Hastings High School - Saxon Yearbook (Hastings, MI)

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Administration Behind the efficient, smooth-running organization of our school, as in every institution, there is the community and the administration which manages our school and solves our problems successfully. The work of maintaining and improving our high school government and instruction has been the task of our superintendent and his staff of principal, assistant principal, and dean of girls. Behind them stand the board of education, composed of a dentist, a county agricultural agent, an optometrist, a draftsman, and a garage manager. Back of these are the tax payers who elect them to their offices. We attribute to all of these our success as a democratic institution of education. Board of Education Dr. George L. Lockwood, one of Barry County’s best dentists, is a great sports- man when it comes to fishing and hunting and is usually delighted with his results. Mr. ('.arl Wespinter, manager of the Universal (Jarage. is a lover of children and a well-known citizen and Botarian. He delights in eating fresh pop-corn, we are told. Dr. I). D. Walton, an expert optometrist, is a great dramatist find lover of music. As a hobby, he gets great pleasure in learning and presenting new feats of magic. Mr. Hubert Cook, an expert draftsman and an expert partridge hunter, likes to spend his leisure moments on many hobbit's, the best-known of which is mov- ing pictures. He also has one of the best stamp collections in Barry County. Mr. Harold Foster, to prove his ahilitv as Barry County’s agricultural agent, manages a farm of his own with excellent results. His Guernsey cows, which seem to give exceptionally good milk, occupy much of his leisure time. Mr. I). A. Van Btiskirk, who has faith- fully served the Hastings Public Schools as superintendent for seventeen years, is one of the lustt authorities on school legislation in the state. He loves l ooks and spends many hours reading. Mr. Edwin I.. Taylor, principal and journalism instructor, is interested in admit slips. Doomsday Book, and keeping records of his seventy-odd varieties of iris. He also enjoys spending some hours in Imnling and fishing. Mr. Fred Jones, assistant principal and science teacher of the Hastings High School, is interested in student participa- tion in government. As a hobby. Fords seem to dominate and take up some of his leisure time. Miss Marie Howe, as dean of girls, is a friend to all girls. She delights in speaking of English ways and manners and in put- ting on short plays in her classes. Golfing and l owling are two of her favorite pastimes. Mrs. Bulb Becker, with her charming and interesting personality, is an efficient and well-liked secretary. Though she has great interest in planting and caring for plants and shrubs during her leisure hours, it has not dulled her ability in the office.

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DEMOCRACY Democracy means more than just a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. It means that citizens, native-born or naturalized, from the Golden Gate to the Statue of Liberty, from the frozen great lakes of the North to the tropical waters of the South, are free and equal. Whether they be rich or poor, they all have the same rights given to them by the constitution of the United States. However, our country was not always as we find it now. It took many lives and many sacrifices to make our United Stab's second to none among the nations of the world. If some composer could capture the march of America in one great symphony, this is what you would hear. The war-whoop of Indians, the creaking of covered wagons, the ring of the woodsman's axe. and the clank of the surveyor's chain. You would hear the wind whistling through the rigging of clipper ships, the deep-throated snort of the iron horse ami the staccato roar of automobile and airplane engines. Yet we have not reached a point where the saga is finished nor the pioneering complete. There are still new horizons to cross with constantly growing foreign competition. Where will this nation stand a few years hence? With the loyal support of its citizens it will l»e out in front as it is today. We, the graduating class of 1940. are to be a more active part of this great nation. Some of us may be leaders, but all of us, regardless of what part we play in the future, will be working toward the same end. to keep America a great America. May we. the graduating class of 1940, through wise participation in our democracy, further America's greatness.

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