Windham High School - Windonian Yearbook (Windham, ME)

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Democracy Il is a big word, isn'l il-lhal word democracy? Whal does il mean? Well, if you should ask each one of l30,000,000 people you would probably gel one hundred and lhirly million dilferenl answers. Bul here is mine. My idea of a democracy began a long lime ago. Once upon a dream some independenlly minded, brave hearled souls began lo lhink for lhemselves and began rebelling againsl lyrannies. ll was seen even back in lhe lime of lhe Greeks and Romans, bul on quile a small scale. Our own America really began for a free people when lhal valianl lillle group of Pilgrims sel oul from Europe for lhese shores and a new shining hope. They wanled lhe righl lo pray and worship God-lhe same God lhal made lhis old earlh in lhe firsl place-lhe way lhey pleased. Jusl lhink! Whal fools men are! Tyranny in lhal lime was forbidding men lo worship lhe God of all crealion and selling up lheir own rules of religion, jusl as some of lhe same imbeciles are lrying lo do loday. Even inside our democracy lhey are alrlempl- ing lo do iusl lhal. Bul democracy means lhal I can go lo church on Sunday or any olher day. I can be an everyday Chrislian, and a real one! l'll nol pussyfool around and lry lo make oul lhal I am on lhe side of lhese infidels who blaspheme lhe name of lhe Lord Jesus al every lurn and lhen go lo church on Sundays and prelend lo be so holy. I can sland up and speak my mind before commoners or kings wilh no fear as lo whelher or nol my head may be chopped off before sundown. Educalion, wonderful books full of a lhousand and one lhings lo learn every day of my life. leachers who have my welfare on lheir minds, as well as lhe welfare of olher sludenls, sporls equipmenl. clubs, friends. food, clolhing and sheller, luxuries of all sorls are al my disposal in lhis greal democracy. ll means everylhing lhal is good. ll I iusl reach oul and lake il, lhere is opporlunily al my door! As long as lhere is an America. and as long as lhere is my Lord, nolhing is impossible! We are lhe luckiesl people on earlh. There will ever be new horizons lo look forward lo, lhere will ever be hope for humanily if we realize whal lhis democracy means lo lhe world. Lel's nol ever lake il for granled and Iel us always remember lhal lhough God could have chosen any olher parl of lhe world lo be lhe oulslanding symbol of free- dom il is ours lo keep and cherish always. ANNE ELDER. '48 Ninety-six

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Classified Ads WANTED-A Iaxi +o escorl Freida and Beverly home from school al' noon hours. Anyone wilh a nice new car who is inleresled please call Windham I49. If no one answers call operalor 7I lPor+landl. URGENT-Needed by Normie, some warm wealher lo go 'ro Cornish. IA Iilfle warmer Ihan 78 below will do.l IF-anyone knows The whereabouls of a six fool blonde man wiI'h blue eyes norily Audrey Kimball, Soulh Windham, Maine. Musl be a good dancer, BE-on The lookoul for a boy I7 years of age. blue eyes and plays l'he saxaphone. This boy is dangerous and is wanlecl by I'he Soulh Windham Reformafory. He answers To The name of Donald Gordon and has been missing since Feb. IO. lEscaped convictl MEN-Do you have any old hags or rubbish hanging around your house. Why worry? Jusl call Arlhur Rogers any Salurclay morning and This mailer will be Taken care of immedialely. WANTED-Two new upper feelh for Mildred Bishop. While preferred. Call Windham XXO-X. Two ladies who hadn'+ seen each olher for a long lime happened lo meer on lhe slreel and, of course, look lime +o exchange inlormaiion. Said one ro lhe o'rher: Oh, so many 'rhings have happened +o me since I Iasr saw you Ias+. I had my Ieelh our and an eIec+ric slove and refrigeralror pul in. When people ask How are you? ll s iusl a salulafion, And common sense should bar you From Ienglhy explanalion. The man who agrees wilh everylhing you say lies 'ro olhers also. Mary had a Iillle walchg She swallowed: if was gone. Mary look a Iillle walk:- Time marches on. BETTY CORSON. '48 ARTHUR ROGERS, '48 Joke Ed ilors N inezy-five

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Eighth Grade News Af fhe beginning of fhis school year we had sixfeen girls and eighfeen boys who were from all secfions of Windham, There were fwo ofhers who enfered our class during fhe year. They were Rufh McLucas from fhe Bean Memorial in Brownfield who enferecl November 2 I , I947 and Paul Merrifield who was ouf fhe firsf of fhe year because of sickness. He became a member of our class Sepfember I9, I947. There were fhree people who ieff our class during fhe year. They were John Cannell, Roland O'Leary, and Carolyn Allen. Walfer Cram leff us affer affencling a few days. There were five pupils who have nof been absenf fhis year. They are Pafricia Day. Erdine Libby, Jennie Varney, Milfon Rogers, and James Larrivee. We are closing fhe school year wifh sixfeen girls and fwenfy-six boys. They are: ALICE ALLEN WILLIAM CARNEY ERLEEN BERRY ROBERT CLARK JEAN DAY GEORGE COUSINS PATRICIA DAY NORMAN EMERSON GERTRUDE HASKELL RAYMOND EASTUP MARY KLUCHNIK JEAN KN EELAND LLOYD GILMAN CHARLES HALL ERDINE LIBBY CHARLES HASKELL NORMA LORD RICHARD HAWKES ANN MERRIFIELD GEORGE KIMBALL JEANETTE MORSE WAYNE LAMB ALMA 'POWERS JAMES LARRIVEE MARIANNE PERCIVAL WILLIAM LEONARD JENNIE VARNEY GORDON MAINS LUCY VARNEY THEODORE MATTSON RUTH McLUCAS WILLIAM McGOLDRICK ROBERT WOLSTENHULME ELROY MILLS PAUL MERRIFIELD ALBERT POWERS LINWOOD BRACKETT HAROLD BRANDON ROBERT PHINNEY ROGER OUINLAN MILTON ROGERS Wriffen by ALICE ALLEN Ninety-seven