100 Years Ago 1921

Auburn W.C.T.U. met at Odd Fellows Hall Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Florence Starbird led the devotions. Two members were reported on the sicklist: Mrs. Dora Waterhouse and her sister Mrs. Anna Caswell. It was voted to give a banquet to the Auburn newsboys and the reporters at both the Lewiston Journal and Lewiston Sun. The date of the banquet is not decided. A committee appointed on this will include Mrs. Edith Briggs. Mrs. Emma Patterson, Mrs. Florence Starbird and Mrs. McCallum.

50 Years Ago: 1971

A Lewiston young woman, an honor student at Lewiston High School, has achieved national recognition in the December issue of Teen Magazine. Miss Francine Keneborus, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, John Keneborus of South Ave., Lewston, received the distinction of being chosen from some 500 teens who attended an exciting summer program for high school students at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, last June and is to be quoted in an article covering the Institute. The teenagers gathered on the campus, from many areas including Hawaii, Alaska, the Canal Zone and the various states to participate in Northwestern’s 1970 National High School Institute. The five-week program was geared to give bright, ambitious teens a taste of both college life and special career possibilities, such as journalism, engineering, education and speech. Classes were on a non-graded, non-credit basis. The young people observed and evaluated actual public  school classes and there were seminars on such controversial areas as federal aid education.

25 Years Ago: 1996

The proposed new Poland High School will cost between $15.3 million and $18. 9 million according to figures announced Wednesday by the committee planning facilities for Poland, Mechanic Falls and Minot students. The  Committee of Nine has been studying options for educating junior and senior high students from School Administrative Union 29 since Auburn announced last year it would no longer accept them for tuition after June 1996 because of overcrowding. Legislation allowing the proposed plan to continue is expected to be voted on Thursday. Superintendent Robert Wall said the opening of a Poland High school is likely in September 1999. The cost, estimated by the state Department of Education, would be governed by whether the building accommodates 731, 800, 860 or 900 seventh-through 12th-grade students. It is figured on 140 per square foot, and 160 square feet per student. The school would be 109,650 square feet for 731 students, up to 135,000 square feet for 900 students.

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