Anaheim Union High School - Colonist Yearbook (Anaheim, CA)

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5Hnre1nnrh When in 1620 the Mayflower made her memorable voyage, bringing to the inhospitable shores of New England that little company of brave men and women who came hither to find freedom ofuworship, we met our first Colonists. These new Colonists, persecuted in England, found tempor- ary refuge in Holland, but soon realized that their nationality would be merged. So, with staunch courage, they turned resolutely toward the New World, hoping there to find freedom of thought and worship. Here they sought to wrest from the poor soil of New England a meager living and built log forts to protect themselves from the unfriendly Indians. The Colonists, a generation later, answering the call of the West, found their trail along the way constantly en- dangered by Indians and wild animals, from which they were ever on the alert to protect themselves, their families, and beasts,of burden. Their forefathers had been schooled to suffer silently, never to flinch, but to play the game fairly. VVhat a heritage to bestow on their descendants! From the court of Isabella to the shores of San Salva- dorg from the peaceful ports of Holland to the storm-swept New England coasts, from the happy Puritan firesides, in their covered wagons, braving the unknown wilderness, to the sun-drenched Golden Gate came the sturdy Colonist Pioneers. 4 The spirit of the true Colonist still lived, when in 1857 a group of fifty men set out from San Francisco Bay and crossed the mountains to the Santa Ana River, bringing the nucleus of the Mother Colony. This later developed intothe city we love, whose romantic name was developed from the linking of the beloved word Home and Ana',, the patron saint of the river. How appropriate, then, that we, the des- cendants of these sturdy men, should adopt a title that means so much to every true American heart and resident of our lVIother Colony---THE COLON IST.