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

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THE HARBOR BEACON Junlors You are about to advance to the ranks of Semors and soon w1ll fill the place vacated by us To you I extend a hearty greetmg Upon you w1ll rest the cares and responslbllltnes of the commg year May you carry out your tasks wlth unfllnchlng wlllmgness and success Lmcoln once sald Let us have falth that rlght makes mlght and ln that falth letustothe end dare to do our dutyaswe under stand lt Let thxs quotatlon be apphed to you Put forth your best effort to uphold the honor of the school and do nothmg that wlll blemlsh your name or character Ablde by the laws and customs set for you and ln later l1fe you can look back upon your hlgh school days wlth a clear consclence knowmg that you as the Class of 1916 dld your best to do as you thought rlght Sophomores You have but half completed your hlgh school course We trust that you w1ll make the most of your tlme so that you may feel that you have wasted none of those golden mlnutes of opportumty Form a resolu tlon that you wlll do better than you have ever done before and Perseverance wlll have lts reward Your character IS formed durlng your school hfe Make a sterl1ng character your xdeal and work to attam thls w1th the best of your abxhty Whatever you undertake do It wlth a wlll and never strive for popularzty for xf you do you wlll always be dlssatlsfied As a suggestlon you m1ght take this as a motto Whatever IS worth dolng at all 1S worth domg well Hawthorne once sald It IS the Iron rule m our day to require an object and purpose m hfe Let that rule apply to yourselves Have a purpose m view and strlve wlth you utmost ablllty to attam unto lt for by so domg It w1ll rest entlrely wlth you whether or not you have made the world glad that you have lxved rn It Freshmen You have undertaken the first steps that separates youth from manhood As you have been with us but one year perhaps your burdens have seemed hard to bear yet we trust that you will keep strlvlng upward and partake of that vast field of knowledge that hes before you Do your best to lmprove the many advantages offered ln hxgh school l1fe Above all thmgs be manly and xndepen dent Do not rely upon your neighbor for support but try to develop self-confidence If you have a hard problem to solve do not waxt but go manfully at your task and you wlll be successful ln the end Garfield once sald If you expect to wear the spurs you must wln them Let th1s be an example for you all that you may put forth your best effort to make of yourselves noble men and women who wxll play an Important part ln on the world of today Undergraduates Today we leave you and go out mto the vast Unknown to make of ourselves what we wlll We feel a pleasure to know that we have lald aslde our books yet as we linger a feeling of sadness creeps mto our hearts to know that wlth some of us at least our school days are over perhaps forever Our four years of hlgh school llfe have been filled wlth pleasure and happmess carrymg thrlll of but at last we must part therefore ln the name of the Semor Class I bld you all a last farewell G 0 CLOTHES AND THE MAN Who let It ln? Who IS the goat anyway? The wmter term at Flmt Ledge Hlgh had Just begun and the returning students grouped ln the broad comdor shouted the1r amazement at the apparltlon The youth who received these remarks looked rxdlculous mdeed clothed as he was ln the garb of an elder of the past genera tlon No wonder the wealthy dressed students were amazed for Flmt Ledge High prlded ltself on belng the best dressed high school ln the country Bet he robbed a scarecrow of that get up ' . . . . . . . . . . - . . H . . , . , . ' 1 . ,, . . . . . . . . . 1 1 . . . H . . ,, . . . . . . . . . . . . . , - u 11 . . . Y - 7 I I 0 ' 0 o . - . . 1 H . . . . . ,, . . . . . ' 1 ' 1 . . . . . . . . . , . , F. E. ., 15 . . . . . 1 .-.l. .l-. . . . . . 1 H . . . I ' !! ' Cl ' ll ' ' !7 Cl ' 77 . , . , . . . ,, . . ' 1 ' 1 . I Q 7 - . . . . . ' ll il 1 ' 1

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THE HARBOR BEACON Jewels I knew lmmedlately from past experl ences that thls was the exact representatlon of ANNIE CHAMBERLAIN In her hand she held the photograph of a very attractlve looklng young man and on the bottom edge was wrltten Wxth love from Skeet I have often wondered slnce who might have been the fortunate glver Soon there came another vlsxon a bxt dxlferent from the others m that the red flame whlch arose formed a large portralt of a smart energetic young fellow holdlng a vlolm One could see that he was master of thls mstrument by his attltude Nelther could one mlstake that noble brow and the well cut features for any other than those of FRED GRANT The vlolln was always h1s favorlte mstrument and well do I remember the tlme when he began taklng hls first lessons Of all the noises I ever heard I thlnk those were the most monoto nous But he never seemed to mlnd lt In fact that was one 1nd1v1dual pecularlty about Fred he was never contented wlth anythlng unless he was ln close proxlmlnlty to some nolse CNoyesJ Then there came a very excltlng pxcture of a baseball game between Harvard and Yale The grandstands were crowded wlth thousands of people anxlously 2.W3ltlI'lg the commence ment of the game Soon the Harvard team took thelr places on the field but there was some delay before the game started owmg to the pltcher taklng such a long delwery That fellow acted as though he was trymg to grlnd the ball mto powder and then he falrly tled himself mto a knot before he threw lt Two of Yale s men had come to bat wlthout success but when the thlrd came the pltcher seemed to be rattled Anyway It appeared that he had lost the knack of untymg hlmself and ln consequence the batter got a fan' h1t No sooner had xt happened than he who had caused the folly leaped mto the alr about twice hls length stuck out one hand and when he agam came IH contact wrth the earth he had the ball safely stowed away ln hls glove As he turned to acknowledge the acclamatlons whlch arose from the grandstands he removed h1s cap and ln so domg revealed the freckled face of my old classmate FREEDIE LOUNDER The last revelatlon was that of the mterlor of a hospltal There were the long rows of fold mg beds of the patlents and movlng about among them were the nurses clothed ID whlte One of them I knew to be ETHEL HODGKINS the valedlctorlan of our class I had no dlfii culty m recogmzlng her because of the fact that she wore the same sweet smile as of old COne of those genume klnd that never dls appear J On the other hand I felt certain that she would pursue some work of thls sort for durmg our school days ln Sulhvan she was always anxlous to render help to those who were ln need Thls belng the last revelatlon I peered mto the cruclble thmkmg that there mlght be some clue to my future but there was none The curclble was dry Yet I could not help but feel most S2.tlSII6d Wlth the welfare of all my classmates Let us hope that they w1ll con tmue ln the future as they have ln the past LEON M ORCU'rr 15 gy... ADDRESS T0 UNDERGRADUATES Schoolmates Havlng been glven the honor of addressmg you and speaking ln behalf of the Senlor Class I extend to you a most cordlal greetxng I cannot help but feel a tmge of re- gretas I begln to reallze that our school career IS ended For four long years We have been str1v1ng to better ourselves by obtaxnlng a more thorough tralnmg In l1fe s lessons Today we have gathered here as the class of 1915 and although we wlll meet from tlme to time yet lt will be wlth a dlfferent attltude and a dliferent meanmg After belng together so long there naturally GXISILS a bond of class fellowship among us Soon that bond wlll be broken never to be umted . . . . . . I - 9 . . 7 9 . ' ll' I !!! ' ' ' , . . - 0 0 ' Q A ' 1 , . . . I 1 ' ' . . .. . .. . . , - . . . ' 1 - . . . . . . . . . . . . , - . . , , . . . . . . . ' Q . . .. . . . . . 7 . . , - . 1.- . ' 1 . . . , . .. .. i . . .. .., . . . . r 1 - 1 . .

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THE HARBOR BEACON sald Pug Kern the basket ball manager Just look at the coat' growled Andy Smxth captam of the basket ball five The coat was lndeed anclent a cut away of a style long sxnce extmct and never m fashlon for boys of any age Two large cloth-covered buttons adorned the back and rldlculous tails hung to hls heels Hls sturdy figure falled to fill 1ts vast dlmenslons A head of uncllpped halr a red flannel shlrt and green tle shlny trousers and coarse boots completed the make P The boy s color rose as he glanced over the curlous gnnnmg faces but hls Jaw tlghtened as he located the door to the prmclpal s office and passed wlthln Fellows 1ts gom to be wnth us regular Thls remark came from one who had been m the prlnclpal s oflice It s name IS Poman Palmer Worse than a dead loss growled Andy Smlth I hoped we might get some basket ball materlal among the new ones At least they ought to keep up to the standard of the school Why its a dlsgrace to have that scarecrow hanglng around What dlfference wlll It make lf we do lxck Mlddleford They ll come over see that bumpkln and we ll never hear the last of It Poman Palmer appeared regularly at classes That was why he had come to Flmt Ledge He always wore the same old garments as they were all he possessed Without parents Poman had worked about the mmes and lumber camps of the Northern Pemnsula savlng money as he was able now he had come to Fllnt Ledge to take ad vantage of the offer of an aunt who was wlllmg to send hlm to school Poman llked basket ball but he was Ignored by thc regular five on account of his clothes and was not gxven a chance to try for the team At last he was gwen a chance on the second team because he was always ready to play and never tlred He played center agamst the tall and angular Call Engle who looked as though he could reach up to the ceiling of the gymnaslum At rlght forward on the second was Bradley Chase a green player but one who watched and learned One evening as the boys were dresslng Case sat down beslde Poman a thmg that rarely happened to the boy the school called The Scarecrow I thmk you know a lot about basket ball he remarked Thank you rephed Poman W1ll you coach me a bit? Why I d be glad to lf you thlnk I could Well contmued Bradley I have some baskets up down by our barn I ll be down sald Poman But look' Why can t we have the second team down there and practxce up a b1t Sure' It s a go answered Bradley So It happened that on aftemoons the second team practxced down at Cases bam They got rxght down to busmess and by Palmer s lnstructlons managed to learn some slgnals The next Saturday the last before the game wlth Mlddleford the seconds were to play the regulars xn a practice game Everyone turned out for each student was anxlous to see Just how the school five was to play IH the game on the commg Saturday Poman appeared wlth the second team He could easlly hear the murmurs about the Scarecrow bemg on the floor but hls Jaw only tlghtened as the red mounted hrs face If they let that loose on the floor next Saturday Mlddleford w1ll never let us hear the last of xt Why don t they keep hlm off He ll disgrace us sure' Such were the remarks uttered agamst hlm The game started wlth a surprlse When the ball was thrown up by the referee every man on the second team knew where It was gomg In a few mmute s lt dropped through the Second s basket makmg them m the lead . 1 ' I 7 u 11 - - - ' 1 . . . - I I 1 ' 1 , . . . . . . . . . . . . H ' 1 . . . . ,, . . . . . . H . H 1 1 ' 1 ' - u YY - U . , . 1 u - ' 71 . . . . . . . H , . . ,, , . - 1 1 u 11 - u 1 1 ' - 11 . . U ' ' 7 ' 7' u 1 11 1 u 1 ' , . . ' 1 - 1 - 1 u 1 - . . ,, ' . YI , u 1 11 u 79 ' ' ' , . . U . . ' . , . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . , ' 0 1 . . . , - 1 . , . . , . 1 . . 1 I7 , ' . ' . ' n . I I . u 11 1 ' I 0 u 7 s ' . . . u , . 1 e ' 7 ' . . , 1 ' 11 Q . . . . . - . . . . . ' 1 . . . . , . . . . , Y . . - - 1