Mentor High School - Cardinal Notes Yearbook (Mentor, OH)

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Midskipmen

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The Scarlet Mechanical Arts Department Auditorium Chemistry Laboratory Biology Laboratory sixteen

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The Scarlet “One ship drives East, and one drives West, By the selfsame wind that, blows; It’s the set of the sails and not the gales. Which determines the way it goes.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox LI) sailors, learned in the lore of the sea, are prone to declare that any craft can survive any storm if she keeps her nose into the seas; that is, if she meets every wave head on, she cannot founder. Whether or not a craft may do this is determined by ttie set of her sails. If her sailors are water-wise, if they know the sudden changes of the sea’s mood, she may weather any gale. However, should her sailors be “landlub¬ bers,” she falls a prey to storms. On the U. S. S. “Mentor,” the seniors are the experienced old tars who deign now and then to offer a bit of advice to the new hands, otherwise known as freshmen. The seniors are midshipmen who have served their apprentice¬ ship before the mast and are learned in the ways of deep water. It is from this store of knowledge which they have collected on their four years’ cruise that they may advise the younger middies. The juniors, sophomores, and freshmen may be called youngsters who hope to receive, in due time, their first class seaman’s degree from the captain. Whether the ship plows onward through calm seas of coordination, hard work, and enthusiasm to complete a record voyage, or loses her course in storms of shirking and fogs of “I don’t care” depends upon her midshipmen, the students. eighteen