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

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10 Miss Phinney received her first training in the Boston Conservatory of Music. In June, 1922, she went to New York to study for the summer, and in 1931 she received her B. S. degree in musi- cal education. She has had very expensive expe- rience in teaching music. She taught for two years at East Stroudsburg, Penn., for six and one-half years at Swarthmore and, in 1931, re- ceiving a six months' leave of absence, went to New York to complete her education, finally com- ing to Ben Avon, a suburb of Pittsburgh, in Sep- tember, 1931. She plans to attend Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. to obtain her M. S. degree. Mgr The Blue G- VVhite In a letter received from her recently, Miss Phinney pays a sincere tribute to the teachers of Wfestbrook High School. I am, at the end of ten years, a far more ar- dent and loyal Mainiac than when I left-if such a thing is possible. No matter where I go, I Hnd no place like dear old Maine: no folks quite like Maine people, and sometime I'm going back. I spent some of 'my happiest years in the WVestbrook schools, and nowhere have I found more loyal helpers or firmer friends than the VVestbrook corps of teachers. I send cordial greetings to them and to all my dear pupil musicians, wherever they may be. . 31 f -. :W-1,1 . nit. lQ1Z!lU!LUQD gf 3 0

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VVestbrook High School 'FH 9 The pupils having their initials inscribed in such a manner do not create the desired impression: yet we have to suffer. In ending may I say to you. If you should disregard my view, May expulsion be your due. E. J., 'aa TRIBUTE TO LIBRARY I am glad, said one book to another, that we are now able to have places of our own and not be thrown and banged around as before. XVe really ought to thank all who have made this pos- sible for us. This probably is how the book feels, just the same as we students feel now and always shall. Never before have we had such a wonderful sys- tem in our library, a system similar to that of the VVestbrook Memorial Library. By this plan, books are no longer destroyed and allowed to re- main all over the room on one desk or another. Neatness and order have sprung into place. We should all join in extending thanks to the school librarians and all who have helped to make this system possible. L . F., 'aa THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW CENTURY The class of 1900 felt its importance in being the first to graduate from W'estbrook High in the new century. The ending of the old and the be- ginning of the new, with the many changes just starting. gave added impressiveness to that last year. As I look back and compare our class with the classes of the present, I feel that we must have been a rather stolid, sober group-hard-working, considerate, loyal to our classmates and to our school, willing to do to the best of our ability what was expected of us, and earning the reputation of being a comfortable group with which to live. No member of the class, to my knowledge, has won great fame but all have won standing as hon- est, substantial citizens who could be depended upon to carry on through peace time and war time, through good times and bad. Of the twenty- three, live became teachers, all but seven married, and at least five have been called to their eternal home. VVhen we were students there was no annex, no industrial building, no electric lighting in any of the rooms, no telephone in the building or in the majority of Westbrook homes, no commercial, art or home economics department, no gymnasium at Cumberland Hall, no athletic activity for girls, and no dancing was allowed at any school func- tion. IN'e had no school play each year, neither did we publish any BLUE AND VVHITE. However, we did have Public speaking contests. Automobiles were not of that day and the bi- cycle and trolley were the usual means of trans- portation. Hiking was not at all popular, doubt- less due to the fact that the clothing of girls was entirely unsuited to such activity. Sororities, Campfire Girls, and Girl Scouts were quite unknown to us and we had few, if any, social clubs. Moving pictures were in their in- fancy and we seldom saw them. Talking pictures, wireless telegraphy and the radio had not been invented. Good old days ! Yes, because we knew noth- ing better and were happy with what we had. It hardly seems possible that such radical changes could have taken place in the short space of a quarter of a century. And as for a school nurse and school doctor, one who suggested such things would have been considered queer! The century is still far from middle-aged and long before that fiftieth year is here I hope to hear the old school called Junior High School and see Westbrook the proud possessor of a building modern in every way, adequate for future needs, and filled with pupils upholding the traditions of good old Westlirook I-Iigh. Here's to the good izcrw days! M. S. B., 1900. Wie of Wfestbrook High School owe much to Miss Carrie B. Phinney, who is a former music supervisor of Vilestbrook, for it is due to her efforts that We now have the privileges of an orchestra, a Glee Club, and a chorus.

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