Wicomico High School - Tom Tom Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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r I a O our teachers who have guided our steps and helped us through all of our difficulties of school life, we, the class of Nineteen Twenty- two, dedicate this book.

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WHEN ? When tadpoles turn to sharks And houses are built without floors, When skyscrapers are used for parks And garages no longer use doors, When tables are made without legs And summer rains give place to snows; When cheesecloth is sold in kegs And there are no picture shows; When autos run without gasoline And trolley cars fly through the air; When oil lamps burn without kerosene And tax rates are considered fair; When the President draws only two dollars a day And the people no longer eat pickles, When chickens think it a crime to lay And brickbats are turned to icicles, When the government mints coin nothing but cents And the aeroplane gives pla e to the mule, Then perhaps the people will wake And build us a “NEW HIGH SCHOOL.” 2

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PREFACE No word of admonition was oftener heard during the great war than the words “Carry On.” It became an almost universal watch-word among the English speaking allies. A gifted English woman, left a widow with three children, lost two of her dear ones, but wrote to an American friend “But we must go on.” The words “carry on” contain the very essence of victory. This is equally true in school life or in later life as in war. “Faint yet pursuing” was an apostolic resolution. Unnumbered difficulties seem to surround us in school life. Siren voices of pleasures to be enjoyed may have sung their song of dalliance. Our native inertia may have tempted us to cease study or work, and to fail to go on to graduation. But yet we “carry on.” A prize is still before us, for out in the world there are goals to be attained. Our possibilities for doing great things are unlimited, but our probabilities depend on our untiling faithfulness in going forward, and our application of the motto, “Carry on.” In these days the one who recognizes opportunities, dares to step out and grasp them and carry them on to greater success, is the man of the hour. Let us “carry on” towards truth, towards higher life; through re¬ proach, through difficulties toward triumph and toward God, for in the words of Paul, “This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are be¬ hind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” 4