Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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THE TIGER Vol. I. IPSWICH, MASS., JUNE, 1920 No. 4 BOARD OF EDITORS Editor-in-chief, HOWARD DOUGHTY, JR.,. ’21 Faculty Editor, Business Manager, MRS. CUSHMAN FRED WITHAM, 21 LITERARY EDITORS: Ardace Savory, ’21 Hilda Scales, ’21 Julia Doughty, ’22 Sporting Editor, Class Reporters, Maynard Whittier, ’21 Dorothy Hall, ’21 Lucy Lee, ’22 Social Editor, Hortense Jewett, ’22 Dorothy Shaw, ’23 Catherine Caldwell, ’21 Parker Atkinson, ’23 Alumni Editor, Assistant Business Managers, Mary’ Martel, ’21 Richard Ralph, ’21 Exchange Editor, William Hayes, ’22 Nathan Sushelsky, ’21 James Burke, ’22 EDITORIAL In this, the second year of the Tiger’s publication, occurs an event which is a matter of regret to everyone of the pupils and alumni of the High School, and in fact to the whole town. We all know that Mr. Marston this year leaves the Manning High School, of which he has been prin- cipal for a quarter of a century. The scholars at present in the High School and the graduates of twenty-five years are all deeply touched by his retirement, the scholars because they can no longer hear his half-serious, half-humorous lectures in chapel, and the Alumni because they can no longer drop in to visit their principal and talk over old school days with him. All pupils will agree, no matter how much trouble they have gotten into or how many trying quarter hours they have spent in the office, that Mr. Marston has always treated them honestly and justly. Time and time again he said that he would meet us half way and that he would be square with us if we would be square with him. He has not only lived up to this but he has gone beyond it. A great many times he has gone much further than half way. How many of us have been called down to the office for some “ slight indis- cretion,” as he humorously put it, expect- ing some severe punishment, only to be sent away with a reprimand ending with, “We’ll call it square now.” But if Mr. Marston has not been a severe and harsh disciplinarian neither has he been the sort of person who is lax in keeping order and holding the pupils to their work. If any- thing really wrong has happened lie has always meted out a punishment equal to the offense but perfectly just and fair.

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His punishments, though perhaps seeming too severe, at the time, never rankled in the offender’s mind for lie has always made the wrong-doer see the foolishness and the wickedness of the misdeed and the justice of the punishment. Beside being so fair and honest with his pupils in the matter of discipline he has always wanted to help them in every possible way. He has always been anx- ious that his scholars should get through their work successfully, not simply be- cause he wished the school to make a good showing, but because of his good-will and friendship for every boy and girl in the school. He has never gotten angry at a pupil because his quarter’s work had not been passed or because he hart fallen down in his examinations. His way has been to find out the reason for the failure and then to try to get the pupil to set it right. He has inquired how the lessons were going and has always been ready to help a pupil through a difficult passage in Latin or a knotty problem in Algebra. Most men who have been teachers for twenty or thirty years get stale in their work. They take only a perfunctory in- terest in school activities and sometimes they begin to hate the sight of a school and every boy and girl in it. Mr. Mars- ton has never under any circumstances acted in this way. He has always had a lively interest in the school at every point, in keeping up the standard of ath- letics, in the Glee Club, and in all school affairs. He has never taken part to such an extent that he was thought domineer- ing. lie has kept, rather, in the back- ground, always ready with some wise sug- gestion. Even after twenty-five years of boys and girls lie has never tired of the scholars under him in spite of an occa- sional pupil who has tried to lie to him and deceive him. Besides his good qualities as principal of the High School, as a personal friend he is extremely well liked. His quiet hu- mor, his amusing way of putting things, his helpful suggestions, his personal charm, all make him an extremely pleas- ant person with whom to be acquainted. We in the High School especially know his wit and humor. Perhaps he is fondest of making jokes on himself and the whole school has laughed many times at his ref- erence to his hair, “which” he says, “is conspicuous by its absence. ’ ’ Altogether the scholars of the High School are losing a true friend, a fair and just principal, and a pleasant companion ; and we are all extremely sorry that we shall not see him in the school again next year. H. D. JR. 2