Billings Central Catholic High School - Rambler Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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ADMINISTRA TION With a nature common to all, man has come to inhabit every corner of the earth. In departing from the center of his world, man became separated from other men and acquired traits characteristic of his surroundings. Thus we recognized him today by his tribe, race or nation. Yet, as a common nature binds all men together, we may find a direct parallel between ourselves and any race which has ever lived. Through this 1960 Rambler, we have tried to portray and hope you will see the parallel between ourselves, the Americans of today and the Indians, the first Americans. Central administrators on the Disciplinary Board: Sister Mary Ruth. Sister Mary Incarnata, Sister Mary Lenore, Father Donovan. Father Fox, Father Hruska, Coach Zellner. Today and Yesterday CLASSES We offer the chalice of salvation . . Study—a student's way to maturity

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4 X In the heart of our history burns the memory of the American Indian. His world—one colored by unique pageantry, custom, and ceremony and by his spiritual nature—lives with us. Here was a people whose measure of success was not only a man’s physical prowess and tribal prestige, but his contribution to the strength of his people and the honor and virtue that would live on after death in his spirit. In America he was born and here he lived—not just as a savage but as a human being—a fruitful existence in the way he knew. He lived in this land first as a pagan and then after the missionary brought him a new and stirring motivation, he began to live a Christian life and looked forward to a beatific eternity. Now as he has become the vanishing American, we will try to recall him for you as he was. He was human, God fearing, and American as we are today and in this full sense, his is our heritage. A perceptive and sensitive man came forth from a dying era to immortalize with pen, brush, and clay the Old West. Charles Marion Russell was truly an artist, not only because he possessed talent but because he portrayed with depth of feeling this epoch in which he was not a mere observer but an actual participant. He chronicled it and its death with a mixture of sadness and humor, violence and sincereity that mark his works as true history of an era gone but not forgotten. 3

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Creative arts that help mold the whole man are Paralleled To picture the life of the Indian we have used the works of Charles Marion Russell whose genius captures amazingly on canvas and in bronze the life and spirit of these first Americans. Your school life and youthful spirit has been most uniquely portrayed through the ingenuity of our student photographer, Bob Dubuque. Our thanks goes to the Montana Historical Society for making these photographs available to us. We also wish to express our appreciation to Bob for the many hours of work he has put forth endeavoring to make this yearbook the best that Central has ever had. SOCIAL r a 1 Time out for relaxation a«r SPORTS Meanwhile . . . back in the locker room FINE ARTS 5