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

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THE H ARBOR BEACON and states sard the great Beecher are h1s pall bearers and the cannon speaks the hour xx rth solemn progressron Dead xet he hx eth I VK ashrngton dead? Is 'rnx man that xx as ht to lrxe ClG'1d7 Hrs lrfe rs noxx grafted upon the rnfinrte and vxrll be fr u tful as nc earthlx hfe can be D mums At the begrnnrng of thrs xear a char ge of musrc teachers took place as 'NIrs Russell our former musrc teacher had obtarned '1 posrtron rn another rart of the state Mrss Marx H Hutton of Lawr nce 'Xhss takrng her place Lnder Mrss Huttons supe xrsron vxe haxe made much progress rn the study of musrc specrfrl attentron berng grx en to the expressron and accent of the mu rc Vle find that the two half hour perrods each week haxe A recrtal was grx en Max Sth under the dr rectron of Mrss Hutton assrsted by IVIrss Sx lx ra Leland Reader and 'XI1ss Nlrldred C Mansfield accompanrst PROGRAM PART I The Rexel X ea71e Chorus Duet The Crocus Stewart 'Wrss Hutton 'XIr Lrnscott Peadrng ll h re Ingorance rs Blrss Freldrnff 'xlrss Leland a 'lo the Rose Jensen b At close of Dax Loomrs C rrls Chorus Old lxrng Cole Englrsh Folks song Chorus 6 Readrng '1 Shel1kedh1mRaleVNeel b lmph nr 'Xlrs Leland 7 The Nlrllers VI oorng Eaton Fanrng Chorus Intermrssron I ART II S VK aterlrlres Ixarl I rnder Chorus 9 Banjo Song Homer 'XI Osoor ne Re rdrnfr lung Pobert of Srcrly Longfellow Xlrss Leland Bar rtore Solo I Hear X ou Callrng Me 'XIr Orcutt Peadrng keeprng a Seat at the Benefits 'Xhss Leland Lrfe of Youth C erbel Cnorus Seyeral socral affarrs durrng the year were greatly assrsted bx musrcal numbers rendered by the Hrgh School Chorus The number of srngers has been greatly mer talent left us clue to gr aduatron and other causes The students of the Hrgh School bought 'lhe Students Hy mnal for the use rn the chapel excercrses durrng the fall term Thrs book wa xerx much needed as the regular chorus books contarned x ery few hymns lhrss Hutton has undertaken the Baccalau reate musrc thrs year and the musrcal numbers vxrll be grx en by choruses by the undergardu ates Some of the numbers are MacDougall s Onxx ard Chrrstran Soldrers Gounod s Pr arse Ye the Fall 4 r and a Trro Ont dfry dur mg the fall term the musrc per rod xxas dex oted to specral musrcal exercrses 'NI1ss Hutton gaxe a brographrcal talk on Verdr and choru e from the operfrs xxere sung by the school One of the fr lends of the school Dr Holt xerx krndly loaned u aphonograph for the afternoon s programme for vxhrch we all wrsh to thank hrm VK e all hope that the studx of musrc rn the 24 r .I as ' . H . ' ' 1 ' ' ' f L I - L . y. ,' 1 K x 'M K., 'v U S . J ' . ' . : I j e ' S ' . . . . ,F . v L ' T v bv v . 1 r 1 u F ' ' , ' 1 . J 3 N' 4' ' J D R. C. P. '14 ' I I l'. L ' , 19. z ' ,., I ' cf' j, . . . 'Y , 1 11. .' A , Y . ' I ' y T. D . ll . - v. . 1 10 . H 7 A . l H . I . K , K ... x. k L ' ' 9 ' .u , ' rr V' . h A I ' , I .D C - 1 13. 1 c , ,.., . Y 1 , T v.L. y 7 f I fv 1 C S . 1 . Y V . . . Y Q C A . g v A .M I W . Q c. S. . I 7 .F , ' . - K V ' Y H ' L proved to be of great help to all. diminished this year because some of our for- ' I 7 ' .DI c, ., ' ' , I ' V 1, L L soy' I ' . , , Q . I' . c L. x . ' SK 1 Y 71 ' ' ' 7 . . s ' f ' 1. I v c. .l N. ' N 1 1 , I v 1, Q. -y - ,C - Y V J - - - , ' 1 - . ' . . 7 3' X ' as ' 9. 4 . A ' ', vs as , ' ' ' in 1 . . I H Q .1 U ,V ,, . g L rr , . r'sr . 1..' H '. 4... N VM Y . N. .iy. u A xl , . 1 M ' , 1 ' s s ' '.' ' ' ' ' 5. ' ' I . '. . 1 '1 , v uyv ri v A Ai' x v . nw - . , I H , Q , ' V . .N rr - -,, V . Ay. S , K uv . .

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THE HARBOR BEACON genrus hrs character or hrs deeds No general so great has apperared rn our modern trmes He armed at nothrng less than unn ersal soverergnrty and had he not when lntoxr cated Wrth hrs conquests attempted rmpossr b1l1t1es hrs power would have been practrcally unllmrted rn France Hrs xrctorres were un checked untrl at Waterloo when England and Prussra combrned agarnst hlm He was a mrlrtary prodlgy equally great ID tactrcs and strategv a master of all rmprox ements whrch had been made rn the art of war from Epam rnondas to Frederrck II He stands out rn hrstory rn a marked manner wrth two srdes great and httle good and bad for none can deny hrm many qualrtres It was a great servrce that Napolean rendered to France at the serge of Toulon Thrs Was hrs startrng pornt from thrs as a nucleus hrs fame grew swrftly towards 1tS hrghest pornt Ineed not descrrbe Naploeon s fall a lesson to all future tyrants and conquerers of the world a moral to be pondered as long as hrstory shall be wrrtten Drd lxapoleon lrve rn va1n'7 Wo great man lrves rn xarn He rs ever whether good or bad the rnstrument of God Just as Gust tavas Adolphus was the mstrument of C od rn savrng Holland just as VK ashrngton was the rn strument rn sawrng Amerlca so Napoleon was Hrs rnstrument rn freerng France from external enemres and for vrndlcatrng the substantral benefit of an honest but uncontrollable Revo lutron Just at the trme that Prussra was under the control of Napoleon III Prrnce Brsmark be came promrnent ln the polrtrcal field BIS mark arose slowly but steadrlg wrth the whole force of hrs genrus Among the defenders of of the throne he had but few frrends but to these he was falthful He never was popular urtrl he made Prussra the most powerful mllrtary state rn Europe He was the most hated and des prsed man rn the krngdom but after defeatrng Austrra he became the natlons rdol Hrs skrll rn mrlrtary affarrs 1n the war wrth France showed that he wasa mllrtary genuls as well as a poll trcran It rs sard that he IS frank rn matters he does not care to conceal and rs as srmple as a chrld when not drsputed or wrthstood but op posed rs as fierce as a lron a spolled man of suc cess yet not rntoxrcated wrth power haughty and rrrrtable perhaps but never varn lrke a French statesman rn office a VS ebster rather than a T hrers The condrtrons ln the Lnrted States when Abraham Lrncoln took hrs place at the head of the natron are well known to all Drssensron was rrfe Drssensron over tarrff over the ex tensron of slay ery on er every concerv able sub Ject that could be of common rnterest to the two sectrons of the country whose people were so totally unlrke As to be expected c1v1l war was the result In such a state of affarrs as thrs there rs the necessrty of a strong man to rule the country as It should be ruled Abraham Lrncoln was the man The fame of Lrncoln rs rncreasrng as the rnner hrstory of the great struggle for hfe of the natron becomes known ll e are comrng to apprecrate mor e and more 'rs tmre grves better perspectrve Father Abraham who rn that Red Sea passage of fraternal strrfe was readv to lrsten to ev ery tale of sorrow who rt rs sard was not only a great statesman out a sy mpathetlc under standrrrv man He gurd d the affarrs of state wlth a wrsdom a patrence a courage whrch be lrttle all p1 arse and made hlm seem rndeed a man drvrnelx brought forward not only to set the captrw es free but rn order that Got ern ment of the people by the people and for the people mrvht not perrsh from the earth Hrs task was s ch as no man faced before The great republrc the only great and promrsmg e perrment rn self gox er nrrent that the world had ex er seen seemed about to end after all rn farlure Just at the trme that Lrncoln had brought order out of strrfe and rebellron he was struck down bw an assassrn Qorrow more deep cannot be rmagrned than that Whrch em eloped our country C1t1es . . . 7 . . . .- , . x , - , - 1 1 ' v ' 1 r . . . . 7. . 7 - . . v . . ' 1 1 ' 7 . . . . . . . . v . V 1 . . . . . Y . - . . , . . . . V ' , 7 . v - 9 1 r . . , 1 . , . , . 1 . . Y . . . , v . . . . x N, . ' . . v . . Q . . - . . , c 4 , 1 - ' I 7 1 1 . 1 ' 1 1 r . v. . , 1 Y . .- 1 A 1 1 . 1 . . . . . D .Q C, . c . . . . . . Jw . H . - Y 7 7 ' 1 A . v' v Y . c v' , ' ' . ' v . ' . . 66 , - 7 . . - Y 1 1 1 . . . . . - . . ,, . C, . . Y . . I ,ci u l ' 1 ' gn 1' . v 1 1 1 A 1 1 c I , r . A ' 5 . . . . v . r . ' . .. , . . . . . . n L . v .

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THE HARBOR BEACON Hrgh School wrll b kept up o that all ex en those who do not srng wrll always apprecrate musrc Rebates A phase of our school work rn whrch we have made a yast deal of progress the past year rs debatrng The debates whrch are held eyery other Frrday are no longer dreaded by the stud ents but ar e looked forward to wrth pleasure for the programmes consrst not only of the ouestron for drscussron but also of readrngs current events solos quartettes etc rn thrs Way the students are rnstructed rn other thrngs besrdes argumentatron new officers are chosen each term so that as many as possrble may be gry en the practrce of presrdrng oy er meetrngs The ofhcers thrs y ear' were F ALL TFP 'XI Presrdent Leon Orcutt Vrce Pr esrdent Hary ard Blar c ell Secretary Sara Bunker Presrdent Fred C rant Vrce Presrdent Stanwood Boynton Secretary Dorothy Noy es SPRIWC TEP 'XI Pr esrdent Srdney Osborne X rce Presrdent C l'1ClXs Rolfe Secretary Dor rs Hatch A marked rncr ease rs notrced rn the number who speak when the questron rs thrown open to the house thrs rs what we lrke to see for rt shows that the students take an rnterest rn the work and are tryrnff to rmproye rt The De batrng Socrety has been asked to enter a league Wrth other Hrgh Schools and thrs wrll undoubtlv done next year One of our recent pro grammes Song by the School Resolved that Amerrcan coast wrse shrp prnfr srrould be exempt from pay mg toll through the Panama Canal Afli rmatry e N egatn e Angus 'Nlrlrne Eleanor Clark Dorrs I erghton Annre Chamberlarn 'NK alter Hanna Fred C rant Readrng VK alter J ellrson Reacrrng Stanw ood Boynton Duct Nlrsses Nlftyer and Clark C urrent F yents Orlando Foss 'Nlale Quartette Mr Lrnscott Lounder Osborne Orcutt Readrng Glady s Polf Song by the school locals The most successful plav ey er fm en by the st rt ents of Sulhy an Hrgh School was the for r act drama Down rn Marne presented by the Senro class at the lx of P Hall Ianuary 11th From all the surroundrng towns people came and no one was drsapnornted rn ertlrer the selec tron of the play or the marne rn whrch the parts were taken The play howedlcfueful pre paratror none of the students requrr rng pr omp rng rrp so famrlra were they wrth therr parts tha all therr 'rttentron could be gryen to the actrng Thefollomngwas the cast of char 'rcter s wav rsdell Zeph C urnmrngs of Har dscr able farm down rn 'Nlfrrne Hary ard Bl Ralph hrs New X ork Nlrllrcnrar e br other VK rllrt Nerl Xl entwor th a y oung rny entor Ernest Andrews Brngle the old fisherman Pay Par trdge Tonrps the hrred man Leon Orcutt Nlr Holden fr lawyer XX alter Hanna J rmpsey a ' fresh an krd X lfgll Blarsdell 'Xlose J ossrn A stutterrng lox er Srndex Osborne Susre Cummrngs Ralph s daughter Dorothy Merchant 'Nlrs Cummrngs Zeph s Nl rfe Sara Bunker Dow v Y . 20 ' . Q ' P- Y ' .J , -' C , s , b , it C , , , . 1 I v v '- . J, V 1 ' 5 I , L 1 . . ' ' , , I- Y Y - 1 . - c ' ' ' Y y 1 1 v Y . c 1 Jr 4 . A ' . , , 1 Q , ' . Y . . r .' x ' v -r 1 r 'r W' 'LY' 1 . . . . . 1 1 . J , . . . . v v v ' ' ' ' , as . 1 1 l ' - ' 1 . t, r L, c L., , . , , Y ' I ' u ' I ' 91 ., , 4 t, r , . U . Y f v - . ks A - - ' e - , ' , ,il . . . . - ' gg L . . .. . ' ' . cv' ' f A Y . - , W- . ' Y c r . ,, D c ' ll INTER TERBI . ' . . ' ' T Ly fs . - 4 . Y . . . . . . A ,. , . v - - Y cl.. . - ,v Q- . . . - - y , v .. V C C C A ' ,' . . . c K . . 4 4 ., , , K 1 I CL w - 1 I . . . f- , kd Y I . v . . Y. . , ' ' L 4 v ' Zi 1 '- .W '. ' Y . . ' ' ' . . 1 . V :AA , A A l 1 , V N yn u x l V ' A v . r , , . L - , -1 V r w 7 ' , LC ' ' r 1 O . - A . , c , . . Y N 7 Q . Y t Q N . ' v. ,, Y. . .w . .,1 . . . . . H . , J, . . . , ' .T s, C , , . .. . . . ,Q v- , . ' A - y y