Wilton Academy - Eagle Yearbook (Wilton, ME)

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1944- . .L g i CW? :Ji in uk V FP- -: .lilllllx i' lm fa' .Wie Bound Supcrzfisori' P. Hall, H. Iones, P. Smiley Organizers: S. Wells, P. Odell, L. Young School Activities: H. Orfl, B. Sands, B. Mosher S porlr Activities .' H. Curtis, C. Merchant, M. Tobin, C. Coch- fail Senior Statistics: ' , A. Harnden, D. VVentWorth, M. Burrill Alumni Stag: B. Waldron, E. Trask, L. Crossett folic Staff: C. Kittredge, C. Farnum Exchanges: M. Wilkins, M. Landry Circulation: M. Martin, L. Clark, K. Gillespie, R. Scott f1dvcrtz'sing: R. Wells, R. Lothrop, R. Dyke, W. Scott Recordr' O. Fenlason, M. Tutty Faculty Advirer: Harold M. Karkos 'T A Q, we K 1 A t , .. .... , Introductory Page .... Dedication . . . , . . Faculty .... The Board . . . Editorials . . Seniors . . Exchanges , . , The Diary . . . Census ...... Service Section Memorials . . . Service Data .. Superlativcs ..... Iunior Department ..... Sophomore Department Freshman Department ,. Student Council ..... Athletics .............. Sports of Last Spring Football .,,....... Field Hockey Boys' Basketball Girls, Basketball . ,. Winter Sports . ,. Ice Hockey . .. The Alumni Our Advertisers .,..... Advertisements and Iokes -b-ll-b-!2-lhUJUJlAJLMLMkAJUJkMkNLNIxllND!xJlxJlxJh-lr-1 XIUXKNINDSQINIONX-l'lU1-SiRN!-AQXDOX-F-KAJINJXIONIONNII-LINIP-'

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1944 Qaeultg, MAURICE EARLE, A.B., M.Ed., Bates College, Principal, History, Biology. Appointed 1929, SUSAN H. WESTON, A.B., Colby College, Dean of Girls, Mathematics. Appointed 1908. DOROTHY DUMAIS, A.B., Bates College, Latin, Spanish, English. Appointed 1928. LEAH PETERSEN, Prince Academy, Quebec, Vocal Music. Appointed 1930. HAROLD KARKOS, A.B., Bates College, English, Algebra, Mechanical Drawing, General Science. Appointed 1933. MARY YORK, A.B., Bates College, French. Appointed 1937. ELOISE MACOMBER, B.S., Farmington State Normal School, Home Eco- nomics. Appointed 1938. PAUL LEGGE, B.S., University of Illinois, Science, Aeronautics, Coach. Appointed 1940. EDNA BAILEY, A.B., Colby College, English, Sociology, Economics. Appointed 1941. MILTON BRADFORD, B.S., University of Maine, Agriculture. Appointed 1941. OTHO KNOWLES, Busch Conservatory, Chicago, Instrumental Music, Band, Orchestra, Eaglonians. Appointed 1943. MARY LOUISE GIDDINGS, A.B., VVellesley College, Vocational Guidance. Appointed 1944. MRS, E. L. GIDDINGS MRS. PHILIP HELLEN VOtIA1'IONAL GUIDANCE SECMTARY 4

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1944 WHAT IS VICTORY? CCORDING to Noah Webster, vic- tory is the gaining of the superi- ority in any struggleg a triumph. There is another way in which we may define victory. It is the Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom from VV ant, Freedom from Fear. When all the peoples of the world are living in peace under the protection of these four freedoms, then. and then alone, is there a victory. XVe are living in a country where the freedom of speech is something just taken for granted. We read about the subju- gated peoples of Europe and how this privilege of speaking is denied them. There is sympathy in our hearts for them, and yet, I wonder if we realize that this freedom is one-fourth of the requirement for victory. Perhaps the most important of the freedoms is religion-if any one can be more important than another. If we are given freedom of religion, and if we have a religion, we can overcome many obsta- cles. A truly religious man always has freedom from fear, yea, even freedom from the fear of fear. VVe the people of the United States are in a position to do more than any other country to promote the freedom from want. Wfithout any real sacrificing, that is, to the point of starvation within our own country, we could make the United States the bread basket for the world. Indeed, the rest of the world has not asked this aid. But some means must be provided for feeding parts of Europe and Asia during the period of reconstruction, and who is in a better position to do this than we are? In fact, what other coun- try can do it? Thus the freedom from want becames a very significant one for us. Our last, the freedom from fear, in- cludes the three preceding ones and a bit more. VV e are pledged by our national inheritance to maintain no peacetime con- centration camps, no arbitrary courts, no dictators. At times we may be overcau- tious when our liberties are threatened - from within and without-but we are ever anxious when a real threat to our peaceful way of life arises as it did at Pearl Harbor. And our fear is not for us alone but - we are proud to say - for the whole world. Each of these four freedoms is indis- pensable, since each is essential for hap- piness, and happiness is OLII' goal. When we have attained this, then. the victory is won. Wfinston Churchill once said: You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is Victory, vic- tory at all costs, victory in spite of all ter- ror, victory, however long and hard the road may beg for without victory, there is no survival. - Helen jones. GAIN ING THE VICTORY VERYONE is talking these days of victory and the peace to follow. They talk of the terrible conditions that we have to put up with here on the home front. U Oh, I'm so afraid they are go- ing to cut down on the gas quota this time or K' If things get much worse, they won't even be giving us anything to eat. These are common complaints in cities and towns all over the nation. Some of the complainers ought to live in France or Germany itself to see what war really is. If you were in France during this war, you would get up at such a time in the morning. You would have a newspaper, yes, but there would be only what the Nazis want you to read. Then you would be trundled off to a war plant mak-