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

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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. .

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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 HABBOR BE ACON told me that she was searching for a new tree known as Stan VK ood I was somewhat sur prised for when we went to High School I had ney er thought that 'Nlona would haye to go as far as South America to find a Stanwood From here my shoes carried me back to the Lnlted States into Massachussets Soon I came to a larffe building surrounded by a six foot iron fence As the door was opened I walked up the long shady path to the front door and rang the bell All around the place could be seen young men from fifteen to twenty years of age busily at Work If rom this I decided that it must be klnd of a school Xl hen a bow about sixteen years old opened the door I asked to see the master of the school thinking that of course that it was a man The boy ushered me into the presence of a yery stern looking lady with her hair tightly drawn back and glasses on the I recognlved Doris Hatch the head of a reform school for boys It seemed that she had become disgusted with the twentieth century boys and was trying to cultivate one to suit her own ideas All she talked about was boys boys boys but I was not interested in boys so I did not stay long and soon my shoes were carrying me on my way again This time I stopped ln Boston in front of a lar ge hall before whose entrance was gathered a throng of people Simply from curiosity I Joined this crowd and entered the hall which was packed with people I soon found that a yery noted orator was to speak that ey emng but that he had not appeared Lpon askinv who the speaker was I learned from a person beside me that it was Wrlllam Dow who was famous the world oy er I learned further that although great crowds always went to hear him he frequently flld not appear I was not sur prrsed at this for Bill had formed this habit while going to school and it seemed that he had nex er out grown it I remember that when we had our J unlor Exhibition ll 1lll6 was to speak but he nexer appeared Being dlS3.P pointed at not hearing my former classmate speak I started from the hall and walked away toward a railroad station that was near by Here I saw great crowds of people entering the trains and wondermg where they could all be going I Joined them Part of the way we traveled by train and the rest by water Vle stopped at a large wharf where nearly ex ery one on the boat got off Of course I went to As we went up the wharf I noticed a man standing in a xery prominent positron holding a large yellow banner which read XI elcome to Sulli X an This man proy ed to be the X hdrctorron of our class Hary ard Blaisdell It seemed that the attr actions of Sulliy an had been too gr eat for him and that instead of going out to see the world he had decided to boom Sullivan and brlr-g people from all oy er the world to him As Sulln an always had held a great attraction for I was not surprised to find hrm here From Sullnan I resumed my tray els The sw1 tness with which I was rushed along ren der ed me unconscious until I at last opened my ey es in a strange land From the resemblance of the landscapes in paintings which I had seen I recognized Greece While walking through a field I came upon a pile of ruins near which I found a woman dressed ln very mannish looking clothes surrounded by axes picks ham mers and all klnds of things digging as if her life depended upon it Who should this person be but Dorothy Merchant digging after the bones of a prehistoric canary I thought what a foolish occupation this was for a woman But I remembered that her essey at graduation had been the Mission of Research and I suppose this had made her so interested that after grad uatlon she had im ested in a pick and shovel and started for C' reece I soon left the blue skies of Greece far behind me My shoes stopped this time at '1 street cor ner rn '1 large city There was a great crowd of people gathered around a man who had just finished addressing them As I drew near the man started to sing and the peo- 14 - .I I L I I L I . . L D V . N Y . G , . . . , IN . . It . I g V Y 1 Y , - y ' L ' Y , ' 65 Y '- 1 . 1 . . tv ,' - Y fl, . . . 1 a Us Y . . . . V . D , . , K ' Y . 7 . . Y . g U . , . end of her nose. Imagine my surprise when Harvard, its people being especially congenial, A y N . . . A - ! v ! 7 7 ,r ' I ' I 0 7 l r ' ' , 7 l . . D .N . . L i u n n n Gai a 4 AF ,, I , . ,. . I Uv n ' 1 I . n , . . H . ,, . . . . Y N . . . D . . K ' . K . ,Y u . a . n 6. vu u ,, Y I Q u