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

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THE HARBOR BEACON lt IS true that the hardest tests of our morals develop them the most We usually feel that It IS the teachlnv and example of the parent that forms the morals of a boy or glrl, on the prlnclple that 'as the tWlg IS bent, so the tree IS lncllned We are rlght ID thls oplnlon only IH part, as parents and teachers cannot bend the twlg, they can only show It how to grow lnto a stralvht perfect tree And the twlg must have a strength of ltS own ln order to become such a tree The ln dlvldual strength of character IS not framed through others, It IS by our own endeavor that we become strong IH the M most necessary for human perfectlon, Morals It IS true that we learn by our mlstakes, and It IS no less true that we TISS by the obstacles we overcome, whether the obstacle be a hard example ln arlth metlc, or some dangerous temptatlon Each temptatlon that we overcome leaves us Just a llttle stronger to overcome ltS successor If we have not the strength wlth whlch to reslst the smaller temptatlons, we can have no hope of belng vlctor when we meet Wlth SGPIOUS pro blems , but lf we overcome the llttle obstacles ln our way, we wlll constantly galn strength llttle by llttle, untll we are strong enough to How slngular, and yet how strllllng, then, IS the resemblance between human character and -l gold coln, the harder lt IS rubbed the brlfrhter lt shlnes Y Do not the dark places ln llfe bllnv out the brlght polnts of our character all the more forclbly 'I How famlllar IS that famous quotatlon How far that llttle candle throws ILS beams , so shlnes a good deed ln a nauffhty world l Is not the say lnff as true then when a plled to man as when applled to nature, that Nlfrht brlngs out the stars ? Why do St-818 shlne at nlght and not ln the daytlme 9 It IS because of contrast contrast wlth the darkness of space around them bo does a strong brlght character shlne by contrast wlth the darkness of the world around lt Love Vlrtue, she alone IS free She can teach Vou how to cllmb Hlgher than the sphery chlme , Or lf Vlrtue feeble were, Heaven ltself would stoop to her TO I '12 Class Prophecy One sunny June day durlng the noon perlod of an hour and a half I wandered out to the very end of Falls Polnt I had ln mlnd the thoughts of the class prophecy vyhlch I was to XVFIIJB, so I lay down on the soft green grass to thlnk about what my class mates would be dolng twenty five years ln the future The sun was very warm and I lay and watched the water rac mv by for the tlde was C0mlHg ID After a whlle the water became less dlsturbed and lo and behold l Out of the whlte capped crest of a wave came a mermald The mermald looked Just as the plctures do, that I have seen of them ln story books She had a pretty face but her halr was green and the lower part of her body was shaped llke the tall of a fish Around her head were strlngs of many colored shells She swam to a smooth rock on the shore, cllmbed out upon It and beckoned to me I went down to her and she sald, Cease to worry about that class part of yours for I have come to help you Eat thls llttle fish and you wlll become a mermald llke myself then I wlll conduct you to the palace of told me for the fish was small and tasted llke bolled lobster Immedlatelv my llmbs became llke the mermald s and I found myself swlm mlno' b8SldC her We went down and down I saw all klnds of queer flsh and marlne plants and after a whlle I saw before us a hugh shell thls, the mermald Sald was our destlnatlon We went ln through an entrance made of shells, alono' a narrow passage way lnto a large hall llke room ODPOSIIB us as we entered I saw what looked llke a huge mllror set ln the wall My companlon told me to lle down on a couch made of a clam shell upholstered wlth sea mosses, and to watch that mlrror closely A hgure began to form, no lt was ascene ln some fOlelg'I'1 country A man wlth a mlnlster lal alr was standlng beneath a palm tree of some klnd and appeared to be talklng to the many IICUIOQS seated on the ground about hlm I 9 Q . . . B V v l I . . . 5 . I , v . . . . . . . v . . Y A . .' ' v v , F ' ' I ' I in 9 . '- ' l . . . D v Lv - J I 0 . l - . W - . . . b v . I . I5 n I - ' 65 37 , 1 . . - Y . 1 . A ' H r . - . 5 g I . . . , master Whatever Inav' be Set, before us. the future far below the sea. I as she . Y . v. . . 4 . . . .H . . , ' V ' - w ' - . H I . . . D , . . .5 . A . 9 . . sl , B i, . . . , . . l 7 v' . . ' 5 I 1 P ' ' 4 ' ' 97 v -' za 15 ' ' Z q l . w u . l . . . ' . ns ns .' Ls I 1 . , , i . . - 3 , . . . . ,, . Q . . v . ' . B ' V l' 4 Q . .

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THE HARBOR BEACON But whether our lot be sad or glad, We'll start llfe s Journey undlsmay ed Let us confront lt as we ought becure the firm foundatlon we have lald Whlle here ln school as the years haye passed VS e ve mastered wortlly lessons taught , Tlll strong ln knowledve ue go at last To take the part ln llfe that we oufrht Let Us bld farewell to the frlendly faces, To those who wlll mlss us a few weeks more Tlll the school moves forward and fllls our places As we have advanced ln yeals before Yes, at last It has come farewell fareyy ell, Schoolmates and frlends, one and all We must now go to a broader held Greater vlctorles to yyln Ol to fall Classmates, soon we must part on llfe s sea There IS none who can tell what our llves may befall But we WlSh our frlendshlp ever stronver may be For classmates of '12, for one and for all Classmates, let us do our best and trv ever To do noble thlnfrs, not dream them, lll day ong And so make llfe, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet sonff Vera Gordon, ,12 Nlght Brlngs Out the Stars How often IS heard the alluslon to the tllree R s Readlnfr, Wrltlng and RlthmCtlC , the three essentlals WhlCh constltuted an educatlon ln the days of our grand palents It IS stranve how such matters wlll go bv numbers there seems to be fashlon wlth numbers as Wltll other thlngs, thus, ln anclent tlmes evelythlnff yyellt by sevens, seven days ln the week, the sey en wonders of the anclent wol ld and many other cases mlvllt be clted In the mlddle aves every thlng yyas ln hves and tens, our plesent metrlc sy stem belno- a productlon of the declmal craze To day the fashlon ls reduced to threes, the three R's that I have spoken of, and the three sldes of character, whlch compare to the three sldes of a trlanfrle and the three 'VI s, muscle, Illllld and morals vlhlch contribute ln the form mo' of perfect manhood It IS about the three 'Ws that I am golno' to speak to you You all know that a trlanvle IS no lonffer such a hvure yy hen one Slde IS taken away It IS the same wltll man He IS no lonfrer a man yyhen one of the three essentlals IS lacklng That IS to say that a man wlthout mlnd or morals IQ no longel a man, then he IS a beast As I naye sald before, It IS the three M s that go to make pel fectlon Althouvh It IS not, of coulse ln the llmlts of human power to at taln perfectlon yet by developlnv' the dlfferent aftllbutes that compose lt, we can at least ap proxlmate that lde ll state At thls polnt the questlon arlses, How shall we develop the three M s lf they are so lm portant 9 It IS easy to answer thls questlon ln part, but not easy to answer It fully W dey elop our muscles by actlvltv of course, yy hether lt be called play, exerclse, or labor , and we devm lop our lnlnd by study , whether ID aschoolroom or by general readlng But the development of our morals IS not confined to any partlcular rule Work and study both play thelr part ln the process, but there IS somethlno' far more lmportant requlred, or else we would fall hopelessly sholt of the mark that we all should alm at That somethlnd greater IS what we wmt to vet, but how are we to Get lt l Are the easy thmvfs ln llfe wh lt we want ? They may be what we deslle, but are not what we need It IS the hard places where our moral strenfrtll IS deyeloped The Unlverslty of Hard Knocks 051,15 a IIIIB course of tralnlnfr to all appllcants, wlth small tultlon fees A well knoyyn authorlty has made thls statement A stronff Cll'll'1Cf0I' IS formed by belnfr ln love wlth dlfliculty ', Thls may seem stranffe, but upon second thouvht lt IS found that the thlrd and the most llnpoltant of the gl0l1p of M's IS very slmllar to lts colleavues It lb hard yy ork that makes the strongest muscles It IS the hard pro blem- that deyelop the greatest lntellect, and so 8 xv L I . , . v . v . . , c L 9 es 9 ' L . N . Y . . . - , . w . v . . . H . 4. .I 1 ' I 1- ' , , A B T 7 - v w 1 - Y , Y ' ' ., ' - ' ra . . 1 . . Y V ' no n ' as ' - . v . . . 1 1 B - . . 4 s v 'v . . 'H . I . I rs o u 1 1 . , . . . . . 1 s 4 K -I l V Y l Y . . . , . . 1 , . . ll . Y . . . . . I v 1 . B . , , U . . . . A q ' l . . . . . . ' 1 - 9 . 25 n nr 1 Ku ' ' v . K I 0 u Q 1 1 1 . . , . .W . . . gg L . , . . , . . , - . Y . . , . . . . V . Y . 7 D . l . e V . . ' 1. V I l . I . 9 H ' 1 V x V ' D 1 1 1 , l : . ' ' . 77 v ' v , D. . ' as 1 K -.A v . , , ., . . . f .' 1 . B f la as . . iv . w . . 1 Y Ja... O- 1 , . . . , . . . V '.' , G D 1 . . 1 - . ' v - 1 - ' rx 1' r . D 1 , B . . w ' - . y ,N ' s ' ' . 9 ' 5 . . p . . . . . - 1 . ' , ' ' ' .. ' v . v ' y ' w 56 . n 1 9' Y Y . Y in . . V . . . - ' 1-1 I ' ra . . . - . v v . 1 w 9 4 .,' ' . ' ' n Y . . . Y- . . X . ra ' 1: . n ' ' . y I . y - U 1 . Y Ig ' . M A Y , . . V . . . Y .N Y 5 5 I In 'n K , ' 's v -1 . --Q ' ' - - , , 1 1 A , .' 1 ' ,T 1

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THE HARBOR BEACON could see at a glance he was a mlsslonary After a short tlme he ralsed hls face and ln splte of a heavy black mustache I recoyrnued our Valedlc torlan, Justm Iohnson I hyd expected to see hlm as a second Edlson wlth hls electrlcal appa ratus IH a halo around hun, but then strange thmvs do happen Wlth a flash the scene changed' I saw the lnterlor of a sm xll country store pictured upon the mlrror, there w LS fruit also candy and noveltles for sale But yy hat amused me most was to see two parrots yy ho appeared to be hav mg a rather anlmated conversatlon 1n one part of the room Three cats yvele curled up ln d1f ferent places and some canary blrds huno' ln one of tl1e Wlndows I could not see where elther of my glrl class mates could appear here but just then ID bustled a smart llttle yvoman of small stature whom I felt sure must be Mary Mxlne and true enough lt was The mlrror was blank for an lnstant then ap peared an 1nter1or scene ot a clrcus tent For Goodness sake l Thought I, whom I wxll see be seen yvas the antics of a monkey As I watched he tled hls tall around a trapeze swlng and yvlth a Jump out of the skln and doyvn lnto the lxfe net went a small man and yy hom do you suppose I saw when he faced me 9 VVhy Law renee Bunker of course VW e had alway s known hlm as a clown and doubtless, ln h1s present 1lObltlOIl, he recelved a hne salary for hls talent I hardly notlced the pyuse yyhen I sayy upon the mlrror an opera house stage of lmmense sue, lt must have been one of the largest ln the world boon a man of medlum sue came upon the stage carry mg a vlolxn If xom h1s dlbtln gulshed appearance I thouyrht lf must be some celebrated Frenchman but as he play ed Id1scov cred It yyas Douglas Milne who I should sly , yy as a favorlte yvlth the musical wo: ld and a great VlOllI1lSt Who next, I started to think, but lt yy as be fore me to see At hrst I could not tell yy hat lt yyas but as the troops kept marchlng by I saw that the governor yy IS recelvmv the state mllxtla The goy ernol sat on hls horse near the center of the plcture and as he returned a mllltary salute I saw the famlllar face of our class presl dent, Alton Robertson He had not changed as the others had so I kneyy hum more readlly Next came a scene of great beauty for It was a garden adyolmnfr a large vleenhouse It was ID Iune and roses were the prey '1lllI10' Hoyyers They were of every hue, lt seemed, and I thought of only one of our class yy ho could posslbly he the owner of thus property As I yy ondered, tyy o mcn came mto the garden, the older yy ts dxrectlng the other to cut a certam choice lose yylnch I tlllllk must have been a Bowden rose for the manager and proprletor proved to be Lawrence Orcutt Now I was so lnterested I could hardly walt for the next lllustratlon which, as I soon saw, proved to be a suffragette meetmv The assem bly was belnfr held ID a large hall and the wavmff banners bearlng the words Votes for women women s rlghtsl' etc , proclalmed to be a pollt lcal meetlng of the women There appeared to was the one who seemed to be most popular that I watched closely I could not thlnk for some tune who she was and where I had seen her, then lt suddenly dawned upon me that lt was Vera Gordon Well I thought, I am sorry there are only tyvo more ln the class I haven't seen IH thls fas c1n xtmv mnxor for lt was becomlnv lm men ely lnterestlnv I dld not have lonv to medxtate before the mterxor of a doctor's oihce appeared At the desk sat a m m whose posltlon looked famllur as he stooped slwhtly over hls Wllllfllf lust then a woman entered leadmfr a little boy, the chlld ran to the man who, I understood, yvas h1s father and the woman I kneyy yyas has wlfe for I recognued her When the doctor swunff around yy 1th the chlld ID hls arms to speak to her I saw, Guess, Earl Ilavey H1 ' Hal I thought, now letls see what comes next Isoon beheld the xnsnde of a yery fash lonable church, ln the pulplt preachlnv to 1 very attentlye congrcyfatlon yyas a man yyhom I 10 Il I '1 iwfv. v v n - 'w s . L. . - ' . ' . . : I ' c . . - ' gt . l 1 . ' AI I '1 1 1 ' - . n ' ' me I 1: 0 I ' I .I 1 I n Q Y! I . 15 I s :tw ' , '- 1 1 H ' s 1 - I n I C Lx I' 7 - yn l N K V 4 5 V - v I v 1 l at K O ' . I . Q 'w v . . I ' n l n kb . . - lx I . 7 K. w v 1 ' O' - ' C! E Pa . . - . gg 3, 1 . . . . ., , . . . B Y ' D . . . I here puzzles me. The most lnteresting sight to be some very prominent speakersg however, it . . K. I . Y . . . , ' ' Q Y l VY Y o P5 I u. Q .w ..2.b .Hg .V .c.- V V . 2 Y ' V S v . W. B. . G ll' l ' l 1 1 . y' 2 I l . . . . . . . . ' . a ,, ' 1 ' as 0. f B ,, c r t ' v ' . v f., v V V -, 3. ' ', - as 1 ' 1. ' ' , ,. . . B , . . 1 . . B - . f V. ' - ' . ' T - 2 4 v W A 1 ' v le. ' . ' ' 1 ' 5 2 .v