Mechanicsburg High School - Artisan Yearbook (Mechanicsburg, PA)

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A grain of gold will gild a great surface E? W l ' I N X ,, D b Ex Q . -N-5 X xxx X Published by Mechanicsburgl Mechanicsburq Volume XIV!!

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ptlilc SN 0, in FW i ' m t WS :5Fi3 'J5'3f' N1m'Z-W V 43 Xue 761 This ARTISAN belongs to Go west, young man, go west, advised Horace Greeley to young folk of the nineteenth century for, on lanuary 24, 1848, lames Marshall's discovery of gold in California started the stampede heading west-a stampede that seventeen young men from Mechanicsburg hastened to join. With this idea in mind, the 1949 Artisan staff reviews the saga of 138 Me- chanicsburg students in their four-year search for the gold mine of education and the nuggets it contains: the gold of language, of history, of science, and of art and music. However, the most precious nuggets of all are the many memories that the Artisan staff hopes this record of a school year will help to preserve. We of the staff wish to take this opportunity to thank Mrs. Elizabeth Orris for her assistance as class dean, Mr. Royce Pearson for his advice to the class artists, Mr. Norman Hunter for his cooperation as photographer, Mr. Carl Hamsher for guiding the seniors with this book, and the businessmen of the town for their spirit of helpfulness. We particularly wish to thank the 1. A. Bushman Company for permission to use excerpts from Miniatures of Mechonicsburg and Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., publishers, for giving us permission to use the song Cali- fornia from Carl Sandburg's The American Songbog, 1927. Qin Claim One

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ut not so much as Q grain of Wisdom. Henry David Thoreau: Life Without Principle he Forty-Niners -ligh School ?en11sylvan:ia Vlay, l949 THE NUGGET-SEEKERS OF '49-PART l The following is a very interesting account of the Nug- get-Seekers. obtained from one of the original party who left Nlechanicsburg in '49. This is an interview printed in a news- paper several years ago: When gold was discovered in California the news of the finding of a new Eldorado spread from ocean to ocean, reaching into every village and hamlet in the land. At that time this busy town was only an insignificant village and its sleepy populace one Fine morning woke up to be overwhelmed with wonder at the startling in- formation that gold, rich, shining gold, had been ac- tually found in the new country-California. All was excitement and men began to make haste to depart to the land of wealth. Among the youngest of these who had the gold fever was a young man of remarkable pluck and business enterprise as well as abundance of brain and knowledge of human nature. He was eager and anxious to go and in a new land seek the gold nuggets which were there for the finding. That young rnan was Samuel Hauclt, who later became senior partner of the Hauck Gr Comstock Manufacturing Company. Mr, Hauck relates: lt was in the early part of the month of May, IBSO. that I left this town to go to California. There were seventeen in the party, viz: Col. William C. Houser, Wendel Hull, Isaac Hull, Levi Hull, A. G. Rich, William Peebles, S. Dunlap, john Zinn, john Neiswanger, john Coover, Dr. Alfred Day, john Cuswiler, T. Burnett, Alexander Eberly, John Culp, Harry Brown fcolorecll and your humble servant.