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

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THE HARBOR BEACOY our lu es be such as wlll reflect credlt to our selves and brmg Joy to you who Wlll be Watch mg us Wlth ey erv mterest Supermtendent and the members of the School Commlttee Your retxrmg efforts ln our behalf have com blned to make our school days pleasant as well as profitable We are grateful to you for the lnterest you hate shown ln us and from the bottom of our hearts we thank you To you our falthful teachers we are much lndebted You have been most truly guldes polntmg the way to a hlgher and broader de velopment Undergraduates It IS Wlth slncere regret that we say the partlng Word to you tomght It IS true that we shall meet many tlmes 1n the days to come but our relatlons wlll no longer be that of schoolmate to schoolmate for whlle you are to take a step ahead and fill the places we are larger world to fresh fxelds and pastures new The hour strlkes and we must not be unmlndful of lts solemn warmng but take our leave Irom you wlth one long lmgermg look behlnd Classmates For r happy years vse hay e been together and now the tlme for partlng IS at hand Some of our happlest days have been spent here as class mates Lmted as a class we have stood four long happy years But we part tonlght each to go his own way We shall frequently meet lt IS true but under dlfferent clrcumstances and Wlth dlfferent lnterests Shlps that pass ln the nlght and speak each other ln passmg Only a slgnal shown and a dlstant volce IH the darkness So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another Only a look and a volce then darkness agaln and a silence ' Hltherto We have been free from the cares whlch wlll be the lot of us all ln later llfe Many and varied wlll be the shlfts of scenery ln the days whlch are before us VK e know not we cannot tell what fate awalts us but Honor and shame from no condxtlon r Act well your part there all the honor hes But Why delay? The word of partlng must be sand The last word spoken ln sadness tempered wlth hope a Word that carrles wlth It a feehng of frlend to frlend Vale Vale Fare we H W B 14 SALUTATORY MISSION OF RESEARCH One hundl ed and fifty years ago the study of ancient manners sculpture and art was un know and up to the elghteenth century people were unable to Judge properly of ancient art Even then they had very few orlglnals and had to Judge from a standpomt of later Roman clvlllzatlon But the mnteenth century and the spade of the excavator probed deeper and brought long burled treasures to llght The dlscoverles of the great explorer then began to lllummate our darkness untll the hght has now grown so clear that we recognlze the addltlon of entlre chapters to sclentlflc records When we conslder that xt was the fate of the old Archaean capltal to be destroyed at the helght of 1ts glory and to remaln undisturbed untll two decades ago lt 1S easy to comprehend that an anclent fortress clty of well nlgh perfect type once 6XlSt6d There are records about the llfe that was hved ln It about the palaces the prn ate houses the dwellmg places of the dead about dress arms war art wrltlng and rellgxon that all show an advanced stage of dew elopment It IS to Pompeu that we turn for the most strxklng dlscox 91195 WhlCh are of xalue to the archaeologlst the hlstorlan and the student So to those who hay e the skxll and experlence to 10 , . . , . - . . . . .f ' ' 7 ' 9 1 :T - . U . ' ise, . . n . ,, . - y y l . 7 . I . , . Y . . , . . Y .... - ll. . 7 3 . , . . . - 1-UJT - u Q , . . , - 7 - 1 ' ! 7 leaving vacant, we are to face forth into the . ' . 91 . . , , . . S , . H . . . - , , . . y . . 'A L 7 Y . u 1 Q . . 5 u Y . , v D v , ' Y . . . . o - . . u . 7 ' - 1 Y, , ' . Ci ' ' ' . - . . . . , 7 7 . . , , , , v Q I Y I I ! , , 7 ' , y . . . V Q. , . I ' V . . . . , . 7 v '

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THE HARBOR BEACON Well known fact that when a doctor treats all cases of sickness there are some dlseases he had rather treat than others So much for speclalx zatlon Now let us make a hasty surx ex and note for a brlef space some of the men whose l1fe work lS an lllustratlon of our motto Not how much but how well Flrst comes Colonel George VS Goethals who built the Panama Canal Spanish en glneers attempted to bullt the canal and falled French englneers attempted lt and falled American englneers attempted the same task and they also falled Colonel Goethals at tempted lt and succeeded He was fitted for that klnd of work and when the chance came he took It and made hls name known as that of the greatest englneer of hlstorv elther anclent of modern Next we mlght mentlon the Mayo Brothers of Minnesota They studled surgery and now they are consldered to be the greatest surgeons of our country Agaln we may conslder Thomas A Edison wlth Whose lnventlons We are all famlllar get I doubt lf many people have heard thls lncldent whlch lllustrates hls perseverance hls determlnatlon to finlsh anythlng when once he makes the attempt He thus describes his repeated efforts to make the phonograph re produce the asplrated sound From eighteen to twenty hours a day for the last seven months I have worked on the slngle word ISPQCIH specla specla but the instrument resounded pecla P6013 pecla It was enough to drive one mad' But I held flrm and I have succeeded The Wrlght brothers experlmented with a1r ships from the time they were mere bovs At last they succeeded ln bulldlng a heavier than alr machlne and making lt fly One of the brothers IS now dead but the other is stlll giving all h1s time to the work endeavormg to perfect a model whlch w1ll make this mode of travel practically safe Last on the list comes Bernard Pallssey a Frenchman who mvented the process of glaz mg pottery He was unable to find any one to help him 1n h1s work At last h1s resources be came so low that he was obllged to burn h1s furniture to get a fire to heat hls mlxture Then came a time when he had nothmg left in the house but one bed but he declded to burn that and try once more Thls tune he suc ceeded and gave the art of glazmg to the world Thus we see results IH the llfe of men who consclously or unconclsously have used our motto as a life gulde They were fitted for some speclal llne of work and dld what they at tempted so well that thelr names w1ll be handed down to the comlng generatlons as those of great men lxun qui multum sed qui bene Not how much but how well How may we apply these words to our own llV6S? In several ways Flrst we may ascertain what talent ln us IS most fitted for development then develope lt S cond we may determine never to be lead from an orlginal purpose When we attempt any thmg we should st1ck to It until we finlsh it Thlrd always remember that Whatever 1S rth doing at all IS Worth domg well There is a feeling of sadness ln our hearts to nlght as the tlme draws near for us to say the parting word TIS hard to part when frlends are d Perhaps tw1ll cost a Slgh or tear We hesltate at partlng from the dear old school where have spent so many happy hours yet ln a sense we do not part from it for wherever we may go however far our paths may lead us from 1ts doors lts Splflt and mfluence w1ll re mam with us Parents and Friends Tonlght as we pass out as graduates of thls school whlch your generoslty and mterest have provlded we wlsh to express to you our gratxtute for all that you have done for us We reallze that it IS through your efforts that we haxe been enabled to enjoy so many ad vantages As we go out to face the world may . Y 1 - ' . , Y Y . . . . .1 . 1 1 u 'f 09 ' ' - v 1 . 0 - , . . . . Y 1 1 ' 1 1 ' ' ' Y ' ' as . . . . ,, n Y ' . . . . f , . e' ' 1 0 0 - - - y . . U . 1 1 1 . . . . . . . . . ,, y , WO . . H . . , . as ' ' , ear ' S ' ' 91 . . . . , . . . ' 1 1 6 . . . , 1 1 1 - 99 ' 1 - , - . . . . . . . 1 1 1 1 , . 1 ' ' . v - , .

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THE HARBOR BEACON read the record the rums of Pompe11 reveal a c1v1l1zat1on strangely akln 1n many sxgnlficant ways to that of the twentleth century At the Very moment VGSUVIUS burst forth and en gulfed the clty lts people were engaged ln the stress and turbulence of a polltlcal campalgn the evldences of WhlCh may be found today on the walls of the clty For fifty of the best years of the human race explorers have been upturnlng the dry S011 of Egypt searchmg for the answer to the rlddle of the sphlnx But at last IH excaw atlng a kmg s temple contalnlng carx ed furnlture beautlful vessels arms clothmg and statuary was brought to hght At another tlme a great pyramld temple was found stocked Wlth won derful rehefs and statues Agaln wonderful 1nscr1pt1ons and the tombs of the klngs of the earllest dynastles were uncovered showmg that the pyramlds were used as the burlal places of the kmgs Thus thanks to perseverance and as a result of SClQHtlfTC lnterest Egpyt has ceased to be the land of lnsolvable mysterles All the research whlch IH recent years has been so prohfic ln the search for monuments temples and wrltlngs the findmg of the Rosetta Stone IS of the greatest benefit to the world Most of the Egyptlan WI'ltlHgS found before the close of the last century were written IH a lan guage the heloroglyphlc whlch was made up of symbols and figures for each word and was not understood even by the greatest scholars It was an lnterestlng accldent that led to the un Velllng of thls mystery Durlng the expedltlon of the French to Egypt under Napoleon an engineer 1n dlgglng the foundatlons of a fort near the Rosetta mouth of the Nlle found a stone tablet about three feet long on WhlCh was an lnscrlptlon ln three dlfferent characters Thls was the famous Rosetta Stone One of the three texts was wr1tten IH Greek and was easlly understood The text at the top was helroglyphlc and that ln the rnlddle demotlc After long and mgemus efforts the alphabet of the hexroglyphlc and demotxc was found to cor respond exactly wlth the Greek so that now cravlngs are read Wlth ease and certalnty and a new flood of llght has been thrown on the hlstory of anclent Egypt One of the l'!'11SSlOI1S of research IS to prove that the pomts ln Old Testament hlstory were true For lnstance lt has been proved by re cords that Abraham v1s1ted Egypt ln the twentleth century B C and that he then found a flourlshlng monarchy GX1Stl1'lg In Nlnevah were found serles of terra cotta tablets whlch glve lmperfectly the story of the Creatlon as recf rded ln GGHQSIS It has been further shown by the testlmony of the rocks that IS the evldence whlch they present of the order of creatlon WhlCh agrees w1th the order the Blble g1V6S The foundatxon of the rocks un der the earth's surface serlfies the successlve phenomena The first layer of stone g1V9S evldence of a gaslous presence IH the atmosphere the second layer that of anlmals and marlne bOd19S and farther on the presence of man Research IS also valuable because the ex cavatlons that are made reveal the many ways ln WhlCh people of former years excelled us and show us the ways ln WhlCh we may lmprove Therefore ln vlew of what research has done IS doing and can yet do for the progress of the world can anyone be lnsensxble elther to 1ts value or lts fascmatxon? Thus research prox es that the epochs of h1s tory form but one act ln one Proyldentlal drama one thread of progress blnds natlon to nation and age to age and lookmg at human lty as a whole we see that Through the ages one mcreaslng purpose runs And the thoughts of men ale wldened wlth the process of the suns DOROTHY MERCHANT 14 Mr Llnscott VK ho saxd Gne me llbertv or glve me death? Pete openlng one eye I dldn t , 1 1 . 1 1 . . Y . . Y - ' 1 - 1 1 - -1 . . , I - . . Y . . , . . . - 1 1 ' y . . 7 . , . B . xx. - u - 77 ' 1 1 1 Y Y ' 1 . . . . 7 - - 1 1 ' 1 1 ' - 1 1 ' 1 1 ' 1 1 ' 7 1 1 ' - 1 1 ' 1 1 1 ' 7 - Y ' 1 , - 1 1 1 ' 1 1 . . . . . H . . , . . ' . . 1 . . . . . ,, - 1 . L - 1 . lol . . . . . . , . . Y . 1 ' ' . . . . ,, , . . . . . . , H , .