Towle High School - Spirit Yearbook (Newport, NH)

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THE SPIRIT QF TO LE cUolume Eleven Thfwport, H., graduation Number func, 1937 As a Sower Sows His Wheatfield SALUTATORY On May 4, 1796, in Franklin, Massachusetts, a son, Horace Mann, was born to Puritan parents. They instilled in him a great desire for education, but his early youth offered very meager oppor- tunities for learning. Nevertheless, in 1819, he graduated from Brown University. Three years later, he entered law school and after due pre- paration was admitted to the bar. He opened an office in Dedham, was afterwards elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and later became President of the Massachusetts Senate. His big day, however, was June 29, 1837 -just one hundred years ago next Satur- day- when he made a decision unlike the decisions of most men. He had been offered a position by a corporation in which he could earn a thousand dollars in a few weeks. He had also been offered a secretaryship in the then newly- creatcd Board cf Education with a small un- known salary. He gave up the more remunera- tive position. For his services on the board he was voted fifteen hundred dollars. When he heard of this munificent appropriation he said, 'One thing is certaing if I live and have health, I will be revenged on them 5 I will do more than fifteen hundred dollars worth of good.' He did. In 1839, he opened the first American normal school at Lexington. That same year he went to Europe to study the continental school system. Added to his determination was a pleasing per- sonality. Consequently, he was elected to succeed John Quincy Adams in the United States House of Representatives. Sometime later he was appointed President of the then partially com- pleted Antioch College in Ohio, where after six years of exhaustive work, he died August 2, 1859. As I pondered over this inscription-a bare summary of the man's achievements, it came to my mind that it omitted mention of the one in- fluence in his life which I believed was all- important. Then to my delight, I found engraved at 'the base of the statue this quotation from Horace Mann, Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole world as a sower sows his Wheatfieldf' A Libraries, yes. Benjamin Franklin had given one to the town which now bears his name-the 'town in which Horace Mann was born, and it was from this library that he received much of his early education. For this reason, Horace Mann ever afterwards felt that libraries were necessary to supplement the school. Like Benja- min Franklin before him, he owed his education to solitary studyg and, like Franklin, he felt 'that the library offers as great an opportunity for development as does the school. An .ominous rumble forced me to realize that this monument was not before me alt all but that it was a vision, a. memorial this man had made for himself in the hearts of men. Again, the thunder crashed and the lightning made day of night. It fully awakened me from my reverie, but left me filled with admiration. for the spirit of this man, who could take his revenge on his petty fellow men by enlarging the horizon of their offspring, so that the second generation would no longer be petty, but see life in its true values- not from a selfish financial standpoint, but from a consideration of the welfare of mankind in general. We dedicate our exercises to Horace Mann, it is true, but we further dedicate 'them to that spirit of unselfish devotion and service which has in the generation past characterized the lives of our great teachers and leaders, because they knew that the highest form of service we can perform for others, is to help them help them- selves. I speak to you as Horace Mann spoke to his students. If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy 'to be upheld by all toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of education. ' MIRIAM VAUGHAN. .31-m , be ,-

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THE PIRIT of T0 LE A Publication by the Students of The Senior Class of Towle High School s Newport, New Hampshire 1

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9' ' THE SPIRIT OF TOWLE PAGE3 Last Will and Testament of the Class of I937 Be it known that the Class of '37, having reached the dignity of elevated seniors, after climbing the long and strenuous path to wisdom, do on this day of June 12, 1937, before the Supreme Court of this nation and all other powerful dignitaries -declre, specify and state t-his will to be our first, last and only testament. To the Juniors We leave our love of windows that never break, games that are never lost- and business enter- prises that never fail. To the Sophomores: All improvements that our class has acquired in four years of patient striving. To the Freshmmz: We want the Freshmen 'to replace us in the eyes .of the townspeople as the modern younger generation. To the Faculty: The cooperation we have always tried to de- velop to its fullest extent. To the Schoolboafrd: The excellent blue prints for our phantom gym. Guy Dodge wills Joe Kawzowicz his chemistry knowledge and discovery that chemists were wrong when they said girls contained little sugar. Guy ought to know. To Lucille Hall, Dorothy Osborne's tickets to all points south. You -do agree don't you, Dot, that Boston is most- interesting? The talent to appear from nowhere and hit hard on the grid-iron is bequeathed by Bill Douglass to Roland Hall. Just dontt slay them, Roland. It is hoped that Erkki Mackey will accept David Chase's extra inches of height. Dave's found they give the heart more room to expand. VVhile Esther Cutting renders Herbert Smith 'the line that's what love is all about, Audrey Ellingwood, who is inclined to wonder about it, adds the song, Heaven Help This Heart of Mine. Leon Emerson designates that Andrew Koski should adopt the ability to do both farm and school work. Our class knows that Leon does both. The treasurer of Towle's Richest Class, Robert Hurd, forfeits his Ford to Jimmy Dur- rance. Bob's too honest to register his car with the class money. To Herbert Brooks, Francis Hewson's desire to conquer his self-consciousness and sul:-:lue his laughter. Francis just isn't a conquerer. Willena Hastings wills Frances Metcalf her skill at driving Model Ts and Streamlined Streaks , and Richard Smith adds his love of just riding around. The Class of '38 will never need to debate on where they will have their class picnic as Miriam Vaughan bequeaths her surplus of individuality. W'ith the closing of school, Lucius Nichols departs from his Economical romance. You may have ift, Waterman. All you need to do, Ray, is to be at school noon-hours and know the answers. Aili Peltonen bequeaths her realms 'and realms of poetry to Dorothy Daimont. Remem- ber, Dot, just the poetry, not her artist's appear- ance. The concentrative powers of our class are cen- tered in John Stubbe, the city boy who made good in the country. John leaves the custody of his powers to Richard Dent, as Dick already has the look of a deep thinker. Richard Purmort loans Peter Anastos a pair of his long trousers. You may grow up yet, Peter. Dick, you may remember was a .long time at it, but he did it. Domestic Arts has the study of Wood -work especially for Ruth Wi1lette's sake. Next year Ruth will let Frances Kennedy carry on if she's interested. Speaking of wood, Walter Cher- nouski is forsaking his aptness at setting up pins to Eino Kosenen. May you miss as many bowling balls as Walter has had to. I The prize Economics notebook, which incideht- ly is Harlow Nelson's, our class wishes to present to Margaret Maley. It is our hope that you possess a. filing system. Harlow doesn't. Upon Gail Anderson, Muriel Bell bestows her lack of agricultural knowledge. Do you know on what cherries grow, Gail? Muriel never heard about VVashington and his little hatchet until the Senior Play. To Julia Edes, Catherine Lacey's brilliant makeup which she Arthur-ized. You know, Art for Art's Sake.