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TEST YOUR MEMORY

Folks, we have been too hard on you the last couple of issues. We had no answers for the Spring/Summer ’20 issue
and only one for the Fall/Winter ’20 issue. We thought we better go easy on you for this issue.

If you do not quite know this one, it is easy with a
search through the HHSAA Digital Yearbook Library
on our website: www.houltonalumni.com
Here are the questions we need

answers for:

1. What do these lovely ladies represent?

2. What year was this picture taken?

3. Left to right who are these ladies?
Folks, put on your Sherlock Holmes hat and go into our
4. What is the significance for these library and do your research and you will find the answers

ladies? so that you could very well be our Gold Star winner in the
Fall/Winter ’21 issue.
Answers to the Fall/Winter '20 Test Your Memory

Well, we said this issue’s “Test Your Memory” was quite hard but could be solved with a good search through the
HHSAA Digital Yearbook Library. Evidently it was harder to find than we thought, but the picture and the questions
we asked were solved by one individual as he was Number 21 in the picture!!
WE ASKED:
“What is this a picture of?”
“When was this game played?”
“What year was this photo used in a yearbook?”
“What is the significance of the photo?”
HERE ARE THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS AS TOLD BY BRUCE ARNOLD ’52:
Hi Jon:
I was genuinely surprised to see my picture as the "mystery" person in the latest issue of the North Star News. I am
the player with No. 21 on his jersey trying to make the tackle. It was taken in the fall of 1950, which was the last year
HHS had a football team for an exceptionally long time. The other Houlton player in the picture is my classmate, Greg
MacDonald, now deceased. The previous year, we had been undefeated with Mel Totman as our QB and Dave Smith
as fullback. Then in that last season as pictured in the North Star News, we all picked potatoes during the day and
practiced under the lights at night. We were tired and sore and had a lousy season with mostly losses. Teams were
shutting down all around us and we had to travel as far as Rockland tor one of our games. I guess the sport just got
too costly and difficult for the school to continue. I am glad to see that football is once again on the agenda for HHS
these days. - Bruce Arnold ‘52
Editors Note: With the picture in the yearbook was a brief explanation by the coach at that time. Contrary to my
understanding, and I am sure many others, football was dropped because of scheduling conflicts and costs as Mr.
Arnold alluded to and not harvest. It was to be about 50 years before football once again became an HHS sanctioned
sport. By the way, I do not know why the 1950 photo was included in the 1951 yearbook!

Bruce, you earn the Goldstar for solving this "Test Your Memory" quiz.

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