Vergennes Union High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Vergennes, VT)

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BLUE AND WHITE Waterbury Again Defeats Vergennes High The last meet on the V. H. S. cross country schedule was run on the Vergennes course Oct. 21, when the Waterbury squad came to Vergennes for their return meet with the V. H. S. harriers. A rather small Vergennes squad turned out for the meet due to injuries and other reasons. Towne of Waterbury covered the 2.5 mile course in 16 minutes and 2 seconds, the best time of the day. In all, the first nine places were taken by Waterbury in the following order: Towne, Morris. Abare, S. Harvey, Werner. Clough, H. Harvey, Woods, and Sweet. Vergennes took tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth places, the fifteenth go-ing to Joy of Waterbury. Austin and Larrabee placed first' and second respectively for Vergennes. Third, fourth, and fifth for V. H. S. were taken by H. Langeway, M. Raymond and C. Sears. The best time for Vergennes was 18 minutes. The result of the meet was a per feet score of 15-40 in favor of Waterbury. Basketball Season Approaches Candidates for the boys’ basketball team were called out last Thursday for preliminary calisthenics under the direction of Mr. Dopp. Regular practice will start in the very near future. The prospects for the 1938-1939 team are good. Five of the last year’s varsity are returning; two of them, McCabe and Raymond, are last year letter men. Beside these five men from the 1937-1938 varsity there is some good material coming up from last year’s junior varsity. As a whole the future looks quite bright. No Troy Meet The Vergennes High crosscountry team will not participate in the Troy track meet this year. No invitation to the meet has been received by Principal Barry as yet, and if there should be one the team will probably not go. PAGE FIFTEEN

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VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL Editor. Ben Allen, ’39 Cross Country Team Opens Season Against Waterbury High The Vergetines I ligh cross country team opened its 1938 season with a meet against the strong Waterbury High School squad on Friday. September 30. The meet, which was run at Waterbury. was over their hilly 2.6 mile course. The first nine places were taken by members of the Waterbury High squad, their leading man making the course in 15 minutes and 38 seconds. The tenth place went to a Vergennes High runner. Clement Sears, whose time for the course was 18 minutes. Bernard Austin was the second V. H. S. man in. The Waterbury team took the meet with a score of 15 to 40 for the Vergennes squad. Nine Vergennes runners. Clement Sears, Bernard Austin. Hosea Langeway, Bill Larrabee, Roger Collins, Merritt Raymond. Gifton O’Brien, Desmond Casey and Francis Bearor, accompanied by Manager Ben Allen and Coach Dopp made the trip. University of Vermont Freshmen 15—Vergennes High School 40 The second meet on the V. H. S. cross country schedule matched the University of Vermont freshmen with the Vergennes squad. The meet was run on Friday, Oct. 7. in Burlington over the University’s two mile course. The University of Vermont freshman team took the first five places with Clement Sears of Vergennes High taking sixth place. Bernard Austin and Hosea Langeway took second and third places respectively and fourteenth in the whole field. The best time that day was turned in by the U. V. M. freshman Jack Burgess, who covered the two mile course in 13 minutes and 58 seconds. The best time for a Vergennes runner was 14 minutes and 23 seconds, made by Sears. Coach Dopp, Manager Ben Allen and the following nine runners made the trip: Clement Sears, Bernard Austin, Hosea Langeway, Bill Larrabee, Roger Collins, Merritt Raymond, Desmond Casey, Stuart Haven and Francis Bearor. PAGE FOURTEEN

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VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL LE DEPARTEMENT FRANCAIS Editor, Roger Collins, '39 Allant a l’Ecole en France William Allen, ’39 Quand l'ecole commence en France, les petits garqons et les petites filles vont a l'ecole com-munale, ou primaire. La, les plus petits enfants travaillent ensemble dans une salle. mais les plus ages ont les salles de classes separees. S’asseyant sur les longs bancs de bois avec les pupitres devant eux, les eleves etudient pendant beau-coup d’heures, parce que l’ecole commence a 8 :30 et n’est pas finie jusqu’a 4:30, avec seulement assez de temps pour le dejeuner. Bientot les enfants sont eleves concernant leur langue, parce que, tandis qu'ils parlent le patois chez eux, il faut qu’ils sachent parler et ecrire le francais correct. La geographic, l’arithmetic, et l’histoire sont etudiees aussi. Meme a cet age, l’instruction est une chose grave pour les enfants franqais. At 1’age de dix ou douze, les eleves finissent cette partie de l’in-struction et ils prennent un ex-anien. Pour beaucoup de garqons et jeunes filles pauvres ceci est la fin d'aller a l'ecole; maintenant il faut qu’ils travaillent. Mais en France l’instruction est considefee de grande importance, ainsi pour les garqons qui sont pauvres, mais ambitieux, il y a des bourses aux lycees. Aux lycees les eleves etudient beaucoup pour les metiers qu'ils ont choisis. ’ll y a les cours en science, en mathematiques, en grec. en latin, et en anglais, aussi bien qu’en franqais. Alors, a seize ans, est le Baccaulaureat. C’est l’examen tres difficile qui contient toutes les choses que les eleves ont etudiees aux lycees. Maintenant, avec le diplome-bach-elier es lettres. ou bachelier es sciences, l'eleve peut aller a l’uni-versite. En France, surtout a Paris, il y a beaucoup d’universites fameuses. Il y a L’Ecole des Beaux Arts, le Conservatoire, la Sorbonne, et des autres. Le garcon ou la jeune fille peut etudier a une des uni-versites fameuses en France et aussi partout dans le monde. PAGE SIXTEEN