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

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THE HARBOR BEACONI always upholdlng the name of the class ln these affalrs He IS very fond of dresslng up and golng to dances and came a long Way to attend danclng school thls wlnter Because of all these talents lt IS rather dlfllcult to declde what he llked most After solne conslderatlon I haxe declded to present to you Ray Partrldge thls palr of danclng sllppers I hope these wlll brlng you as good luck as the glass sllppers brought to Clnderllla And now comes the most bashful member of the class one whom I fear has been trembllng as he walts for hls turn to come so I Wlll not keep Sldney ln suspense any longer No doubt he would prefer that he would not hue to en dure the embarrassment of standlnff before an audlence But do you not thlnk Sldney you could ox er come your bashfulness long enough to YQCGIVQ your class glft? He has been Wlth us but one 1, ear so I do not know many of hls other characterlstlcs I have notlced however that he has seemed to be alone never slttlng wlth the glrls or talklng wlth them Whether It IS because he does not care for the glrls of S H S or because he IS so tlmld that he does not dare talk wlth them we cannot say Because of thls qulet and unassumlng nature or h1S taste concernlng glrls I had thought that he mlght never find hls ldeal so d9Cld9d to present to Sldney Osborne thls charmlng young lady She may not be llke the court ladles of England and belles of Ixew York or the country glrls at Sulllvan but I hope that she wlll llsten attentlvely to your slnglng and serx e as a model for your artlstlc sketches Blll IS the student of the class belng x ery fond of deep books You always find B111 studylng he nex er finds tlme to waste when he has any tlme to spare he spends It ln teachlng the bovs how to bat ln base ball And because of the won derful tralnlng they FQCGIX ed from hlm they have had good success ln the games V1 e chose Blll as Exchange Edltol fol we knew that he above all the rest would reallze the true worth of the dlfferent school papels He alway s Wrote so many excellent themes and was the flrst to pass them ln to hlS teachers Because of hls superlor knowledge ln hlgher thlngs he must have forgotten all about the studles of common schools He plans to teach after leavlng Hlgh School and wlll no doubt need some revlew ln these studles So I chose for you Wlllle Dow thls book from whlch you may refresh your mlnd regardlng the studles de scrlbed here ln I hope thls wlll be a help to you and wlll ald vou to make a success ln teachlng It IS rather dlfllcult to select a glft for Doro thy When thlnklng over her characterlstlcs there dld not seem to be any thlng qulte ap proprlate for her Among her other attrlbutes I thought of her sedate manner her fondness for some partlcular studles and her future plans etc Suddenly It came to me that for four years Dorothv had walked a great deal I thought how had lt not been for Vlfgll and hls black steed she would not have been able to be ln the Senlor play It occurred to me that a phllanthrophlc plan would be one whlch would comblne pleasure and necesslty Why not provlde Dorothy wlth means of locomotlon that would place her above dependlng upon others when she WlSh9d to tray el from place to place I thought over all the vehlcles lnvented by man Auto too uncertaln MOt0l Cycle too dlsturbllng to the peace Horse and carrlage too slow Jlnrlklsha but who would furnlsh the motor power? I then recalled your superlor knowledge IH physlcs and knew that you would understand the alr currents etc you would be able to manage a compllcated machlne So I se lected an alrshlp Then too vou may be able to take Emerson s adxlce and Hltch your wagon to a star ' To you Dorothy Merchant I present thls alr shlp May you be rewalded for the patlence you haxe had IH walklng so many weary IlIl19S Dorls I am surpl 1SQd to see you here at the CXQFCISQS so early you must be verv t1l'GC1fI'OIT1 hurrlng to get here on tlme It was unfol tunate l 19 . . . Y . . . . . f . Y 7 ' ' Y Y . N . . . . - . 7 v , . L' L - . . 7 . ' .. 7 .. cv - - -5 ' . X . . Y . v Y Y Y Y ' 7 . .. , . . . . . Y 7 , . . , . . . , Y . ' 9 , . . , . .. . V . . - , . . s c , . , ,t 7 . . 5 , ,. H. 7 Y Y Y .. . , Y v . w A ' I - '- ' '1 .y- , ' .' . . 7 . . Y N . Y u

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THE HARBOR BEACON the Spamsh Amerlcan XI ar shows the great 1n fluence of the Red Cross Socrety but when We thmk of ey en the comparatry ely small loss of llfe resultmg from modern warfare the more deplorable does any krnd of warfare appear to Another terrrble aspect of war IS debt whrch lS shouldered by the conquered people who are at the same trme bewarlmg the loss of kms men At the end of the Franco Prussran VS ar Prussra demanded a sum of S300 000 000 from France Japan demanded and got a large war mdemnrty from Russra and as far back as the Amerrcan C1v1l War the Unrted States had a speedy reckomng wrth England wrth the Ala bama Clarm Much of the natlonal debt totals of the countrles of the globe have been mcurred by war and money equal to the total of the amount of the natronal debts of Germany Eng land France and Spam would be enough to satrsfy even the most rrdrculous equalrty schemes of the socralrsts ot Europe and Amer ca Yet there rs no doubt that unry er sal peace rs nearer now to rts realrzatron than 1t has ever been The varrous peace cony entrons whlch are bemg held all over the world prove 1t The leading statesmen of the world realrze that the end of War means the end of the natronal debt and bankruptcy Vlrth the abolltlon of war would come the lrftmg of the yoke of taxatron from the necks of the poorest classes and the subsequent end of strlkes and other such socral upheaymgs VS arfare as a personalrty has had a wonder ful rrse and fall In the prehrstorrc ages man was engaged rn flghtmg the great anrmals of the Earth for hrs own rrght to llve In the ages whrch y rewed the powers of Assy r1a and Babylon warfare was at its cruelest At the trme of the Crusades men fought for pastlme and later wars haye been for the re tentron or extensron of terrrtory A few centur res from now we may safely say war wrll cease S 0 14 PRESENT XTION OF GIFTS In many respects the class of 1914 has been drstmgurshed For the flr st trme m the hrstory of Sullry an Hrgh School two Hancock boys are numbered among the graduates Then too one of our present members leavmg the rllus trrous class of 1913 remamed out of school the rest of the year and now proudly claims a place wrth us Srdney ey en crossed the Atlantrc for the purpose of recerymff hrs drploma wlth our class Frnancrally we haye prospered beyond the wlldest dreams of ay ar1ce Vlhy rn our J unror year we had such a surplus rn the treasury that we had to deyrse some new means of spend mg rt so for the first tlme IH the hlstory of the school we had a Junlor Exhrbrtron But even after those expenses were pard we found our selves agarn thrs year wrth such an abundance of money that rt seems only fittmg that some of rt be drvlded among the members of the class m the form of small tokens whrch may perhaps be sulted to the personahtres of each I wrll begm wrth our class presrdent Har vard It rs not hard to tell what would most please hrm Durrng the four years he has at tended Hlh School we have notlced that he has taken an actrye part rn all the musrc He rs noted not onlv for hrs smgrng but for hrs won derful talent ln playrng the prano It Wlll be remembered that he would not dance wrth us rn the play Down m Nlame not wrshrng to be classed wlth us of ordrnary talents Har y ard y our career had long been marked out for you by your wonderful talent and surely you haye no other professron rn yrew than that of musrcran and musrc teacher So Harvard Blfnsdell thrs plano and musrc book LI present to you J In years to come we shall be proud to name y ou wrth 'llozart and Paderewskl Pay rs the talented one of the class He plays base ball dorng good work He smgs takmg part rn all the musrc and has proy ed hlmself an actor He rs noted for hrs appetrte for clam stew He has alwavs excelled as a socrety man 18 I . . Y. , Y . , , -. , - - . 1 ' ' V 1 Y T, u s , . v -' - ' v ' , . V s. US. , , . Y - 7 ' 7 - . Y . . Y Y . . , . a v o I Q Y I . . . . Y . 7 . ' 7 y r r ' Y - ' y 1 . ' . 1 y . Y . . . . Y I C f A Q - . Y H . . ,, . . --s 1 4 r 1' Y 7 1 ' ' y r ' - - . - y x 1 . . Y . Y . . Y. - v 1 C h , ' v' A - v Y . Y . Y . Y Y . v , . 1 . . Y . , s , . . Y Y - . . Y. 1 - 1 . . . Y - . . Y . 9 r - ' 9 - , . . . . Y, ,

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THE HARBOR BEACONI for you that the Zoology class came the first perrod rn the afternoon for you are alway s late a fact due erther to y our great appetrte or y anrty rn personal appearances or perhaps you de layed to chat wrth the boys Vthatey er the reason was then we fear unless you learn to hurry more you wrll become a lonesome old mard So Dorrs to spare you the fate of lry mg such a lonesome lrfe and rn order that you may always be prompt I present to you D01 rs Hatch thrs bottle of catchup I hope thrs wrll proy e a help to you I placed Sara last on the lrst because I knew she would not notrce her own grft rf she came along first berng so rnteresbed rn what others would recerye It was better for Sara to wrrte class hrstory and Prophecy than any other one of the class she knows every thrng that ey er happened and knows more about the class than any body else All through the four years we haye notrced Sara s desrre to know thrngs She ey en trred to find out what a sea cucumber was hke findrng that only a yellow Hurd came out No doubt you may be lookrng for some thrng to make a CNloyesl norse wrth but I thmk you haye norse fNoyesD enough You are so noted for askrng questrons that as a warn rng to you agarnst your currosrty I wrll tell you a ory whrch may help you It rs one of Krplrngs Just So Story s and as I remember the substance of rt rs thrs Long years ago ele phants had plarn faces lrke other 'rnrmals Therr trunks had not dey eloped In rts place was a nose Now rn one elephant famrly was a baby elephant who was consumed by an oy er whelmrng currosrty He asked so many ques trons that at last hrs relatry es grew weary of hrs ceaseless chatter and when he flnallv asked what crocodrles h d for drnner they spanked hrm wrth therr hard hard paws Feelrng rnyured oy er then punrshment and desn ous to ascertarn the dret of crocodrles he started off ln search of one to whom he mrght put the questron personally After many of the y rcrs r tudes he at length reached the Lrmpopo Rry er all set round vvrth fey er trees and palms and sure enough there was the crobodrle Rushrng to the bank the elephants chrld at once made known hrs errand What do crocodrles have for drnnerl He asked the old crocodrle who had come up near the bank to yrew the new ar rryal VS ell to day sard the crocodrle thrnk I ll begrn wrth the elephant s chrld and surtrng the actron to the words the crocodrle serzed the elephant s chrld by the nose and be gan to pull the elephant s chrld however braced hrs feet and a tug o war ensued Trred out at last the rocodrle relrnqurshed hrs hold and the elephant schrld escaped But rn what aplrght' Hrs once beautrful nose that had been the prrde of hrs parents heart had been pulled out rnto a long round proboscrs and hung almost to the ground What occurred on hrs return rs what Krplrng would call another story SufI'lce rt to say that srnce that trme elephants have long trunks rnstead of a nose and because of the currosrty of one small member of the famrly So Sara Bunker thrs elephant rs for you Take thrs storv as a warnrng and when tempted by currosty to ask too many questrons look upon the elephant recallrng the story of the Elephant s Chrld and resolye to escape srmrlar ate Thus have I completed my mrssron and ful filled the task set me I haye endeavored to leaye wrth each of you a lrttle token by whrch y ou may remember the farr golden days when the class of 1914 flourrshed rn glory In the comrng y ears when you look upon these srmple remembrances may y our mrnd ney er rey ert to the old proy erb Beyvare of the Greeks brrngrng Grfts M E G CHOOSIWG A LIFE WORK In those schools where each student has hrs own course to select rt rs often rnterestrng to learn hrs reason rn makrng a chorce In some 20 . ' 1 - - - ' - ' - - - . . Y 7 . . . 1 I - . v Q . v . v . M . - . H - . . Y 7 Y . H . - ' - 9 -9 9 ' v ' 'v so f 19 ' ' L4 . - , , I . . .Y- . , . . , . ,, ' L 9 9 J Y Q 7 Q. . , . - . ' v . . . , . y 9 1 1 r 7 V . , . . A . . . . r . . . , . . . , . - r . 7 . . . x - ' v . . . y 7 I Y . . v . , . . . , . , v l . . V Y . ' . . 9 9 - ' ' .1 . y . . 1 . . 4 f '9 p ' v - ' Y y - ' ., . A h . , ' . N. ' - , . ' v . . . Y . 7 4 . . Y . f SZ ' . - ' ' 954 199 , . . . . - Y . Y . . 1 I '1 A u C . , 7 7 1 I Y v . V v . . . Y r . .. - -. T ' ' v ' v . , ' . A L , v v .- - , Y ' 7 . y . . . , . . W. Y ' - Y . V . . . ' .v i' H . . . ,, v . ' . . 9 , . .. . 14 . Q . . Y 7 CA . L it-AJTL-l , .. . . Y .' . .. . . . . r . vl v. . S.- . . . . u I Q .