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

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Senior Class History—{Continued) classmate in the famous football game with Phillipsburg we showed our school spirit in a very original manner when we presented each member of the team with a small gold football as a souvenir of the victory. We were also justly proud of the fact that two of our girls, Laura Blackburn and Dorothy Young, were on the first girls’ basketball team ever organized in E. H. S., and not only that, but that one-third of every succeeding team has belonged to us. Towards the end of our Sophomore year we presented the school with a bust of Abraham Lincoln and soon afterwards elected officers for our Junior year. In our third year we took a still more active interest in the school events. Our first Junior Class meeting, instead of the usual dance at Heptasoph Hall, was an informal party, held September 16th, at the home of one of our number. This novel change proved to be a grand success and it was there we adopted our class colors, gold and white, and our class flower, the white rose. Our Arbor Day was another agreeable change. While unable to plant a tree, as we desired, we entered into the spirit of the day by transporting the audience, through our little sketch, to the sylvan home of Pan, where they were pleasantly entertained by song and story. Junior Sock Day was as conscientiously observed as ever and on the Seniors last day amongst us the girls blossomed forth with gayly bc-ribboncd pigtails and white middy blouses. From that memorable day on we were Seniors and entered into our last year with a zest. A peep into the resumes for the different school teams will show the zeal and energy of all our managers and the ability of the representatives of our class on the numerous teams; another peep into the records of the Bazaar of March 21st, and you will certainly be convinced of the ability of the present Senior Class to carry off any situation with success. Ours was the most original bazaar ever held and, although heavily handicapped, it was by far the most successful. When it was announced one day that there would be no morning speeches by the Upperclassmen, seventy-six Seniors rejoiced, but, alas, when it was further announced that there would be final examinations, the same seventy- six Seniors were plunged into mourning. However, the gloom had disappeared by Christmas time and our exercises, held on December 24th, were a delight from beginning to end. The musical clubs, with Thiede, Michlcr, Kline, Ricgcl. and Brasso as members from our class, have rendered themselves indispensable to the success of all such entertain- ments and the Junto, more successful than ever, has enabled us to circulate the accounts among four hundred sub- scribers, the highest number yet attained. i

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Senior Class History UNE, our commencement time! How much it means to us. This severing of our High School tics is at once the sweetest and the saddest of all our experi- ences and, as we arc about to leave the school for- ever, it is only natural that we should be thinking of the four years spent within its walls and wishing that others might know of them as we know them, not boastfully nor with exageration, but truthfully, and with a certain just pride. There was nothing remarkable to distinguish the hundred and twenty-seven Freshmen who entered High School four years ago, from the hundreds who had gone before. Like them we were filled with a strange awe and supposed it entirely original with us; like them we entered heartily into all of the school ac- tivities, supporting where support was needed, assisting where assistance was desired; and like them we were taught argumenta- tion and formed our debating clubs. Iliose who were members of either the Lincoln, Ivanhoe, Keystone or Cherokee Societies will stoutly maintain that no other clubs were ever more enthu- siastic and no other debaters ever more eloquent than ours. However, our real life as a class did not begin until after we had thrown off the shackles of Freshmen and, with all due cere- mony, elected our first class officers, with Carl Wolbach, President; Lena Simmers, Vice-President; Julia Seneker, Secretary and Wil- liam Clause, Treasurer. Thereupon we proceeded to make the his- tory herein recorded. Being so unfortunate as not to have a single to

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Senior Class History—(Continued) Now while we have not been very largely represented in athletics we consider it our misfortune rather than our fault and that it is more than made up for, by the other positions we have held. We arc certainly proud of the fact that the first E. H. S. debating team, with its complete victory over Bethlehem on April 24th, was composed entirely of Seniors: that our class had ambition enough to form a Dramatic Association and on May 15th,give, what we hope will be, the first annual production of a Senior play; that it was our class that aroused enough enthusiasm to abolish the annual banquet and 114th Day, substituting a three day’s trip to Washington instead and holding our commencement exercises in the main assembly room of the High School. We have had space here to record very little of the class events, but a more complete report will be found written in every page of this Rechauffe, giving in detail what we can merely touch upon. But as we have written so have we met, tarried together and so must we part, eager, yet reluctant to leave the confines of our school life for the larger interests that will confront us. And, though we may be separated by the widening breach of time and distance yet there will always be a warm spot in our hearts, that will respond to the memory of the hours spent in dear old Easton High School and of the friends who spent them with us. Historian. »