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

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HISTORY OF THE SENIOR CLASS-(Continued) class lights was recognized, and a precedent was established in the organization of Ettcyafal in E. H. S. In this game we gloriously routed the Freshmen, incidentally replenishing the high school’s treasury. It was during this year that we gave the Sophomore Flay that made the class of 1916 immortal. Never before or since have as many people been in the assembly room as there were the night of the performance. In after life, when the members of the class turn back and recall their life in dear old E. H. S., they will sec plainly the dignified judge, the lawyers, the thief, and the remainder of the actors going through their parts as they did on that memor- able night. They will recall the happy faces of the football players as they proudly displayed their gold footballs, bought by the class of 1916 with the money obtained through that play. These footballs were our gifts to the members of the team; likewise, we presented the school with a much needed trophy cabinet and a picture of George Taylor. Members of the class entered into all forms of school activities and gave the best in them for their Alma Mater. Classmates found berths on the football, baseball and track teams, as well as on all the musical clubs. Our connection with school life, our loyalty, increased in the remaining years. Three out of four members of the debating team, in our Junior year, were members of the class of 1916. Social activities grew quite numerous. The Football Dance. Junior Mop, and May Day Dance came in quick succession. Certain members of the class made the beautiful Little Theater for the school. We selected class colors and flower; and as long as there lives one remain- ing soul of the class of 1916. there shall be one heart loyal to the purple and white. We ended our Junior year by celebrating Arbor Day in the usual way. We began our Senior year by selecting new class officers (our first president had been re-elected in our Junior year) and by electing representatives on the Executive Committee. The Junio staff was appointed and immediately proceeded to raise up the literary standard of the class as well as that of the school. The managers of the athletic teams began to arrange unequalcd schedules, the captains to build up their teams. Student Government was pro- posed and immediately put into operation. If. in its future history. Easton High finds itself in the ranks of student self-governing schools, it will have the class of 1916 to thank for it. We did away with the old method of cele- brating Christmas, that of presenting petty gifts, and substituted for it a new and highly entertaining program. We 3 25

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History of the Senior Class FATE, hast thou already taken the fourth and last reel of our life in Easton High School' Is it possible that the class of 1916 has completed its journey here? Must this worthy class leave for- ever, these endeared walls? Arc friends of four years’ standing, welded together by fraternal rands of devotion, striving mutually for common ends, to part perhaps forever? Are we, who have been so well guided by faithful teachers, now to be thrown upon our own resources? Alas! these things are so. But. Fate, draw the curtain up long enough that we may re- enact in the settings of our Rechauffe the scenes of our career. Four years ago there entered Easton High a cosmopolitan gathering of boys and girls. Green? Yes. But this greenness was rubbed off in the last Freshman-Sophomore fight ever held. The members soon formed themselves into debating clubs. And. who will ever forget the famous debates between the Hamilton, Franklin, Cottingham, and Oxford clubs? And it wasn’t long before the school found that the Freshman Class was indis- pensible to its progress. Our genius was displayed in all forms of school activities; our prowess recognized in football, on the diamond, field, and track. It was during this year that we gave the first musical in Easton High. The following year the class of 1916 began life earnestly. They organized and elected class officers. The brutality of inter- 24

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HISTORY OF THE SENIOR CLASS- (Continued) climaxed our career by producing The Private Secretary, ihc third and most successful Senior Play. And we ended our career by our trip to Washington, by producing this our Rechauffe, and finally by our commencement exercises. This excellent progress was made possible by the grand class spirit shown by the members, by two of the best fellows that Easton High ever boasted of as presidents, and by tolerance and excellent supervision by the faculty. And now, when Fate has forced us to make way for the following classes and has urged us to reluctantly make our way either to institutions of higher learning or to seek our living in the world, we can say that we did our best for our Alma Mater and feel assured that we left it in better condition than it was when we entered. Historian. 26