Bourne High School - Canal Currents Yearbook (Bourne, MA)

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8 CANAL CURRENTS WHAT IS YOUR SCORE? Do you as a student of Bourne High School measure up to the standards that have been set for you? Give yourself ten points for each question to which you can truthfully answer “Yes”. 1. Trustworthiness — Do you keep your promises? 2. Self Control — Do you control your tongue and your temper? 3. Loyalty — Are you loyal to your home, your community and B. H. S.? 4. Obedience — Do you obey your father, mother and teach- ers promptly and cheerfully? 5. Sportsmanship — Can you win without bragging and lose without alibiing? 6. Self Reliance — Do you think for yourself? 7. Courtesy — Are you considerate of others at all times? 8. Health — Do you have the proper amount of sleep, eat the right kind of food and exercise sufficiently in the open air? 9. Teamwork — Do you get along with other people? 10. Dependability — Can people count on you? “WISHES” “If wishes were horses. Beggars might ride”. This saying is an old one which has been passed down from generation to generation to generation. When we come to analyze it, we find out how true it is. There are many people who make wishes absent-minded- ly, seriously, and jestingly. We are not living in the time when fairies are flitting about, just waiting for us to wish, that they may grant it. We are living in an age when, if we are desirous of something, we must go out and work to obtain it in some other way besides just wishing. We may wish for something occasionally; if we get it, it is due mostly to coin- cidence. ■ It is not a wise idea to wish, because of the fact that when we do, we do it without thinking and afterwards we are glad that wishes do not come true. Just think! What a position we would be in if everything we wished came true. We might have been happy, or sad, but even then we probably would not have been satisfied. Let us appreciate what we have and avoid wishing for things which are not possible to obtain without hard work. Frances Pells, ’38.

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CANAL CURRENTS 7 once had fled. From this point on man took large strides in conquering nature until he finally built a permanent home and domesticated the wild animals. At this time he was traveling by means of logs on which he would recline in order to paddle with his hands. Now man has advanced beyond these early beginnings, for he travels faster and lives more fully than early man could have imagined possible. His boats are large steel ships carrying on trade between countries. He can travel by auto- mobile or airplane, both about the fastest means of trans- portation known. His home is heated by steam and run by electrical machinery. Maybe he works in one of the modern offices where the telephone and teletype are always at his elbow, while his children attend a modern school with labora- tories, gymnasiums and sunny clao.sroom.s. Not only early people, but even learned men of the eighteenth century would be amazed because mankind has finally reached a high level in civilization. As there is no end to the possibilities of man’s future conquest of nature, he will continue to make new discoveries and inventions which will enrich and benefit life. Ward Gibbs, ’37. PUTTING UP A BRAVE FRONT Each year, once every two months, many boys and girls become afflicted with that dread disease known as “the re- port card presentation scare”. Perhaps one of the best ways to overcome this is to put up a brave front. Here are a few instructions. Upon coming home, do not sneak in at the back door like a whipped dog, but boldly en- ter at the front, whistling as you go. As soon as you meet your Mother, do not thrust your card at her as if to say, “Well, here it is, I’m ready for the consequences!” Talk of how the next door neighbors’ dog ran away, how Sally has a new dress, or even about the weather. Then at the supper table, when everyone is present and Father won’t scold for fear of making a scene, calmly men- tion that the first of the month has arrived, and, (as if it had just entered your mind) that you received your report card. Then, hand it to him and as he looks it over, calmly begin to eat your supper. At the end of the meal, quietly slide out of the room where there is no chance of being called aside, and, after having it signed by your mother, wait until an- other first of the month when that same malady will again overtake you, and you will again become the reluctant vic- tim of “the report card presentation scare”. D. Federici, ’39.

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CANAL CURRENTS 9 Upper picture. Back: Mr. W. Stahura, Mrs. S. Moody, Mr. J. F. Peebles (Supt.). Front: Miss A. Tapper, Miss E. Dill, Mr. K. J. Coady (Prin.), Miss R. Marr. (Miss E. Comtois, and Mr. E. Demers absent when above picture was taken). Lower left: Miss Hazel Pat- terson, Home Economics Dept.