Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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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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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. E. ' If - - - 11 ' I f ' ' - fu 11 - ' ' ' ' ' I ' , ' I 1 1 - g ' ' ' . QI I .CDA ' ' ' ' I I - 11 11 ' ' - I - . . . - r 1 .Il - ' ' I ' It I . I , , , , O I I T . . I , . I . I ' . . V, . . I l . 1 1 ' ' ll D l . I . . friends. A boy and girl who go steady from the a formal education, but also learning the infinite truths ' ' ' , ' r to l r I'I 4, . I Y - - A - 1 F . . , . . . I -. , , y . I . . - ' ' , ' I . ' , I-Io f I fl f so Icy, ' ' not vi' al c . I ' .' ' ' , ' I' ' I strf -ed I educoion sysfc. ,- . hope ' A that 7 ' as ' fo s f t I g hi h r sI'Il ' ' f I - ' , .. , of ' ei I ' 2 I ti ' . I ' I Af ' -I IO le . , - s or T 5 ' ' I ' 26

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GETTING AND SPENDING WE LAY WASTE OUR POWERS by Grover C Barley Ill Before the begrnnrng of the Industrral Revolutron the marorrty of people lrved rn a slow paced srmple socrety At that trme there were no crtres teemrng wrth rushrng mrllrons and smokrng factorres There were no movres trarns stock markes These people had none of our modern Convenrences Therr trme was Spent rn rarsrng enougn food to support 'nerr famrlres and to pay therr taxes ln therr lersure they took trme to offer reverence to therr Creator To us perhaps thrs seems lrke a dull exrstence yet accordrng to varrous sources these people were qurte happy wrth therr lrves Today man lrves rn a very complex and materralrstrc socrety rn whrch lrfe rs geared to a very raprd pace It seems that almost every one rs fully occupred tryrng to cram a twenty four hour day rnto erght hours Rush and worry seems to be our motto and the faster the pace becomes the more man wants to rnc ease rt Certarnly rn thrs age of ret planes and atomrc power man rs not content In fact he rs probably less content than ever before rn hrstory It rs true that socrety rs changrng rt has been rn revolutron srnce man has exrsted but srnce the rnceptron of rndustrralrzatron socrety has changed radrcally and raprdly At frrst through necessrty man was vrrtually enslaved by the machrnes he burlt but gradually he has freed hrmself Frrst men worked srxteen hours a day Thrs workrng day was gradually decreased to twelve hours erght hours and now there rs talk of an even shorter workrng day Man has been able to decrease hrs work rng hours by rncreasrng the productrvrty of the machrne Ivlachrne hours are raprdly berng substrtuted for man hours and rt rs such a substrtutron that rs creatrng a serrous socral problem Vlan rs berng enslaved rn a heterogeneous manner by that whrch he devrsed b cause hrs rn eress and search for happrness durrng hrs rn reased lersure are based on one thrng maternal sm In tne nrn teenth century Wrllram Wordsworth ex pressed qurte srmply the effect of these same evrls rn hrs day The world rs too much wrth us late and soon Gettrng and spendrng we lay waste our powers When man seeks materralrstrc goals the best he can obtarn rs a superfrcral happrness resultrng from transrtory pleasures But even today man strll has sources open to rm that wll decrease hrs subrectron to the machrne ma terral sm and socrety tnese sources can rncrease hrs happrness and grve hrs lrfe more meanrng Probably one of the frnest drversrons rs athletrcs As an avenue of reraxatron sports offer more to a greater number and varrety of people Certarnly very few sources of good pleasure offer equal enroyment from the vrewporn f botn spectator and partrcrpant Another and probably more endurrng satrsfactron rs the cultrva ron of he mrnd through the apprecratron of tne frner thrngs rn lrfe such as frne art good musrc and wor h whrle Ir era ure Thrs does not mean that one must hobrtually attend the opera house wander through ar gallerres o be a book worm to be happy We should however recognrze the beauty of such self expressron and wrth a lr le effort and study try to apprecrate the rnrel ect that the creatron of such a work rnvolves Througrr hrs source we can drscover new pleasure and satrsfactron Another channel through whrch one may derrve a fuller meanrng of lrfe rs through our na ural surround rngs Thrnk for a momen of ne dazzlrng whrte sand and prcturesque sand dunes at Cranes Beach or the trees and multrcolored r cks that border the twrs rng turnrng Ipswrch Rrver One mrght say these are srmple thrngs but they are sources of pleasure wrthrn the reach of all of us and very much a part of our every day lrfe The fault lres rn the fact that whrle absorbed rn worldly cares or pleasures few stop to apprecrate the beauty and the perfect balance of exrstence that' rs darly paraded before our eyes Maybe rf man slackened hrs pace a brt he would take note of the srmple tranqurllrty that resrdes on every srde If man began to realrze these thrngs he mrght awaken to the fact that nature offers hrm two ardes to hrs quest for happrness a source of rnsprratron and asprratron However the best and basrc source of all satrsfactron rs our element of farth Man may search far and wrde for happrness but unless he turns to God to seek help and grve thanks he wrll never attarn a full and lastrng peace of mrnd When mon realrzes the beauty of tne truth that lres rn relrgron he wrll frnd strength for truth has vast power thrs power wrll complement hrs needs for facrng lrfe There rs then no doubt that man can not long endure rf he seeks only materralrstrc ends If however he uses hrs rncreased lersure for recreatrng hrmsell physrcally mentally and sprrrtualry he wrll no longer frnd the world too much wrth hrm he wrll not be ex haustrng hrs powers merely rn gettrng and spendrng He wrll on the other hand be lrvrng a lrfe wrth meanrng and purpose He wrll have as Cardrnal Newman ex pressed rt rn hrs defrnrtron of The Educated Man the repose of mrnd whrch lrves rn rtself whrle rt lrves rn the world and whrch has resources for rts happrness at home when rt cannot go abroad AMERICANS NEED FOR SPIRITUAL VALUES Patrrcra Polychronoplos At a trme when there rs so much rnternatronal turmorl and tensron wrth so much stress berng lard on arma ments and nuclear weapons rt would serve the rn drvrdual as well as the country as a whole to pause for a thorough check on hrs moral and ethrcal well berng The sprrrtual factors of a persons make up can very easrly be lost or neglected rn the fast materralrstrc war tense trmes of our day Our free world can be saved rt seems to me only by a redrscovery of sprrrtual resources and the revrval of a dynamrc relrgrous forth among our free people I wonder rf we do realrze the vast extent of desola tron and hopeless rurn that would result rf we abandoned relrgron Imag ne God and a future lrfe berng completely erased from the mrnd of every man There would rndeed be no hope for our worrd Selfrshness and sensualrty would absorb the whole man A sordrd self rnterest would replace every other feelrng and our natron would be an unhappy place rn whrch to lrve ' ' '55 I rr r . . 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