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

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Jenior Class History— (Continued) The next year Johnny stuck to the class closer than the proverbial porous plaster. He was a “Society guy” then. He always went out with the Mandolin club and was as often astonished at the capable table finishers” that organization boasted of. The Glee club attracted him too but he was rather afraid to go home at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning. At all school functions Johnny would sit back in his seat and listen, entranced, to the noteworthy music of the Orchestra which, like the other musical organizations of the school, was always on the job” on such occasions. Johnny was so frightened on the night of the Junior class meeting that he scarce recovered his breath in time to join in the cheers of triumph that were called for after the last Senior had been driven away, the cops weren’t there either. He had a good time though and liked the “St. Patrick’s day pin” that was chosen. He remarked that he had never l een among a more agreeable crowd nor among more splendidly gowned ladies in his life. Truly Johnny was proud of his adopted class. At last Johnny heard the Arbor Day speakers announced. From that time until the day of the exercises he was overanxious to hear his “pet” orators, declaimers and essayists. He was not disappointed either. 11c was all attention during the entire exercises, never once did his interest Hag. Again, to his old friend Johnny said “Say bo’, weren’t those exercises simply great? The orators were better than W. J. Bryan; the declamations and essays were better than those of Maud Adams and Joseph Addison.” Johnny welcomed his vacation for he knew that his class would Run the school next year: be its politicians. Johnny watched them as they joined the A. A. and subscribed for the Junto. He saw with pride the members of his class strut about on errands of great importance, saw how unabashed they were and noticed the look of superiority and intellectuality. Truly a wonderful class, was his comment. Johnny was as anxious as any one to sec the Junto with its attractive covers, its timely and forceful editorials, good stories, reliable school and Alumni notes and ever increasing exchanges. Johnny straightened up, threw out his chest and said he always did think that George Miller was a second William Randolph Hearst. Johnny felt very sorry for his adopted classmates when Jim Reilly and Helen Arnold knocked them so unmercifully on Christmas but then it was only in fun and he laughed with the test. Johnny came to school dressed in his “Sunday go to meet in' suit on the mth day. He declared that a Suffragette meeting, a Socialistic address, a show at the Opera House or the Orpheum and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain all combined were not equal to those exercises. Again Johnny was proud of “His” class. Later on he heard the an- nouncement of the Rechauffe officers. In that “I told you so way, he declared that to his opinion the Rechauffe 11

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Senior Class History O, I am not going to give an account of a Polar cxj edition, an aeroplane flight or a submarine cruise; a N flight of fancy, a description of a dream, pleasant or otherwise, an account of a conversation with a mythological l eing: the musings of a person in semi-unconsciousness, the story of a trip to another world, nor is it my intention to burden you by relating the personal achievements of any one member of the class of 1911. Well! What are you going to do or say? is the natural question arising in the mind of the reader. Simply this—To give a straight for ward history of the class of 1911. The following is a narration of the adventures of Johnny Jones, who attached himself to the class of 1911 when it entered High School, made himself acquainted with all the members, has been with them all the time and gives a true and faithful account of what he saw. heard, ami felt of the class of 1911. ; » When they entered Easton High in September 1907. they were as green and pitiful looking a lot as he had ever seen. They looked neither “to the right of them, to the left of them nor in back of them for a deep pitched voice “volleyed and thundered’' every time they did so. They decided to become polers and polcrs they became. Toward the latter part of the year they became frolicsome and it was then that he found that he was attached to the freshest Freshman class that ever entered High School.” Johnny came back with them the next year and noticed that they had lost all traces of green and that they were real High School students. The “Athletic fever soon became evident among them and Johnny went with them day after day to the diamond, gridiron, track or Armory and watched them develop into seasoned athletics. After every game lie would say to himself “Well I guess this class is coming along. My but that Dan Blackburn can play, or. I guess High School is proud of him, eh? One day Johnny came to school and saw something on the “rostrum of the main room», covered with an American flag. His unsounded question was answered when that “big fellow walked up and after making a somewhat lengthy speech, presented a bust of Shakespeare to the school. After school that day Johnny again went with the fellows to practice, he was always with them now. He said one day “Why say bo’, that class of 1911s got better athletes than they got in P’burg and that’s goin’ some too.” 10

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Senior Class History - {Continued) ought to conic up to the “Million and three quarters circulation because of the able staff chosen. Johnny was very fond of History and often accompanied the members of his class to the Library or stayed up with them until after midnight when they were writing their Historical Essays. He claimed originality for his class and based his claim on the fact that when his class was running the school, kindly assisted by the faculty, the Girl's Glee Club was organized and proved successful from the very start. When the Class Day speakers were elected Johnny again had an oppor- tunity to praise his class. The exercises themselves prove that Johnny's affection for 1911 did not lead him to over- rate the abilities of the members of the class. Johnny, in a final statement, declared that he had been with the class of 1911 all through its course in dear old Easton High and that he intends to keep track of them all after they are out of school for he says that the class of 1911 is truly a record making class and that the members will continue their praiseworthy deeds to the end of their lives. Do you know Johnny Jones? R. C. S., Ti 12