Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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WIDUA was lrs5fIY5 OUR MODERN WORLD WHAT IS MISSING Mary Arsenault Backward turn backward O Tume In your flught How many tumes we have heard these words repeated In our world of chaos constant rush and competutuon there IS a tendency to look back with pleasure and longung on the good old days the time when tran quuluty and sumplucuty reugned In the hearts and homes of the American people Of course It IS ImpOSSIble to turn back the hands of the clock as we sometimes thunk we should luke to do We should not and neuther do we want to neglect to realuze and apprecuate the remarkable progress that the world thus far has made progress that has resulted In an era of modern methods and modern convenuences I do thunk however that we should not abandon enturely the ways of the proverbual good old days Many of us are mussung a certaun satisfaction from lufe by followung the modern trend completely I believe there IS a defunute need to restore many of the pursuuts our grandparents followed pursuuts whuch could more deeply enruch our luves wuth a stronger feelung f serenuty happuness and securuty To illustrate what I am tryung to say I should lIke to recall some aspects of luvung In the communuty school and home as It once was and make comparusons wuth lIvIng today Perhaps the most marked changes have taken place In the lives of America s young people We are growung up In an enturely dufferent atmosphere from the one that exusted twenty fuve or thirty years ago Then socual emphasis was placed on the group now It IS on the couple There IS a strong tendency for young people to want to paur off as soon as they reach hugh school age and thus they muss the fellowshup of a number of eughth grade throughout hugh school muss the oppor tunuty to cultuvate many fruendshups and to enuoy them selves IU a muxed group of people theur own age I-low much fun used o be had at candy pulls sleugh rudes and square dances socual actuvutues whuch now are practucally nonexustent and whuch many modern een agers consuder square Often we hear a youth complain 'nat he doesnt have a good tume at dances One of the reasons could be that he doesnt ask a gurl o go o the dance wuth hum It seems tha tnat IS almost essentual now and I 'i shouldnt be There IS no need for group fun to dusunte grate One emedy fo he stuatuon would be the reappearance of dance cards whuch once assured every gurl and boy different dancung partners throughout the evenung Young people today should forget at least some of the tume theur reliance on televusuon movues and local hangouts to keep them amused If they trued to provide theIr own enuoyments by developung a keener apprecua tuon of nature and other more worthwhule unterests they would get a great deal more out of lufe In the field of education many tumes regretful com parusons are made between modern Ideas of schoolung and those that were n practuce when Grandma was grl n article by Phyluss McGInley reflected the vuews of ex Presudent Harry S Truman that modern textbooks have forgotten the aums of McGuffy teachung educatung for ethucs as well as Intellect building char acter as well as vocabulary and that as a result Ameru can educatuon has suffered a tremendous blow Perhaps that IS stated a 'It le strongly No one will duspute tne fac that educatuon methods have Improved and that we nave some of the best schools and traunung faculutues at our dusposal But maybe we are remuss In castung asude tne readers whuch some educators consuder as outdated as the horse and buggy If we blew the dust from the books tnat were used In the one room schoolhouse and Investugated 'nem wuth an open mund we should fund that their eachung IS stull valud They gave students readung ma erual planned for the age level of the chu d selectuons of real luterary worth and moral teachung wrapped In an acceptable package The maxums from tne readers compuled by Professor McGuffy provuded practucal Illustratuons applicable to su uatuons In the child s own lufe I-Ie was not only gettung of lufe whucru would stand hum a good stead throughout 'tus days Schoolchuld en day are ea rung much about nuclear weapons modern Industry and fune arts but are lufes basic mora s bcung IncuIca ed In trueur TITII'IdS9 The max Ims nesy s we bes p I To waste not IS to want f II IWJYS have practical applucatuon and were css n ems of old Let us yeserdays purau ru o eacuun w c ae 'I 'rue are n o ng overlooked n ue search for more specualuzed kr wedge I Lesson I oday From McGuffeys Readers by Phyluss NAcGInley Readers Og s December l954 . r r t. 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MAURICE BOUDREAU He needs no fotl but shlnes by hrs own proper ltght Y W Nlckname Appearance Likes Dlsllkes Pastlme Ambxtton N35 V7 anua f D ancn o h n U .J an c r wnt he was n an ou o N nave cer ny mlssea Vloxl g mal fron out are consoe fr a Boy Glce C up an 043'- DAVID PELLETIER Where he halls short tts natures fault alone Where he succeeds the ments all his own Nickname Gump Appearance a Likes Huntmg Dlsllkes Cafeterua Pastxme Huntnng Ambxtnon To be a conservatlon offlcer Tall and sllent Dave quetly made nls way among us wlnnmg frlends whe ever he went He spent most of hs spa e tlrre hu tnng and flshlng untul January w n he left us to become a recrult ln the Amr Force We all w htm me 'oes ol luck and we are sure that he wall very well tn Worklng Frldoy ntghts Moxwe Mtschuevous Glrls Workmg To succeed ox e se .race Typnfled RICHARD KNOWLES Gave me the llfe l e Nnckncme DIC Ltkes Boatung School Worklng nn the A and P Dtsltkes Pasttme Ambltlon To be a success Duck has won many frlends dullng hls hugh school years hrs aslng 'te mann rs Hrs flashy red on yernble becam farnlllar sght to all In January we wls ed htm gooclby and ood luck he eft hrs career ln the Arr Force if' 5' 25 I n 5 . , 5 1 H - - 4 - An Ou' loss ' fne Alf Forces go? when M I left us if in J ' rl to ,oln that lr 1 f the r-' . by is good- 3' 'ed la gh d hee y Nstle, . ' ca s' f ln nls pleasant 'l ok on llle. J e ' - K tal l ' ' t 'e's e ' ' J .ner, ' l cl it by the fact 'nat any atners are eng y ng it. ' s' - I . N ., ' ' lov . 3 A --V ---------- - A--- --Y - -H ---M Ik Appearance --, s, - ,eww .sss , ,,.,, . , - Bashful IQ it . . ,. . , Y with ' ple ' , pol' e . ' c - I t' e a i , . M 'h ' g as l for 'X , r, . . 9 . . 1 H I A 1 , f -, ' H ,,s,,-,,,,---,,,-,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, . T ll . . , ,, , 1 l 1 I r ' V -n' , ' ' ' , he Q 4 Ish . t , I . t, I ' ' do ' life. Y A y

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The communaty too as well as the school as losing saght of some worthwhale pursuats There as a noted paucity of events an whach the whole communaty takes part Instead of gatherang for busaness reasons alone town meetangs and the lake why not assemble for pleasure too? Pacnacs and community sangs whach are far from common an many towns afford fun for young and old alake and provade an excellent opportunaty to develop a better relataonshap wath townspeople and neighbors Some people are realazang that many American trada taons are becoming lost and these people are tryang to revave them Grady Johnson and has famaly washed to brang back the sample hospatalaty of yester year ln an artacle an the Readers Dagest whach probably many of you read entatled We Revaved the Lost Art of Calling CD Mr Johnson said that the average American neagh borly by tradataon has forgotten casual vasatang and maarataaned than socaal relataons only through RSVP partaes and dinners What he says as true Todays socaal code requares that entertaanang be done on a formal basas and has resulted an the elamanataon of the casual dropping an on friends wathout a formal anvata aon The Johnson famaly wondered how many of thear fraends were at home lake them washang that they could chat wath thear fraends but from fear of offendang established etiquette were unwallang to vasat without an satuataon and dad lust what they intended they brought back the lost art of callang by vasatang people unex pectedly and for no other reason then merely wanting to see them ln Mr Johnsons words Were learning to enloy one anothers company instead of dreading the trouble and expense we formerly caused Danner entertaanang as fallang off although we break bread more often than before famaly style Edgar Guest an has perhaps rather homely fashion expresses the same sentiment an these lanes from has poem When Friends Drop ln 0 Theres no pomp of preparation theres no style or sham or fuss We are glad to welcome callers who are glad to be wath us An we sat around and vasat or we start a merry game An we show them by our manner that we re mighty pleased they came For theres something real about at and the yarns we love to span And the tame flaes oh so swaftly when a few good friends drop an Speaking of vasatang friends an thear home makes us thank about the famaly Over the years ther has been a gradual dasantegrataon of famaly lafe Many of the taes that once bound members of a famaly closely an love and regard for each other are now beang elaman ated Outsade actavataes make such a constant demand on our tame that we rarely indulge an the sample enloy ment of staying home talking wath those who are dear to us Good conversataon as dyang Its murderers are televasaon movaes radao and other equally modern amusemens I do not wasn to say there as not much gaaned from navang these anventaons at our disposal I do wan to stress however that we are becoming addacted to them I once read thas cartoon quap0 Last naght I was talking to my wafe you know how you do when the televasaon se as broken Some of you may thank that as a rather exaggerated allustrataon of my poant but an a great many homes at as very near the truth In a typacal Ameracan household of the l900s the famaly often gathered around the piano for an hour or two of sangang Mother struck a chord and each member of the famaly loaned an the sangang Perhaps tharteen year old Jammy was out of tune and has chang ang voace cracked now and then but no one seemed to mand They felt a closer relataonshap wath each other by sharang an thas enloyment Following thas recreataon the kids settled down to thear studaes sometames seated at one large table especaally suited for that purpose wath Mother and Dad lookang on In thas scene there existed a feeling of mutual love and happaness a closeness so evident at was almost tangable Now the pa ture as changed After the evening meal as over Johnny grabs has coat and as off for the movaes Sas waats ampataently for her babysattang employer to preparations for a naght out Each one goes has separate way an many homes The close harmony that was once prevalent has ceased to be Now more than ever before at seems to me a chald needs the assurance that he as growang up an a home where has essentaal need for love guadance and un derstandang as beang supplaed Every youngster needs that sense of securaty felt when he knows that someone as waatang for ham at has home Today as a womans place an the world becomes ancreasangly promanent and chaldren are growang more andependent more and more mothers are workang In some cases at as absolutely necessary that the woman of the house work to help wath famaly expenses but unless that as the case I belaeve that the modern wafe and mother would serve her famaly far better by beang on hand when they needed her than by ancreasang the famalys store of material comforts The unaform closely constructed famaly lafe that once domanated almost every home can exast gust as strongly today We have to realaze that the need for truas closeness does exist that we are elamanatang many practaces whach would help to make our home lafe more abundant and that we can remedy the satuataon by beang a lattle old fashioned and puttang less emphasas on the movae screen and more on the home To conclude quate samply Let us not shut the door on yesterday and throw away the key Gfor behand that door lae some of the secrets to a happaer and more satasfyang lafe I Readers Dgest December I954 pp I5 I8 I Refldefs D'9e5f December I954 P 99 lCondensed from Chrastaan Science Monatort I Friends by Edgar A Guest Copyragh I925 I Cartoon quaps Ball Keane Regaster ond Trabune Syndacate The Reelly und Lee Company p 20 I Paraphrosea auoagvaon by Vavaora Y Laramore Today I I I ' ' - 1 1 1 . . . . , - a . . . - I I I I . 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