Sumner High School - Spindrift Yearbook (East Sullivan, ME)

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PHE HARBOR BEACON Gbe harbor Beacon EDITORIAL S1 AFF Editor ln Chlel VERA GORDON 1919 Assistant Fdltor lUsTrN TOHNQON 1912 Literary Editors VILLA Oncurr, 1913 HARX ARD Br ArsDELr , 1914 Athletic Editor PRNEST ANDREWS, 1914 Local Editors DOROTHY MERCHANT, 1914 BESSIE CARLTON, 1914 ROSA BOWDEN, 1913 LAWRENCE ORCUTT, 1912 Exchange Editor DOUGLAS MILNE, 1912 Business Managers ALTON ROBERTSON, 1912 RAY MOON, 1914 The Harbor Beacon rs publrshed annually ln June by the students ol the Sullrvan Hugh School Terms 15 cents a copy Address all business communrcanons lo the managers and all lnarary contnbutrons to the edrtor ...6hrtnrrals..... We are glad to present a second publrcatron of our school paper to the notrce of the publrc We have trred to make thrs rssue, a paper that wrll be of real value and rnterest to every stu dent of thrs school and to all frrends of thrs rnstrtutron , and we trust that our efforts wrll not be unapprecrated We thank the patrons of The Harbor Beacon for their support of last year and trust that they wrll not drsappornt us thrs year VVe Wrsh to urge our readers and especrallg our students to patronrze our adver trzers, for rt rs only through therr generosity and support that The Harbor Beacon rs pub- lrshed The socral srde of school lrfe offers much en Joyment to both teachers and puprls The school which possesses no sprrrt of socrallty rs an undesrrable one rn some respects, because young people at the hrgh school age requrre more or less pleasure to marntarn therr rnterest The crtrzens of 1 town where such a school rs srtuated ue rlso lmblc to lose rnterest rn school affarrs The parents of the students usually attend the socrfrl functrons of a school and rn thrs way thnx become acquarnted wrth the teachers and wrth the boys and grrls who are the assocrates of then chrldren structrve as well as entertarnrng They grve practrce to those who take part rn them, rn speakrng and srngrnfr before the publrc De batrnfv enables a student to cultrvate the art of argumentatron and to express hrrnself clearly whrle standmg There are comparatrvely few students who have taken part rn our Frrday afternoon debates w ho wrll fall to clarm that de batmg has been a Great help to them The musrc rn our school durrng the past year has been a source of great pleasure and profit Under the eicrent drrectron of our musrc teacher Mrs Russell, a number of our students have de: loped r dccrded talent for srnfrrng, and conslderrnv the short trme the students have had socal rnstructron, the school, as a whole, has done really creditable work Progress along educatronal lrnes 18 not all that ra- needed , and although the mam object rn attendrng school should not, of course, be srmply for a good trme, nevertheless the cultr vatron of the socral talent should never be ommrtted from the currrculum of the true student Perhaps nothrng of so much rnterest has 6 ' A V , -1 n I u 4 . Y V ' . Y K V . Q D 2 ' 1 ' 1 ' . 1 ' u A ' E'm0 s Debates, reading and music in schools are in- . A. . B . I - ' 5 l I V . . . Q ' ' . I N I, 0 tn 6 I . . . e . ,, , , . . .

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THE HARBOR BLACON green dresses are prettrest now' tor they are not old enough yet to haye become starncd rnd sporled by the dust and heat of summer B yond the forest, the blue mountarns rrsc to v rrd heaven, completrnv thrs beautrful prcture of nature The quret rs broken only by the drp drp ot the grrl s paddle as she fflrdes alone drrnkrn f rn the pure mornrng arr She porses her p rddlt rn the arr and surveys yyrth speeulatrve eyes the surroundlng scene O lroyv I loye rt all I don't belreve I could lrve anv where but hcre But what rs the use I guess I won t WK t a chance, I m frfteen now and I ye never been out of Marne Oh I guess there s no use worry rn f, I shall most lrkely be here all my lrfe 3' Lrttle drd she know that thrs was almost her last day on the lrttle pond The strllness 1 broken by a hrgh voree eallrng, Peggy Pemfy ehrldl where rn the yvorld are you ' Rrght here, mother I drdn t mean to stay so long, I'll be rrght up I yyas Just takrnv a mornrne row I drdn't know but you had fallen rn You are such a tomboy, I wonder rf you yyrll ever grow up W I guess not, mother, not hrle I'm rn dear old 'Warne any yvay So the mother and daughter went towards the farmhouse on the hrll There, all was bustle and hurry gettrnv' ready for the mornrne' merl After the work was done Pe0'0'y yvent to the yrl lage post office to fret the mornrnfr mul Among the other thrngs w rs an rmposrng look mg envelope whreh Peggy looked rt yy rth r Great deal of currosrty I yy onder yy hom mother knows rn New Xork, she neyer told me she had any crty frrends, Peffffy murmured wrth a perplexed wrrnklrne' of her strareht bl rck brows bo she hurrred home faster than usual and bounced rnto the krtchen where her mother was workrng, wlth a Oh, mother do look here s a letter for you from New York Now, d read rt at once and tell me whom 1t's from The mother took the letter from her dluffhter snd studred the wrrtrnv for some trme then she sa d slowly I thrnk I know whom 1t's from Then she broke the seal and read rt tnroueh once tWlC6 and the thrrd trme , then she swhed and turnrng to Peggy sard, The letter rs from a srster of mme who lryes rn New York She was down here when you were only four years old, so of course you don't remember her For varrous reasons I haye ney er told you about her, one of the reasons berno' that she asked me to promrse that when you yvere hfteen years old that I would let her take you and send you to school I pro nrsed her th rt I would do so '1 ou are lrfteen noyv Pewfy , and she has sc nt for you, so yor. mu t go though I hate to let you II hat shall we do here wrthout our lrttle Peggy ' 3 But I yy on t go I don t yy mt to le rye you and the lrclds rnd the woods and thc pond I don t nt to ut u r r crty sfirnff on y a prtch ot blue sky L you nur t fo 11 rr rn sprtf o tear rr yy rr s rom cyfffy, rer belonrfrnffs wcre prckecl and by the nc yt day yy ls Ll y o o 1 oo1 rlrst loo r her de rr old home, sayrnv urrrlcr her brc rtlr, I m comrn f brck lust as soon rs I c rn lust ln 'ou she went her futher cune to her rnd lrafrded her a small paekr fe, tellrnff her th rt rf she cver ffot so homesrck that he yu t couldn t strnd rt to open rt then 'H 1 Peggy went to the crtv and went to school there and vhen school w ls hnr hed she obtarned a busrness posrtron bhe yy as brrffht and sue ceeded yer y w ell but she could not forget her old home and eyeryr year she would plan that she would save enough money to go home to see her home people But rt was rrnpossrble for her salrry was small, rust enough to lrve on rnd frrrlly the rndoor work and neryous strarn reduced her toa mere shadow of her former elf She kept wrshrno' and wrshrrrff th It he yyere rt home but of yy hrt use yyere yyr hes ' One nreht she was l00lylIIU'0Vt,l her old thrnffs, thrnkrne of home and of Nlalrre and she came to the pack we her frther rr rd Ury en her rnd yy hreh h rd lun forgotten llren she re 1HIT1b0l'Cd her frther s yyords, If ever you get so homesrek that you rust can t stand rt, open thrs Dear old d rd ' shc murmured the trmr has come And so yvrth tremblrnfr lrnffers she untred the strrne and before her wrs r roll ot brlls and a note from her father and mother say rnv This I9 to take our Izttie Ezrl home to us Tears of ,oy hlled Pefrffy s eyes Then she Jumped rp and threw her thrnvs 1nto her trunk and startled her aunt s household the neyrt mornrne' by ex clarmrne' I m gornff home tod ry for a yacatron, I'll be back sometrme, Good bye And she went on the next tram It yvas June when she returned as rt had been when she left and every thrnu seemed the same to Pegvy as she feasted her ey es 1 n the famrlrar scenes The next mornrnfr she mreht haye been seen swrnerng down the beaten path yvrth the trn prrl on her arm eorng for some wattr and 1 mornrng row, the srme as she had done on that June mornlng lone, lone affo Mary Mrlne, '12 y 1 :- A J ' fs ' ' 1 '- 1 1 1 's 1 . 1 1, . 1 1 . v v 1 1 l 1 1 T - 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