Camp Pasquaney - Annual Yearbook (Hebron, NH)

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I he azquanvg Annual Uhr white Birth CPublished annually by and for the members of Camp Pasquaneyl VOL. XXXI NEW SERIES 1929 I EDITORIAL BOARD EDWARD SIMPSON VVILSON, Chairman' EDWARD W. C. JACKSON, Business Manager WINTHROP H. IQICHARDSON, Managing Editor FREDERICK H. KOCH, JR., Assistant Business Manager JOHN L. PATTERSON, JR., Art Editor EDITORIAL STAFF Henry H. Brewster Walteir B. Mah-ony, jr. Elihu S. Howland Francis G. Smith, Jr. Conrad M. Riley BUSINESS STAFF C. Clothiefr Jones Benjamin R. Townsend Albert B. Driscoll john C. Matthai Philip H. Tyler YVilliam C. VVhi'trifdger EDITORIALS Fo-ur things a .man must learn to do If he would make his record true: To love his fellow men sincerely, To think withotrt co-nfusion clearly, To act from -honest motives purely, To trust in God and Heaven se- curelyf' Such was the formula of livinfg set forth by Henry Van Dyke. And somehow it seems as t-hough he must have fbeen thinking of Pas- quaney when he wrolte it, or still more probalble, Pasquaney must have had this in mind when it evolved its aims and purposes. The love of one's fe-ll-ow men, Mr. Van Dyke's first requisite, is nothing m-ore nor less th-an the friendship, an example of which is S-o evvident amo-ng Pasquaney boys. For noth- ing binds boys or men together so strongly as shauring 'the same joys and tasks together. The older men grow, the more they realize that

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I4 THE PASQUANEY ANNUAL Francis Goodwin Smith, fr., 30 No-rthmoor Road, Hartford, Conn. Brooke Stoddard, 45 Hilton Avenue, Garden City, N. Y. John Caswell St-oddard, 45 Hilton Avenue, Garden City, N. Y. Alvah Vfoodbury Sulloway, 115 School Street, Concord, N. H. Granville Charles Swo-pe, Jr., 311 VVendover Road, Guilford, Baltimore, Md. Graham Fellows Thompson, fr., 460 St. Ronan Street, New Haven, C-onn. john Bradford Tillson, 5 Lincoln Street, New Bedford, Mass. Samuel Webb Tilton, Sch-ool Street, Tilton, N. H. james McLane Tompkins, Allston Apartments, Baltimore, Md. Benjamin Richards Townsend, 40 Raynham Road, Gverhrook, Pa. Edgar Raymond Tucker, 479 XYalnut Street, Newton, Mass. Philip Hersey Tyler, 255 Clinton Road, Brookline, Mass. Roger Bailey Tyler, 255 Clinton Road, Brookline, Mass. Charles Web-ln VVagner, Jr., 212 East B-altimore Stlreet, Baltimore, Md. Ernest Bradlee Wantsoii, Jr., 5 South Park Street, Han-o-ver, N. H. Lester Hoyt Watsroii, 340 Hammond Street, Chestnut Hiill, Mass. Andrew Gerislh Welaster, 2nd, 126 Parker Street, Newfton Center, Mass. john Henry West, jr., 4004 Greenway, Guilford, Baltimore, Md. Geoffrey G-ordon Wl1i'tn'ey, .Ir 59 Highland Street, Milton, Mas-s. Wiflliam Cushaing VVhfitrid-ge, Brooklandville, Md. Thomas Porter VVilkinson, 400 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. VVilliam Fleming VVingafrd, 227 Chancery Road, Baltimore, Md. james Burkett VVinstead, Boyce Avenue, Ruxiton, Md. Guillermo de Zaldo, Tulipan 15, Cerro, Havana, Cuha.

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I6 THE PASQUANEY ANNUAL friendship is perhaps the most preci-ous thing life offers, and p-61'- haps the rarest. And s-o- whenthe ideal opportunity of spending nine wonderful weeks with boys who feel the same thlrills of plleasure or pangs of discouragement when struggling on baseball field, tennis courts or lake is offered, no one can fail to realize that Pasquan-ey is fulfilling a real purpo-se in the training of bo-ys to love their fellow men sincerely. And add-ed Ito this is our dearly beloved Mr. Ned. He is lov-e'd by every boy, and every boy is more precious than- 'a s-on to him. His whole life has been given to a task which has behind it the very essence of love. And the success with which he has been rewarded is at- tested by the myriads of lasting friendships which have lasted from fthe time they were start-e-d at Camp Pasquaney. Each year sees the re- turn -of men who have fond mem- ori-es of youthis happiest hours spent on the hill by the side of our lake. And each year als-o sees the advent of boys whose fathers are s-en-ding their sons to that place where friend- ship abounds, known as Pasquaney. Secondly, a boy should rthink with- out confusion clearly, says the poem. Stop and think. Wliy yes, of course. that is Pasquaney's motto. To think-not o-nly of number one, but -of -others and of God. There is a familiar story about a prep schoolf, boy whose ro-om co-n- tained a pennant bearing these wor-ds: I am willing to- be third, implying of course that God came first, others second, and himself third. He must have been a Pas- quaney b-o-y. For no virtue is so strongly inculcated at Pasquaney as th-ou-ghtfulness for ovthersf- to think without confusio-n clearly. A third qua-lity in a straight- sho-oting man is the habit of acting from -honest motives. In camp 'there is 'an ever-present challenge to do the right thin-g. It makes us do -o-ur duties conscientiously, it d-e- mands that we be good sports on the diamond or courts, and it deuters us fr-om -doing the petty thou-ghtless a-cts which seem to come easy to caref-ree youngsters. We act from 'ho-nest m-oetives purely. As Mr. Ned 50 aptly tolld us in his sermon on Honesty, it is ta virtue second alfone t-o Thoughtfulness and closely allied to the lattleir, because the 'thoughtful man wil-l be an honest man. Nothin-g counts- s-o- much in determining the kind o-f men we grow into as our acts, fo.r fr-o-m them spring 'habiuts and habits mak-e charactelrs. And Pasqu-aney stands for -character. So indirectly then, the s-uccess or failure of our beloved camp depends -on' whether or no-t we act from honest motives purely. And lastjly -c-omes that exhorta- tion to trust in God and Heaven se- curely. It seems -almost unneces- sary to us who h-ave gathered in that cathedral on a sunshiny morning and paused a moment fro-m our ff --f' A.-it ......-I , ' - 5 ' 05'Yll-v 4!US2hu.f.udsla--.f-n-s..sg. . - . - ,