Centennial High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Pueblo, CO)

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Back Row: JOHN TODD, MAY McCOY, JEAN RAYMOND, BETTY LOU JENSEN Front Row: BETTY JEAN GRAHAM, MISS MELCHER Journal of 'LHC When you mount the steps 'to enter Centennial at its oldest section, the 1876 entrance, the first thing to catch your eye is the big clock high above the doors. The old timepiece's hands have ticked through some 32,880 hours of life, of joy and activity, since three and three-quarters years ago, when the class of 1941 first entered those portals. In football, basketball, music, dancing, debating, queening, or writing, the passing hours have revealed the 41-ers to be rich in the spirit that in all classes makes Centennial great. In their first year the members of the class of '41 ventured into virtually everything open to them, including Mr. Heaton's office, all of Centen's hidden doorways-sports, music, and drama. Their Freshman act for the Vodevil was outstanding, Neal Hobbs made the football squad, and the freshman rifle squad boasted twenty-one aces. Critic and guardian was Mr. Jehle. Betty Lou Jensen, who continued as sophomore president and then was vice-president for the last two years, presided. Barbara Noe was vice-president, and Betty Jean Graham and John Todd were secretary and treasurer, respectively. Shakes- peare Award winners were William Hopkins and Barbara Noel Great things began to happen as the clock started its 8,760-th hour. Pauline de Mordaunt won the Vories debate medal. Janet Watson copped the Davis Latin Medal. Jack O'Brien and Neal Hobbs won football letters, and Jean Raymond went to the state basketball tournament. The opera, Pinaforef' the Sesquicentennial pageant, the Vodevil and circus, the Sophomore Triple Trio, not to speak of newspaper and annual staff posts, orchestra, and band, were studded with '41-ers. New class oflicers were vice-president, William Hopkins, and treasurer, a post held during the following two years, Mary McCoy. This year Miss Melcher, industrious and sincere, became the class sponsor. Trackmen Eugene Albo, Gene Raymond, and Kenneth Baird won letters the following year, while football letters were annexed by Lewis Lane, Jack O'Brien, Neal Hobbs, Kenneth Martin, Eugene Voris, and Richard Trevithick, and junior basketball lettermen on the l94O state championship team were Jean Raymond, Gene West, Kenneth Baird, and Toby Ruybal. In debate Walter Melvin and Abe Raich won the B division championship at the Chadron, Nebraska, tournament, and a superior rating in the state tournament. Winner of the annual Ladies Auxiliary of Foreign Wars essay contest was Betty Jane Mattoon. George Rice won the American history award, and Page Fifteen 'WT