Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village

The path of education changed dramatically when this schoolhouse was constructed in 1900. Rural district schools became a thing of the past. For the first time primary, grammar and high school students from all parts of Strong would attend classes in one school.

This schoolhouse served the town for fifty-one years.

Senior class portrait of Class of 1912 at Strong High School.

Left to right: Elenora Richards, George Norton and Ethel Rounds.

Group faculty photo for Strong School for all terms of 1911-1912 year.

Seated: Esca A. Maines.
Standing, left to right: Florence C. Luce, Primary: Mina E. Stevens, Grammar Asst.; Hattie M. Titcomb, Grammar; T. Helen Richardson, High School-Asst. Principal; Melvina K. Bradford, Intermediate.

Strong High School published their yearbook titled "Mussul Unsquit" from 1922 to 1969. In the Fall of 1969 the high school students were transported to the new Mt. Abram Regional High School, the result of the school consolidation plan.

The Strong school, which for eighteen years had served as a K-12 school, was converted to serve K-8.

In the Spring of 1926 the Strong High Track Team competed in the Franklin County Interscholastic Track Meet against five other teams. The Strong team took more points than all the other teams combined. They took home the championship trophy.

The team is identified as follows:
Front (l-r): Lyde Howes, Maurice Peary, Roland Kershner, Roy Haines, Philip Stinchfield.
Middle: Teacher Robert Waugh, Kenneth Brackley, Albert Ayotte, Jasper Foster, Erwin Toothaker, Principal E. S. Kitchin.
Back: Roland Hunter, Robert Sample, Harry Allen.

At the fall 1929 track meet sponsored by Franklin County Scholastic Athletic Assn. this team nearly doubled the points scored by any of the other five teams, taking the championship trophy.

In the front row from left are: James A. Welch, Kenneth W. Hunter, Albert A. Ayotte, Leon E. Beal, Maxwell M. Welch.

In the back row: Glenn B. Whiting, George T. Ayotte, Shirley V. Whiting, Raymond D. Norris, Urcil C. Lake.

Members of the Strong High School Class of 1933 gather for their Mussul Unsquit yearbook photo.

At front, from left, are Nettie B. Cox, Fanny E. Brackley, Clifford H. Durrell, Ruth G. Spear and Emma H. Newell. At rear, from left, are Rufus A. Brackley, Wilfred P. Sample, George S. Lewis, Elbert H. Lambert and Virgil M. Lambert.

Eleven seniors graduated from Strong High School in 1939. Their graduation theme was "Only A Commencement". They were commencing the rest of their lives.

Those graduates were Florence Nira Brackley, Mary Walkey Davis, Gerald Burchard Flagg, Doris Marie Grover, Marian Frances Luce, Neil Glendon Luce, Jr., Everett Harry Mitchell, Leslie Raymond Pinkham, Philip Wendell Richards, Bertha Marie Worthley and Robert Stevens Worthley.

Teachers used Porter Lake (also known as Sweets Pond) as a location for class picnics to give students supervised time away from the classroom.

Here members of the Class of 1918, as freshmen, enjoyed a day away. Some of those present include: Claudia Johnson, Ethel Whiting, Carolyn Winslow, Florice Winslow, Lizzie Worthley and Maurice Leighton.

Strong High School students seen on a day trip to Porter Lake, also known as Sweets Pond in 1909.

Gathered at the entrance, the students of Grades 8-12 appear in this Strong School image.

First Row, L-R: (1) Kenneth M. Brackley, (2) Clarence Nutting, (3) Lawrence M. Eustis, (4) Hugh G. Allen, (5) Philip A. Stinchfield, (6) James Vining, (7) Unidentified, (8) Unidentified, (9) Leeman E. Haines, (10) Jasper M. Foster, (11) Unidentified, (12) Maurice C. Peary, (13) Lyde S. Howes.

Second Row: (1) F. Ethlyn Welch, (2) Geraldine F. Foster, (3) Thelma M. Hammond, (4) Lucille M. Smith, (5) Myrtie L. Brackley, (6) Glennis E. Kennedy.

Third Row: (1) Randall O. Vining, (2) Unidentified, (3) Lulu M. Huff, (4) Vivian L. Hammond, (5) Helen M. Goldsmith, (6) Martha E. Richards, (7) Unidentified, (8) Erwin E. Toothaker, (9) Briceno A. Haines, (10) Charles M. Richards, (11) Fred A. McCleary.

Fourth Row: (1) Bernard O. Heald, (2) Henry S. Allen, (3) Delmar H. Johnson, (4) Frank E. Spear, (5) Virginia I. Fitch, (6) Winnifred M. Hubbard, (7) Emily Webster, (8) Jessie V. Sample, (9) Roland P. Kershner, (10) Richard E. Lambert, (11) Orra M. Welch.

Fifth Row: (1) Dana E. Peary, (2) Glendon R. Brackley, (3) Harold C. Lawton, (4) Richard H. Bell, (5) Harold J. Spear, (6) Colon L. Dyar, (7) George E. Fletcher, (8) Vance E. Hammond, (9) J. Elmo Morse.

Sixth Row: (1) Orris B. Richards, (2) Edwin W. Goodwin, (3) Thelma G. Richards, (4) Arline R. McCleary, (5) Blanche V. Lisherness, (6) Mary E. Dickey, (7) Rebecca M. Rounds, (8) R. Lucille Brackley, (9) Florice L. Johnson, (10) Hazel J. Kershner.

Seventh Row: (1) Charles C. Phillips, (2) Chester R. Parker, (3) Unidentified, (4) Bernard A. Kennedy, (5) John P. Sample, (6) Eugene A. Huff.

At her own expense, grammar school teacher Mrs. Daisy Dickey Worthley (1874-1962) provided souvenirs of her class during the 1901 Spring term. The souvenir consisted of a nice photo card with her photo and name, and the name of the Sup't. Chas. W. Shaw, and a pupil card with a listing of her pupils.

Pupils listed: Annie E. Howard, June A. Harlow, Hilton E. Hewey, Fremont H. Allen, Charles J. Tuttle, Lester R. Lewis, Bessie E. Webster, Sallie G. Luce, Bessie B. Hunter, Lizzie L. True, Wilma B. Conant, Hermia H. Beale, Florence Y. Blethen, Lelia M. Wyman, Lillian M. Locklin, Harold A. Welch, George E. Richardson, Leon E. Smith, Fred A. Stevens, Earle L. Kingsley, Verne F. Richardson, Lyde S. Pratt, Bernice J. Dickey, Clara M. Foster.