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

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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

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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 BEACOIN ple all Jorned wrth hrm XX hen they had ended thelr slnglng he started to speak agaln about the X106 ofl smoking and I looked and recog nlzed Ray Partrldge leader of a, Saly atlon Army' I thought How time wlll change pe ple for this had been the last thmg I had ever thought of Ray Partridge Thrs was the last member of my class so my shoes started back with me to where I had started from As I neared the place I saw the llttle man slttrng under a tree patrently waiting for me I handed hlm back the shoes but before I could thank hlm he was gone VX hen I had re coy ered from my surprise I walked slowly homeward thinking of the great book I was to write on the II onderfdl Achrey ements of the class of 1914 B ADDRESS TO THE LNDERGRADLATES SCHOOLMATFS To me has been assigned the honor of addressrng you the Undergradu ates of the Sullrvan Hrgh School VX ords cannot express the frrendly feelrngs and affectlon that we the class of 1914 hold towards you You haye worked with us accepted our frlendshlp and we hope have not reyected our love To mght we leave you But may you ln future days even after you too haye left the dear old school find at least one small place ln your memorles for the class of 1914 JUNIORS You who are soon to take one step ahead and fill the places we once filled 1n the name of the Senror class I greet you For three long yet happy years we hay e been wlth you We were those awful Sophomores who sprmkled you wrth salt carried vou down into the laboratory and turned cold water on your heads VK e trust hoyy ey er that you haye for gly en our pranks and and will remember us only as good fellows Wlfh yyhom you haye worked and played From tonrffht y ou are to take our posltlons May you fill them loy ally From tonlght you are the ones to whom the Lnder graduates will look you are to be the example of the school May you be an example lndeed' Burke savs that We should be conscious of our sltuatlon and glow wlth zeal to fill our places as becomes our statron and ourselyes May you nobly fill your stations as Semors of the Sullly an Hlgh School Soon for you too will school days be oy er Soon wrll you ady ance ln to the great world and llke ourselves take your places ln the great school of lrfe Y ou have but a llttle longer here and rn that tlme prepare you self for manhood The world needs men Men ln the words of Wllllam Lord Jordan that haye a realxzlng sense of the pr1y1l1ge and drgnrty of life a hlgher and a nobler sense of 1no1v1dual1ty In your work for the comlng year may you as INDIVIDUALS seek to ex cel your work of the past and may It be a golden SOPHOMORES You are about to ady ance to the rank of J UHIOFS and I salute you' You have but half finlshed your Hlgh School course May the fallures and successes of the prevlous years be stepplng stones to your future It has been well said that Fallure IS one of God s educators and that It IS often the rock bot tom foundatron of real success When Da Vld LlV1I1gS11OH declded to enter the mrsslon field of Chlna he supplemented hrs Theologlcal tralnlng wrth a medlcal course He had but completed his studres when the Oprsum War broke out Thrs made an attempt to enter th at country useless He did not long allow drsap polntment and folly to dlshearten h11n but offered hrmself as a mlsslonary to Afrlca and was accepted One wrrter has sard Hrs glorr ous failure to reach Chlna opened a whole con trnent to lrght and truth And as ' Low arm and not fallure IS crrme may your failures open new paths of llght and knowledge for as Tennyson says I hold rt truth wlth hlm who says To me clear har ps rn dlvers tones Y - 15 I C5 7' ' ' 19 - Y ' . . Y . 6, , . H . . . . . . - o- ,, . . . Y . Y . . g . M ' 1 1 l v ' v v ' - . . , .e , . . . , . . - 1 r ' . . , , ' as r as ' ' ' Y . . M Y . . .Y.. . H Y Y Y . Y . . . . 7 ,, 99 ' 1- - - yr Y ' C n u v S. I. . '14. , 1 f ' - . 0 ' Y Y Y year 1ndeed,for the dear old S.H.S. A . 'T Y . :- - - Y Y Y n v 7 ' ' . . ' as ' ' s ,v . . . 19 66 ' - ' y . ' , 19 - r ' ' ' y y , v . u u , Q Y . , . , . . . ' Q Y i , , . . H . .- , ,V . as ' ' K 9 . ' ' as - s ' . v . Y . . ,, Y Y . I 7 ' 7 Y '- ' ' 7 r V ' , .Y . Y , -s ' 1 - v 7 . Y ,, . Y . . Y . g u V- Y A J , . . .. . N