Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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tunity which presented itself to them. Edward Bok, ex-editor of the “Ladies’ Home Journal” and one of America’s most prominent men, came to. this country with his family, when a boy. Bok went to school for a short time, but as the cost of the family living was raised, he left school and went to work. He took every opportunity to educate himself and to learn everything con- nected with his work in any way. He made his employers notice him, and they, seeing how he tried to progress, helped him to advance until he finally reached the top. Bok was always look- ing for chances to make money outside of his regular work. He noticed that the horse cars, which ran a long dis- tance, were crowded with passengers, hot and dusty, on Saturdays and holi- days. The car stopped in front of Bok’s home, and the conductor went to get a cool drink at the drug store while the passengers remained in the car. Bok filled a pail with cold water, hung some cups on the edge, and went through the car selling it to the passengers. Other boys in the neighborhood had the same opportunity but they did not take it un- til Bok led the way. Bok was then compelled to sell lemonade at a slightly higher price to secure a monopoly. Andrew Carnegie started as a bobbin boy at a salary of one dollar and twenty cents a week. When ha came to America from Scotland, he became a messenger boy for the Ohio telegraph company. By taking every opportunity offered him he rapidly rose until during the Civil War he superintended many of the government railroads and telegraph lines. He kept on rising and finally founded many steel works. Washington’s success as a general was due in a great part to the use he made of his opportunities. As an ex- ample of this — he was driven across the Delaware by the British and re- mained encamped there for some time, waiting to cross again. The Hessian troops were merrymaking on Christmas day. Washington led his men across the river and captured the surprised Hessians. Thus, in business, in life, and in all things, we must seize our opportunities or fail, for, as Shakespeare says: “There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to Fortune, Omitted, all the voyage of their life, Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves Or lose our ventures.” We, the class of 1923, wish to thank our parents, school committee, and superintendent for helping us gain our education; our teachers for the hours they spent working with us; our prin- cipal for his wise advice and never fail- ing sympathy and kindness. Classmates: during our four years at Manning High, we have worked, played, and studied together. To-night we part, some of us to continue our studies in different schools and colleges, and the rest to take positions in the business world, but wherever we go let us live up to our motto — Seize the op- portunity! “Carpe diem!” Dorothy Shaw CLASS HISTORY September 4, 1919 there was great re- joicing in Manning High, for the most promising graduating class of the Win- throp School were about to become Man- ning High Freshmen. Yes, so we thought, but it remained for the sophomores and juniors to lessen that feeling of importance. Many, 23

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carrying on similiar campaigns. Eng- lish women began as early as 1850 to demand women’s rights. Among the more prominent of the leaders of the twentieth century have been Mrs. and Miss Pankhurst who were radical suffra- gists and Lady Astor, who startled all England in 1919 by taking advantage of the equal suffrage bill, passed the. year before to run for Parliament. • Besides Great Britain and her two colonial possessions, Canada and Aus- tralia, practically every European coun- try gives women equal suffrage with men. . Today in United States politics we find women in every conceivable politi- cal position. We find them in Congress and in State Legislatures. In Wash- ington we find a woman, Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt, assistant to the United States Attorney General. In Ohio, we find Miss Florence E. Allen a judge of the Supreme Court, the first woman in the United States to hold this position. Miss Allen has also held the position of assistant county prosecutor and was formerly Judge of the Court of Com- mon Pleas in Cleveland. Women have been in politics com- paratively few years, and we have as yet to see how high they will go. How- ever, we may expect to see many women in Congress and State legisla- tures, not a few following the lead of Judge Florence Allen and possibly even one or two taking their places in the President’s cabinet. W. L. George, a sarcastically in- clined writer for Harpers’, gives it as his opinion that women in politics will be “as crude, as stupid, as intolerant, and as smug as men, possibly worse since they are more passionate.” On the other hand Mr. George contends that for the first few years, at best, the v omen who go into politics will be on a higher intellectual plain than the men there now, for a woman can quite easily be persuaded to vote for a man, but it will take a woman of brains to win the votes and approval of the men. However, women have shown them- selves so capable in the political game that we can expect to see Mr. George’s contention proving true, not only for a few years, but for always. Evelyn Bamford “CARPE DIEM!” Valedictory “Carpe diem!” Seize the opportunity! — a motto worthy to be followed and re- membered all our lives. It is a motto especially appropriate for us who start out to-night to seek success in the world. Opportunitv has been a recognized power thi-ough all the ages. The early Romans and Greeks built temples and made offerings to the goddess of op- portunity, called by them. Fortune. Be- fore attempting anything important, they went to the temple of Fortune to pray and to promise gifts if she favored them. Some prospered and many failed. Those who prospered gave great and magnificent gifts to Fortuna, and believed they had succeeded because she had aided them and because they had followed opportunity when the door was opened to them. Those who failed were the blind who did not see the doors of opportunity standing ajar and success beyond the threshold. No man can succeed unless he seizes opportunity when it comes to him. Edu- cation, experience, patience, energy, de- sire, persistency and efficiency, all nec- essaiy to success, can gain nothing un- less opportunity is sought and seized. Many great and successful men started as very poor boys but came to success through seizing each oppor- 22

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many wandering freshmen were seized and deposited on the ledge under the window by the candy room and the win- dow locked. Several were rescued by Mr. Marston, but they dared not tell which upper classman put them there. Other poor freshmen were locked in the ventilators where only a great com- motion on their part would bring Mr. Marston to the rescue. Oh ! we vowed vengeance on the upper classmen for .;those deeds, but when ever the opportunity came for re- venge, most of us had an important en- gagement in some other part of the building. Our freshman year was the last year with Mr. Marston as principal, but in that one short year we learned to know him very well. I believe it was only the third day of the term that Miss Shaw, Miss Kimball, Spyut and myself were extended a cordial invitation to visit the office at 3.30. Of course, we hadn ' t done anything, it was merely Mr. Mars- ton’s manner of getting acquainted. Ours was a class with such celebrities as Bean, then a budding violinist with a big brother in the upper class to tell Juls just how little he knew. Of course he wouldn’t think of hitting his big brother. The famous strike of the Manning High pupils was staged in November of our freshman year. Although it was unsuccessful, we got our names in the paper. Following the strike came the great play “Captain Crossbones”, and Mr. Tozer gave us an added compliment when he picked most of his pirates from our class. Hall never forgot his ex- perience as pirate and is seriously con- templating taking up the profession after graduation. This year also saw the beginning of class games in ath- letics, a custom that has continued ever since. In our sophomore year we moved into Miss Whittemore’s room where the seats were close together, and you can imagine the result. It was not uncom- mon to see the bench filled entirely with sophomores. Class socials became prominent and many were those held in conjunction with the freshmen. The most important event of our junior year was of course the “Prom”. It was a big success, the net proceeds amounting to $110, which was divided between Porter and myself until we could give it to the class treasurer. Forty dollars was immediately turned over to the treasurer, but the other seventy dollars was almost lost. I had the forty dollars of course. Possibly Porter was thinking of starting a jitney line between Ipswich and Rowley. Our junior class was prominent in athletics having seven of the eleven on the football team and four out of six on the hockey team. Our senior year has been the greatest of all. We held a soviet government meeting and elected J. Burke, president ; Miss Shaw, vice-president ; Miss Brown, secretary and Miss Daniels, treasurer. Of course the senior play was the biggest thing of the year. After several collisions with Hall, Miss Homans de- cided that Johnny had not reached a stage of civilization as advanced as even that of pirate but more nearly resembled a cave man. Nancy should have had shock absorbers. All in all the senior year has been one we shall never forget and we sincerely hope that the next senior class will ap- preciate as much as we have what it means to be a senior and to have been associated for four years with Manning High. William Burke 24