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

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l LIBRARIANS. OFFICE GIRLS, STUDENT SERVICE Firxl row: Virginia Lowelliii, Barbara Garlariclgs, Claire Lebelii, Edward Johnson:,l'., Ann Twomblyif. Sfromf row: Mary Berrymentl, Theresa Tardifff, Jeanette Crookeri, Marcelle Hebert? Marcia Goodingw, Margaret Levesqueii, Jean Caroni, Jeanne Johns0n'l', Helen Smith'l', Theresa Duf0ur'l', Elizabeth Keene'l', Jeannette Theriault'l', Jean Asker'l', Joan Smithi, Beverly Finney'l'. T Librarians. 29 Office girls. 1 Student service Q4 Page from a Commercial Studentfs Dior Dear Diary: May 3, 1948-What a relief! I have been Wondering and Worrying about getting a permanent position after I graduate in June and now my mind is at ease and the immediate future looks bright and rosy. Lucky! you say! Not at all, Luck is a lazy man's excuse. It is ability that gets a job. I acquired my ability by taking the Commercial Course in high school. Since my Sophomore year I have been Working very hard to get the principles of Typing, Bookkeeping and Shorthand. This year Ofhce Practice and Com- mercial Law have also helped me to increase my knowledge of the business world. Every year, in May and early June business men in Westbrook and Portland make requests for competent commercial students to 611 Vacancies that have occurred in their firms. I am so glad that I have met the standard qualifications and have a job Waiting for me. Twenty -nim-

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HOME ECONOMICS Srulml: jean Lord, jean Frank, Evelyn Wfelch, Barbara McKeague, Nancy Smith. Yfamliug: Georgette Hebert, Barbara Knight, Elizabeth Mullen, Gloria Drinkwater, Miss Alice Cole Cpractice teacherb, Muriel Shaw, Barbara Casey, Mrs. Ruth E. Fairchild. O4 Page from the Diary Qf' cz Vzlsitor to the Home EC Room Dear Diary: Feb. 3, 1948-I Wish I went to W. I-I. S.! This morning my cousin took me to school with her and I explored. I glanced around the room and saw that each girl had a particular task to perform to get the breakfast ready. One girl was just taking the last pan of mufiins out of the oven and another was taking the cocoa off the stove. There were little tables near the stoves with doilies and dishes on them already for a nourishing breakfast. Oh! how I Wish I hadn't already eaten breakfast! While I was standing there enjoying all this, I was suddenly snapped out of my day-dreaming by a noise which came to me from behind another door. I opened the door and saw sewing machines all around the room. In this room, girls Were Working on different types of clothing. Some were making Gibson blouses, some were making pink chambray blouses, While other girls Were making black skirts. As I was Watching each girl work on her own particular choice of clothing, I suddenly heard a bell ringing. Everyone started to get up and leave the room and I soon saw other girls coming in with rulers and accounting books. These were Senior girls who were learning to keep household accounts. I Watched these girls very curiously. Soon the bell rang again and it was the end of the school day. I was very happy that I wandered into the Home Economics De- partment because I had enjoyed every second of it. Tw nty-eight

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SHOP Alex -Iuniewiu, Leon Arey, Frederick Tedford, Mr. Ernest Theis, Perley Carver, Maynard -lensen, XY'arrcn Sanborn, Richard Grovo. G4 Page from the Diary of an Industrial Bogf Dear Diary: Nov. S, 1947-Mr. Jensen gave Dick Grovo quite an assignment today -he has to dig up', all the old plans and make a new set using the best of the old and some new features for a woodturning lathe. He has to get the details so accurate that each part can be made by anyone, and when brought together, all will Ht. Mr. Jensen explained that all the necessary patterns will be made by the Juniors in the pattern shopg all the casting will be made outside in a foundry Qspeaking of foundries, we have visited the S. D. Warren Company Foundry, and the Portland Company Foundryj . When these are done, they will come to our machine shop and be machined by various groups and classes according to their difficulty, we Seniors will probably get the most difficult. Yet, despite difhculty We will be able to say that we made it, when the lathe is assembled. Out in the shop, Dick Day is working on a similar project, only he is doing it herself with assistance only from Mr. Theis, who, with Mr. Burnham and Mr. Jensen says that all shop Work is very good, useful experience in view and preparation for a future job. ly