Westbrook High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Westbrook, ME)

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EDITORIAL BOARD Front row Qleft to rightj-Barbara Chiclc, Louisa Fredette, Dorothy Marcoux, Josie Naylor, Janet Coodridge, Alma Lowell. Second row-Margaret Knight, Freida Schroeder, Norine Weston, Marguerite James, Joyce Newcomb, Beatrice Waite, Esther Wellcome, Gladys Miller, Dorothy Leighton. Third row -Frank Wellcome, Jr., Edward Mayo, Ernest Files, Philip Nelson, Arthur Merrill, Edwin Mclfeague, Dana Babb, Stanley Currier. Fourth row-Clayton Curit, Francis West, Robert LaEond, Clifford Cutter, Carnile Huard, Leonard Emery, Joseph Small, Robert Rich.

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Q 32: 2-2 i ff f -1-Z vii FACULTY I Wm T1 'if -ay , gawk di 7: - Y ' 1 ,l 'i ,k- F TN, ai.. 11. -- r .0 MILTON A. PHILBROOK, A. B. QColbyj, Principal CLIFFORD R. JORDAN, A. B. fBatesJ, Sub-master, Science and Mathematics AUSTIN ALDEN fflorham Normalj, Head of Industrial Department PAUL F. FRASER, A. B. fColbyj, Teacher Coach CHARLES BOYCE fwestbrook High Schoolj, Machine Shop JOSEPH GIVEN fCorham Normalj, Manual Training ELIZABETH WI-IITTIER, A. B. fBatesJ, Latin and French PAULINE W. ABBOTT, A. B. fColbyJ, History and Civics HELEN J. LEEMAN fMaine School of Commercej, Commercial MABEL B. DAVIS fMaine School of Commercej, Commercial MARION CHICK, A. B. fBatesJ, English MRS. NAN S. HATCH, A. B. fC0lbyl, English and Dramatics CELESTE LOMBARD, A. B. fBatesj, French and English RACHEL MATTHEWS QUniversity of Mainej, Mathematics FRANCES H. WIGHT QBatesJ, English and Public Speaking HARRIET M. ADAMS fBoston Universityl, Latin, Mathematics and Civics EVA H. DODD fMaine School of Commercej, Commercial Music School Nurse MAE PARMENTER MARY DYER, R. N. QNew England Conservatoryj Domestic Science School Physician MARY BYRNE F. LESLIE FERREN, M, D. QSimmons College, fBowclninJ Penmanship ANSEL B. STERLING lAmerican Institute Normal Trainingj

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p--4 X 5 ,ff H Omgg MV 15 . ' of 'Wh AFTER ALL, WHY GRAMMAR? After all, why grammar? I can study con- jugation of verbs, declensions of nouns, com- parisons of adjectives and adverbs, cases of pronouns, relationship of conjunctions and one month later not know whether I decline my verbs or conjugate them. It's all the same, anyway, so Why bother? I may say them houses and my teacher will look at me in horror, but all the same she knows which houses I mean as much as if I said the correct word. I may learn after a great effort on my part and on the part of my family and teachers to say politely, Please hurry, but I can say one word, Scram, and there is no one who doesn't know what I mean. I can learn after weeks of agony to punctu- ate a quotation within 'a quotation and never come across one outside a grammar book. I can learn for one day, usually, that I must say UI shall go, and then be corrected at home when I say I willf' I am much like the little boy who was kept after school by the teacher to learn to say I have gone home, instead of I have wentf' According to directions he wrote I have gone home' for one hundred times and at the end, since the teacher had left the room, added, I have vvritten. I have gone home one hundred times, and now I have went. So, after all, why grammar? E. A., '33, NEEDED IMPROVEMENT Among the many needs of VVestbro0k High School, a gymnasium is one of the most im- portant. It is safe to say that every school of any consequence has a gymnasium of some sort. NVestbrook should not be behind the others. In most institutions each student is required to take a certain number of periods of physical exercise each week unless he is physi- cally unht. These exercises are very beneficial because, first of all, they improve the general appearance immensely, and secondly, they prepare the individual for mental activity. General appearance is very important in the world todayg a round-shouldered, hollow chested person is marked as a failure before he has fairly started out. The teachers would Find the classes more receptive to their instruc- tion if the members were mentally alert. A short period of physical exercise would bring this about. Physical education stresses strength and cleanliness of mind as well as of body, for it is very evident that the thoughts of each person reflect upon his body, and a clean mind produces a clean body. VVestbrook High School has its athletic teams, but everyone may not be on the teamg therefore, very few in this school receive physi- cal training. Some of the larger schools have refused to play our teams because we have no gymnasium, and in one sense they cannot be blamed for their decision. Fooner or later XVestbrook High must have a gymnasium, the sooner it can be obtained, the better it will be for the students. J N P . ., e fa. CO-OPERATION WITH THE FACULTY As the close of the year comes around, va- rious disrespectful remarks are heard from students who are failing to make the grade. If these pupils were to use their brains instead of their mouths, they might understand why