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

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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

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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 BEACON That men may llse IH stepping stones Of thelr dead selx es to higher things Max xour SLCCESSES too WhlCh I am sure have been manx glxe you fresh courage to strlxe manfully and xallently on to gain your goa FRESHMEN Before xou IS spread the wlde field of knowledge before you IS spread the greater part of your Hlgh School course You have but begun youl work here 'xlay you lmprove each and ex ery opportunity and leave the Alma Mater well prepal ed for llfe Fresh men It IS during your High School course that you though unconsciously take vour LIFE stand Hlgh School IS a bridge from childhood to manhood and whlle crossing that bridge you d9Cld6 what path to take on reaching the ful ther shore Euclld Sald There IS no royal load to Geometrv nelthel IS there any royal road to blrds of the alr and the creeping thlngs of the field 9X1St but Llfe IS the unselfish deslre to llve nobler the reallzatlon of high anlbltlons that have long been hldden ln your hearts and the earnest craving to make this great world bettel because you have llx ed IH It Freshmen I have but one more charge for you and that IS the Wol ds hat KlHgSl6y gax e to the llttle maid Do noble things not dream them all day ong And make this llfe and that vast forex er One grand sweet song LNDERCRADUATES Tonight we leave you Oul school days are ox er perhaps fol ex er Vie must step lnto this x ast unknown wol ld as men and women Others wlll take oul places here and the places IH your hearts dedicated to us Yet we trust that ex en Times corlodlng fln gers cannot break the bands of pure fl lend shlp we hax e formed here that IS so sacred both to you and to ourselx es DMH'14 OR ATION THE ENOLLTIONI or WARFARE The Prophets of old foretelllng the comlng of the son of God must hax e dreamed of a VN orld Peace as complete IH its perfection as Slr Thomas More s xague half my thloglcal Uto pla Thev lmaglned that the lNl6SSl3l1 would be an all powerful klng who after conquering all other natlons lnto subjection would malntaln a unix ersal peace with the Jews as the rullng race There 15 some excuse for thelr thus lnter pretlng the messages of the prophets for at the tlme of the actllal COmlHg of Christ the Jews were the subjects of the Roman Emperor and had at varlous tlmes been elther slax es or trlbutarles to Egvpt Assyrla Babylonla Per sla Phoenlcla and Macedonla These ancient peoples had methods of thelr kings of Assyrla reconquered lnsubordlnate cltles the xerv best terms the unfortunate IH habltants of these cltles could hope for was elther the total dlsmemberlng of the men or thelr deaths bx hanglng or cluclfixlon The greater number of the women and children were generally sold as slax es some of the best looklng women of the highest rank belng perhaps spared that fate and gathered lnto the harems of the conquerers Egyptlan and Babylonlan methods resembled those of ASSYIUH whlle the Phoenlclans were experts ln the art of slave trading Alexander of 'xlacedon was mole humane IH hls methods for he merely stripped hls captlves of all thelr portable wealth and burned what he could not carry awav Persepolls the acme of the long llst of wonderful PGFSIRH Cltl9S he burned at the wlsh of the wanton Thals Caesal at a later date forced hls prlsoners to walk through the streets of Rome ln hls trlumphal procession after whlch the most lm portant ones were executed ln cold blood for belng notable enemies of Rome whlle others 16 l' ' . ' ' 99 v Q . A v ' l A 'V My V' v , ' s o v y ' v 7 . r v X 1 - . V , v . . , l l K l. , V - , . , - ' ! ' I- y Y . . . , . . . I Y n - .1 Q I 7 I Y , 4' u , Y v Q i LM 1 .r . . y . . . V . , . y 7 ! -1 I . - , I ' 1 9 7 I . x 1 9 ' . . H . g . . . . . , , . v,, . g . . . life. Life is not merely an existance. The own in dealing with their prisoners. When the . , 4. . A . . . . , Y V . - Y . , y v . 7 . . i , , . 7 My ' x. I I - c , , ss . I n In -, . 1 y . , . H ' . V 1 xi ' 7 I n u n . , , . v - - 7 - - L v ' ' I . Y ' K. Q 1 . BL ' . ' ' - Q . Q ' ' Y 7 91 ,' . . , - ' 7 ' . n 1 u a 7 , . . . . . , ,