Salisbury High School - Pillar Yearbook (Salisbury, CT)

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Ye Serum Book: 9 Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, Mr. Hutton is fulfilling an interest and mission which he has always strongly felt for the church work in Virginia where he has for a number of summers participated in missionary work under the direction of Bishop Jett. We regret to lose him here but know that his contribution will also be great in his new post. The whole school, the sixth form especially, wants to thank Mr. and Mrs. Hutton for all they have done for usg Mr. Hutton for all his help and guidance and Mrs. Hutton for her generous hospitality on so many occasions. We wish this dedication to be a token of our great gratitude to them and of our sincerest best wishes for their future.

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8 Ye Sarum Booke Now, of course, we have two new shells and the old ones have become barges Many boys have owed to him much of their success on college crews. Mr. Hutton has also been one of the great supporters of skiing. It was he who gave the sport its present momentum at Salisbury. He laid out the short trail up Mount Prospect and has arranged the interclub meets which have become yearly occasions of club competition. His work in the last few years in planning school meets has further added to the popularity of this sport. By many examples like these he has shown how well he understands and sympathizes with the desires of boys. With all his work at school Mr. Hutton has found time for many outside activities. When Mr. Waring left Salisbury, he took over the position of faculty adviser for Ye Sarum Books, supervising and crystallizing its policies. When the Rector died in the fall of 1934 and Mr. Hutton became the acting-head- master his duties grew too extensive and he was forced to give up this position, but not without leaving his stamp on the char- acter of the school publication. He has coached two plays a year in school dramatic work since 1929. In the social life of the village of Salisbury too, Mr. Hutton has made himself a val- uable citizen. He has beenamember of the Salisbury Forum Committee and of the Salisbury Players. He has often assisted the Rev. Mr. Chiera of Salisbury and the Rev. Mr. Miller in their respective services. In the school's wider relations in the educa- tional field, he has also been extremely active. At the Church School Conference at Groton in 193 5 he was made chairman of a committee to survey the various texts used in Sacred Studies. His report was later published and circulated to the church schools. Also in 1935 he organized an English Club among the instructors of English in the neighboring schools, who have welcomed enthusiastically the opportunity which his idea gave to an exchange of opinion and friendship. It may be clearly seen that it is not only Salisbury School that will feel the loss of this man. His thoughts, his work, and his interests have helped all who know him. The school will also miss greatly Mrs. Hutton, who was Miss Nancy Chamberlain, and who came to Salisbury after her marriage to Mr. Hutton in the summer of I934. She has filled a very active part in the life of the school and to her and to Sammy, who was Salisbury's Hrst faculty baby, we wish every happiness in their new life. In accepting a call to Christ

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IO Ye Sarum Booke LEADER N ORDER to succeed in life it is necessary to have ambition- an ambition which, through pain and disillusionment will be able to emerge victorious. Ambition is something quite incomprehensible and un- tangible. It is not something concrete but an indefinable quality which exists in a person only through that person's attempts to gain it. How easy it is to say when hearing a nobly inspiring piece of music, 1 am going to be a musician. The test comes after the piece has ended and an attempt is made to become an artist of some instrument or other. just anybody can not become a master performer if he lacks the ambition to drive him on through the dull periods of scale-practising and linger technique. Perhaps it would be better if it were possible for a person to skip to immediate prominence with no previous labor. Unfortunate- ly the world is not so made, for nothing can be had freeg there is always some sacrifice to be made towards the attainment of perfection. The sacrifice may be long years of oblivion, loss of social contact with the world, but, whatever it is, this sacrifice has to be made and it is a person's ambition, almost lust for success that enables him to continue his efforts steadfastly. Ambition is insatiableg it will not stop even at the top, for it must continually be seeking new fields to conquer, new hard- ships and sufferings to overcome for the attainment of a glorious end. A person blessed with such a characteristic is bound to become a winner, provided that he does not permit his inherent desire to put things off conquer his ambitious will. Of course there is always the danger that ambition will be used towards an unrighteous end. This is, of course, totally dependent upon the character of the person. If he is com- pletely forgetful of his own interests in the fulfillment of the interest and good of others, then his ambition will not lead him astray or render him a character undesirable to the welfare of his community. Ambition cannot be assumed at once like a new coat or anything tangible. It must be sought for over a long period of yearsg a person's life. It is unreasonable to think that leaving nature to run its own course, an abundant supply of ambition will suddenly be thrust into a person's character. lt must be striven after, laboured for, and tightly grasped and protected from escape when once obtained. It is as slippery as an eel to