Central High School - Caldron Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Commencement exercises final high school activity The last major function of the Senior Class of 1966 was to receive their diplomas. Seniors gather ed in the gymnasium with their parents, relatives, and friends to partake in the serious ceremony of receiving their treasured diplomas, Seniors entered the gymnasium to the voice of Richard Harris singing Graduation Day . After the graduates were seated, Mr. Lester Grile, Superintendent of Fort Wayne Com- munity Schools, introduced the speaker, J. Wilbur Haley. Mr. Haley, a former teacher and principal of Central High School, spoke on the Traps of Light. Class officers Clyde Williams, Ernest Calland, and Shirley Love led the active senior class through its busy year up to the Commencement exercises which ended four years of con- tinuous struggling and hard work for seniors. ' I f0m K The sradualiiig clan w u led into the gymna»ium by th« four your Honor Roll JtuJc.itn. Graduate! remained standing until the Cla»» of »66 ' i entire student body wa« in the gym.

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Banquet honored Honor Roll students Scholastically outstanding students were honored in the spring at the Scholarship Banquet. Any students who had been on the honor roll during the year were invited to attend the banquet with their parents. The valedictorian and saludatorian ot the senior cLiss were seated at the head table with their parents. Members of the four year honor roll were seated directly in front of the head table. A student must maint.iin a 90 point grade aver- age to be on the four year honor roll. These students received special citations and pms for maintaining a high average during their high school career. The top two students were given plaques to signify that they were the students with the two highest averages in their class The honor roll students were all introduced to banquet attendants by their homeroom teachers. The parents of these students were also introduced. A Central alumnus. Mr. Tucker addressed parents, tcache and students attending the annual Scholarship Banquet. As Mr. Tucker spoke at the Scholarship Banquet. Mrs. Louie, Mr. and Slagle listen to his words of wisdom for those Mrs. Horstmyer, Mr. and Mrs. Spuller, Mr. and Mrs. Slagcl, and Jeanne Scholarship Banquet in the spring. ending the annual

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Commencement exercise! began with the procession of the Superintendent of FWCS, Lester Grilc, Principal Paul SpuUer, class sponsors, and the senior homeroom teachers, and seniors filing into the gym. Most treasured moment of Commencement is receiving the diploma. Students filed up to the stage to receive thoir diploma and a hand- shake from Mr. Spuller, Central ' s Principal . Ccntralitci listened to the Traps of Light, presented by Commencement speaker J. Wilbur Haloy.