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

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THE HARBOR BE acox Probably the greatest d1rect loss 1S that of t1mber 1tself Maybe youve gone Jy a place where tall stralght trees once stood but where only tall burnt lrmbless old scrubs now stand Someone lost money ln that fire you can bet How valuable IS human l1fe'7 Its prrce less D1d you ever stop to thlnk how many people d1e from fires IH the forest'J There are about three thousand deaths a year as a result of forest fires No one can reckon thrs loss There are many fur bearmg annnals whrch when caught and skmned brlng a good prlce When a flre sweeps the wood land What happens'P These fur bearmg and meat grvlng anlmals erther dle or are dr1v en away never to return Out ln the mlddle west there are a lot of floods Some people wonder why thxs lb so The reason 1S slmple There arent enough trees ln an area to absorb the wa ter so the r1vers fill up and overflow In a oyggg Are. rm'- co w bw BOOKKEEPIN G AND COMMERCIAL ARITHMETIC Bookkeepmg and Commerclal Arlthmetxc were offered to the students last fall and both subJects have proved to be very ln terestmg There IS somethlng fasclnatmg about recordmg figures rn bobks 1n such a way that the whole buslness transactlon 1S made clear It IS somethrng that everyone should know about because rt can be used by everyone even a housewlfe Commercral Anthmetlc lS a foundatlon ML wi 'few Cow-sts great many places where there has been a large forest fire 1n the dry part of the summer there have been floods the follovt mg sprlng Floods take more 11V9S than any other one dlsaster Another loss Ls that of the so11 being washed away because there arent enough tree roots to keep It ln place It costs thou sands of dollars to clean out the streets or r1vers after a storm which has washed down the so1l Now that I have told you a few thlngs about the results of forest flres I should 11ke to tell you how to prevent them 1 When rn or near the woods dont l1ght matches or fires unless necessary 2 If a fire gets away from you dont get panlcky Cut off 1tS progress 1f poss1ble If th1s cant be done notlfy OfflCla1S at Q o Ewi 5- rn H2 DN 05 E 9, SD' OID OH gm L11 sw cr S O s: ID rv- ,- Q. O c' FD E E UQ UQ D' Cf' O O 5 5 A 2 w 2 U1 lilllf 42 535553 Noomm: gpg-535'-1 mW'UQv- fn f-:mg-N20 on '-.4 U E 'U E? g'Jg,g2'-1 immmgo- messes 'gfbswgvv r- 3 CD Basis? Uegh-'EOS 592355 QUQ 5221 :Feiss agaigd 1242-:5 s!l1r-g 'Odd CD cus. 4 WE.-G5 mmI3 C5E H22 m as Q fomzbofl ZSSD.-Eco rf-U1 'S-nr TYPEWRITING Everyone was so 6XClt6d about the four shrny, new typewnters last fall' All the ' . XL, . ' h '- Q. . ', Z- ' ' z I ' u ' . . bg . I ll A . ' Ubin y. r . I. Q W q I ' ' . . , . U cp 4. s 1 q Q I ' ' N3 w ' . '- ' ,I M -- .. ra 4- l J ,A ' - ' ' I ' -? If I I I , S -. I f I .1 '4 . l '. ' f', bv' 'H . .fi U 1 Q . ' . 1 ' I I I - , ' ' x ' 1' U1

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THE HARBOR BEACON ning ,gun BEACON BOARD Front Row Dorothy Lxndsay Emlly Farrm Lottle Martm Constance Winn Ollve Bunker Juanita Martin Second Row Edwm Clark Anna Bean Eleanor Bean Dons Sutherland Marie Tracy Wilma Slnclalr Bxlly Jackson all menus are 1n French Many books con ta1n French phrases and 1d1oms If IS 1 cultural language Many people employ French malds and many of the French 1mm1grants 1n th1S country st1ll speak thexr nat1ve language There IS also the DOSSI b1l1ty of takmg a tr1p to France some day and knowledge of the French language would be necessary The French Class LATIN We the Latm class of Sulllvan h1gh school belleve that every pup1l should study Latln at some tlme durlng h1s hlgh school career for several reasons a few of whlch we w1ll mentlon now A person who has studled Latm at any tune often acts as a dictionary unto hmm elf SINCE so many Enghsh words are de rxved or t ken dxrectly from the Lat1n one fmds hls Engl1sh vocabulary bemg mcreased Whlle studymg Latln Learmng the orxgm of our Englxsh words helps us to better un derstand thelr meanmgs and consequently we are able to use them more properly Whue st1l1 m hlgh school ln the studles of bl01Ogy chemlstry and physlcs we flnd many phrases Wfltten ln Latm Such phrases also occur m newspapers classlcal works and even novels In the study of Latm 1t lS necessary to speak plamly and dlstmctly and the pro nounclatxon of all words 1S carefully pxac t1Qed Thls fact cannot fall to be of great help 1n publ1c speaklng and also 1n Just ordmarv conversatlon These are Just a few of the advantages Latm has to offer but th y should explam why we advv-e all pu p1ls to study thxs language RESULTS OF FOREST FIRES There IS a saymg One tree can make a 1111111011 matches but one match can rum a mllhon trees Thls 15 a proverb that all people should remember when near the woods M1l11ons of dollars are lost each year as a result of forest fires Some dam ages are d1rect whrle others are lndlrect 4 l x ' ', 5 , S s N s -v 1 3 ., J ' J N Q 1 . ui, w ,.f......... b .... ,, 5 . . , 1. 1 - - , , l Y , - . ' , ' 1 9 Y . , 1 r - . , - Q... v I 9 .T - Y 1 y Nl Y . , . . U c , , , , - , , S A . . - . . .,, . . . 'P . , P ' v A - u

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THE HARBOR B1 -xcox JlllllOlS and SCll1OI'5 slgned up for the course Wl at fun lt IS now to hear che keys cl1ck so much faster than they d1d vshen we fnst started' It sounds so ef hc1ent and busmess llke and the product when well done looks so neat and clear' When we lealned to use the mlmeo graph that Mr Shnley Clemons let us have we certalnly felt l1ke full fledged ofice workels Thls was a machme that Mr Clemons had used when he taught at Sulllvan and after 1t was cleaned up and varnlshed by Edwlll Clark It was a great a set to the commerclal department W have used 1t to good advantage ln maklng out programs and sendmg out clrcular let ters and advertlslng materlal We not only learn to operate the type wrlter lll our classes but we learn a great deal from the contents of the type Wfltllln' book It stresses Engllsh rules so many dlfferent subjects enlarges the vocabulary It makes us conscxous of the arrangement and the placement of the materlal on our papers Malcolm Urann made some wooden book standards for the typewrltlng class that are very conven1ent and for wh1ch every typlst IS grateful Thls promlses to be one of the most popular and useful courses ln the school A Typlst A VERY PRACTICAL COURSE Fourteen Junior and senior girls enrolled 1n the Home Econom1cs course last fall Even though th1s was put 1n as a book course we have found It to be a very pract1cal one The first things we made when we took up the Sewlllg un1t were aprons and many of the glrls made themselves sk1rts Near ly all of us have learned to kmt em bxorder and crochet Durmg th1s sprmg semester we have been workmg on the cooklng un1t ln our books nd thanks to Mrs Shlrley Clemons who lent us her 011 stove We can make th1s pa1t of our book as practrcal as We have made the others When vle took up the SECUOIIS on Man nels and Conventlons we learned many valuable thlngs Very soon we are golng to p t on a short play for an assembly p oglarr- deahng mth th1s topic We hope that ln the near future th1s course may be enlarged somewhat by hav mg more equlpment and by havlng a sulta ble room to work Ill THE HOME ECONOMICS CLASS WHY DU WE STUDY SHORTHAND9 Shorthand 1S an art not a sclence Among the valuable by products that we get from shorthand are qulck declsolons In busmess one can possess no greater asset than the ablllty to thmk qulckly and to act wlth prec1s1on Shorthand 15 closely correlated wlth Fnghsh Thxs study IS a great help 1n the pronunclatlon of Words because horthand IS written entlrely by sound It also ln creases one s vocabulary Shorthand makes for convemence and accuracy even ID takmg personal notes or taklng lnstructlons from others ln any capaclty One can economlze on tlme and labor by usmg shorthand to wrxte down telephone messages to make entrles 1n ones dl ry to copy research ltems 1n the hbrary to preserve favorlte quo 3.t10l1S for scrapbooks to t ke down xnformatlon heard oved the radlo or to make up shop omg l1sts The value of shorthand as a means of hvehhooo has not been mentloned Everyone knows that students who mas ter shorthand and typewrxtlng ln hlgh school often secure good posltlons Shorthand 1S a very xnterestlng study too It IS dlfferent It 1ntr1gues and lt never grows monotonous COMMERCIAL GEORAPHY We had heard that trave11ng was an edu catlon ln Itself but most of us never ex ' . 1 ' ' ' , ' ' ' 1 . ' ,' - ' . - Y , Y - 0. , , , . ' ' - r ff' . ' ' ' ' . , y ' g .1 . , , 1 S . e --O-- . l . A , Z . U ' ' ' , I 4 . . . . . . D ' . , . ' A t especlally punctuation, and writing about - ' ' U . . , S A 1 ' l . ' . y ' VH- A 1 'al , ' ig? ' 7 If I .. , C 3 ' - . . . . A I . I . v 1 1 ' . A 1 I ' Q r s , y 5 . . . W. . . y . . 3 - . - , lm, ! , 9+ , . ' ' ' if l v '