Hastings High School - Saxon Yearbook (Hastings, MI)

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An Appreciation After eight years of the most efficient teaching of Latin and ancient history in the Hastings high school, Miss Cecile M. Coulthard is leaving to pursue further her studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Her thorough work and unfailing enthusiasm in the class room, and her high ideals as a woman of culture, have done much to leave a lasting impression of the right sort upon the lives of the young folks who have been her stud- ents, so that as she goes “Out where the West begins, and beyond, a host of kindest wishes from her many warm friends in Hastings will follow after her.

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Honor Students, 1923 In keeping with an old custom in Hastings High, an- nouncement is made each spring of the seven senior students who rank highest in scholarship for the four years of high school work. The Hastonian extends hearty congratulations to the following students who excelled in scholarship and who main- tained a high percentage in grade standings during their high school years: 1. Julia Meta Arnold 95.48 2. LaMoine Everett 95.28 3. Dorcas Baker 92.40 4. Helen Wooton 91.63 5. Gertrude Carveth 91.30 6. Robert Walton 90.96 7. Agnes Sheldon 90.06

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 Senior I listorv w When, in the course of High School events, it becomes necessary for the class of '23 to sever those bonds which for four years have uniter! it with Hastings High, and for its members to take in the world each his separate station, it is difficult to decide which of the many important events of our school career shall lx? most worthy of recording, that all the classes in all the years to come may read and marvel at this sufx r class—the class of '23. Right at the start of our Freshman year, we diligently set ourselves to the task of making our mark in the high-school world. Under the banner of the gold and purple, we boldly carried on, haughtily indifferent to the jeers of the upperclassmen who tried in vain to make us know' our place. In fact, after we cleverly eluded their watchful diligence and had a highly successful and peaceful class party at Clear Lake, the majority of people looked upon us so favorably that the jealous Sophomores attempted to wash off some of the freshness and several of our valiant band were accordingly immersed in the raging waters of the court-yard fountain. After all these dire calamities had been heaped upon us in a useless endeavor to “damp- en” our spirits, the powers that were conceded us the victory, and w'e were, perforce, promoted to the station of Sophomores. So, when after a long and welcome vacation, we returned to school, we in our turn were able to look condescendingly upon those inferior beings, the Freshmen, who had stepped into our forsaken place. As Sophomores, we began to play our part in earnest. There were five letter men in our class and it was our firm opinion that without our players the varsity teams could never in the world have continued to exist. At the .Senior Carnival, we further added to our prestige by selling most delicious home-made candy at what was generally declared to lx the prettiest booth hi the gym. This year we again rounded out the strenuous weeks of labor with a picnic at Clear Lake. It mattered not at all that for two long hours a perfect torrent streamed upon us from the heavens. We took to it like ducks and had the time of our lives. It was with a “flourish of trumpets and a tintinnabulation of drums,“so to speak, that we entered upon our Junior year. That we might not lx mistaken for other than we were, we speedily selected hand- some class-rings which we have ever since worn proudly, as means of identification. As our famous “home-made” had proved so popular at the carnival, we sold it at all the basket-ball games,literally burning our fingers to the bone in a wild attempt to re- pleni h our treasury and thus enable ourselves to give the Seniors a truly wonderful J-Hop. Our greatest effort in this direction was made the night of the Junior “Mardi-Gras” which, for sustained interest and spectacular details, surpassed anything in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. At the close of the evening we found ourselves possessed of fabulous wealth. Accordingly, there were launched extravagant plans which entailed much extensive labor for the members of our class. However, upon the night of the Junior-Senior recep- tion, we felt finely repaid for our efforts when we beheld the expression of wonder and joy on the faces of our guests. Thus ended our Junior year. Again wending our way school ward after two happy months of leisure (?), we found ourselves Seniors with all the dignity of the position to uphold. Almost immediately we decided “the annual's the thing” and so a staff was selected that the good work might proceed. The epoch-making event of the year was our play, “Clarence,” in which some few Seniors cavorted in a most undignified fashion. Not to lx undone by anyone, our basket-ball team after a series of fiery battles succeed- ed in annexing the interclass championship. The months passed quickly andthe High School Banquet was at hand—an unheard of thing occurred: the Seniors voiced their approval of women’s suffrage! Not only was a young lady chosen to give the Senior toast, but to our class came the distinction of hav- ing the first girl cheer-leader this school has ever known. Throughout our four years, we have seen many changes. Short skirts, long earrings and bobbed hair; the passing of the pompadour, bell-bottom trousers and jazz-bow ties, we have nobly survived and clung together. True enough, a few have fallen by the wayside but their places have been quickly filled and upon our graduation day an army numbering 110 will make the worthy class of ’23 the largest to have ever passed from the portals of old H. H. S. 3ln Jttcmoriam iflarion Hlliiut £11« Srooks Page Thirteen