Hickman High School - Cresset Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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Just as we take the air we breathe and our three meals a day for granted, so we are apt to take our teach- ers for granted. We are so used to coming to school every morning and finding them there, that their exist- ence seems too prosaic to eulogize. So, teachers, if we at times do not seem to be fully appreciative of your abilities, remember we are young, and although we do not appear to be cognizant of your untiring efforts, we are truly grateful. U41 CRESSET '37

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.Qaderyfzgo Dreamers they Were, those men of the Smithton Company: pioneers, seeking to reproduce their dreams, to achieve the formation of a town, they gathered about them men strong of mind and body, and led them into the wilderness. Coupled with their determination to create was their farsighted wisdom. They saw that Moniteau and Cedar Creeks would form the future county bound- aries. and they settled in the logical location for the county seat. True to their expectations, Columbia was given that title in 1821. Originally the town was called Smithton. When first settled in 1819 it was located south of where Garth now crosses Sexton, and the next spring it was moved across Flat Branch to the present intersection of Fifth and Broadway, and became Columbia. The Smithton settlers, though industrious and dil- igent and strong in the confidence that all their hopes would be fulfilled, were soon confronted by a serious problem-the difliculty of getting water. They found it practically impossible to procure-due to the fact that in digging wells they could not strike a stream. The story is told of the teacher of the tiny log cabin school who crossed Flat Branch while duck hunt- ing, and discovered five springs. Imagine his exultation and excitement as he hurried back to the settlement to shout the glad news, Water! Within a few months, after careful surveys had been made, the town was moved, and called Columbia, at the suggestion of Wallace Estill. That year the fif- teen homes were constructed of mud-daubed logs except for one brick house built by Charles Hardin, whose son, Charles H. Hardin, later became governor of Missouri. So Smithton became Columbia. The unconquered frontier no longer remains a chal- lenge to our citizens, but the capacity for leadership which the founders of Columbia had within themselves is still manifest in those who direct and mold the lives and minds of others. l13l g-.....1-la so K' 4 ,4 Vl ' a 1 'O 'ima R 44, .1 BN 1 i r

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Execaffves DR. W. E. ROSENSTENGEL Superintendent of Schools B. S. in Education A. M. Ph. D. Miss SAIDEE STEAN Principal A. B. B. S. in Education A. M. MR. E. A. MCKAY Assistant Principal A. B. B. S. in Education A. M. NIISS EMMA CRAWFORD Secrelary to Principal I1 5 LEADERSHIP JU!-4 f M Zif .,eL ff af- ff- Affi- 0.72 94 -.. Q4-os--sf!'6- 'C-OIAAA-kat-44-Ad