Hastings High School - Saxon Yearbook (Hastings, MI)

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Tis Later Than You Think We, the Seniors of 1950, after four years of harrowing experiences in ye olde brain factory, and after contemplating on our trial and error method of wandering through an educational fog, have decided to give you, the underdogs, some dope on how to escape the pitfalls that we have tumbled into. Scholarship! You shudder at the thought, but it is essential, especially for you kids who plan to trot on to college. Colleges aren’t the rah-rah type of thing you see in the movies — all fun and ice cream sodas, anything but! There’s plenty of hard work, before and after, and one fool-proof way of crashing the gates to such an institution and to stay there once you’re in, is to maintain a high scholastic standing in high school. Just one bit of advice is to keep a weather eye on the direc- tion of the scholastic winds and avoid storms and high seas later. Remember too, that high school happens only once in a person’s life time. Four years are soon gone, so while you’re here, get everything you can and enjoy yourself. Drink to the last dregs, to the last solitary drop, everything that is a part of school life — fun, dates, games, plays, studies, and all the little odds and ends that make those four years what they are. Teachers are another faze of school life that just can’t be avoided, although sometimes we’d like to! Generally this species of homo sapiens of the mammalia class are considered everything from the lowest kind of an insect to a dragon that spouts with fire. But (let the truth be known) they’re human beings too! They are always will- ing to help with a stickler of a lesson or give ad- vice on any teen age problem. Just a few pointers that have a tendency to keep you on the sunny side of a teacher are willingness to try in class, promptness in handing in papers, and half-decent behavior. We seniors have found out that these details are lifesavers for weak-kneed marks, if they’re teetering on the edge of the soup. Just sprinkle on a little sugar, here and there, and you’ll find you have performed an honest to good- ness miracle. Here’s another bit of inside dope we have learned from experience which we will now pass on to you — always keep up your lessons. Most of us seniors, and probably you too, at one time or another have let our work just slip past us. Then, a test erupts! That’s one of the best ways we know to develop a first class headache — trying to catch up on all the work that has been neglec- ted in last minute cramming — the night before the test. Skipping is another item that’s a detriment rather than a help. Have you ever considered what people will think when they refer to your high school to get the low-down on you when a job is in the offing, or when they see a college application that you have a regular habit of skip- ping? We’re not gamblers enough to bet on your chances! We know what fun it is to play hooky, but please remember your futures before you do it again! Now that we have passed on to you some sprinklings of our wisdom, we’ll leave you with one of Shakespeare’s and hope that you give it some thought: In my school days, when I had lost one shaft I shot his fellow of the self-same flight, the self same way, with more advised watch, to find the other forth; and by adventuring both, I oft found both.”

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OUR VALIANT SAXONS' Top Picture: First row — Coach Hanson. H. Everett. D. Hammond. Co-capt. Ray Miller. Co-capt. Jim Radford, J. Wingerden. Asst. Coach Lang. Second row — K. Baulch, J. Gregory. N. Heath. B. Schriner. F. Whitworth. E. Barrett. R. Reaser. Third row — C. Altoft, C. Annahle. D. Skinner, N. Zeigler, A. Voisard. B. Barry. Fourth row---G. Minch. N. Sinclair, G. Finnic. R. Moody. M. Patten. L. Bivens. Fifth row----D. Steinke. B. Cortright, D. Bradford, J. Adams. K. Brauer. Sixth row — B. Neilson. D. Ashton. D. Roufner, C. Miller, K. Hampton. J. Bernard. Seventh row —J. Durham. J. McWebb. Mgr. Bob Seay. Mgr. T. Hoffman and Mgr. B. Banghardt. Bottom Picture: First row —J. Duffy. D. Scott. H. Moan. J. Pebbles, J. Blossom. J. Burdoff. D. Hammond. B. Hulbert. M. Moore, L. Little. Second row —Coach Turkal. W. Norris. R. Hall. R. Hawthorn. L. Richardson. B. Schaffer. G. Slocum. M. Bassler, D. Thomas. Third row — L. Utter. O. Altoft. J. Myers. W. Page. B. Gutchess. T. Cleveland. D. Ashton. J. Myers. D. Endsley. and B. Neilson. The Junior Varsity football team could be found practicing every flight after school for the five games they played. Although they do not share the glories of the varsity they had their hearts in every play. Of the five games that were played, they won two and lost three, but the experience gained from these games will he of great value in the next few years.