Templeton High School - Class Book Yearbook (Baldwinville, MA)

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14 TEMPLETON TE-MPTER Every time this particular horse thinks he can get loose and run away, he thinks he is doing something very clever, but his mistress thinks entirely just the opposite. There isn't any thing a horse likes better than to have his mistress run after him with the halter and a pail of beans trying to make him think they are oats, but you can't fool an old horse. You can always catch a horse if he hasn't broken his harness and put him out in the pasture, a horse after he has broken loose and run away thinks and knows he is at liberty and that is all there is to it. This particular horse that ran away April 13, 1931, was chased by' some smallerboys who thought they were doing something big. He ran down the Rabbit Track, the railroad that goes by the Templeton High School and ran across the trestle that goes over the famous Otter River, and there he found he was a bad, naughty horse. His four feet fell through but somehow he got himself out with three skinned legs and then limped around until some prominent men of Baldwinsville caught him. . His mistress-went and got the punished horse. He was glad to get back to his beloved stall where he docilely stands on three skinned legs, the other suffering from a wrench. The mistress wonders if he Will ever run away again after he gets over this first pun- ishment. Of course he won't run away at the present time but possibly in the near future. I hope he don't go in the same tracks. E. K. '33 A Green Lawn There is one thing which n rly everyone will agree would greatly improv the appear- isitors to the ance of the T. H. S. building. school building might easily get, a wrong idea of this school when they come up the front walk. To the left are trampled grass stubs, while to the right is a would-b gravel lawn. A green lawn extending the e tire length of the building to the sldewal would very greatly add to the appearance of the build- ing. To have such a lawn, the rst necessary step would be to grade the front grounds with loam. Next it would be seeded nd rolled. The third and probably the most difficult step, would be not to have the fron lawn used as a. playground and a short cut tg the sidewalk. These two faults could be e erminated by placing a low fence about the 1 wn and by the faculty ruling of both the gra mar and high school to KEEP OFF THE GR, S. There is plenty of playground space around this build- ing and across the street making it seem as though this small section inf front of the building could be reserved for la grass plot. It is hoped that by some means the finan- cial ability and the ambltiontto cultivate a lawn will be stirred by this sho t article. T. H. S. make your school b 'llding a beauty to the community. A. P. G. N A WINTER TRAGEDY Out in the woods where the snow is deepg In the summer when the crickets peep, All is quiet and serene, Snow covering all that was once so greeen ,Often at night when all is still, A fox comes walking up over the hill, With dainty tread from caution caused With foot in mid-air he suddenly paused. Scenting a meadow mouse gone astray, The sly old fellow creeps toward his prey, Again he pauses, for before him he sees, The small brown mouse on a fallen tree. Not soon enough aware of his foe, - The poor little mouse is compelled to let go, Never again will he hunger know, l Or the beauty of woods that are covered 5 with snow. E. N. '34 l

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TENIPLETON TENIPTER 13 Travel Travel is a pleasure. No doubt all of you have one time or another gone on trips. Did you not enjoy yourself? Of course you did. Every moment something was enfolding itself before you. A vast panorama of scenes that you have seen is stored in your memory to be recalled when a scene or place is men- tioned. Travel is an education. An education that is unconsciously gained. The things you see are bound to make questions arise in your mind that must be answered. When they have been answered, lo and behold, you have learned something without realizing it. On a trip many things are seen. For in- stance: natures oddities, man made Wonders and places of historical value. Here again are examples that set the mind on different tracks of thought. Some people hate the word education. The word repulses. They believe they know enough already and immediately upon mention of education they withdraw into themselves. But travel is an agreeable form of education. Something is being learned without intensive studying. Should a person study every day of his life he could never know all there is to know. A way to learn is to travel and one never knows the benefits of education until he has at least explored the Wonders of his own country. C. S. O. '34 Pepping Up Assemblies What does assembly mean to our Temple- ton High School students? A social gath- ering or merely an omitted period? What can you do to make our assembly more en- tertaining? We do not lack good singers or even good actors and actresses. Ideas of pro- grams put on by dinerent classes have been suggested but not carried out. I only wish they would be. This year we have had a few assemblies, the majority merely for lectures. I have heard of classes of other schools putting on plays. The class with the best play gets honors, prizes, or even a day off. Which reward would you prefer? Let's make next year the most interesting and entertaining year for our high school assemblies and I assure you, we'1l- have the most entertaining assemblies the Templeton High has ever known. M. I. C. '33 Knute Roekne's Career The world has lost one of the greatest coaches it has ever had, Knute Rockne. He was born in Voss, Norway in 1888 and in 1893 he moved with his parents to Chicago. He en- rolled at Northwest Division High School. In 1907 he borrowed forty-five dollars from his friends and entered Notre Dame where he starred at track, pole vaulting and football. He gave to the world one of the greatest grid- iron machines ever produced, the Four Horsemen. In 1929 he was forced to bed by leg infection but in 1930 he came back with a strong team and defeated the University of Southern California. He was made super- intendent of the Southern Studebaker Sales in 1931. He took many business trips in air- planes, one finally resulting in his death on March 31, 1931. E. Stone, '34 Forest Fires How many of you have stopped to think of the enormous losses caused by forest fires throughout the United States? What causes the fires? Carelessness! Seliishness! Igno- rance! Take, for instance, a man who throws a lighted match or cigarette into some combus- tible material. Does he think of the public safety or the tremendous loss that may origi- nate from that match or cigarette? No! That is an example of ignorance and carelessness. Selfishness may be the cause of many fires. For example, a camper who deliberately ig- nores all caution with fires, leaves his fire un- watched, while he goes in search of game or firewood. When he arrives at his camp shortly after, he finds it a mass of flames, be- yond control. He then makes a hasty exit from the scene, thinking It's not near my home, so why should I worry? Carelessness! Selfishnessl Ignorance! They are curses to Humanity! Fires are very destructive, not only to peo- ple, but to the beauty of the forest and land- scape. Where there may have been life and beauty, there may now be a charred area of stumps and trees overgrown with dense bushes and ferns, a scar that mars the beauty and glory of a landscape. Use the necessary precautions when making a fire! Be careful and avoid trouble! V. M. '34 Takes Advantage when it is Possible Just like a naughty little boy playing, and playing in the rnud or running up and down in a mud puddle, a horse seems to have the same attitude t0WaI'dS life-

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TEMPLETON TEIVIPTER 15 Literar Department p SALLY'S ADVENTURE It was the Christmas week of 1910. The children of Miss Randolph's first grade had been dismissed. Dismissed for a whole week. Just think! A week to plan for Santa's coming. Gleefully, they romped through the school door and slid down the icy sections of the concrete walkg proudly they displayed their Christmas cut-ups which they had made in the drawing class. A Some hurried to their warm homes: others lagged behind discussing the presents which they expected good Santa to bring. Sally Oglethorpe belonged to the lagging group, not that she was a laggard, but that she was simply bubbling over with plans and wished some of her special girl-friends to be in on some secrets. She had a great surprise for her twin- brother, Ranny. It was something Ranny had been asking Santa for a long, long time. But Santa always forgot it: so Sally had written to Santa herself and had asked him not to disappoint Ranny again because he was a good brother. And what do you think happened yester- day? she asked the other little girls. But not waiting for a reply she continued in a secretive whisper: The Expressman brought 'It' yesterday. Mother and I put it in the , H . 0 . . . . A shriek pierced the childish babble and the cry for Sally, Sally was heard and Sally contrary to all her mother's and teacher's warnings dashed across the street, without looking to the left or right to help the twin brother, who had slipped on the icy pavement. Sally never reached Ranny, for she was knocked down-then darkness. Sally Oglethorpe painfully opened her eyes. She had had a very strange dream, that ls, she had the feeling that she had dreamed. She couldn't remember anything about it, only that it had been strange. How dim her room was! Why there were people moving about her room! What could have happened? Oh! ' She remembered she had been struck down by the minister's automobile, for Min- ister Brown was the only one in the village who possessed such a. luxury. She had tried to 'check her flight but she had been too late. Sally sat up in bed-Who could these pe- culiarly' garbed people be? And this gentle white-haired lady who looked very familiar? Who could this smiling young man be? He looked like some one she should know very Well. Sally rubbed her eyes and looked about the room. Why, this was not her room! What had happened to her Jack and Jlll wallpaper? She must ask mother about this change. She was going to slip out of bed when she no- ticed the length of her legs! Why, what had happened to her? She felt like Alice in Won- derland whose story her mother had read to her the night before. But unlike Alice she had grown up. She must surely be as big as mother. Where were her curls? Possibly un- der the bandages. Sally looked at every one in bewilderment: Please may I see my mother? she asked in a childish voice. The gentle white-haired lady moved nearer the bed and enfolded Sally in her arms. This is mother, dear, she said. Sally was about to deny this statement, when the smiling young man stepped forward and said, and I'm Ranny? Impossible! Ranny was only a little fellow in the nrst grade! Just then one of the peculiarly garbed group stepped forward and said in a gruff and odd sounding voice: It is better that you ex- plain the situation to your daughter, Mrs. Oglethorpe. At the present moment the past years are perfectly blank. I fear it will be necessary for you and Ranny here to do some heavy explaining to this little girl. You must begin at the time of her accident twenty years ago. Twenty Years Ago!!! echoed Sally. Between Mrs. Oglethorpe and Ranny, Sally acquired a fair idea of what transpired during the past years. b She had learned of her father's unsuccess- ful search for a doctor who could restore his Sal1y's memory. Doctors all over the country had been baffled by her condition. Some doc- tors went so far as to say that there was noth- ing the matter with her, that she was per- fectly normal and healthy and that her mind was not affected in any Way. But Daddy Oglethorpe was not satisfied. He continued in his search but there wasn't a doctor in the United States or in Canafflit that