Manchester High School - Somanhis Yearbook (Manchester, CT)

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SOMANHIS EVENTS BALLS OF WORSTED “Life is a ball of worsted Unwind it if you can.” On the eve of graduation we stand, ready to enter the broader school, each with his ball of worsted in his hand. Each one will eventually unwind completely the worsted that has already been started for him during his school career. But it is the manner of unwinding that will count. One will unwind carelessly, with no thought for system, and will soon find his worsted tangled. When he will have completely finished, he will have only a snarled mass of yarn. Another will unwind hastily, frequently breaking off the worsted. When the last of his worsted will have been unwound, he will have nothing for his labors except a number of short, broken pieces, not one of which will be long enough to be of any value. Still another will un- wind slowly and carefully, knitting the yarn as it is unwound. When he will have completed his task, he will have a substantial piece of knitting, — a ready for use. May each one of us, during our lives, unwind our balls of worsted in the last manner. Marjorie Smith 26 THE GOAL Have you ever heard anyone say what the salary of a noted explorer is? I will wager you have not. To an explorer a salary is but the means of obtaining material for a future jaunt or two. All of the notable conquests of the spaces have been the result of a man following a conviction to the point where he believed it to be proved, without any thought of mercenary gain. Explorers are not the only people who place their work above self-gain. Practically all successful artisans when they once begin a task work for art and art’s sake alone.

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Somanbis Events VOL. 11 South Manchester, Conn., June, 1926 No. 5 Issued five times a year. Subscription Pricé $1.25. , Entered as second class matter April 2, 1916, at the Post Office of South Manchester, Conn., under the act of March 4, 1879, PERMANENT STAFF EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-chiei—Marjorie Smith Assistant Editor-—George Krause ASSOCIATE EDITORS School Notes—Esther Radding ’26 Verse Editor—Anthony Gudaitis ’27 Jokes—Russell Remig ’28 Art Editor—Hilda Mildner ’26 Exchanges—Gladys Rogers ’27 Alumni Editor—Paul Packard ’27 Athletics—Sherwood Anderson ’26 Joseph Quish ’26 BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager—John Dwyer ’26 Ass’t. Business Mgrs.—Wesley Bulla 727. Ephraim Cole ’27 SUBSCRIPTION AGENTS Marjorie H. Smith ’26 Violet Muske ’28 on Ethie 20 26 Helen Gardner ’28 ohn Hutchinson ” . Ses t Elizabeth Vennard ’27 es neh = Farle Rohan 727 Edna Swanson ’28 Frank Haraburda ’27 Sara Jones ’28 Genevieve Eddy ’29 James Wilson ’29 Lucille Grant ’29 Robert Mercer ’29 Esther Holmes ’29 Ernest Chapman ’29 Louis Gillman ’29 Olive R. Smith ’29 Faculty Advisor—Miss Rogers Faculty Treasurer—Miss Spafard SOMANHIS EVENTS STAFF FOR 1926-1927 EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-chief—Anthony Gudaitis ’27 Assistant Editor—Gladys Rogers ’27 Departments Editor—Paul Packard ’27 ASSOCIATE EDITORS School Notes—Dorothy Pentland ’27 Art—Esther Welles ’27 Jokes—Harry Yeoman ’29 Alumni—Esther Metcalf ’27 Exchange—Athena Cramer ’28 Athletics—Walter Holland ’27 BUSINESS STAFF Business Mgr.—Wesley Bulla ’27 Circulation Mgr.—Ephraim Cole ’27 Ass’t. Business Managers—Robert Carter ’28, Benjamin Radding ’28, Rodney Wilcox 28 ASSISTANTS Jacob Rubinow ’29 Robert Smith ’29

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SOMAN BilSmE VE NGS = 5 Thus once a task has been assigned to you do it to the best of you ability whether or not you believe you are receiving enough money for, ¢ time expended. To be able to say you have done your best is the gres Ve we Gd ee 7 Ss » » » Ss. Ps recompense there i OY, John Dwyer 2a THE WRONG PROFESSION To let circumstances press one into a profession in which one has little interest is a waste of talent and energy. It is a tragedy; for tragedy lies in unused talent and in long years of mechanically doing uninteresting work. I do not mean that all the work one does in which one is not interested is gone for nothing. There are a great many men and women who are success- ful at work which does not interest them greatly. If they could be success- ful at uninteresting work with the same amount of energy combined with interest and talent at another work how much greater would be their suc- cess; how much better the work they would turn out; and how much pleasure they would have in their years of work and in their success. Right now is the time for us, who are graduating, to choose the right profession. We must not, if there is any way out, and there usually is, if one looks hard enough, settle down to a long term of years at uninteresting work. We must find the work which interests us most and not waste our talents in that work by doing the first thing that turns up. Martha Blatter ’20 A CHALLENGE TO YOUTH The doors of South Manchester High School are opening to allow the class of 1926 to march through, never to return again as students. Ah, who can tell us what is waiting across that threshold? The world is facing us with a challenge. We stand on the threshold with the hope of youth in our hearts and a smile on our lips, to go out and face that challenge to the best of our ability. The world will not have challenged us in vain if we pass through the doorway with the thought in our hearts expressed in the poem by Howard Arnold Walter— I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer ; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. I would be friend of all—the foe, the friendless; I would be giving, and forget the gift; I would be humble, for I know my weakness; IT would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift. Evelyn Clarke ’26