fering almost unlimited opportunities for advancement. . Therefore, it is a sincere opinion that if a person really wants to make something of his life, if he wants a worthwhile job with desirable advan- tages, he cannot afford to sacrifice the values of a college education.