Easton Area High School - Rechauffe Yearbook (Easton, PA)

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vy- lk el.-. 5 is tl ,x :Sn i Ll its l X it 'S I 5: v s. 5 it I l a l furnished more nor better material for athletics than did we. The baseball, football and relay victories show this too well to be denied. Although young and inexperienced, we were represented in our Freshman year by one member on each of the three teams that represented the school, namely 5 the baseball, football and track teams, and have kept up the pace by each year adding members to these, teams. In our four years of High School life, we have seen Blair Hall and I-Iackettstown, who had never before been beaten by a High School team, suffer defeat at the hands of the football team, on which we were well represented. Another test of our athletic strength was shown at the Annual' Track Meet at Philadelphia, where Boyle, West and Bull distinguished themselves by winning individual silver cups and a trophy banner for the school. As another evidence of our activity in the line of athletics, the male members of our class suggested that a basketball team be organized. A vote was taken at a meeting of the Athletic Association, which supports the teams, and in which we were represented by a goodly number, which was carried byalarge majority. Warner, who had experience in the game, was elected captain. A call was made for candidates and practice was soon begun, with results that were surprising. That team, including Warner, Irmschler, Kern and VVolfe, of the Class of 1906, gained laurels for the class as well as for the school. We hope that succeeding classes will keep up the standard of Athletics which this class has so successfully upheld. At the end of the football season, the banquet was given by Messrs. William A. jones and Stephen G. Simp- son at Belfast. A very pleasant time was enjoyed by all, and it was at this reception that fifteen deserving men were awarded their E. A A fact which shows our loyalty to the school was the presentation of a beautiful American flag in our Fresh- man year. The speech was made by Roland Edwards, then a member of the class, thus giving us the honor of claiming the first Freshman orator to speak fron1 the platform. ' We have furnished musicians, actors and actresses who have acquitted themselves creditably. The greatest event of our Senior year was the presentation of 'G' A Friend of the Whole Family, which surpassed all attempts of the kind in previous years. Its success was realized before the public presentation. Three creditable performances were given, under the direction of Richard Snyder, of the Class of 1905. The profits amounted to fI'70.00, which was given to The Thaddeus Stevens Memorial Association, The Athletic Association and The Iuntof' On each of the occasions at which our class was called upon to entertain, as on Arbor Day and 106th Day, a pleasing program was rendered. The former was enlivened by the acting of As You Like It in full costume, and the latter by a one-act farce entitled Silence is Golden. The Class, as a whole, took a very active part in the annual Historical contest. The successful contestant was Miss Kate Ernst. II