Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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ROBERT SHAW We haven’t heard much from Shaw yet, although we don’t know why, for he seems to be just as clever as any of us. Despite his quiet ways, he made his letter as manager of the football team and had a part in the class day play. He is liked by all. ISABEL SWASEY Isabel is our most popular girl and a noisy one, too. She gets angry regular- ly with everyone in the class, but it doesn’t take her long to get over it. She can certainly act, too, and had a prom- inent part in the Senior Play and also a part in the Class Day Play. She was one of the senior girls to receive an “M” for hiking 100 niiles, 25 of which were accomplished in one day. ANGIE WILE Angie Wile is a demure little man- hater, but nevertheless finds time to typewrite and to study Burke. She might easily have led the class but lost her ambition during the sophomore year She has been frequently selected, how- ever, to fill positions outside as a rep- resentative of the commercial course. EDDIE WITHAM Here’s the fellow who always con- tributes more than his share in the feed- ing of “The Tiger.” It seems to be as natural for him to write as it is to breathe. We hope that he will use his talent to good advantage. He certainly acted the leading part of a dapper littb ' gentleman well in the Senior Play. 20

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MARGARET PHELAN Pegr is our class saint. She has a mild, even disposition, and never gets cross even with her brother. She wants to be a school teacher and instead of pitying the pupils, we envy them. She was an able business manager of the Senior Play. MILDRED PICKARD Mildred is a very conscientious student. Her specialty is Latin and she intends to be a Latin teacher in the future. We hope her pupils will like it as well as she does. BEATRICE RICKER Beatrice Ricker is another inhabitant of Rowley. She is quiet and always busy. Although she is not class saint, she was a very close second. BERTHA SAVORY Bertha Savory is our fashion model. We find it hard to understand how one house can hold all her wardrobe. She is one of our musicians (we have quite a musical class) and the class has en- joyed her playing many times. She had a prominent part in both the Senior and Class Day plays. 19

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MARY WOLEYKO Mary Woleyko is our class vamp arid deserves honorable mention as an artist, for her drawings have attracted much admiration from us. She hopes to be a school teacher, and we wish her the g-reatest success. Graduation Essays PATRIOTISM YESTERDAY AND TODAY As we look over the events which hap- pened on this continent almost a century and a half ago, and as we investigate the causes, direct and indirect, of the Revo- lutionary War, we as Americans even at the present time, can feel a thrill of pride for those men, — farmers, doctors, lawyers, all who took up arms to fight in a war which was to determine whether or not the liberties which they had always en ' oyed as English subjects were to be taken from them. No cause could have stirred their English hearts to make them fight more furiously, more gallantly, more desperately than the questioning of their liberties. Even with so great a nation against them as England, with such a cause as this to fight for, we can little wonder why they won that war and established here upon this western hemisphere a government based upon the principles of freedom, of justice, of equality, which was to be for us, their posterity the greatest nation on earth, Then followed a period of over eighty years of peace, broken only by one year of war with England, during which time our country’s resources were developed, its territories expanded, and its govern- ment strengthened until 1860, Abraham Lincoln, that great genius of American histoiy, took charge of the government whir-h for over a year had been sadly neglected. With the help of his country- man who were ready to give up their business and social activities, who were ready to fight against theii ' own bi ' others who were ready to die in order that the union might be preserved, he piloted our country, against all adversities, through those four terrible years of Civil war. the greatest crisis through which this nation has ever passed. He was then repaid, at the height of his career, by being shot by a traitor and a lunatic; but he died knowing that the union which he had cherished since boyhood, and which he had pledged to uphold, still survived; and that the American people had demonstrated to the world that a government such as ours, “conceived in liberty and dedicated in the proposi- tion that all men are created equal” could long endure. Entering into a later period, the period of the great World War, a period whose heartaches and sufferings remain in- delibly impressed on the minds of many here, we find that sons and grandsons of men who sixty years before had fought for the South, sons and grandsons of men who sixty years before had fought for the North, young and old, men and women, all Americans,, natural and nat- uralized, united to suppress a great ty- rant who threatened the liberties of many. This was the patriotism of yesterday. What of the patriotism of today? What are we to do to carry on the work of oui’ great forefathers ? What ai’e we to do to uphold the cause for which Washing- ton fought and lived, the cause for which Lincoln fought and died, the cause for which thousands upon thousands of the cream of American manhood have paid the supreme saciifice? We can gain no honors in a war for Independence, or a war fought for the 21