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

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THE HARBOR BEACONT HISTORY If the old saymg Happy are the people whose annuls are brlef IS true then we should be called a happy class for the story of our four years IH Hlgh School IS Indeed the short and slmple annuls of the poor Our experlence for the first few weeks was that experlence of all Freshmen smce the begm nmg of time We had salt put m our halr water thrown on us and all kmds of dlsagree able thmgs done to us but we had one conso lation whlch was that next year we would have the chance to dlSClpl1I'lQ our successors Vi e were twenty one green gawky boys and glrls who entered Sulhvan Hlgh School as Freshmen ln September 1910 of thls orlglnal number less then one thlrd wlll recelve dlplomas here to night Th1s first year Mr Donnell was our Prmclpal wlth Mlss Hamblen as Asslstant How we enjoy ed Anclent Hlstory under Mlss Hamblen' It seemed as though we kenw all there was to know when we had finlshed that book When we came back as Sophomores our class had grown smaller Thls year Mr Donnell left us and Mr Russell became Prlnclpal wlth Mlss Hamblen stlll as Asslstant Muslc was lntrooaced at thls txme under the dlrectlon of Mrs Russell Because of her ab1l1ty her tact and her kmd helpfulness Mrs Russell won a very warm place IH our hearts durmg her two years stay wxth us By her death at Ashland last Aprll we feel that we haye lost a very val uable frlend one whom We shall always hold ln lovmg memory One in our class took a great ln terest in the muslc and We were very pround of hlm Thls was Hary ard and although he has never been glven a chance to do solo work we all feel yery confident of hxm and know he has the ablhty The demerlt system was also mtroduced thls year and caused a great deal of amusement especlally for the boys One by one the members of our class kept dropplng out untll at the beglnnlng of the J unlor year only fourteen of the or1g1nal twenty one remamed This year both Mr Russell and Mlss Hamblen left us and Mr Lmscott came as Prmclpal wlth Mlss Mansfield as Asslstant The most Important event thls year was the J unlor Exh1b1t1on glven by our class Thls was the first entertalnment of thls kmd glven by Sulhvan Hlgh School and was a success ln many ways When we came back ln the fall only SIX of us were here to take our place as dlgnlfied SBHIOTS Thls year the muslc was under the dlrectlon of Mlss Hutton As the need of a thlrd teacher had long been felt Mrs Ph1l1ps was obtamed as Eng hsh teacher for the new year Sldney entered our class thls year comlng from Kents Hlll Dorls also who had left school the year before on account of slckness Joined our ranks At the be glnnlng of the fall term as first class ln the school we occupled the back seats But alas' Poor un lucky Harvard had been there about two weeks when one day he was suddenly ordered to the front The rest of us were lucky enough to keep our seats for the whole year but always wlth fear ln our hearts The most lmportant event of our Senlor year took place ln January when we presented the play Down IH Malne Thls was glven fxrst ln K of P Hall later at East Sulhvan and Prospect Harbor Aslde from thls as a class we have taken httle part ln the soclal affalrs of the school except at the Hlgh School falr gly en ln February Altho the four years may seem so unevent ful yet they were truly perlods of development 1n every way Now as we stand facmg a broader hfe may each echo w1th1n h1s own heart the words of Ohves Wendell Holmes Bulld thee more stately manslons, O my soul As the swlft seasons roll' Leave thy low vaulted past Let each new temple noble than the las 12 . v. H 7 . . . ,, . . . , . 7 . 3 . . . 7 . . . , . y - c n , , , . . . . Y n n Q . - y I . - . 7 . . . i - ' 1 ' ' ' . ' sc ' ' n . . . , , . . . . , ' , . . . . . Y . . 7 n , . , . . v . - . . . u u I Y I ' r . n . ' cs ' ' ' 1 , . . - . , . ' r ll,

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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 , .

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THE HARBOR BEACOY Shut thee from heaven wlth a dome more y ast Till thou at length art free Leaymg thme out grown shell by life s unrestrng sea' B PROPHECY Fifteen years had passed since graduation and the class of 1914 had drifted to all quarters of the globe During these fifteen years I had received no news from my classmates and knew not what had been their fate although I had often wondered One afternoon as I was walk ing ln the woods somehow my mind strayed back to Sullly an High School and I wondered what had become of all the scholars there I walked on for some distance and had just de crded to turn back when I heard a trnklrng sound behind me Turning I beheld the queer est little man I had ey er seen He was about two feet tall with a face that was all wrinkled up On his head he wore a little brown pointed cap with a bell on the end of It On his feet he had wooden shoes which turned up at the toes and were also decorated with two little bells He was breathless and looked as rf he had come a long distance He said he had come all the way from the jungles of Africa to find some per son who had a great need of him that while rn the jungles he had recery ed fr message b y mental telegraphy that somewhere rn 'XIarne there was a person who was anxious to know the fate of some of her former schoolmates Here was my chance I told him that rf he would he could tell me the fate of my classmates of 1914 He said th t his wooden shoes would carry me any Where to any one whom I wished to see lf I would Uri e him '1 list I wr ote out the desn ed llst nd handed it to the lrttle man He took off his shoes and gay e them to me to put on As soon as I had them on the little man said Panama Canal ' At the sound of hrs yorce the shoes commenced to tray el the more I tried to stop them the faster they carried me along so I soon ceased resistance and allowed myself to be carried on and on through the woods oy er rry ers and across mountains At last I arrly ed at a place that looked to me like a big dltch The place was certainly full of activity for everywhere that eye could see were men busily engaged at their task I thought can this be the Panama Canal That lmmense piece of engineering work was completed oy er a decade ago As I walked on for some dis tance I came to a man who was standing argu rng with two other men He had a cane in his hand and was using it as if he was somewhat excited Was it possible I looked recognized Sidney Osborne engaged in his old habit of contradicting people I did not speak to him for he drd not seem to be ln the mood to talk with me Upon inquiring I found that ten years after his graduation from Sullryan High School he had decided that the Panama Canal had been constructed wrong from start to finish so he had gone to the President of the Lmted States who happened to be Leon Orcutt a former schoolmate of his and told him the canal was all wrong and he himself would re again and Orcutt ha l told hrm the canal was ll right but Sidney had contr drcted him as usual He was now reconstructing it to suit himself From here my shoes carried me to the dense forest of South America As I walked along w rtchrng some birds which had very beautiful plumage I noticed way he d of me something that looked like a mammoth woodpecker It was going along pick ng the tr ees and seemed to be sea ching for something Becomrnglnterested I hurried toward it but as I c 'ne rearer the forest became mor e distant and I saw that It was a w oman She had a small hatchet in her hand and w as cutting into ey ery tree that she came to X1 hen I came up to her I recognized xlona Gor don who had become a famous botanlst and was now study ing the trees of South Amerrca She - 13 ' N Y 7 1 Y v . . Y Y - Y. . - Y . , Y. Y ! s. 1. . '14 ' ' ' --0-L ' ' ' 65 . ,, Y . - . Y . . . - . T . . W , . . . , Y , . . Y , O 7 A Y . Y . . , . Y u l , C i Y Q . Y . ' ' . build it on a more correct principal. President s. ' c ' . 3 a Y Y . Y Y. Y- Y Y . . . . YI . Y . . Y Y . -4 ' ' c , . Y l ' s. 1 c . . - C Y Y . Y Y 3 a . 1 u -. C . 1 1 v Yr Y - H . ' - . ' ' ' - g ' ' .i ' s. f we . 3 r .' L ' ' C. ' ' ' ' 3- .1 Y S I UI' I ' . ' . , N 8.1 1 Y Y Y .M Y . Y . . ' C I c . ' ' 7 . . C. . H , . Y . Y. .