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

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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

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THE SEA BREEZE 6 SENIORS This was a bright world until we became Seniors, but now, after we have reached the stage when we should be noted for our outstanding intelligence, our outstanding ability, Cdue to our past good work, of coursel we are the topic of conversation in all of the other classes--about our laziness. When we were Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors we heard about how lazy the Seniors were, , and agreed, certainly. We do not agree to that statement about this particular class, however. As fifth period, which is our English period, arrives, we enter the room only to be told that we are lazy and that the Sen- iors have no more right to this attribute than anyone else in the school. Practically the same words come from the history teacher the minute that we arrive in her class. How can the teachers set- tle a serious problem like that so quickly? CBy the way, the lat- ter would forgive us if we would wait until May, and we're quite sure that the former wouldn't think so badly of us if we wouldn't be lazy until the middle of June.D We may be idle, inactive, in- dolent and slothful, but the word lazy shouldn't be used--that is not a respectful name for a Senior. The reason for our inactive- ness is because we aren't supposed to do so much work or is that just what WE think? In Mr. Wood's Office Practice Class he speaks very sharply if anyone carries on even the smallest of conversations, and before he is ready to conduct the class, mind you, NYou students get busy! Just because you're Seniors doesn't give you a special permission to talk.W Imagine, someone not wanting to hear a Senior talkt Then we enter Miss Higgins' American History Class, and she goes on a Nsit-downn strike because we don't talk enough. No wonder a Senior doesn't know what to doll No doubt the Sennors were lazy last year, the year before, and in fact all of the years before that. If we should hear next year, or any year to come, that the Seniors were the laziest group of the students in the school building, there would be no question about it, but our class, lazy?- OH! NO! M. J . '1.1 Q c,AT1o,NA1i gcgqinmvcn Mr. Webster calls a vocation a work. This is not a very spe- cific definition. But you ask, what is it then? It is a non-pro- fessional trade. 'Under this comes the carpenter, painter, grocer, clerk, etcg all of which are very important today. The vocational training given us here in Thomaston High School is limited. We have a Commercial Course which gives us bookkeeping,