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

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THE QUODDY LIGHT we would of our own? Use the blllldlng' ms an onportumty to show the gra'eful ness vue have for the pr1v1leges grven us E 52 5? 1 1 i s i n I Q r lg n Mus1c has a place m every man's l1fe rf left undrrected hrs cholce IS not always the best vet muslc has 1ts effect on e our tW1C6 a week musxc perxod that e are not the things we would choose lf left to our own des1res but we WILL find that these selectrons are of the better grade of mnsxc not popular ' and we shall soon lrfe of every person We often find in thmgs we are asked to study and learn that we enjoy more and more the kmd of muslc that rs not worn out after a few ren d1t1ons Let us then endeavor to cult1 vate a pleasure rn and a deslre for the best nn mus1c whxch can only be attamed by gradual steps and contxnued study Let us keep up xnterest m the Glee Club and bear rn m1nd tnat we are getting toward a h1gher plane w1th every repet1t1on of the selecuons we are asked to learn 52 E E Q n in c QN n z It n It does not seem out of place to mentron 1n thls column that the hbrary needs more books and the grafonola needs more rec ords Here 1S a chance for mdlvmuals classes or townspeople to IUCTCRSC the High School equxprnent by supplymg some of these needs JJ C123 Qnmnsllr Qzinnzn If we are to Judge by the verdrct of the glrls m the school Domestlc Sc1ence has earned a place 1n the curriculum for good and all In one short year w1th a rather 1nadequate equlpment the g1rls have been more than repa1d by the amount of practr cal knowledge they have recemved Le the course be contmued and g1ve everv g1rl m Lubec a chance to learn the dutles of carxng for a home EES? 1 n I a r lg z Q n Smce Domestxc Sclence has been so suc somethmg of a slmxlar nature would be at tractlve and helpful 1f applzed to the thmgs that a bov ought to know? Is lt not the log1cal thmg to mtroduce some pract1cal or vocational study for the boys? Someth1ng for the boy who does not expect to go to college but expects to begm earmng hxs l1v1ng when the door of the High School closes behlnd hmm ln some commg June 7 Some kmd of manual trammg adapted to the needs of the communxty P Secondary school agr1culture, under the guldance of a tramed teacher cooperatmg with local Granges has proved the solut1on of thu problem 1n many Maxne schools Let us hope the t1me IS not far d1stant when the boy as well as the g1rl shall have some practlcal knowledge oEered hum m the H1h School course Q he l I ' . , ' ' th ' u t 4 I ' -, - 1 1 ' ' . . , I . . ' 5 7 . n , . discover that Om- taste is changing, and cessful for the girls, does it not seem that

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be Quobbrg light Vol 2 Lubes, Maine,June l9l7 No I PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS UF LUBEC HIGH SCH00l PIINTID BY THE LUBIC HERALD 1 1 Ilnhrrirzl Stuff Edrtor 1n Chref Fred Trecartm Ass1stants Annre W rtt Evelyn Averx Agnes McBr1de Busrness Manager Karl Dodge Locals Merrrll Toft Aasrstants, Angela Thayer jessre Cook Beatrrce Ingalls Personals Fannre Towse Assrstants Helen Freeman Emma Da vrs, Ruth Treagy Athletrcs Frank Mulholland Assrstants Alger Prke, Arthur Mulhol land, Clarence bmall Alumnr Sara Marston Assrstants Madelme Whrttrer Delora Lerghton James McCurdy Exchanges Helen Ramsdell Assrstants Jotharn Reynolds Beulah Adams Phrlrp Davrs Art Edrtor Wrllram Lamson .llfureinuril TVrthth1s rssrre the Q1 rddy Lrght starts on rts second vear as a Hrgh qchool Annu l We had asprratrons durrng the early part of the wear to publrsh the paper more than once but happemngs over whrch we had no control prevented the accom plrshm nt of that desrre We rvrsh to thank all those uho have helped to make thrs rssue rx hat rt rs and espt crallv are we grateful to the frdver trsers for wrthout them our paper would be rmpossrble Patronrze them they are our frrends We are conscrous of the fact that our work rn thrs rssue rs not wrth C119 out mrstakes md ne uelcorne con truc trJe crrtrcrsm E r e p zz r z B rr z s 1 Preparrclncss has been the wrtchrvord rn rhrs country for the last two ears YVhy not adopt rt rn our Hrgh School rn regard to Athlet1csP Our Football team was as good as my rn the count f but our Basketball team was sorely hampered bv the scholastrc drlfrcultres of seterfrl of our best players thrs ought neve to oecur If we do our darly lesson farthfully, we wrll have no troublr about ranl and 'mth letrcs however wr should not ust ru' les sons asameans of partrcrpatrng rn such games only 'md forget the real purpose for whrch we are attendmg flwh bchool apreparatron for lrfe Prep rre nrt only for the present but for the future Studs for knowledge rather than rank Lrfe rs not one conrrnual ball game and the t trrrnmen of rank tor that purpose 19 not the hrghest arm we should have rn mrnd but rather the acqursrtron of some knoul edge whrch shall be of value to us rn the game of hte EE E F! A QI r e ti at I r n n Our parents have grven us a rarge and vrell equrpped sch ol burldrng rn vt hrch we havf the prrvrlege of learnmg rhat the currrculum offers to puprls of hrgh school age Ther a e burdened wrth taxes to help rn the supptrt and upkeep ot hrs burdrnf I rt not th ltoger e trnff and p oper that we sh an our crppre cratron by takmg care of the property as Q , , ' 2 'v' ' ' , S ' . . . , . . I . ' 5 'ii 1. ,r 5 . . .L 2 , . , , . ' r . r 1 X. , . ' - r . , ' X , . , . e , - . . . . Q Y . V , . L r . , ' ' 7 1. ' 7- . ' my A a Q - . . V . . - . x 7 - , . .x c 4 1 . - 1 -x X - r . l , , . . 1 . . 1 r A l . J . T . , r , , ' ' . . . , - 1 'W ' -- ' - . 1 .s .r f .', c, '. 2 L v - ' ' . . . ' 7 ' ' wkriw-Mn xZ HY Y W -T -TQA 1 . .' c 3. ' ., 4 . . . Q K . l K ' t , ' ' r . , . , L' . . ' .' x n ' ' 3. . W ' t ' . ' uf Y '- :. , - ' a P - . 9 . . , ' , 1, 4 X , . A C . . . 7 . 7 V . . v . .1 I X . . - . xv . , . v u 11 . I ,- x . 5 ' C - x . . . ' Y Y ' . v ' A 7 ' - ,-. ' + 'a . . . A ' ' L .. . ' . ' '1 ' , ' H I , H ' L b r CU, Q ll Y' t' .. l . N ' ' I 1' K ' 1 f L - 5 . , . . . . R . . - N., . V I . I

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THE QUODDY LIGHT Htstnrg nf 11111 er HE FRENCH were the first to ex Dlore and settle rn Lubec They sarled these beautrful bays and anchored ln these harbors 1n 1604 slxteen years before the Pxlgrrms landed on Plym outh Rock They commumcated wrth the Indlans whom they afterwards Chr1st1an 1zed and they named the country from Cape Sable to the Penobscot r1ver Acadxa afterward corrupted 1n part by the Indrans and Englrsh rnto Quoddy About 154 years later French Canad1ans escapmg from Nova Scotla settled on these shores and traces of them stxll exrst at North Lu b c and South Bay human hand Standmg facmg the north and extendlng the rlght hand palm up ward w1ll illustrate the form Phe thumb IS West Quoddy Head the first finger lS Flagg s Pomt the town proper the second finger rs North Lubec the thxrd Denbow s Neck and the fourth Crow s Neck The rntervemng spaces are West Quoddy Bay Johnson s Bay Cobscook and Straight Bays West Quoddy Head IS the most eastern pomt of land rn the Umted States and was known by the Indrans as Cheburn Here IS located the most eastern llghthouse rn the Umted States establlshed ln 1809 Flagg s Poxnt was so called from a man of that name who came here rn the latter part of the last century and bu1lt a cabm a httle below the present Mooney house He claimed the whole pomt but drd not C135 succeed 1n holdmg xt so he removed later to Grand Manan The Indran name was Kabaumkeag a real Etchemm name and better than the mongrel Quoddy Cam pob llo a Canadlnn lsland on the east, is separated from this pomt by a small arm of the sea known as the Narrows This IS only about 300 feet wrde at low t1de and before the channel was dredged rt could be forcled on foot at the lowest trde Seward s Neck now North Lubec was settled about the same time as Moose Isl and or soon after the war ln 1785 The two places were lncorporated as one town rn 1798 and named Eastport There y ere achusetts New Hampshire, western Marne and the Provlnces Some were soldiers in the Revolutlon others refugees from Can ada who had espoused the Amerlc rn cause The land was afterward surveyed and each settler secured hrs txtle from the state of Massachusetts by paymg five dol lars bes1des the cost of surveyxng It was thought that the mterests of the people on the mam land ' as It was then called would be better served by a sepa rate orgamzatlon and a petltron to that end was srgned by both sectlons The name, Lubec suggested lt 1S said, by Mr Weston a lawyer was spelled Lubeck untrl 1818 The act to set off and 1ncorp0 rate the town passed the General Court and was approved by the Governor, on June 21 1711 It was provlded that untll the new town should have enough xnhablt O - I ' ' ' S ' km gl, . . ' , . .x ' . . . . 1 4 ,, - , . I ' N- . - N.. . i I 3 . . t . . 4 1 ,7 7 , Q I I , 1 I I s h , I . 3 . n ' V The conformation of the town is like the 244 inhabitants, all SQUHUCFS. fl'Om MHSS- : . 1 A . . . , y l . n . . ' ' 4. I ' . - , . 1 ' . 5 . Y , K I 1 ' Y , ' I Y . l . , , ' ' I I Y L- ' ' - 7 I ' , L - , . I ga . , . I I 1 n n I , l ' Y l , . . . - I x -