Centennial High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Pueblo, CO)

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Walter Melvin was named winner of the Time current history contest. A number of junior officers and sponsors helped Centennial's R.O.T'.C. unit win its second successive honor rating. Songsters Bill Waye, Bob Edmiston, and Kenneth Baird were in the annual operetta. Although both juniors, Velma June Clark and Diane Wankel consecutively held the post of editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, and scores of juniors were on the annual staff. Senior classes at Centennial have the habit of working cvertime on school activity, and this class was far from being an exception. Hardly had the school year begun than Shirley Jean Ward won the queenship of the NC Club by virtue of season ticket sales. There were ten senior lettermen on Centennial's second consecutive South-Central league championship team-Eugene Voris, Jack O'Brien, Kenneth Martin, Cressy Kingery, Neal Hobbs, Bob Cash, Bob Belcher, Prank Wood, and this year's honorary captain, Richard Trevithick. Basketball lettermen were Jean Raymond and Kenneth Baird. The track team was captained by Eugene Albo. John Todd was re-elected class president, Betty Lou Jensen vice-president, Betty Jean Graham secretary, and Mary McCoy treasurer. For yell leaders, the class of '41 outdid most classes, having a total of five within the year: Jean Raymond, Tom Malone, Anna Lou Walker, Leo Hill, and Charles Quillen. The Vodevil again starred a considerable number of '41-ers, as did the open house and the circus, at which time Wilma Fox became l94l's circus queen. The operetta, Words and Musz'c, presented Bill Walmsley, Donald Rusk, Shirley Jean Ward, Kay Spoelstra, Kenneth Baird, and Abe Raich, While Through the Night, a mystery play presented by the speech department, included in the cast Pat Ducy, Betty Jean Graham, George Rice, Waynne Mertz, Bob Belcher, John Todd, and Howard Meyers. The cast for Touczrich, the senior play, included George Rice, Betty Jean Graham, Rosemary Stowe, John Todd, William Hopkins, Pat Ducy, Bob Belcher, Mary Jean Jones, Howard Myers, Mary J. Parlapiano, Marjorie Crews, Shirley Day, Waynne Mertz, and Donald Rusk. Betty Jane Mattoon and Phyllis Donaghy were both Hesperian essay con- test finalists, and Mary Jean Jones reached the finals of the Muzzio reading con- test. Our board of eXperts ' for the year would include Gene Spear, master trick skater, Dorothea Miller ,imitator extraordinary, and Kathleen Ruspini, mistress of the dance. Debaters were Ruth Taylor, Walter Melvin, and Abe Raich, the last two winning permanent possession of the Greeley four-state tournament cup. The state prize-winning band included among its members, president Kenneth Martin, student director John Todd, chief musician Bill Jehle, and Dick Hoffman, Waynne Mertz, David Houston, Donald Vwfilson. Charles Quillen, and Vernon lmmroth, while first chairs in the orchestra in-- cluded Holger Henderson, Ethel Goodman, Betty Jean Longfield, Emogene Porter, and Clare Mae Place. Editors Diane Wankel and Velma June Clark piloted the school newspaper to first place in the national Columbia Scholastic Press c-ontest, while editor Bill Jehle, literary editor Mary Jean Jones, photo expert David Houston, business manager Elizabeth Traeder, and art editor Louise Hill made the annual just what you see here. As for honors, Betty Lou Jensen was chosen Centennial's D. A.R. representative, while Anna Lou Walker and John Todd were selected as Cen- tennial's most popular pair. Both the R. O. T. C. rifle team, on which were Aldo Battiste, Tom Gunter, Ralph Holder, Cressy Kingery, Bruce Elson, and Alfred Culbertson, and the Girls' Rifle Club, with Elizabeth Traeder and Clara Mae Place on its team, won numerous inter-scholastic meets: Kenneth Osgood was on Centennial's S. C. L. championship cross-country team. Ready now to leave, to pass for the last time between the first floor busts of Lincoln and Washington on our way to those doors under the big clock, still slowly and surely counting off its hours, we look back rather sadly, as senior classes must, to our assemblies, organizations, and activities of these 32,000-odd hours. We leave them now to our successors-as ever, a grand bunch of kids in a splendid old school. -ABE RAICH. Page Sixteen

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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

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