Port Arthur High School - Sea Gull Yearbook (Port Arthur, TX)

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movements The Class of 1916 has adle many improvements to last year's publication, but they are of the opinion, as the book goes to press, that next year's class will find as many more, improvements to add. The fact that each editor of the Seagull sues many ways to improve thJ hook is what makes the publication what it is today, the, host of its kind in the State Each and every member of the classes that have published a volume of the Seagull have gone at the task in a husincss like way, and have put the host that they possessed into the'hook. VVhercvel' you find an alumnus you will also find a copy of the Seagull with the same date 011 its cover that appears on the class ring of its owner, and you will also he imprvssed with the examples of student work the book contains Many, who have carefully examined the book, have remarked upon the high class of student activities sml represented therein; they have hern made to realize that Port Arthur post the most up-toidate school system in the South. The Seagull is a constant source of comfort and joy to its owners, for it never fails to bring back distinct remembrancos of school days, of friends that stood by you in the days you were, getting your education, and who have since, been separated from you As you look through the pages of the Seagull, and gaze upon the pictures of your classmatcs, how great is that longing which arises within you, the longing to again take your place among your old class- mates in Port Arthur, and have those same teachers endeavor to crowd some knowledge into that grey matter which is supposed to be in the rogioo of your body known as the headl You could go back to the school house, for it is still there, but you would not be satisfied, in fact you would feel almost out of place, for all your classmates are gone, they are out in the world, making: good, and the only thing that you have to remember them by is the, publication which they, as well as you, helped to publish, the Seagull

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History of the Seagull d3 $1 By W. 1;, Rutan, t12. it has become the custom, in this world of ours, to write a history of everything that oceupits a plan? of importance, and to follow this custom the editors of this year's Seagull are publishing a history of it The history of the Seagull as pre- sented covers only a period of four years, and we hope that by the end of the next four years some genius will arise from our midst, and not only add to this history, but improve upon the brief out- line as presented by the present writers The Class of 1912 was the first class to publish a review of the yvar's work in the form of an annual, and their work is to he greatly commended. HThe princi- pal part of everything is the beginning, and the beginning made by the members of the Class of 1912 is the thingr that has made the Seagull a success each year. l S B HAYNES i l Editanin-Chiefnflhe FirstSeagull M S- 3- Haynes W35 Chose to 9d h, the first edition of the Port Arthur High Schuol's Annual, and XV. Li Rutan attended to the financial side of the publi- cation. Th3 Class of 1912 thought of many names for the hook, and after much argument and discussion! doeidcd to call it the Seagull. The first Seagull stood in a class with similar publications of other sehocls in Texas, and has surpassed by nontx Financially it was a success, also, for a considerabl: amount of money was turned over to the Class of 1913 to start them in their task of publishing the second volume of the Seagull, Each year the graduating classes of the Port Arthur High School have published a volume of the Seagull, and each year the hunk has seen many im-

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vuvuvuvuvuvnHrvuvuvuvvvuvuvuvuvuvuvun vuvuv OREWORD N presenting this, the fifth volume of Lhe SEAGULL, to a student body yearly growing mm-o disrriminating, wear? hoping to achieve the high standard set by our predecessors. If in years to come this book shall bring happy memories of youthful friends; if in years to come it shall bring back to some of us the enthusiasm, faith, and ambitions of our school days, then indeed will the editors be content. H U Hnnnnnunlulunuuu:InnHnlxnunuununnmn IIAHAHAMInININAKAHAKAKAHAMANAHANANANAHAI