Central Catholic High School - Scepter Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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Waomliaffa... THEY said that high school would be different from grade school. Every Freshman at Central must have heard that when in the grades. They were right. High school is different. When you were an eighth-grader, you were at the top of your school, the big boy. Then you arrived at Central and heard Sophomores shout- ing, Hey, Frosh, roll up your pants! Yes, high school is different. The first few days were strangely new. No recess, no little first-graders around, but bells rang at the end of class, prayers were said, and you started for the next class. Everybody started, it seemed, except you. You couldn't find your locker, you couldn't remember what period it was. When, finally, you decided what books you needed, the bell had rung and all were in class already except you. Late, you meekly walked into the room and took the empty desk at the front. That was the way you spent your first few days at Central. As each day passed, you became more familiar with high school routine and grew to like it. Now you know your way around Central. You've become a part of the school and its activities. A year is past, and it won't be long before you leave us with the graduates of the Class of '49.

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...7a!Wen IT TAKES four years from the time you enter the door shown on the opposite page as a Freshman until you leave this door as a Senior. Four wonderful, fascinating years. At times, they were tough and busy years, too. But nd'?Centralite will ever forget them. Freshmen with rolled-up pants, scuffling' in the noisy Freshman hall-Latin books. Sophomores, locker-in by the bookstore, not .scuffling quite so much, always first in bond drivese-still Latin books. juniors, filled with plans for proms, locker-ing at the end of the hall-physics books. Seniors, their ranks thinning a little now--there's a war on, you know-but at last in full possession of the Senior locker room. A bit more serious perhaps, filled with excitement over graduation, wanting to graduate, and yet, not want- ing to leave-trigonometry books, Army and Navy tests. You've learned a lot at Central in four years, much more than the knowl- edge in the textbooks and more than the report card shows. You've learned how to conduct yourself as a Catholic and as a gentleman, whether it be in the toil of war, or the business of peace, or the business of saving your soul.