Clarkston High School - Hilltopper Yearbook (Clarkston, MI)

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Class History It came to pass in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-two, on one bright sunshiny uay in September, that twenty-two Freshmen entered the Halls of Learning, and it came to pass, as they did enter this land, that they were received with wild welcomings and rejoicings by those who it was decreed should henceforth lead them up the slippery by-ways of knowledge. Thus, they were received with glee by a certain band of wild beings who were called “Sophomores” and who, because of their fierce taste for Freshman blood, did pounce upon them daily and nightly cause them to suffer great tilings. And as they dwelt long in the land, they fell in with the customs of the inhabitants so their strangeness wore away, and they each became as one among the rest. Now it came to pass at the beginning of the second year, that a new band of youths did come up from the adjoining territory, and the class of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, in the new dignity of their promotion, remembered the davs of their own greenness and as the Sophomores of their day had done unto them, even so did they do unto these new Freshmen, and did show no mercy unto their sufferings, and no heed unto their lamentations, until all were bruised and full of much sorrow. Behold, at the end of these two years, only fourteen who entered the Halls of Learning traveled into the two years of mystery and expectations. As the class went on its way through the land of plenty and promise, they did overtake one fair youth, Seymour Yoorhees, by name, who cried unto them with a loud voice and said “Take me into your class, I prav you” and as he spoke even so did the Class of '26 listen and have compassion upon him, and it was done unto him as he asked. It came to pass at the end of these three years that (). Carl Hood, the Superintendent who had thus far traveled in their lead, did go from this country to far distant places, and there was much grief and sorrow in the land, for verily, had he made himself dearly beloved by the Class of '26. Now it so happened that there dwelt in an adjoining territory, I). M. Winn, a man of much learning and good repute, who, hearing of the departure from his post of O. Carl Hood, removed from his field of labor and dwelt in the Hall of Learning, that the travels of the Class of '26 might continue for many days. This, the fourth year in the History of this great and wonderful Class of 26, has been one of much hard labor, and little resting by the wayside; for preparations have been made ready for them to take their final departure from the land. So that the whole number at the end of the year is fourteen: I.eola Francis William Dunston Manley Walter Blanche Crosby Seymour Yoorhees Stanley Orr Edward Seeterlin Lauren Miller Lee Jones Fdward Leo Porritt Gladys Finzel Elizabeth Andrews Grace Petty Allen Fiske So it came to pass that of the one and twenty who entered this land in 1922, only fourteen will depart, for verily, verily, I say unto you that broad is the gate, and wide is the way that leadeth to the High School, in thereat; but narrow is the gate and long is the wav that leadeth to graduation, and few there be that find it. Four years hath the ('lass of '26 sojourned in the land, and gathered in large portions the fruits from the tree of knowledge. “But, let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.” 30