Norwell High School - Shipbuilder Yearbook (Norwell, MA)

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THE SHIPBUILDER 15 ...LITERARQTH lil JL'C'.X'l'lNt2 AN Hlfl li .X child horn of rich parents is us- ually considered lucky, hut l think he is verv unlucky. lf he is the only one in the family, he is petted until 110 is spoiled and he learns to have his own way. XYhen he gets to the age where he should go to school, what do his parents do hut hire a tutor for him instead of sending him to a puhlit school. The parents think he is too good and intelligent to go to a puhlic school with the poorer and mid- dle classes. l'sually a child who is under the care of a private tutor has life easy. lle does not have to study very much for his parents consider it unhealthy to study too hard. He learns things that are necessary for him to know in order to qualify him for a private school. .Xt the age of ten or more, he is sent to a very exclusive private school. llere he is received with due deference and after giving him a test, he is plac- ed iu a class according to his grade in his intelligence test. The children who live far from school, hoard at the school. Xt nine o'clock a hell rings which is a signal for the students to get into hed hefore the lights are put out. They very often have parties which their parents are invited to attend. 'l'hen they also have dances. Usually an heir is sent to a private dancing school to learn to dance. .Xfter he has reached the age of nineteen or twenty he has an examina- tion to see if he has acquired enough knowledge to enter the particular gol- lege he has chosen. 'l'hen he takes an entrance exam and if he passes he is admitted to the college. .Xfter four years of dallying in college, he comes home and hangs around for a year or so. He goes out for all the sports and he is always on hand at all -the parties. XYhen he gets tired of hanging around home with nothing to do, he is sent over to Paris to find himself. .Xfter he has stayed there for a while he thinks his vocation is an artists so he goes to an exclusive Art school and proceeds to dahhle in art. lle soon decides that is not what he likes to do so he looks around for something else. .Xfter dahhling in all that l'aris has to offer him, he decides to come home. XYhen he arrives and his parents ask what he is going to do now, he says that he hasn't decided just yet hut he will hang around until something turns up. ll'ell, it seems as if nothing of any interest to him turns up so he just hangs around the house doing nothing of any good to himself or to anyone else, just heinff a ffentleman of leisure. N 5 This is why l think an only child is unlucky. lle is given the hest of edu- cation lzut what good is it to him? lle just wastes time and a great deal of money. lle cannot he very happy hy himself. lle has taken up so many things in the schools that he .lust does not know what to do and so spends his time heing idle. CJLCLX lf, IQONIXN

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THE SHIPBULLDER THOMAS CAMPBELL- He is wise, who talks but little. School Play 45 Basketball 2, 3, 45 Baseball 2, 3, 4: Joke Editor for Shipbuilder. 4' ELEANOR WADSWORTH- Blat to know lwr is to love lucrg Lore but her, o.1Ld love -f0I'0l'Cl'.,, Vice President 3, 4, Editor-in-Chief of Shipbuilder, School Play 1, 2, 3, 45 Operetta 33 Basketball 3: Chairman of Dance Committees for Junior and Senioi- Dances. Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 43 President of Dramatic Club, Toastmaster 13 Essayist. MALCOLM WHITING- ll'h1'.s!Ic and shlv'II come' to you. Basketball 2, 3, Baseball 2, 3, -lg School Play 2, 3: Operetta -13 Assistant Editor-in-Chief of the Ship- builder. ICDNA LITCIBI Fll'II.D- l,if1- is jcsf, and ull things show it: I thought so om-c, but now I lfnow il. Decoration Committee for Hallowufn Dance and Sen- ior Dance, Class History: Operetta 1. 2. 3-

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lg THE SHIPBUILLDER TRIVIA llow strangely idealistic is the In- ner Self! But can it not he compared to a Tree, aesthetically material, and yet assuming the aspect of the lead? The Tree bursts forth as a seedling. innocent and ,devoid of the worlds huffetings, and grows to maturity. But it suffers hindrances. A child thoughtlessly tramples it while romping at its play: a dog, un- heeding. injures the tender semi-form- ed hranches: the elements vent their wrath upon it, to test it for its worth- iness and fitness, and finding it with- stands their ang'er, withdraws: defeat- ed. ln the summer the foliage is donned. Green, leafy: joyous, optimistic, un- daunted, fearless. Awing ohstacles fall hefore sheer exuherancy. lint how harren, how hare of Hope is the Tree in the .Xutumnl Shorn of exhiliration: facing the Grim Realities of Life, it hrayely struggles to maintain a forced cheer- fulness and failing, desists, resignedly. l have often tried the art of intro- spection when l am gazing into a tire. hut the results have heen far from satisfying. The flames leap and dance: they create weird fantasies and -fantastic shapes and mind dwells on nothing de- finitely material: it is transported into another world, a universe where l.eth- argy is Deit and Solitude reigns. llow versatile are the moods of ram! lt can dispel gloom and cheer- fulness of the profoundest sort: it can reveal a savage. sadistic, lustful force driVino'-drivine'-unrelentine' ZH H 5- It can turn its mood to soft, lulling. apathy: soothing. quieting. Rain-sweeping across hlue green waters in spasmodic gusts, clotting the sea with myriads of tiny drops: heat- ing a steady monotonous staccato- Rain-falling on the world, clothing it in an inpenetrahle hlue mist, mysteri- ous, deceiving: like a hlack-cloaked marauder stealthily approaching th: unwary people. Rain-dripping from the trees: pa:- tering on the leaves and languidly drivping to the soaked earth helow. Rain-XYarm-gentle creating life in the moist awakened ground of Spring, coaxing the tiny seedlings to come forth, as one arouses a sleeper loatll to shake off the drug' of alot'- pheus. Rain - heating in cruel delight against one's face, calling forth hidden heings and emotions, creating intangi- hle, indefinite, insane desires-heckoiv ing with insistency to join in mad de- haucheries- Rain - joyous: care free -savage 2 hrutal-st iothingl caressing-reminteflZ insatiahle: a quirked mind with a vital factor snapped. ll. ly. Klan, so eminent scientists inform us, is the master of the earth, the ruler of the world. lint have you ever gone into a for- est when the golden sun is sinking lotv in the sky: a liery orh, painting the tree tops with red ethereal paint, and the dusk is creeping up on the unwary' pines, silently. carefully, as a cat stalks stalks a feeding hird. The arms of the fir wave hack and forth in rhythmic cadence in the indiscernahle cooling' hreeze, whispe1'ing gently.