Hastings High School - Saxon Yearbook (Hastings, MI)

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DEDICATION “To Our Old Red Building” A place which we will always hold dear in our hearts. A place where we have formed many lasting friendships. No new building, no matter how rand it may be, can ever mean as much to the class of 1916 as your red brick walls, and lon flights of stairs. For these reasons and in remembrance of the happy days we have had within your walls, we here- by dedicate this book, the Maroon and White, to you.

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Our New School Building Education, scholarship and culture are not necessarily dependent upon any school building or any specific equipment, nevertheless, surroundings, convenience and equipment, have much to do with ease and degree of efficiency acquired in scholarship. While we regret very much that the class of 1916 will not have the privilege of graduating from a new hall of learning, still we are glad of the promise which the future holds for the pupils who shall succeed us in the old H. H. S. Someone has said that the finest word in any language is “Service.” Surely the service that shall be rendered, when this new home of our high school shall be complete ought to make for greater efficiency, a higher degree of scholar- ship, and a higher type of manhood and womanhood. At present our fond desire of many years seems a vague, far-away realization. For five years this has been the one burning question. Many times has it !)een buried under a great avalanche of votes, only to rise again with revived energy, for it cannot be downed by its opponents, legally or otherwise. Surely such perseverance will win out and before long we shall lie able to point with pride to the new Hastings High School. April 20, 1916.