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

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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 , . . . . . , ,

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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 HARBOR BEACON less notable were gn en to the lrons of the Co lrseum As howey er the Chrrstarn rellgron made ltS lnfluence felt ln the Roman Emplre the atrocrtres of the gladrtorral arena ceased to be The rlse of Chrlstlanlty and the yarrous rn terpretatrons of rts code book the Brble haxe caused many cruel wars and some horrrble massacres Yet on the whole Chrrstranrtv has done more for crvrlrzatlon than has any other rnfluence and even the ner er to be forgotten Crusades drd much good as some of the worst characters of Chrrst ndom met therr deaths durlng these wars From about the tlme of the Crusades to late rn the srxteenth century the barons and petty lords of the drfferent European countries lry ed hke great bloated sprders secure rn therr evrres on the rocky herghts and gorvrng themsely es to satlety on the rude magnrflcence of therr stolen rrches When therr money coffers ran low they came pectrng and peaceful wayfarers or to fight some other baron of precrsely the same drsposrtron and on the scene for the same purpose Therr prrsoners were cruelly tortured for therr possess Ions and such rngenrous rnstruments of torture as the rack thumbscrew boot etc whrch are sometlmes found ey en now rn the horrrble vault lrke dungeons of medraeval rums testrfy as to the lncreasrng rngenurtv of man rn the makrng of machrnery Let us pass on to the comparatrvely recent trmes and mark the humanrty shown by captors to prrsoners The Amerrcan prrsoners of Great Brrtarn rn the VN ar of the Amerrcan Revolutron were trust into rat rnfested prrson shrps bereft of the lrght of day mocked by the brutal foreign hrrelrngs of England and fed on the filthv refuse of the Brrtrsh camps Note the humane and sanrtary methods used bv a natron who proudly vaunts her world s pr emacy the power of parhament and the rrghts of the people Yet she used Hessran hrrelrngs to execute the wrll of a tyrant krng drunk wrth despotrc power The French Rex olutron has shown Us to what lengths the lowest passron of man can go The beautrful Queen Marre Antornette of whom John Paul Jones sard she was a good grrl and deserved to be happy was rudely torn from her chlldren and rn a common tumbrll carrled to the gurllotrne The few nobles who sury ry ed the frrghtful massacres fled to other countrres later to rally around another Bourbon prrnce The other European countrres promptly com blned when suddenly a new rdol arose ka poleon who Whlle an artrllery oflicer had cap tured Toulon from the Brrtrsh Thrs new rdol rose raprdly rn rank became general of the army of Italy and finally Frrst Consul After a new campargn he was made Emperor of the French Emprre Then trouble began hrs IDX asron of Russra ended drsastrouslx most of the path of retreat to France berng marked out by corpses But at the battle of Austerlrtz he strewed the battlefield wrth dead Yet wrth all hrs splendld remaln Qey eral trmes after battles because of scarcrty of prow rsrons he caused hrs prrsoners to be marched out rn squads and shot The Amerlcan Curl ll ar showed a marked tendency towards humanrty to prrsoners a fact whrch rs expressly true of the North On the other hand rn the South such places as Andersonyrlle and Lrbby prrsons show to what excesses the keepers of these prrsons went VX 1rt of Andersony rlle berng so bad that he was executed after the war as a common murderer Lnronrst and Confederate wound d were treated alrke rn the Northern army hosprtals and the tender care of Northern women for the the soldrers of both Sld6S made them forget their wounds Nl hen erther srde captured prrsoners the yrctorlous soldrers courteously refrarned rn most cases from referrlng to any subject that would hurt therr prrsoners and when Grant was finally yrctorrous he returned the captured horses to the Confederates and actually shared hrs supplies wrth Lee Recent wars such as -' 17 Y . Y . - v . N . , v , . T R . 7 7 If 7 . . . . Q . H . . . . . Y Y . . - v ,, Y ' a ' y a v 1 1 y H Y , .L . . Y .4 . 5, n L Y r . '-a I , Y - - . . - . Q . V . , l u , K , ' t , ' ' . Q . . . - ' V 1 1 7 . Q . . , V A I 7 U, ' 7 Z7 Y N .if . , . I . . . out from therr strongholds to attack unsus- record, several great blots on his character still f 1 I l ' lf Y i . 1 v Q I Y . , . . y . . . K - v . . N, 1 1 7 'v 1 ' il - . 7 . . . 7 1 Y -. T ' 7 . . ,K 7 . . 9 . H . . . .A AT . Y . . . , . . Q, , - ' 2 , C . V L y . . . my Q. Y T 7 l ,Y u , n . . , y . . . , , v ' J ' - 9