Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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I . , I lt IS also our Iob to flght where we can for the SBCUYIYY of countless mIlIIons who cannot fIght for themselves We must no longer remaIn aloof utterly preoccupIed wIth gettIng more and better food housnng clothIng comforts and pleasures for ourselves When a mIIIIon dedlCGfE themselves unselfIshly to the servIce of man kInd It TBQUITES P0 great stretch of the ImagInatIon to reolIze what a for reachlng transformatlon can take place not alone In Amenca but all over the world You, one person can play a vast part In effectIng thus transformatlon The world IS constantly In o state of flux but the extent of degree of the flux depends upon those who frequent or InhabIt the earth at a gIven tIme Each era has thought that IIS problems were the greatest So too do we Fears expanded when the hydrogen bomb ex ploded, natural fears but not Insurmountable As Frank lIn Delano Roosevelt sald In hIs Inauguratlon on March 4 I933 There IS nothIng to fear but fear Itself ThIs fear buslness IS a chaIn reactlon whlch parallels the reac tIon of an hydrogen bomb Why then cant we make fhIS chaIn reactIon work for our good? That IS each person con be a tIny atom explodmg good to hIs neIghbor Imaglne If each person Slfflng here were to make up hIs or her mlnd to try to InstIIl gust a lIttle feelnng of con fIdence trust and faIth Instead of dreaded fear how much could be accompIIshed Tomorrow mentlon to a fellow worker how destructlve the hydrogen bomb IS and what IIS consequences wIIl be Then watch hIm take the ball and go Then try the opposute course of spreadIng faIth optImIsm and confadence and see what happens The result could amaze you We lIve In a world whlch IS constructed theoretlcally lIke an Inverted pyramnd It starts at the bottom Wlfh the IndIvIdual and welds fIrmly Into the famIly the com munIty the state the natIon and eventually broadens out to embrace the whole world Each one of us by utIlIzIng our 0bIlIll6S to help the other person and thus hastenIng the day when a true peace wIIl reIgn IS doIng hIs bIt to change the world I thInk thIs prayer wntten by St FrancIs of ASSISI over seven hundred years ago expresses exactly what I want say beoutlfully and perfectly Lord make me an That where That where Splflf of That where That That That That Lord where where where where grant To comfort Instrument of Thy peace there IS hatred I may brIng love wrong I may brIng the forgIveness there IS there IS dIscord I moy brIng harmony there IS error I may brIng truth there IS despalr I may brIng hope there IS shadow I may brIng Thy lIght there IS sadness I may brIng Ioy that I may seek rather than to be comforted understand than to be understood love than to be loved Ol' y QIVIHQ that one receuves, by forgettIng that one flnds by forgIv ng that one IS forgIven by dyIng that one awakens to eternal I e AMERICA - A CITIZEN S PARADISE BERNARDINE Goat Have you ever stopped to reolIze just how fortunate you are to be a Clfllen of the Unlted States9 If thIs questIon were asked of you what would be your honest reply? Would you proudly answer yes or would you meekly answer no 9 Unfortunately I am IncIIned to belIeve that not many of us could answer In the affIrma tIve Qulte often we forget the Importance of our dem ocratlc Ideals and yust take thIngs In our strIde We faII to recognlze the value of the rIghts and prIvIIeges be stowed upon us by cItIzenshIp although we do not faIl to utIIIze them If my grandparents had not been fortunate enough to leave theIr natIve land and come to a freedom IovIng country such as Amernco I should now be IIVIHQ In terror strlcken Poland under Russlan domInatIon When I pIc ture what my IIfe would be lIke If I were a teen ager In Poland today I am fIIIed wIth gratItude that I IIve In free democrotIc Amenca After a few hours of sleep I would awaken to begIn my long day s work Perhaps I am no longer IIVIDQ wIth I3 my own parents or my own famIly but have just been placed ID a home wIth strangers These people are not pleased to have an unknown gIrl In theIr home but they cannot vonce theIr opInIons They know what has hop pened to others who have offered advlce or expressed theIr OPINIONS I am not at all happy wIth these condl tIons but I too fully reaIIze my fate If I should com plaIn Thus house IS not equlpped wIth any of the modern convenlences and even the heatIng of the house often depends upon Mother Nature After eatung a rather meager breakfast If any at all I begIn my long walk to work SINCE I am just a common workIng gIrl I cannot afford to rIde to work as that for me IS a luxury My workIng day begIns at an early hour and IS not IImIted to only seven or eIght hours a day My work too IS not determIned by my physlcal abIlIty and my wages are hardly worth speakIng of lf my health IS faIlIng and I am unable to do certann tasks I must forget about myself and CONTINUE on wIth my work I do not have any sIck leave hospItol benefIts or unemployment Insurance My workIng condItIons are Ol

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Q 4 'W A WORLD TO Wi SONDRA REEDY Since we live during an era in which devastating wars violent atomic explosions political dissension and gen eral rebellion are prevalent, we are apt to feel helpless and useless in the wake of such upheaval In the presence of such world shaking events the ordinary individual believes himself insignificant and unimportant Often he retires into himself instead of realizing how much one person can do to better the world and how one person can influence the future The most obscure person can be very important Anyone who wants to exert a far reaching power may do so, but to do this he must be honestly concerned about the salvation of all mankind not merely in saving his own soul One small voice which makes itself heard on the side of truth is often a clarion call to action to those who can do something Once a sufficient number of people discover that falsehood is nothing more than the absence of truth just as darkness is the absence of light hate the absence of love and disease the absence of health then there is high hope that this old world of ours will one day come to know the blessing of a real and lastmg peace There are many basic reasons justifying consistent and continued emphasis on individual responsibility and par ticipatlon in shaping the destiny of mankind The teem ing millions of humanity are nothing more than you one person multiplied over and over again. By living a righteous life by spreading good and by simply doing well what is required of you you are doing your bit to bring the world closer to true unity through your every- day acts. In the words of lda M. Tarbell: If we want peace we must make men of common sense knowing what can be done and what cannot be done also men of good will. How are we to do that? l see no more promising path than each person sticking to the work which comes his way. The nature of the work its teeming size and importance matter far less than its right relation to the place where he finds himself. If the need of the moment is digging a ditch or washing the dishes that is the greatest thing in the world for the moment. The time the place the need the relation are what decide the value of the act. lt is by following this natural path that new and broader roads open to us moments of illumination come. There is the only reliable hope of the world. It takes in all of us but puts it up hard to each of us to fit the day s work into the place where we stand not crowding in another s place' no imitations no hurry growth always, l2 9 knowing that light and power come only with growth slow as it is There is a world wide group which has done much to insert truth in place where falsehood had been prevalent This movement is known as the Christopher movement a word derived from the Greek word Chrlstophoros mean ing Christ bearer The movement has no chapters no committees no meetings There are no memberships no dues Rather than have a large membership paying dues and doing nothing a Christopher is encouraged to do something and pay nothing The Christopher goes into the market place into a job of his or her choosing with out fanfare or flagwaving without doing anything sensa tional His or her simple task is to insist on truth where others are Intent on furthering falsehood to establish order where others are spreading confusion Where there is hate he tries to bring in love where there is darkness he carries light Always striving to implant more firmly the fundamentals which others are trying to uproot the Christopher emphasizes the normal rather than the ab normal Nothing remarkable may ever be required beyond a generous spirit of courage and daring He or she ex pects to do the usual not the unusual the ordinary not the extraordinary knowing that the steady fulfillment of duty often requires plodding devotion and day by day hard work even monotonous drudgery' yet this continu- ing sacrifice is constantly brightened by a driving purpose. Each and every one of us is however part of a group a group in which our aim and preparation will decide whether or not we shall be successful. More than any- thing else this devotion to a cause will render a tremen- dous service not only to ourselves but to humanity as well. Education must stress one fundamental fact which alone makes social living possible: man must be edu- cated for his ultimate goal in life. In order for a person to get anything out of life he must have a definite aim in the attainment of which he gives his utmost espe- cially to effect a better world. Education - good educa- tion - must point out teach and emphasize most con- vincingly that man shall not live by bread alone. lt must be dedicated to the proposition For what doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Education must stand for liberty to exercise the rights that have been given us' otherwise it will yield to tyranny. Education must train the human will along with the intellect. lt must produce a free man. This is the basic education which our founding fathers urged as needed for the perpetuation of the Republic. , . fi , , 4. 1 1 , . . .. . . . . ,, I I - ' - I . 1 1 ' , 1 . . . . . , I , . l I ' , 1 - 1 I . I 1 1 1 I 1 1 . 1 1 1 . ' 1 1 ' , - . . . . I 1 . . . . . . 1 1 I I ,1 1 1 - . . . . . . , 1 . . 1 - I I I ' - I I I 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 , 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' ' 11 1 11 11 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 1

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not very sanutary and could stand much umprovement I do not lunger at my uob for I have so much to accom plush I am allotted only a very short tume for my lunch whuch us very sparse Feelung quute exhausted now I return to work for the long afternoon sessuon Upon r turnung home after a hard days work I am agaun confronted wuth my many household chores If I am fortunate enough to have a few munutes and a newspaper at hand I usually read along and fund that the newspaper tells me only what my government wants me to know and belueve I do not own a raduo by whuch I can hear the latest slanted news of the day and of course a televusuon set us just a dream to me Socually I have luttle recreatuon uf any at all My actuvutues are Iumuted as I am separated from my fruends and therefore cannot meet them I cannot go to any ultra modern shoppung centers as they too are unheard of here My clothes are not bought un a fashuonable store but are handed down to me I cannot attend movues or concerts nor does the thought of a vacatuon trup ever full my mund As for as my reluguous lufe us concerned I do not have the rught to choose my own fauth If I am to attend a church I must go to the church whuch has been set asude for the people If I refuse to do so I cannot proctuce my own fauth Then at the end of the day when I have accomplushed my dutues I reture to bed possessed wuth a feelung of fear and uncertaunty my home wuth my own famuly un a fune respectable com After a peaceful nughts sleep I awaken at euther an early or a late hour dependung upon my day s In my case I awaken wuth the untentuon of attendung school uf ut happens to be a weekday Possessed wuth such an untentuon I eat a hearty breakfast and start the day off wuth a happy healthy attutude After I have attended my classes I usually have several hours for recreatuon My fruends and I can gather to talk to dance and to have an afternoon snack I am able to vouce my opunuon and to offer crutucusm as long as I remember to respect the rughts of others munuty schedule Fulled wuth the desure to catch up on the latest news of the day I have access to a number of newspapers I can easuly read one of several dufferent newspapers I fund on the whole that they present the news umpartually and that I may consult edutoruals for dufferent unterpreta tuons of the news whuch help me to make up my own mund I also have the use of a raduo and televusuon set whuch provude me wuth unformatuon on the questuons of the day as well as wuth entertaunung programs for recrea tuon My socual lufe us very extensuve I am able to get a druvers lucense at the age of suxteen and usually have the use of the famuly car I can travel to neughborung towns and cutues whenever the tume us convenuent for me as well as go on shoppung trups as often as I lke I attend the movues and vuew the puctures on a regular suzed screen as well as un three dumensuon and cunema scope My movements are defunutely not restrauned or lumuted I have a rught to o free educatuon from the tume I reach the age of sux years untul I have completed hugh school Durung my hugh school days I select my own curruculum accordung to my needs and abulutues un order to prepare for the future If however I wush to further my educatuon I am able to do so at my own expense Sunce travelung and vacatuon trups appeal to me greatly I have the freedom of movement and can take many pleasure trups whenever I have the tume One of my favorute trups us to the fascunatung crowded cuty of New York Here I can spend my tume sughtseeung as well as vusutung fruends I can go to the top of the Empure State Buuldung vusut The Statue of Luberty and see The Unuted Natuons un actuon For a more entertaunung scope I attend musucals or Broadway huts at any of the numerous theaters I have the rught to come and go as I please a pruvulege that I make constant use of every day Then too upon the arruval of Sunday I attend the church of my own fauth I can defunutely choose my own fauth and practuce ut accordungly Keepung un mund that ones chouce of a fauth us structly between humself and has conscuence I take specual care not to beluttle any one else s fauth Polutucally I know that one of my greatest pruvuleges us the rught to vote Although I am not yet of votung age I understand the umportance that votung plays un the well beung of my country, and I am Iookung forward to the day when I too wull have the pruvulege of votung l always keep un mund that through thus pruvulege I am permutted to choose the representatuves and offucers un the local state and natuonal governments l know that uf I foul to do so I cannot expect to be represented un the way that to me seems rught In addutuon I am able to uoun many clubs and organuzatuons The aums of these organuzatuons may be expressed un varuous ways but behund all theur words I determune one true sugnuflcance to better the lnvung condutuons of all the cutuzens of the Unuted States Thus us most evudent un our govern ment whuch us of the people by the people and for the people I am possessed wuth a feelung of securuty a wonder ful feelung of undependence My feelung of securuty em anates from the rughts and pruvuleges bestowed upon me by my cutuzenshup un such a fune country the Unuted States as well as from the fact that I am secure from any untrusuon un my home from people who, for some reason or other want to search my property wuthout a warrant Consuderung the strong vuvud contrast between lufe un 0 country of tyrannucal servutude and lufe un a freedom Iovung country wuth hugh democratuc udeals I affurm that most of us can see gust how umportant and valuable our rughts and pruvuleges of cutuzenshup to the Unuted States are We should always consuder ourselves the most fortunate people un the world and hope that un the fu ture some of the less fortunate people un thus great world may also have the freedom we now enjoy l31l . , . ' I - . . rs ' ' ' ' . V . ' . ' . , , , . . l - - I I . , , . . I . . ' I ' I I . I . - I I A ' I ' Q . . . . . . ' . . - . 1 I . , , . . . . I . . , ' I I I I I 4 - - . . . - 1 ' I - - . . ' . , Q . . . . . ' I 1 . ' . . I . I ' - D I . ' I I ' ' ' - , Now by contrast picture my life in America, I make . , . . . ' . - I - ' ' - I . , - ' ' I . . ' ' I . . . . , , I . . . . . . . , ' ' I , , , D , . . . . . - . ' ' ll I . . .. . , , U I . . . . . . . . I . . . ' I - . . I . . . . , , , , . ' . . . . . . .