Winterport High School - Riverside Yearbook (Winterport, ME)

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Panorama The trees stand 1n all the1r glory Of red and orange and gold It s a much repeated story But one that w1ll never grow o d October how I love you I love your clear blue days I love the hzlls and mountams W 1th the1r low hung purple haze ThlS mornmg I looked out a wmdow The sky was a clear cleax blue I saw the gold brown of the meadow And the forest s colorful hue lt s happened many tlmes before Th1s change that came about But It always seems more wonderful Each year whe I look out G F Autunm s P103 The leadlng role IS played by the And muslc 1S supplled by the gentle blow1ng breeze Ratn and Frost the weather men are xmportant to the cast And Harvest wlth her many crops 1S nexther least nor last Mother Nature we ll not forget for w1thout her part As producer and dlrector the play would fa11 to start The play 15 to prepare the world for wmters dread and cold Each actor has h1s bxt to do whether young or old Every beast every plant and every man m h1s way joln wlth nature and her cult to present Autumn s Play V W 8 I ' 1 . I I I . . , ' 1 1 I I , Q . I 9 ' v L multicolored trees S ' I I 3 I I ' 1 ' I I I I I 'I I

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Prepa redness CIVII Defense IS a problem to nearly everyone of us today People are asking all the tlme What are we supposed to do 1f the atomlc bomb strikes ? I cannot thlnk of a more lmportant current questlon can you? Recently our commumty has been hold1ng meet mgs at Unlon Hall for the purpose of teachlng the people what to do ln case of an attack In our school we have so far had no lessons on th1s subject I thlnk every school and home should pract1ce ways ln whlch to protect ourselves agalnst th1s dreadful bomb read all artlcles whlch concerns zt and teach lt to the younger chlldren Maybe we w111 never have to use these lessons Most surely we hope not but there seems a blg chance that we w1ll so let s BE PREPARED to face lt From Pvt james O Connell to hls mne year old daughter My darllng httle glrl l am sorry to have to be away from you dear but daddy 1S away for a great cause I am here 1n Korea to fxght for what IS r1ght to make all men free and equal No man 1S wholly bad some men are ln fluenced by other men above them m rank It IS not because they want to flght 1t IS because they have to Don t ever hold a man s race color or creed agamst h1m God created men equal l though they may be of d1fferent colors Always be good dear When I get home we w111 have a great deal of fun at the beach Lots cf love Daddy But Pvt james O Connell never came back He was lulled on the battlefront the next day 7 . . .L . . . ,, . . 1 ' , . n , . . . , I I . , . . - - . . . 1 1 . 1 . , ' . . . . . , , , . . . l I ' n a . . n - 1 . , . - . .

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The Monkey Eff I It was a cool Sunday afternoon as we sat 1n the l1v1ng room hstemng to Uncle Ben s story of h1S last exped1t1on to the Amazon You see my Uncle Ben IS an explorer for the Amerxcan Explorer s Assocxatlon When he was about th1rty he went to Ind1a w1th a fr1end They had not been m Indla long before h1s frxend dled of a po1sonous blte Before he d1ed he asked Uncle Ben 1f he would complete h1s m1ss1on for hlm Uncle Ben was much mterested 1n th1s type work and of course read1ly gave h1s promlse to carry on where h1s frlend had left off I had read about many exploratxons 1n hlstory but I thought I could actually see the places Uncle Ben would tell about whlle descrlbmg h1s strange adventures He was always joklng wlth me tellmg me I would grow up to be a tom boy, and my dearest w1sh was that he would ask me to go wlth hlm on one on h1s jaunts to far away places Then one day my w1sh came true We left on a Sunday mornmg from the New York Docks w1th the jungles of Afrlca for our destmatlon I was so excxted that 1t seemed an endless voyage to me although It took us only a few days to get there YiiiviiiixiiiiiiiklkiikilillilififiilllkiklfV41 At last I stood ln the hot jungles of Afrxca where all sorts of w1ld lxfe abounded blrds of gorgeous plumage zebras ostnches lxons h1ppopotam1 and elephants We traveled most ly by camel One afternoon I decxded to go exolormg alone I pushed my way through branches and hopped over long wmdmg roots and there before me lay the cutest baby monkey that I had ever seen I plcked It up and we became frxends almost mstantly Upon trying to fmd my way back to my camp I reahzed that I was lost I carried my httle monkey an my arms for quite a 9 6 '60 . . , . . . . . , I 0 . . . . , . . . . . . . . . of 7 0 ' 9 ' a , I - o . . -- . ' . . I . , . ., . - I . - ' 1 1 Q . . 5 0 . . '