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

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Dorcus Dorcus was a very pretty little girl. When she was six years old she started school. She was very sweet and was loved by all her classmat One day when the chi room was quiet they hoard a loud explosion. The got panicky and all start teacher stopped them at the door and got them in that they could march out est ' ldren were studying and the children ed to rush for the door at once. The line so when they get outside they discovered that one of the children was missing. Do house to rescue her. Dorcus searched all find her. She rushed up the smoke-filled rooms. She took her by the arms A burning Stick fell and rcus rushed into the flaming school- over the first floor and could not the flaming stairway and into one of There she found the unconscious girl. and tried to drag her to the window. struck Dorcus in the eyes. She screamed with pain. Then everything went black. When Dorcus woke up she tried to open her eyes, but could not. Everything was black. Her head ached and her eyes hurt. She called out and soon she heard her mother's soothing voice telling her that everything was going to be all right. Then Dorcus remembered the fire and she asked if her little friend had been hurt. Her mother told her that she was fine and that they why she could ages over her in a hospital going to take eyes. Her her home. had both been rescued by firemen. Dorcus asked not see and her mother told her that she had band parents explained to her that she was and that as soon as she was well enough they were Weeks passed and every day her parents came to see her. Many friends came to see when they were going to t day the doctor would repl patience, Dorcus.W One day Dorcus was t her, too. Every day she asked ake the bandages off her eyes and every y,WSoong You must have courage and old that the bandages were going to be taken off. Her mother and father and several doctors were present. The doctor cut the bandages and asked her if she could see anything. 'She buried her head in the pillow and began to cry. It was then that they knew she would be blind for the rest of her life. The next day her parents took her home. Her mother brought her meals to her of the day. Life went on in this on a tray and read to her most manner for a few weeks until she began to learn how to walk around the house by hanging on to the furniture.

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THE BIC GRUDGE It was a warm September morning and Ted Newton was on his way to school feeling proud as a peacock. This was the day for the first football practice and the boys had chosen him as captain of the team. Soon as Ted reached the steps of the school he saw a new boy standing on the porch. The boy was tall, of heavy build and very friendly. So Ted, as he usually did, went up to make friends with himg but Ted did not talk football. The boy, an all-star, knew more about football than Ted, so Ted said that he was a quarter-back and the captain. When the boy said he was a quarter-back, too, Ted's heart went to his toes. The boys went through with their classes that day and that afternoon, football practice got under way. The coach tried Ted in quarter the situation worse, The coach put Ted on After two weeks back and then the new boy, and to make the bov out-shone Ted in many ways. the second string. practice the Amherst High's eleven was ready to play their first game, but Ted had not forgotten that new boy. So in and blamed it on the English class he threw a paper plane new boy. The new bov had to stay two hours after school and miss the first game. When Ted was going down the steps of the school he slipped on a banana peel and sprained his ankle. Ted thought he would die, his ankle hurt so badly. So he decided the best thing he could do was to clear the new boy and stay in himself. Ted told the teacher what he had done and stay- ed in for the other boy. It was two o'clock when Ted looked out on the field and saw the new boy make 'a brilliant run that won the game. Ted was haopy that his school had won and the big grudge was forgotten. Shirley Lane '52

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She had a very sweet disposition and everyone liked her. The people in the village came to visit her often. Her parents got her a seeing-eye dog. Then they hired Mrs. Charlotte Smith to teach her how to read Braille. She learned very quickly. Dorcus grew tote a very beautiful young woman. One day on her 17th birthday she was walking in the park with her seeing-eye dog, Laddie. She was sitting on a bench when she realized that someone was sitting beside her. He introduced himself as Richard Anderson. He asked if he might walk her home. He noticed the dog and realized that she was blind. When they arrived at her house she invited him in to meet her parents. When Richard had left,her parents told her that he was! well-dressed and must come from a wealthy family. He called on her many times after that and soon they fell in love. They were married on Dorcus' eighteenth birthday. Her husband wished to have her sight restored so he took her to a specialist. He told her that there was a fifty-fifty chance that she might see again. After the operation she wore the bandages for about six weeks. Then the great day came when they were to be taken off. Everyone held their breath. UDorcus, can you see?U asked her husband. nYes,H she replied happily,U for the first time in twelve years I can see, and I owe it all to you. For the rest of my life I am going to help the blind for I know how miser- able one can be who can see nothing but darkness.H Dorcus and her husband devoted their lives to helping the blind. They founded a school for the blind where Dorcus taught the Braille system. Because they had given their lives so completely to helping others they were both happy. ' E. Holmes ' S. Nelson'