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

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EDITORIALS Canal Currents, Bourne High School Patriotism Patriotism. This is a subject that people have a tendency to degrade by describing people whose so-called patriotism” is only skin deep. It is a subject that is played up too much, for everyone is saying that he is doing this and that, or that everyone should do this and that because it is patriotic. Patriotism. It’s buying war bonds and stamps; it is making sacrifices willingly, no matter how large or how small; it’s smiling when the tears are ready to fall; it’s being uncomplaining in the face of trying incidents; it’s be- ing willing to be rationed on our luxuries or necessities; it’s being cheerful and ready to help everyone; it’s thinking of those who are dead and dying, and being silent when a word of rebuke is only too ready to spring from our lips; it’s believing in our government, and seeing that something good will come of all their rules and regulations even when they seem impractical; it’s helping to keep the morale up on the war front, the work front, the school front, and the home front. Patriotism. It’s all these things, and hundreds of other little things. It’s a word with many meanings already, but every true American is adding his own definition to the ever increasing list. Helen Murray, ’43 That Old School Spirit Friendship Instead of Fear” might well be our school motto. The feel- ing of friendship creeps into even the darkest and most remote corners of Bourne High School. The teachers go seventy-five per cent of the way to meet the pupils on a perfect basis of understanding. Every airplane needs a pilot who knows every part of it. This pilot must be progressive enough to profit by new ideas and inventions. He must have a balanced head, love in his heart for even the smallest part of his plane, and he must be able to take criticism. The ship would never be able to leave the ground if the pilot did not understand, help, and work along with the other members of the crew. Just such a man is our superintendent. We are indeed fortunate to have such a wonderful staff of teachers. The standards to which they make us live will enable us to climb higher and to fit more easily into the positions of our choice. In no other school of our size is there a wider variety of subjects. Music, art, and sports are so familiar to us that we forget that they are privileges. In spite of our privileges, there is something lacking, not with the teach- ers or the superintendent but with us. We are slackening and forgetting to push forward toward our goals. Let us get busy, and put some new fire into that old Bourne High School spirit. Catherine Handy, ’44 Page Fifteen

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Canal Currents, Bourne High School Esther Sampson — Working at Camp Edwards. Robert Sanford — U. S. Navy. Paul Schroeter — U. S. Marines. Phyllis Stockley — Working in Buzzards Bay Telegraph Company. Ereda Stockton — Living in Chicago. Class of 1942 Elsie Amaral — Living in New Bedford. Charles Anderson — Working at Camp Edwards James H. Andrews — U. S. Army Air Corps. Howard J. Baker — U. S. Navy. Muriel F. Berry — Stenographer at Camp Edwards. Wallace H. Blackwell, Jr. — U. S. Army Air Corps. Leno Borghi — U. S. Army. Leonard L. Burgess, Jr. — U. S. Navy. Josephine Cardoza — Working in Buzzards Bay. William E. Chase — U. S. Army. Kenneth B. Compton — U. S. Navy. Esther E. Davis — Mrs. Gordon Macdonald. Josephine A. Dean — Attending Framingham State Teachers College. Margaret E. Dodd — Working for Bourne Rationing Board. Gwendolyn E. Douglas — Working at Camp Edwards. Claire L. Driscoll — Working in Buzzards Bay Canal Pharmacy. Eleanor S. Ferguson — Stenographer at Camp Edwards. Raymond F. Gagner — U. S. Navy. Cora V. Gay — Working for Coca-Cola Co., Sagamore. Elizabeth Hammond — Working at Camp Edwards. Claire L. Healy — Attending Massachusetts State College. Claire Jackson — Attending Burdett College, Boston. Marjorie A. Jenkins — Attending Framingham State Teachers College. Florence M. Lewis — Attending Briarcliff Manor, New York. Waldo B. Lumbert, Jr. — U. S. Navy Air Corps. Donald R. Macdonald — U. S. Navy. Jean Matheson — Mrs. Vernon McKenzie. Christine C. Milliken — Attending Sargent School, Boston. Robert Pederzani — U. S. Navy Air Corps. Lois E. Querze — Attending Hyannis State Teachers College. Kenneth R. Reed — U. S. Navy. Ruth A. Smalley — Working at Camp Edwards. Olga C. Tontini — Working in Sagamore Post Office. Charles F. Tucy, Jr. — U. S. Army Air Corps. Nancy C. Turner — Working in Buzzards Bay National Bank. Frederick E. Ward — U. S. Army Air Corps. Janet E. Wheeler — Working in Barnstable County Sanitorium. Marjorie F. White — Working in Sandwich. Kenneth L. Young — U. S. Navy. Page Fourteen

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Canal Currents, Bourne High School Youth Youth, the springtime of our existence, is oftentimes the most happy part of our life. But the years of our youth are also a time of preparation, a time of development mentally, morally, and physically for the more serious aspects of living. It must be understood that there is a vast difference be- tween existing and living. If in our young days we have learned to live richly and successfully with others, we have gone far along the road to hap- piness. Like nations, no individual is self sufficient; one cannot isolate oneself from society and expect to reap the rewards of gregarious living. Many a victory is based on knowledge achieved in our growing-up years. Welling- ton’s statement explaining Waterloo is not amiss. Is it necessary to recall Lincoln before the fireplace, Edison as a newsboy, Franklin as a printer, to show that ideals, ideas, and virtues develop into character, philosophy, and ethics upon which is built the moral structure of a country. Intentionally or otherwise, nations or men have chosen not to see; per- haps that is the reason for the state of the world today — and America is part of the world caught in the whirl of adversity out of which will come ultimate victory but not without bloodshed, bitterness, remorse, and many a heartache. America does not propose to change either youth or America, but she does challenge all high school students to utilize to the utmost that which remains of their youth so that they may intelligently and unafraid take their places in the America of tomorrow, a better America because it is guided by those who know, by those who can see. With this in mind, as youth blends into manhood and womanhood, then to the autumn of our years — what joy there is in retrospect, what memories, what happiness, what a contribu- tion to future America. W. J. Stahura Vocations Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could tell when we enter school what vocation we want to aim for. It is a real tragedy not to know from the beginning of high school, at least. Many don’t know what they want even when they graduate from college and then go tumbling around trying to fit in somewhere. It is really necessary to have at least some inkling of what you want to do when you enter high school so that you won’t make the mistake of taking all the wrong courses and subjects. Perhaps one of the most im- portant reasons for it all is that parents do not bother with the oft repeated query, What am I going to do?” The problem might be altered for the better by placing more emphasis on vocational advising in the high schools. If the answer concerning future careers could only be found, it would enable young people to make the most of all their time. Catherine Handy, ’44 Page Sixteen