Wakefield High School - Oracle Yearbook (Wakefield, MA)

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THE W. II. S. DEI ' ,ATEH PA(4E FIFTEEN TWO VIONTHS OeFORe TH6 AST MY ability as a uarrator being widespread airioug ' my t ' ellownieu, I have receutly been ap- S preached by differeut intimate friends, urg-iug- me to write a short account of a voyage, which I am known to liave t ken in my youtli, and whicli I did not then have the ability to write out. Deeming myself now capable of recounting my exploits, I have settled down to the task with the help of my invaluable diary, which I faithfully kept during the voyage. ]My thirst for the sea having overcome the objections of ray ever thoughtful parents, I was at last permitted, in the thirteenth year of my life, to embark on the sea. My father secured a berth for me as cabin boy on the five masted schooner, ' Margaret Haskell , the captain of which was my father ' s friend. Thus it was on July 13, 1911, I went on the steamer to 8earsport, Me., where the schooner then lay at anclior. I wore all the clothes I needed, the old were under the new. The cai)t ' iiii met me at the pier with the launch, but before going al)oard, he went to town, so I liad a few minutes to roam around. I fouml the i)lace a tyi)ical Maine coast town, the natives depending upon summer residents for their liveliliood. We lay in this ))ort three lays, waiting for a favorable wind. When this tinally came, the refrigerator was stocked and the lanler tilled. On the morning of July 17. I was awakened by the noise on deck, and going up, found a tug boat i)utting away, starting us on our way to Norfolk, Xi . We soon passed out to sea, and from tlieu until our arrival at Norfolk, little enough happened which would interest a boy. My duties were very few, the most im- portant being to amuse the cai)taiii by pranks played ou the sailors. Nothing ai)pears in my iliary except little jottings like the following: fSaw a whale, ' Passed Cape Cod, ' Saw a school of porjjoises, Caught seven fish while anchored, and the like. However, I remember several additional incidents. Once, on a wager of a quarter, I climbed the spanker mast on the loops. At another time we were within hailing distance of another schooner, ou which was a boy about my age. He was from Ceorgia, and when I said I was from Massachusetts, he immediately challenged me to a fight. Such is the brotherly love between the North and the South. As we were silently sliding by a doz- ing whale, I borrowed the captain ' s 8S repeating ritie, and emptied it into the vvhale. It jumped as you would if someone stuck a pin in you when half asleep. We reached port on v ugust 7. We passed Capes Charles and Henry in the early morning, and were in Hampton Roads at sunrise. At the coal wharves I watched the loading of the vessel. Large chutes similar to those used by men in a cellar window, only about ten times larger, are pointed into the hold, with the upper end ou the cars, which are elevated. Trap doors are oi)ened, and the coal roars down. When the car is empty it is switched over, and another takes its place. In this way the largest steamers are filled in three or four hours. Later in the day, I visited Norfolk, which is almost as black as Pittsburgh, not because of the smoke, but the people. I arrived when the watermelon season was in its prime. Such watermelons ! We don ' t get them in the North ; the South keeps them for itself. After remaining at Norfolk three days, waiting for winds and tide , we again set sail on August 10, and were soon at sea. It was on our return trip that I caught a large dogfish, which required several bats from an oar before it would give up the ghost. We made a fast return trip, passing through a storm, when I saw real waves rise over our heads on the deck. By this time I had learned the use of the chart, and was plot- ting out the nearest course home. We reached Stars- port on August 24, two weeks after our departure from Norfolk. I took the steamer home the same night, and thus my Two Months Before the Mast completely (juenched my thirst for sea water. DiLI.AWA V, ' 15. THe HIGH SCHOOL BATTALION ' — — HE annual prize drill of the battalion was held at the town hall May 28 1915. Considering 1 the short time allowed each week to military T drill, the showing was remarkable. The regu- lar drills, and i)r()gram of battalion formation, company and individual evening parade, with the awarding of commissions and medals by Mr. Howe, was carried out as usual. The companies were very evenly matched, and both the Senior and Junior competitive individual drills were very closely contested. A new medal was given this year by Capt. George F. (-Jarduer of Co. A, 1914, for the first sergeant of the winning company. The winners of the p rizes were as follows : in the Senior drill: 1st, Sergt. William McLeod, Co. C. ; 2d, Sergt. Carl Belmore, Co. C. ; 3d, Sergt. (ieorge Wal- lace, Co. B. In the Junior drill : 1st, Priv. Everett Wilkins, Co. B. ; 2d, Priv. Edson Tredinnick, Co. A. ; 3d, Priv. Cyrus M. Dolbeare, Co. B. Orderly medal given for the greatest improvement in the manual of arms and for good behavior at the drills, Cyrus M. Dolbeare, Co. B. The company drill was won by Co. A., Fred (i. Keid. The first sergeant medal of the winning comjiany, went to Clifford Sawyer. Ma.iok Raipii E. Belmore.

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VM,K FOriri ' KKX THE W. II. S. DEBATEll and to Captaiu Connelly for niakintj ' it possible for us to have an indoor traek team. Time trials were hek) eacli week for the relay team. Captaiu Duitfyau, Paul K. Guillow, Harold Moucrief, and Wilfred Moncrief made the team as regulars and Earl Gliddeu and Robert Philbrook as substitutes. This team ran iu the B. A. A. Irish-Americau and at the Armory. At both games Wakefield came iu third and at the Armory meet they beat Stoueham High. On February 19, the track team held an athletic meet in the State Armory. The main features of this meet were the relay races between Huntington School, Maiden, Stoneham, and Wakefield, and Co. K and Co. A. rhis meet was a big success. The proceeds en- abled a track coach to be hired for the spring. The work is not, however, without its drawbacks. The school session, which lasts from eight o ' clock in the morning until four-thirty iu the afternoon, makes practice in regular squads almost impossible, except in the evening. The absence of any playgrounds or proper field for track comi)etitiou is also discouraging. Lack of fuuds is also another drawback. Despite all this, the men under Captaiu Duggau are training faith- fully) and will be ready to give an account of them- selves when the opportunity is offered. Meets with Peabody, Melrose, and Hindge Technical schools have been arranged, and teams representing the Wakefield High School will be sent to the games at Peabody, Arlington, Harvard, and Worcester. The fellows out for track are Captaiu Duggan, H. and W. Moucrief, Maxwell, Barry, Eaton, (tuIIIow, Gliddeu, Dignan, Drugan, Winslow, Sexton, Philbrook, Coakley, Dillaway, C. and J. Kirk, Zwicker, Goodwin, and Collinsou. Paul K. Guillow, 1915. INDOOR TRACK V EET OUTDOOR TRACK ueeT THROUGH the efforts of Faculty Manager , John Sawyer, Student Manager 31ilhird @@a Thresher, and the track squad, a very suc- cessful Athletic Meet was held at the State Armory, Friday evening, February 19. As additional features, the relay teams of Huntington School, Maiden High, Stoneham High, Co. A, and Co. K, were invited to comijete. A military drill, led by Major Ralph lielmore, opened the program. The cadets gave a fine account of themselves and were well received by the crowd. The greatest surprise of the evening was the victory of Maiden High over the Huntington ScIkjoI in llie relay. Wakefield High had little trouble iu defeating Stone- ham High, beating them by half a la]). w AKEFIELD High opened itt i outdoor track season Th defeating ursday afternoon, Peabody High, April 29, by WM 44-28, on the park. Score : Wakefield Peabody 100 vds. 3 i 2-20 yds. 3 6 880 yds. 6 3 Mile 8 1 Pole vault 5 4 Running broad 4 5 Running high 6 3 Shot put 9 Totals 44 28 Paul K. Guillow, 1915. M neiRose ueeT ELROSE defeated WakefieM in a dual track meet, 45 to 27, at Melrose, May Itj. Wakefield faile l to land a point in the 100 yd. shot put or broad jump. The score : Me Irose W akefield 100 yds. 9 220 vds. 6 3 Half-mile 1 (S Mile 3 (J Pole-vault 2 7 Shot-put 9 Broad-jump 9 High-jumi) 6 3 Total. C.VPTAIN Fred Reid called out the baseball candidates the last week in March. About a thirty boys resi)()nded and after three weeks ' ]iractice. Coach dleorge Melouey cut the scjuad to eie en men. The veterans ' back, besides Captain Fred Reid, 1 b, ]), are Frank Reid, rf, .Malcolm Ealon, 2b, Thomas Dignan, cf, j), Morris Donnevan, ss. Earl (ilidden, cf, Thomas Murray, p, cf, Eugene Sullivan, if, aiul Gibbons, c. Raymond ( assidy, 3b, Daniel Galviu, c, and Huestis, c, are the new members of the team. C issidy is i)ut- tiiig u]) a line game at third. ' I ' his is the first time lie has come out for the team. It is also (Jalvin ' s first try, aiul he is making good fast. The substitutes are Burke, ]). rf, Lukciii c, rf; Branch, fielder. Sexton, cf, Bar- rett, 2b. 1 ' aul K. (mm, low.

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PA(4K SIXTKKN THE W. II. S. DKIJATEIJ A CHANGe OF 0IH6CTI0N 0()I)-BYK, graiulnia. Now don ' t you worry altout me. I ' ll be all riglit with Marjorie, but you look out for yourself and have a fine time. I know you will, tliout h, Aunt Alic e 18 sueh a dear. (4ive my love to all the family and for heaven ' s sake be careful of your pocket-book. Good-bye, dear. I ' ll try not to worry about you, but I never can tell what you ' re ffoinjf to do next. Be sure to help Mrs. Lane with the house-work and do keep your clothes tnended. A month does saem a lonfj time to leave a scatter-brained girl like you to take care of liei ' self. Do be a good girl. I ' ll be a perfect angel, grandma, and Jean Stedman kissed her grandmother reassuringly. You really must go now. John is waiting and you ' ll miss the train if you don ' t hurry. Mrs. Stedman got into the old ramshackle hack, drawn by a horse still older, and driven by a man who was pointed out to newcomers as a landmark of the town. Siie settled herself among her bags and boxes, and then turned around to wave and to have one last glimpse of the i)retty dark-iiaired girl, standing in the doorway and waving her hand as if her life depended on it. .As the carriage rounded the l)enii in the road, Jean turned and ran into tiie house, uj) to her room and be- gan to pack her suit-case. Now, at last, she could fol- low the one desire of her romantic little soul. She could go to the distant city, where I Jed Cross nurses were enlisting, enlist, go to the front on the first steamer and bring back to life and love hundreds and hundreils of wounded and discouraged soldiers. Of course they would all be very grateful to her and one never could tell iv i if might hajjpen. But of course she would wait until the war was all over and she wasn ' t needed any more. Could anything be nobler than this great ambition to be of some helj) in the world ! While these thoughts flashed through her mind, her fingers worked busily and in an incredibly sliort time hei ' suit-case was ready and she was lressed in her navy blue traveling-suit and stylish little hat. Not until she was fairly settled in her luxurious parlor- car chair, the remains of her jirecious Christmas money in her bag, did Jean feel a sense of misgiving in regard to her wonderful plan. Thoughts of how grandma would feel and what Autit Ahce and everybody else would say, crowded uncomfortably the pleasant dreams of sacrifice and service. Just then the porter, swinging down the aisle, ga e the solemn warning that this was the last call for iin- ner, and Jean suddenly reali .ed that she was very hun- gry. Half afraid and very much confused, she found herself seated at a table opposite a young man in dark blue serge, whose appearance she was too embarrassed to notice. To cover her confusion she reached for the menu card at the same time that the young man, who had been abstractedly reading a paper, reached for it. Their hands touched. In her fright the adventuresome hand was withdrawn and, horror of horrors, upset her glass of water, thoroughly drenching the table and her lap. In the confusion of getting established at a table across the aisle just vacated, all formalities were dis- I)ensed with, and with laughter and merriment the meal proceeded. Before it was over Jean had artlessly told the stranger all about her great ambition. It was rather a grave young man who followed Jean back into the parlor-car and tried to exi)laiu that per- haiis Red Cross nurses needed soTue three years ' train- ing, and then some experience before they would be welcomed at the front, and that something more than high and a willing spirit was needed. Then shall I have to give it up? Jean turned her face away to hide the tears of dis- appointment that she simply couldn ' t keep back. Her wonderful i)lan shattered just because she hadn ' t had three paltry years of training I She knew that she would be able to cure all those hundreds of wounded men, even if she liadn ' t had any experience. It was willingness that counted. But before Jean had reached the end of her journey she was sure that it was far nobler to heal one man, dying on account of love, than hundreds dying on acu-ount of hate. J ll ISK Willi IK N. ' 1 (J. A ' NOTIIKR man of genius sacrificed to the god of war. In the death of Hui)ert Brooke in the Dardanelles, England has lost the only great lyricist of the younger generation of poets. When will there Ije an end to this terrible sac- rifice of i)reciou8 human life? TvUBERT BROOKE ' S FAREWELL TO EN(iL. XD If I slioiild (lie. think only tliis of ine : ' I ' liiit there ' s some corner of a foreinii liehl ' I ' luil is forever Kniilaiui. There sliall lie In tliat rich earth a richer dust ct)iieeah ' (l. A dust wlicin ICnaiand l)ore. shaped, made awari;, Gave once lier flowers to love, lier ways to roam, A l)()dy of Enslaud ' s, breatliins Eiislisli air. Waslied by tiie rivers, l)lest liy siiiis nf home. And thinl this iu irt, all evil washed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less, Gi es somewhere back the thoimlits by Knaland niven. Her sights and sounds, dreams happy as her day, And laughter, learnt of friends, and !:enlleness III hearts of peace, under an Knsjiisli lu-aveii.