Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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Today rn America we have been endowed with freedom by our forefath rs God fearing men who sought religious liberty Tney relied upon prayer and drvrne guidance rn all crises and thus triumphed rn 'he bat le for our freedom As Patrick Henry declared rn the speech for which he is so famous There rs a lust God who presides over he destrnres of nations and who wrll raise up friends to fight our battles for us Another rnsprrrng example of this faith rs the picture of George Washington the father of our country kneeling at prayer at Valley Forge when the srtuatron was so desperate and when everything else seemed futrle Again when he left the Presidency to retire to Mt Vernon he reminded ne American people as fol lows Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to pol trcal prosperity religion and morality are rndrspen sable supports ln the next serious crisis through which our country passed we find the same devotion to what each be lreved a sacred cause and reliance on prayer lt was near the end of the Crvrl War that Lincoln delivered these words Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God and each invokes Hrs ard against the other lt may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a lust Gods assistance rn wrrngrng their bread from the sweat of other mens faces but let us ot ludge that we be not rudged The point rs that though we believe one side to have been mistaken both sides were sincere rn believing their cause to be rust and that they were rustrfred rn appealing to a drvrne power ln the decades before T914 throughout most of the crvrlrzed world people thought that war was dying out They disregarded the growth of the armament lndustry and the growth of disruptive forces An easy self sufficiency and complacency fell over the English speaking nations but not over Germany Her declara tions of war rr' l9l4 aroused the entire world from its comfortable seats World War l followed and after four years of distress left its af ermath Our nation was concerned wrtl a ous prob m sp I life vas at a low ebb r .fvere disillusioned by ne horrors of the war and were wrtn neither n p far h or usefulness They were wrt nessrng sprrr ual de pair a greo emptiness rn lrfe The situation differed after World War ll and the Korean War Ou p ople wer frnally recovering from tne darkness of scepticism and emerging into the lrght of forth The churcnes were filled with people praying for the re urn of their boys from the disastrous war A revival of faith began With a knowledge of the atom bomb and the hydrogen bomb men everywhere f lt tno tn y had to place their hope and faith rn God as their only refuge and strength Everywhere today the evidence of a spiritual awaken ing appears The newspapers last summer gave wide Churches rn Chicago There rs a notable increase rn the relrgrous news now printed and religious books are outsellrng all others three to one Hollywood rs pro ducrng religious films and films wrth sprrrtual emphasis There rs an increase of prayer rn public lrfe and a religious renaissance rn our colleges The government rn the United States rs reclaiming its heritage and demonstrating that relrgron rs an important factor rn strengthening our country Recently Congress passed a resolution which inserts into the salute to the flag the expression under God Another recent development rs the opening of a Prayer Room rn the United Nations Capitol for silent prayer and meditation by the members of Congress lt rs only however as each rndrvrdual makes himself better that the world can be made better Thus rf our free people all practice a regular church attendance observe the lessons of the Ten Commandments and maintain a conscious realrzatron that man rs made rn the image of hrs Maker we shall find ourselves worthy of the prrvrlege of berng Gods children and Amerrca can continue and carry forward tts tradrtrons of a free people recognizing the hand of God rn all our dealings wrth each other and wrth the peoples of the world ' ' A seri le 1 - Eritua ' .f r . Vlen D - - . W . ., . F . . . . . V l . . A . . .T S . I T V . . . ' f , ' ' ' V ' r . A . I ,, . . ' I 5 6 . . . . . , ,, . , . . . . . ' .e ' t ' e ' ' ' . ll ' A ' ' ' ' D ' 5' ' , ' ' ' ' ' - coverage to the meeting of the United Council of I , l . - ll ' . l ' I I , ' , 2 n . . . . ' ' II ' ' ' Il ll 1 - 1 ' , I I l I h . . 1 , ' I . ,, . . . . I ' - I , , V . , .!,. . 29

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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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L C0455 Ms T09 CLASS HISTORY by Januce Kaszuba In September l95O the doors opened wude to fuve unforgettable years for the class of 55 After old fruendshtps were renewed and new fruendshups were made the followung offucers were elected Presudent Grover Bauley Vuce Presudent Norman Sheppard Sec retary Eleanor Dzuadul and Treasurer Pat Polychron oplos Thus year turned out to be undeed unforgettable for ut was durung thus year that all the gurls fell or Mr Burke who as well as beung coach of boys sports at IHS was also faced wuth the task of teachung eughth grade scuence to a group of love strucken gurls and thorouglrly dusgusted boys To the sorrow of every one Coach Burke was drafted unto the Army and left us un the muddle of the year Another well remembered event was our eughth grade socual It was at thus tume that much hudden talent was revealed Januce Gulman danced and sang t Deep Purple though ut was later learned that Januce u not purposely Shake Rattle and Roll e sumply had a bad case of nerves The days passed quuckly and soon our furst year at IHS drew to a close Followung the summer of l95O we agaun entered the doors of IH S thus tume as full fledged freshmen wuth a feelung of really beung part of hugh school Mussung among us thus year were Helen Zwucker John Thompson and Joan Hamm Jounung us however were rernauned Presudent Grover Bauley Vuce Presudent Nor man Sheppard Secretary Eleanor Dzuadul and Treas urer Pat Polychronoplos Shall we ever forget our Latun classes? A casual vusutor mught have become very much confused uf he had looked un one day to fund the whole class on the floor doung push ups But thus was only Mrs Lords unuque bu effectuve way of ullustratung the meanung of prone Although our class was small we had the greatest number of students on the honor roll a record whuch has persusted through our four years Durung thus year we were untroduced to the funda mentals of football basketball and the paunful art of cheerleadung Januce Gulman Pat Polychronoplos Barb Jodoun and Eleanor Duzuadul were elected to the Varsuty cheerung squad A Junuor Varsuty cheerleadung squad vas orgonuzed consus ung of Vuary Arsenault Judy Ped ruck 'vlarlene Sunger C ace S one Mary Ann Gallant Eleanor Dzuadul Barbara Jodoun and Januce Kaszuba Our team dud not always wun tneur games and we were often plagued wutn sore muscles but our spurut never wavered And so ana her summer passed and most of us re turned as almost upperclassmen Among the new faces were those of Eluzabeth Andrews Freddy Crupps Charlue Sayward Earle Jenkuns and Carol Hall Charlue Say ward quuckly demonstrated hus talent for publ c speakung when he skullfully gave a humorous talk un Englush on A Day un Crowded Boston At our second class meetung we elected Charlue as our Vuce Presudent The other offucers remauned the same The Latun II class proved to be even more enuoyable than Latun l Besudes learnung Latun we dabbled un hand wrutung analyses and enuoyed every munute of the class l am sure Mary Arsenault wull never forget the week she spent suttung at the back of the room wuth her desk facung the wall as a result of talkung too much at the wrong tumes Betsy came to her rescue however by puttung a murror on the wall makung ut possuble for Mary to see what was goung on un the rest of the cla sroom Thus was the year that Bobby Ewung found ut very duffucult to wake up un the mornung a fault whuch he has not yet completely overcome lt also was the year many of the gurls gave theur hearts to the senuor boys Carole Thompson and Aluce OBruen are stull vuctums of the same men At the suggestuon of Carol Hall we held a Dog Patch Dance whuch proved to be one of the most successful events at IH S Toward the end of the year we were unformed that lowung year Partues and farewells were guven to two of the funest persons ever connected wuth IHS of whom we shall always cherush pleasant memorues The year closed and our uunuor year began We funally reached the ranks of upper classmen Returnung to IH S thus year was Helen Zwucker whom we gladly welcomed Helen s sense of humor and pleasant manner have cheered us through many a dull and duffucult day We thought a furst we had acquured another new mem ber but ut turned out to be Harry Leno thurty pounds lughter He retauned hus sense of humor however and contunued to be our class clown We welcomed Mr Stanton our new pruncupal who was unstrumen al un securung the old storeroom as a recreatuon room Many enuoyable tumes were spent un thus room botn durung and after school although many especually teachers fel that rec should be spelled w a W Our leaders for thus year were Presudent Grover Bauley Vuce P esuden Norman Sheppard Secretary Eleanor Dzuadu and Tr asurer Pat Polychronoplos Jum Kelly untroduced us thus year to Sam Although . A . ' ll ll ' ' . , , . ' I . . . l ' If ' ll ' : - , : - - . I , 1 ' . , .... . - 1 1 ' . . ., ' I , t s . . . , , , . ' ' o 5 . 11 11 - ' ' ' ' , d'd , , . Sh , , . . , . . . . the students from Rowley. Class officers for the year Mr. Whipple and Mrs. Lord would not return the fol- : , : - - - -, 4 ' D ' ' .' ll Il ' ' , T ' ' - I ' I I 1 I 1 4 - 1 - . . ,I . I WV f I A, nh ,, - u. - I 4 ' . ' ,M ' s ' . ' , I - l ll I I ' l , ' ' li 'E , . 30