Woodland High School - Jewel Yearbook (Woodland, ME)

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7 hilurizrl Eluarh EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Assistant Editors Business Managers School News Athletic Reporters Alumni Reporter Exchange Editor . Faculty Advisor . Faculty Manager . Typists .. .. FLOYD SMITH PATRICIA AYLWARD LYNN FICKETT SHIRLEY CAMPBELL GEORGE LAVIN AVIS PERKINS PATRICIA AYLWARD AVIS PERKINS MEL-VIN MITCHELL FRANCIS MANZO HELEN SOUTHARD MAXINE SPEARIN ANNE RGBB ELEANOR GARLAND CECIL LEIGHTON AVIS PERKINS MAXINE SPEARIN ARTHUR GREICO

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J signal Birerturg MR. C. A. BROYVN. SCHOOL BOARD 'DR. J. W. CRANE MR. YV. S. POLLEYS SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS MR. LORING ADDITON, B. A., M. A. IV. H. ALLEN, B. COLIN L. VVILSON MARY SPRAGUE. A., M. A., .............. PRINCIPAL BIOLOGY HISTORY A. B. .. LATIN, ENGLISH C. V. LEIGHTON, B.. S .... . MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE N ELEANOR GARLA HAZEI4 LUNN . . . IV. C. HANSCOM . D, B. S. .. . . FRENCH, ENGLISH . , , COMMERCIAL .......ENGI.ISH LUCILLE MADDOCKS, B. S. .. .. . SOCIAL STUDIES RUTH DENNISON .. ..... MATHEMATICS MERVIN SHAIN. . . . . . MANUAL TRAINING SARA CURTIS, B. S. . . . . . . DOMESTIC SCIENCE MARY EVERETT, B. A. .. ............... MUSIC ALICNE KELLEY, B. S. .. PHYSICAL EDUCATION EDNA COCHRANE, R. N. . . ....... SCHOOL NURSE'

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I hitnrials SCHOOL OR- A JOB-WHICH TO CHOOSE? The question bothering a great many boys and and girls now is whether they should quit school and get a job or go on with their education. The problem may be looked at from two different angles. Atlpresent you may want to do your part in helping to beat the Axis by quitting school to find some war job. VVhen you say, I'm going to quit school and find a job, you stop too soon in your thinking a11d fail to look ahead. Although such a decision may make you perfectly happy right now, you will un- doubtedly regret it in the future. NVouldn't it be better to reason this way to yourself: HI have been thinking I don't like to stay in school when I know Uncle Sam needs workers and help so badlyg but if I quit school now, I'll have nothing to fall back on in later life. In the long run, won't I be more useful to my country if I get my education now? A11d I can help Uncle Sam now. I can buy war stamps, save and collect scrap, volunteer for Red Cross work, or be an airplane spotter. After the war, many of the defense workers and office workers will be out of their wartime jobs and the people with more rather than less education will get the jobs. Twenty or thirty years ago, educa- tion was not so necessary in order to get a job. VVorkers were scarce, so people ily. As time went by, education became with little schooling could get a job eas- more and more a prerequisite for hold- ing a position. Now, however, we read help wanted ads which say, Experience not necessary. Maybe so. But we are pretty sure that the pendulum will swing back again. So our advice is, stay in school if you mean business. Get your high school diploma. We don't think you will ever regret having it. Lynn Fickett, '44 Pk il' if W If HOOK COMMENT There is a book going around the school that everybody seems to be enjoy- ing. So we thought that you, the read- ers of the Jewel, would like to he-ar about it. I have read it myself, as have so many already. The name of this book is They We-re E-xpendablef' It is the story of the her- oic warfare of the little Motor Torpedo Boats during the Philippine disaster. This book gives a vivid picture of the fall of Corregidor and of the whole Island of Luzong the time, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This torpedo boat squadron starts with six boats and seventy-seven men. After a few months of battle with the enemy all the boats are lost and all but five of the men have been expended. It is from these surviv- ors that W. L. White, the author, gets the sto1'y. Shortly after Pearl Harbor, the squadron, stationed at Manila, puts to sea in search of the enemy. They find him. Slipping into Subic Bay, the MTB's sink a Jap cruiser and a destroyer. This is the kind of work for which the MTB is built and this the job that they do so magnificently until the bitter end. Another feat performed by the tor- pedo boat men was the removal of Gen- eral MacArthur from the Philippines. Here you will meet MacArthur and hear stories of him told by the men who have lived and fought by his side. Francis Manzo, '43