Thomaston High School - Sea Breeze Yearbook (Thomaston, ME)

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THE SEA, BREEZE 4 L, still our president and deserves our loyalty. Patriotism doesn't just mean singing the WStar-Spangled Bannern and saluting the flag. Those are just outward symbols of patriotism and don't necessarily show our real feelings. Patriotism means de- fending our country against slander of any Kind and not allowing anyone to talk against it without just cause. It means working your very hardest to make America the best country in the world. Many of you will say, WBut what can I do?0 What you can do! Everything! There are endless opportunities for bettering the country. In case you do not know it, you are America. The: youth of today are the life blood which keeps America alive. If we would strive to make our schools, communities and state the very best possible we could do a lot to improve our country. Service we also owe to America, and it is really just a genuine form of patriotism. We can serve America by being good citizens, keeping the ideals of the real America above our personal glories, taking care not to destroy peace in America, and by being ready to defend her if necessary against an attack. What does America owe us? America owes us all the,points set down in the Constitution-the Bill of Rights-especially freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to vote and the right to make an honest living. We may take these privileges for granted, but if we were forced to live in certain foreign countries where this freedom is denied we would indeed realize how fortunate we are to be living in America. S. G. 'A2 REMINISCENCE OFZA JUNIOR As I sit in my schoolroom seat and gaze about me I recall many pleasant and also sad little memories of past years at school. There was that glorious first day when the seats were so strange and nice, and when the other Kids were thrilled too. Then came the years before Junior High. These years I recall with a bit of sad- ness as they were years when sehool to me was a bore. I hated it and I would be glad when I could finish! Now I wonder how I could have been so dull as to want to give up all the fun and the learn- ing derived from this school. Then the years of Junior High, I recall with a sad smile, were full of giggles, note tossing and many perplexing little troubles and problems to solye, As my eyes turn slowly to focus on the frosty, cold trees outside, a thought comes to me that in the near future I will be recalling just as I am now the days of school and even this day of melancholy thinking. Now I am a Junior, my Freshman and Sophomore years have slip- ped by and I realize that I have only one more year to enjoy my school and to prepare myself for an occupation. Since my teacher is now looking at me I have to surpress my longing to gaze about the familiar rooms and hall which can be seen from our door, Why don't the blackboards seem monotonous as they used to? Is it be- cause I have just realized how I shall miss them when I no longer have the privilege of coming here? Yes, I Know that is why.

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THE SEA BREEZE 5 My thoughts now turn to my teachers. Of course I will see them once in a while but it won't be the same. I smile as I think of the many times I have received a scowl or some timely advice from my teachers but I know I shall miss them also. I see my self at the graduation, at the ball, the banquet and on the class trip. They surely will be fun but I would still like to be a child just starting to go through school, for I realize I am now a Junior and my school days are really over, As memories of this life I am living now will be all that is left, I picture my- seif innthe future saying, NOh, how I wish that I were back in sc oo . F. B. 'LZ HOBBIES -Quin-1-as I'll bet that title caught your eye. It didn't1 Well you're one in a million, because of all the pastimes known to man hobbies are by far the most practiced. I think the reasons for hobbies being so popular is that most of the time they are an inside sport. Then too, they save many people large sums of money. I have a friend in New York City that has saved at least a thousand dollars through his hobby. Che collects unpaid and long overdue bills that are sent to him by his creditors.J His collection is one of the finest of this type. The prize piece of his accumulated bills is a beautifull one hundred-dollar U-O-Me slip from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Of course, we can't all be as original as this but we can follow in someone else's footprints and collect such dull things asg man hole covers, telephone wire and automobile headlights. A hobby you know is usually started by saving some little ob- ject the t catches your fancy something like a ---- like a ----- well its like a ---- . Well, of course, many people don't start this way so let's try another angle. Some people start a hobby through friends, that is, a friend may send you a lovely unuseful lace doily at Christmas, On New Years day you get another. On your birthday you find still another in your mailbox, and before the year is out you find yourself the proud possessor of the finest doily collection in your town. I think that my hobby is quite unique, for although I have met numbers of hobbiests, not one of them have yet duplicated it. My collection is conceeded by many to be the best of its type perhaps even the worlds finest. When this collection has filled its ninth volume, I'll be able to write a book on the world's most unimportant facts, if people stop making important facts long enough for a few unimportant ones to happen. N. R. 'Ll