Lubec High School - Quoddy Light Yearbook (Lubec, ME)

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THE QUODDY LIGHT Ahhrvan nn Gllann illnttn GI uns Alpes Isl Jlalm Rome wxth her beauty, her glory and her tradrtron has been for many centurres one of the greatest sources of msplratron As we read htstory we Gnd that toward the second century B C she was rapldly becoming the most powerful natlon ID the world In her swxft march in thxs d1rec tion stood only one oostacle It was Car thage who drsputed Rome s approaching sup emacv for Carthage pfev1ous to th1s tlme had acqu1red the leading place among the great natlons of the world And now Carthage was unwlllrng to g1ve up her former glory wxthouta strug gle Her glorles stlll llngered ln he minds and hearts of her c1t1zens They lmgered especrally rn the mmd of one great character Hanmbal who when a mere child was led to the sacred altar at Carthage and there made to swear eternal hatred agamst the Romans Spurred on by thls deed he spent hlS energy preparmg to real1ze the hope plans and amb1t1ons 1nst1lled m h1s heart by the sacred oath he had taken and by the restless Splflt of his warhke genlus At the death of hls father Hanmbal re celved command of the Carthagmx n army He at once began preparatlons for an rn vaston of Italy a task whxch was far hard er than he had ever dreamed but the trxals and hardshxps only made hrm the more determmed to w1n Wlth preparat1ons completed Hannlbal left New Carthage early 1n the sprrng of the year 218 B C w1th an army numb r C159 1ngone hundred thousand men and ln cludmg thtrty seven war elephants H reached the foothxlls of the Alps wlthout much dxfflculty The season was already advanced It was October and snow and rce covered the Ifall From thrs pomt the natlve trrbes attacked them wxth great audacrty and many of Hanmbal s troops were cut off Many more perrshed annd the solltudes of the mountam passes Most of the elephants were prtched from the preclprces and went ro1rmg down head long to the fathomless chasms Many tlmes the men complamed bitter ly of the dangers and hardshlps whrch they back but Hanmbal wlth his wonderful ablhty cheered and encouraged them to keep on with verbal pictures of sunny Italy and the words Trans Alpes est Itaha Beyond the Alps lles Italy the promlsed reward ' At last the snmmxt was gamed and the sh1ver1ng army loomed down Into the haze of the sunny Itallan plains The very sxght spurred them on to fimsh therr march Hannibal induced his men to make the descent of the mountains It was accom phshed only after severe torl and losses When the plams of Italy v. ere reached of the one hundred thousand men wrth whom Hanmbal had begun the passage twenty thousand had survtved the and hardshxps of the march and looked more l1ke phantoms than Yet Hanmbal had reached hrs goal barely perils these men The r ., ' 1? . i . ' . - ' ' 'I I l . , - . . , , . , . ' . . T . . u . . . . , , . . . , , . . . . G , , . L K l ' ' - were enduring and even started to turn ' . 1 . . I I I ' . , I Cl M ' .I . 7, U . i ' I . 9 U .I . I i ' . . D , , , . . .G . , - .. . , . 5 . b . 1, , D - 0 , I ' , ' -1 . S ' . '

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THE QUODDY LIGHT Illlgul 19111: Alumni its Qliumg Nllss Mame Bennet a former Prlnctpal of I ubcc Hlgh School 15 a teacher of Lat m a school m Hoboken New Jersey Ella Qumn havmg resmgned her posx txon as teacher at the Washmgton Normal School 'Vlachlas IS now matron of the gxrls dornntory Ina kclley Teachmg at Rldge School No 2 West Marv Knowles a graduate of the Um verslty of Callfornla lS now Waiting for a school there Hartwell Davxs Commander of the submarme Mohegan now at Cavxte Phxlhpme Islands Loxs Peacock Prmclpal Garland Hxgh School Garland Me Leon Davrs A graduate of Bates col borough Mass Grace Webber Gretchen Mulholland Nelhe Adams Frances Hearne and Louise Sulhvan are teaching 1n Lubec Sylvester Knowles IS attendlng Bates college Frank Adams lb employed by the Ed1son Illummatmg Lo Boston Blon Cook IS a student at Phlladelphm Dental College julxan Trecartm George Avery Hollls Ramsdell Harford Gray and Vu rle Boom er are attendmg U of M Hannah Davxs xs trammg for a nurse at Worcester Hospxtal Mass Moses Pike IS attending Hebron Ed1th Clark rs a Sophomore at Wheaton College Norton Mass Hattre Johnson ts keepmg books for S B Stuart 8z Co Lubec Allan G1ll1s and Arthur Malloch both U of M are druggrsts wxth G1ll1s and Mabee's drug stores Lubec Carleton Pxke IS at the front rn France drrvmga Red Cross ambulance C143 Ahce Guptxll IS teachmg school in Port land GUY Gfav a graduat of Phlladelphma glental college IS practxcxng rn Greenfield ass Nma Preston Mary Vose Floyd Davis and Paul Thay er are teaching xn the d1s trlct schools of Lubec Iva Ramsdell 1S asslstant principal of the hugh school Watervxlle Me Eugene O'Donnell is a Freshman at B mtes college Nona Myers Agnes Boyd Ethel Camp bell are attending Machlas lNormal Ena Mvers IS thxs year a graduate of the same school Noel Godfrey IS teachmg 1n the Mada waskt Tra1n1ng School Fort Kent Me Merle Trecartln and Av1s Smxth are teachlng at West Lubec and Cutler re spectlvely VValter Avery IS bookkeepmg 'tt Law rence Bros store North Lubec Juhan Gray IS attendmg Bowdom Madolm Wrlcox Hazel Green Vera Whalen and N1na Reynolds are attendmg Farmington Normal Dora Davis has been attendlng commer c1al school 1n Lewlston Mabel Somers IS bookkeeper at Mowry s store Lubec George NIcCurdy IS attendmg Holy Cross college Worcester Mass Ehzabeth Comstock IS attendmg Burdett Commerclall College Jack Keegan is Judge of the Munxcxpal Court Bath Me john Burns IS a druggxst m Everett Mass Merrxll Morong IS clerkmg in a drugstore xn Worcester Mass Vettxe Fanmng IS a bookkeeper at Mel cher s store Portland 'We 5 9 A u . . . . . . - 4 ' I 7 , . ' . ' - s ' s . . ' 1 1 , Q 4 Q - , 1 1 X . - v . I . f' ' A ' - , . . . r - ,X . . . , ' ' , .' . 1 . , . 1 1 ' -' - z . - u ' . ' 1 ' . . ,,, , I ' - 7 ' , , , . . . lege. Principal of the high school, Marl- . ' . '. ' I ' . ' - I l . n , , . . - . ', I , 0 I ' D ' .Q . . 1 , , . . , ., . ' . , - . - ' . . I 1 I ' I . i , , I . , . ' 1 1 ' ' I ' 1 Q u D I ' . . . , , , . ., . 7 - . - .,, - ' - 1 . ., . 1 ' o 1 ' . . . , A Q . . , o Q I 1 5 '

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THE QUODDY LIGHT hardshrps and trxals which he had to en dure only made the goal the more desxr ab e Now where mv fellow students rs your goal? What xs your Italy? Every one should have a goal or aim xn lrfe No goal IS without lts dlflicultxes Hann1bal's goul was Italy Hrs drflicultres were the Alps In our school work he obstacles whlch we must overcome to reach our goal Our studres sometlmes seem almost beyond our power yet we must always keep mn mmd that vrctory and success are obtained only by hard work and many sacnfices Upon Hann1bal's early trammg depend ed hxs later success From the age of nme he duly visited the army, studylng and practising with all his m1ght Like w1se our future success rn llfe depends largely upon the way in whrch we make use of school pr1v1l1ges We cannot put too much tl e and energy rn our school work Our Arnerlcan Hanmbal of the Clvll War was Abraham Lmcoln Brought up rn the wmlflerness surrounded by poverty and deprlved even ot the meagre school the coun ry then afforded he grew rnto manhood From a mere child he had al ways loved books He often walked many mxles to borrow a book, for books were rare and costly among the poor rn those days and when the long hard day s work was finxshed he would take hxs books and study far mto the mght by the gllmmermg lrght from the fireplace In th1s way Abraham Lmcoln acqmred hrs educatlon Hus desire to become of some use m the 4169 world and hrs eagerness to work was not without 1ts reward He IS today revered as one of our greatest and most beloved premdents How many of us could ascertain from readmg Mllton s works that he was blmdP lt IS only by hard work and many sacrrfices that he was able to get an educauon All through h1sl1fe xt seems that he was handr capped in some way He wxshed to study lrterature but because of poverty, he was unable to devo e h1s tune to th1s hne of work At the age of forty he became blmd From thxs tune he devoted h1mself to wrltmg Even though handrcapped by h1s bllndness he wrote many beautlful and mlsfortunes to make him melancholy or discouraged and no hint of sadness or un happmess ever creeps xnto hrs poetry As we study the llves of these great men, we find that although they possessed great natural ab1l1t1es lt was only by hard work and a fixed determmatron to succeed that they reached therr goals Smce these great men have only succeeded by hard toll how much more should we wrth com mon abllrtxes be wxlhng to strive hard to reach our arms All of us have our Alps to face that mustbecrossed before we can reach our Italv Let us, hke them face dlfficultxes cheerfully forgettlng the hardshxps and sacrifices and thinking only of our great reward Cora Alnce Cox l . y v I ' K -. n I Q 0 9 t ' . . . - 0 . l I K ' 0 ' C - .- - - - - - harmonious poems. I-Ie did not allow his ,, , , . . 4 ' ' ' - ' I . ' . - . 1 . Q . . ' ' ' l , . . , ,