Standish High School - Crimson Rambler Yearbook (Standish, ME)

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CRIMSON RAMBLER BOARD Front row: G1 Hosmer, EL Emery, PM Blake, J. Johnson, M Coolbroth, N. Dole, Miss Booth, Miss Smith. Back row: IL Thombs, J. Wood, J. Cousins, G. Wentworth, G. Shaw,Eh Woodbrey,JA Burdwomd,K. Coolbroth, O. Harrington J. Wood, W. Gallant. STUDENT COUNCIL Front Rowg B. Brown, D. Plympton, P. Smith, G. Warren, C Wesoott. Back row: E. Emery, F. Blake, J. Chaplin, M. Coolbroth, K Coolbroth. e

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- J' o Q 3 .49 ' ' - 5 E +' Q' a -W-4 5 'iff THE VALUE OF ATHLETICS IN SCHOGL To be an athlete worthy of name you must have: l. Determination--A resolve that no matter how hard you have to work you are going to make yourself into a real player. 2. Physical fitness--Athletics require the best of physical fitness 5. Mental alertness--Quick thinking. 4. of many 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. breaksn 10. clean. Experience--A real athlete can not be made in a day or a month or a year. Hard work, constant practice, and the experience hard fought games are necessary. All games have rulesg honor and respect them. Do your best alwaysg keep faith with your comrades. Don't lose your temper in defeat. Win modestlyg lose graciously. Remember that athletic contests are games--don't let nbad or defeat ruin your enjoyment. Treat your opponents as friends--play the game hard but Athletics develop the character of youth. However, none of the above characteristics of athletics are sufficient justification for an absolute faith in them. The real inspiration of such faith lies, first, in the fact that if athletics are properly supervised and administered, they serve as a practical course in the develop- ment of the character of youth. The responsibility of representing a school, rather than himself, provides one with a proving ground forothe growth of the best in his character. 0 Second, the individual is trained to overcome obstacles, both internal and external, and to conquer them with the urge of a strong desire to win. all the do this a smile manship mean in as this Charles W. Kennedy in Colle e Athletics once said, nIt is necessary for one to mobilize, at a g ven t me and a given place, skill and intelligence and courage that he possesses, to in the face of the most strenuous oppositiong to do it with and a cool head, to do it in a spirit of chivalrous sports- that will not permit him to stoop to that which is base and order to win. If any system is not very directly serving certainly many of us are in error as education should be in the case of a that furnishes such a training an educational purpose, then to what some of the ends of- growing person. J. Johnson '44