Central High School - Blue and White / Pnalka Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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V O L U M E I V Senior Class History BY STANLEY F. WITHE September 4, 1906! Who of us do not remember that day, so mo- mentous in the history of our class and so illustrous in the annals of the school! How indelibly imprinted in our minds are the memories of that day which first looked upon the'Class of 1910. Since that morning in the fall of 1906, four long years have passed-and quickly. During those four years many changes have taken place. We hope they are all for the better. Cer- tainly, as a class, our infiuence has been exerted upon the affairs of the school, but how much have we really accomplished? Together let us review the events of our high school days. Our Freshman year was far from eventful. The first occurrence of interest was an address by our Principal, intended apparently to instill in our minds while in a pliant and unsophisticated condition, a wholesome fear of the conse- quences of such horrible breaches of school discipline as skipping periods, going out of bounds and tardiness to classes. But judging from the later conduct of certain of our class, this warning must have been taken with a considerable quantity of saline deposit. For soon did we learn the less frequented highways leading to downtown drugstores and in spare moments did our best to carry out the motto of our school annual, patronize our advertisers. Strange to say, this practice was not to the liking of the powers that be, and as a result a close blockade was laid on all means of exit. But, although many of us, through longer experience, were able to elude the enemy's cruisers, and in some instances to successfully conduct parties through the enemy's lines, yet the school archives testify but too well to the fate of many of your classmates, who in a moment of carelessness were pounced upon by the Dreaded One or his hirelings and haled before the Great Tribunal. May their souls rest! Because of the high intellectual attainments of the class, it was the unanimous sentiment of the school that the election of officers would be unneces- Page 17