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

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STAFF OF “THE RECHAUFFE

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INTRODUCTION E QUESTION whether a more important step and a wiser was ever taken at Easton High, than when the idea of a year book was evolved, and a still greater step when that idea was put into practice and emerged in the annual Rechauffe. From Nineteen Hundred and Two the idea has grown and flourished until a standard has been reached of which our public High School can well be proud. A little history at this point will hardly be inopportune. In Nineteen Hundred and Two, the class of that year or perhaps the Junto Editor rather decided to publish a special issue of the Junto, a sort of Class Day number, which was to be particularly devoted to the interests of the Class of '02. The issue contained cuts representing the various school activities and was altogether commendable. The next Class, ’03, following the same plan also published an enlarged Junto with more cuts and on a still larger scale. This again met with success. It remained, however, for the Class of '04 to attain to the culmination of the idea in an artistic publication under the Editorship of William A. Hauck, bound in cloth, which they called the Red and Black, their name for the first of what came to be a series of year books to be published annually by the succeeding Senior Classes. It was 1904 who saw the limitations of the Class Day Junto issue and the advisability of departing from the beaten path, and produced what five years before might have seemed the impossible. Unnecessary to say the venture met with deserved success and the precedent had been established. A permanent name was judged essential and “ RkchaukkIj” from the French, meaning “rehashed, was adopted. As we said, it was a question whether a more important step was ever taken at Easton High School than when the RkchauffI-: was established. It is the catalog of our High School in every way, and we will proudly show it to all at any time in defence of our alma mater. We have a worthy standard before us in last year’s production and our aim may be, not to out-herod Herod, but like the ancients who placed mottos over the doorways of their schools, to be wisely temperate in all things. One of the greatest joys of life’s afternoon and evening is retrospection. None of us will deny this, and our purpose is surely a worthy one in publishing our year book with the hope that it may in after years gladden the eyes of every member of our class. 5

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Editors and Managers I.orenz K. Ayer Stanley R Muthait Sara Fuller Theodocia Walton Associate Editors Karle K Burkharrlt Marjorie M. Buckley Margaret K. Armstrong Walter 1 . Rice Klwood S. Brinker Grace I). Kidney Nina A. Carter Thomas K. Connell Charles H- Straub Artist Brooks C. Kleber 2