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

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66144 o i5I Which class is the most fun to be in? The junior Class!! Although we study hard and don't seem to get anywhere, the Honor Roll, for instance, we enjoy life at W. H. S.-even our classes. You can't get a group of us together without blinding at least one comedian. We have Don Fogg, who keeps his bookkeeping class laughing, and Fred Wilson and Reggie Christensen in College English. The other day when we were studying we heard Freddy say, Don't throw it! followed by the crash of some' thing hitting the window. It seems that -Ioan wanted to send him a pencil by air mail. The only way there could be a dull shop class would be for both Louis McGlauflin and David Golder to be absent. Even our mishaps are fun looking back on them, like the time in chemistry class when Loraine Kneelen thought she drank the HQSO4. Miss Miller's Com- mercial English class always brings the day to a bright end. VVith Bill Cary, Bob Morton, and Betty Secord the class always finds something to say about the girls' basketball team. Bob MacHardy will never live down the excuse he gave Miss Bonville for not knowing his French. He said he couldn't learn it all in the 10 minutes he spent on it. Ours is the first class that has been given aptitude tests. At the time we weren't too happy about it, though. We got writers' cramp from filling out forms beginning with our life histories. Wife also got stiff in our joints from sitting still so long. This was made worse every time the bell rang, and the other classes got up and moved around. They certainly didn't help matters either, when they looked in and laughed. We also got a head start by forming a Vkfashington Club our Junior year. We joined with the understanding that if some of us want to drop out next year, we can get our money back. Our intramural teams are doing better this year. How could they help it? We have put on a chicken-pie supper and a Scotch Auction. The Scotch Auction was a new idea. Anyone could get in cheaper if he brought an inexpen- sive gift to be auctioned off. Next year we plan to be first on the Honor Roll, first in Intramurals and to graduate 1002 strong. VIRGINIA SMITH.

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S'l'l,llJliN'l' COUNCIL lfirxt Row: .Xnn Lowell, '50: William 0'Gara, '50: Elizabeth Blanchard, '50: Bruce Saunders, '50: Llewellyn Clark, 'Blk .Xnn Harding, '503 Rodney McConkey. '50: Myrna Milton, '50. Sffrund Row: Virginia lflynn. '52g Cleo Christensen. 232: Charles NVright, '523 Cerald Soule, '52: Alfred lVilson, '5l: Robert MaCHardy, '5l: joan Chandler, '513 Loraine Kneelen, '5lg Patricia Smith, '5I: Milton .L Philbrook qlfaculty Xclvisorj. 'I'l1irrI Row: Ilugh Plummer, '533 Mabel Cooding, '53, Lois Tucker, '53: .Ximc Caron. '53, .sluvlenf Counci The Student Council, consisting of the class and assembly ollitiers, held its iirst meeting ou September 21, l949, with Lew Clark, president of the assembly, presiding. The Student Council, which represents the student body, has bought llood lights for the stage, shades for the auditoriumg sold basketball schedule penttilsg paid for the banquet that was given for the football team. They also sponsored the Curtis Drive. The Council sent Lew Clark, Bruce Saunders, .Xnn Harding, and Elizabeth Blanchard as representatives from VV. H. S. to the Southwestern Maine Student Council that was held at Portland High School. They learned many interesting things about other Student. Councils that will help them in future years. 69 I .oc sf' 5.1 5 Lslmlt' 'y ew XX

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pl'0I9LeCy OI' ln the year 1918 in the days of Truman, it came to pass that a group of young men and women entered into the unknown land of Westbrook High and came to be known as the class of 1952. Now among this group was a prophetess who spoke unto them saying: At the end of the tenth year there shall be a great feast prepared for you, and the makers of this least shall be Nancy and june Meehan. The feasting place shall be decorated by the artists Alvin Wright and Ann Buotte, and ye shall all gather together once again and make merry. And all the plans shall be made by the social leader Jean Pratt and the Reverend Richard Clark shall start the joyful time by saying a prayer. Then it shall come to pass that Bunky Buotte, Richard Swett, Earl Barrows, and Hammy Grant shall speak unto the group telling stories of their lives as professional athletes. There shall also be a dancer or acrobat whom you call Connie Robichaud and she will arise and dance before you. Then the class historian, Ellen DeVVolfe, shall stir the memory of your school days with the following parable: 'Westbrook High was my school. I did not want for knowledge. They made me lie down in gym classg they led me through school booksg they restored my confidence, they led me in the paths of knowledge for my own sake. Yea, though I went through the valley of the shadow of learning I feared no test for my I. was with meg my exam papers and rank card, they comforted me. They prepared the lessons for me in the presence of mine teachers. They anointed my head with learning, my education runneth over. Surely knowledge and learning shall be with n1e all the days of my life, and I shall give Westbrook High School the credit foreverf And it shall come to pass as she has made an end of speaking all these words that the professional wrestler 'Curly Erly,' known to you as Erlon Knight, shall show the group his muscles and this shall cause Mary Lou Brownlee and Dorothy Jensen to swoon and all the other ladies to sigh. And when you have seen these things, the first mechanic of the President's garage, Richard Robinson, will speak unto you and tell of the putting together and taking apart of the President's cars. And there shall be among you Pat Clarke, jean Bailey, Nancy Keith, Dianne King and Theresa Poitras, who will have given up playing basketball and now play canasta every Thursday. And there shall be present among ye also, the handsome actor, Larry Lowell, the beauty contest winner, Alice Kelsen, and the president of the class, Charles Wright, who will then be president of the Community Club, president of the Workers' Union, president of his lodge and president of the bank. One known to you as Carol Violette will be late, as the wheeled article called a Ford in which she travels will have a breakdown. She will arrive safely, how- ever, on Jerry Soule's motor bike. And the one called Phil O'Gara will not be among you, as he will be married to a Texas Oil King's daughter and in the upper brackets. Also absent will be Vinal Ferren, who stopped to ask directions from a Frenchman and will still be trying to figure out what he said. The rest of you shall be there and there shall be much merrymakingf' So spoke the prophetess Barbara Doughty in the year 1950.