Newburyport High School - Enaitchess Yearbook (Newburyport, MA)

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THE HIGH SCHOOL RECORD In Memonam DENNIS C LOWELL The statement IS now a commonplace and generally acknowledged to be true that our Ilfe s success IS measured by our devotlon to the welfare of our fell owmen Those whose actrons are m splred and guxded by this rule of Irfe ac qulre a strength and nobleness of char acter whlch are reflected ln the Ixves of those about them Thelr footprints on the sands of time the tempests of time cannot destroy for they are made lmperlshable by the cherlshecl memor ICS transmlttecl as preclous legacies to future generations The wrxter was probably more close Iy assoclated wlth Dennls C Lowell than was any other person connected prlvllege so to be IVI1' Lowell was a man of sturdy and forceful character and of an unusually alert and dlSCI'lI'l1 lnatln mlnd He was lnstlnctlvely a gentleman and never dld he stoop to an act unworthy of one of God s noble men HIS devotlon to the best mter ests of the school was proverbxal To serve these Interests was his alm and wc knew that whlle he was rn charge of the bulldlng all would be well I-I1s care was amazmg Suggestlons of change here and there were seldom necessary No remedymg of a defect ln the bulldmg failed to recelve hls lm medlate attentlon I-Ixs resourceful ness and watchfulness frequently saved the clty from large losses and the pup 1Is from an mterrupted education And withal he felt a responslblllty for the proper conduct of the puplls and was of valuable asslstance to the principal ln tlns phase of school admlnlstratlon An lncxdental mdex of his character IS shown ln hls treatment of ammals Sometimes homeless woebegone cats would Wander lnto the bulldmg I'Ie would feed them and make them com fortable untll they could take up their wandermgs agam Plgeons have been a source of much annoyance to us of ten becommg lmprlsonecl m the ventl Iators lVIr Lowell would Ilberate them at a large expendrture of time and effort and yet clespxte these vexatlons IH or about the bulldmg he would take lt to the boxler room and endeavor to restore nt to a normal conclntlon I-Ixs Ilfe was spent ln more than meeting the demands of his callmg and ln ceaseless endeavor to promote the welfare of all about hlm This unselflsh expendlture of energy at last told upon hls health Hrs fmal Illness came on anuary 20 when he suffered a shock whrle on duty at the school He passed away at hrs home on Wednesday January 28 with out regammg consciousness In his death the school loses a devoted friend and fellow worker Dana C Wells I 3 Wifh. our High School' If was a rare if he found a pigeon chilled or injured . I . . - X 1 4 u J ,

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THE HIGH SCHOOL RECORD DEMOCRACY IN OUR HIGH SCHOOLS Democracy un our hugh schools may seem at furst a rather lumuted and nar row subject But when we see that the hugh school tsudent of today us the cutuzen of tomorrow and that the chuef duty of our cutuzenshup us that of takung un actuve unterest ln state and natuonal aflaurs the securung of sound democrat uc basus for our cutuzenshup us seen to be umperatuve Our modern hugh school represents theh furm foundatuon upon whuch our udeas of democracy should be founded A democrat does not essentually re fer to a member of a deflnute polutucal party but stands for the men or women who belueve 1n government of the people by the people and for the peo p e It us on thus platform that our natuonal polucues are carrued out States men may duffer as to pollcues not so much as to how they wull affect theur personal unterests but as to how they wull affect the unterests of our country at large We the pupuls of thus hugh school may duffer as to polucues and as to man agement of school affaurs but we must not let the personal element enter our controversues and Judgments There have been too many cluques of late Too much personal unterest and very llttle school unterest seems to be the vogue It us tlme that we awoke to the fact that personal unterest us very poor traunung for our future duties as cutuzens The polucues unvoked by personal unter est are bad and only temporary at best On the other hand those pollcues unvok ed by school unterest are usually good and lastlng un effect Perhaps ut us because of the defects un our school government that these cluques are allowed to exust If so we should be wullung to lusten to plans for the alterung of our exustung school government Some plan should b offered that would band the dufferent classes together wuthout losmg theur status as classes makung them as one wuth the sole object the advancement of the school as a whole We see that offerung pruzes for stor ues creates a spurut of fruendly rivalry among the students lVlany contrubu tuons were sent un from Whuch the foll owung pruze works were chosen The Junuor pruze was awarded to Emuly W Page for her story On wrut mg an Essay and the Sophomore pruze to ohn Parker for hus poen A New Hugh School No pruze was a uors but George Hubbard s The Duary of A Freshman deserves honorable honorable mentuon as does George Noyes s ln Utopua We hope that the Freshmen wull wun a pruze un con nectuon wuth the une ussue These storres are publushed un thus ussue of the Record and are well worthy of the readers attentuon The Freshmen seem to have more artusts un their class than authors The Grve and Take headung was done by James Clarkson The Edutorual headung was admurably done by Ruth Connolly and Beatrlce Fogg contrubuted the Recorclograph and Alumnu headungs At the tume thus ussue went to press the wunners of the Art awards had not been chosen but ut looks as uf the Freshmen wull get theur share of pruzes The cover desugn was drawn by George Parker 20 and Helen Hucks 20 drew the Athletucs headung IZ . .. . U Y v ' e . , . f . . . . . y , - 1 s n A , ' ,-- , H . ' i . . y . - J., I H ' 1 1 ' ' warded to the Freshmen, or to the Sen- , - - . . . , 51 ' 'V ns - 1 uv - u , ' 1 1 I p . ' ' ' St , 1 ll ,

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THE HIGH SCHOOL RECORD LOUIS A QANBORN ATHLETE The passmg of Louls A Sanborn on Feb 24 was a great blow to all who knew hum He was one of the best athletes ever turned out by the N H S Loule not only made reputation here ln Newburyport but brought fame to hlmself by hls wonderful pn-xvzng at Tufts College Sanborn mp amed the N H S football 1n l9l3 He was rl ways the mamstay of the nam pnylng rovmg center He would smash up play after play whether lt be an Q 1d run skxn tackle or through center A more conslstent and aggressxve and tue less player IS yet to be found A lzttlc mcldent whlch shows Sanborn s xalue to hls team can be clearly seer m the game between Haverhlll and Newbury port hlgh ln 1913 HaVCTlllll at that tlme was considered the best team IH ln the first perlod and en caxo ed to plle up a blg score ann would have donc o had lt not been or the wonder ful defenslve of Sanborn H broke up all kinds of plays but ln doing o played hlmself out Near the close of the second half Louxe was so badly used up that he was taken from th game 1n an unconscious condltlon l was then that Haverhlll llf l up .1 blg score and won SI 0 This goes to prove Sanborn s great value as a foot ball player After graduatmg from Newburyport hugh Sanborn entered Tufts College Coach Whelan soon recogmzed the great possxbllltles of the Newburyport boy and when Tufts llned up for lts first game Sanborn had made the team He was one of the few men who make the varslty ln their freshman year ln the early part of the Harvard Tufts game Loule tackled the Harvard quarterback so hard that he broke his own jaw partly paralyzmg hum so that he could hardly talk It was not untxl the game was over that the coach learn ed of hls 1n1ury At the close of the season Walter Camp mentloned San born as a possible cholce for All Amer lcan end Not only was Sanborn 'x grldlron star but he was also a classy dxamond performer Playlng both first base and shortstop Sanborn earn ed the name of Blg Slx He was a heavy hltter and hls defenslve playlng was always a feature ln the track meets Sanborn could al ways be counted on as a pomt gamer He stlll holds the N H S record for throwmg the shot Although a terror on the grndlron and a fearless athlete l..ou1e was a ready to help ln any undertaking that would benefit hls former school San born never lost hls love for N H S Even after hls fame at college he was always ready to help m any way possl ble to put Newburyport on the map IH athletlcs When Unlted States declared war on Germany Sanborn answered the call by enllstlng ln the medlcal corps l was while ln thls branch of the SCYVICC that hls health falled hum and after ser Vlng somewhat over a year he was glv en a medical dlscharge Although ln 111 health for a long txme he made a great comeback He even played bas ketball for the State C-uard and played baseball the followmg summer ln the lndustrlal League But once again his health failed frm and he was forced to we up athletlcs forever Hls condxt lon gradually went from bad to worse . so .' y , u y ' 1 n 1 he ' ' ' ll I U! u I 3 . a , - T- ' 1 Y . ce It ' - I , . . . . 4 E - ' ' . tj i .6 . n , - , ' 33 . . . . . . . n l l , , ' . . : '- K ' . , the state. Haverhill opened right up quiet, unassuming chap, and always . . Q, . . 7.1 5' 7 f, L 1 ex ' S f - , - ' . . . ' . e ' , . , . . D S . .- , . . . . . 1 t 1 ' . a v T A ' 4 I k 4 1 . t y - r ' . L- ' . ,, . - : f ,