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

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THE ws West Point Academy EDSON SCHULL Student Police Force (3); Student Welfare Board (3): Hi-Y (3): Torch Club (2); Banjo Club (2, 3); Baseball Team (2, 3): Basketball Squad (2, 3); Class Nominating Committee (3); Class Basketball Team (1). My life is one horrid grind.” “My lif I 1 ¢ d. VIRGINIA SEARLES Mount Holyoke College G. A. A. (1, 2, 3); Orchestra (2, 3); Pierides Alpha (3). “A lady, a scholar, and a sincere friend.” MARION JEANETTE SKINNER Springfield City Library Course G. A. A. (1, 2, 3); Class Historian (3). “Do noble things, not dream them all day long.” BESSIE E. SMITH Towell Music School G. A. A. (1, 2, 3); “‘“Patience” (2); Glee Club (1, 2, 3); Nisimaha (2, 3); Basketball Team (1); Hockey Team (1, 2, 3); Gym Assembly (3); Decorating Committee for G. A. A. Fair (1, 2, 3); Junior Prom Committee (2); Usher at Graduation (3); Advertising Committee for “Julius Caesar” (3); Usher at “Julius Caesar’ (3). “A sweet allractive kind of grace.” ie BLUE AND WHITE hie ELIZABETH TWISS SMITH General Course G. A. A. (1, 2, 3); Pierides Alpha (3); Nisimaha (2, 3); Music Club (2). “Outel persistent work can't be imitated or replaced by anything.” MARGARET ELIZABETH SMITH Normal School G. A. A. (1, 2, 3); Glee Club (1); Pierides Alpha (3): Nisimaha (3); G. A. A. Fair (2); Class Banquet Com- mittee (3); Usher at Graduation (3). “Dignity of womankind.” Simmons College DORRICE HAYWOOD STRONG G. A. A. (1, 2, 3); Pierides Alpha (2, 3); Pierides Beta (1, 2); Nisimaha (2, 3); Music Club (3); G. A. A. Fair (1); Phillips Prize Speaking Contest (3); Usher at Graduation (3). “4 largel for young cupid’s darts.” College Preparatory Course STUART SUGRUE B. A. A. (1, 2, 3); Baseball Squad (2); Baseball Team (3). , “I’m sure study is an enemy to life.’

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: AME Bay Dts Ue Be MAND Ware as FREDERICK CHAPIN OBER Harvard College Room Agent for “Recorder” (1); Humor Staff of Blue and White (3); Room Agent for Blue and White (3); B. A. A. (1, 2, 3); Advertising Committee for “‘Julius Caesar” (3); Scene-shifter for “‘Julius Caesar” (3); Agent for ‘‘Macbeth” (3); Senate (2, 3); Senate Tablet Debate (3); Co-chairman of Senior Prom Committee (3); Chair- man of Photograph Committee (3); Prophecy on Prophets (3); Usher at Graduation (3). “On their own merits, modest men are dumb.” MILDRED ELMIRA O’NEAL — College Preparatory Course Editorial Staff of “‘Recorder”’ (2, 3); G. A. A. (1, 2, 3); Pierides Alpha (3); Secretary of Pierides Alpha (3); Pierides Beta (1, 2); Nisimaha (3); 3B Fiesta Committee (3); Class Will (3); 3B Declamation Contest (3); Usher at Graduation (3). “T cannot check my girlish blush.” WALTER JOHN OSINSKI Springfield College Entered Central in September, 1926 B. A. A. (2, 3); Football Team (3); Basketball Team (2). “A little song lighlens the heaviest burdens.” CAMELA VICTORIA G. A. A. (1, 2, 3); Orchestra (3); Glee Club (1, 2, 3); Musie Club (2, 3); Secretary-Treasurer of Music Club (3). PARRINO General Course “Virlue alone is happiness enough.” Pu BEATRICE MARTHA PERRY . (1, 2, 3); Music Club (3); G. A. A. Fair (1). “Of manners, gentle.” MAY ANNA REDMOND Springfield Hospital Gy AS AA, 2,3): “4 woman's size ts no judge of her character.” KENNETH EATON RICE Norwich University Assistant Collection Manager of “‘Recorder” (2); Assistant Distribution Manager of “Recorder” (3); Room Agent for ‘‘Recorder”’ (3); B. A. A. (1, 2, 3); Banjo Club (3); Collector’s Club (1, 2, 3); Treasurer of Collector's Club (2, 3); School Band (3); Class Basketball Team (1, 3). “Sweet and low, Sweet and low, Sweet as the infant's waking smile.” FRANCES GEORGIA ROSE G. A. A. (1, 2, 3); Advertising Committee for ‘Julius Caesar” (3); Usher at Graduation (3); Usher at “Julius Caesar”’ (3). General Course “A pleasing manner enhanced by flashing black eyes.” he ag 20}

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THE BLUE ACN. 2 We re CATHERINE ETHEL SYMONDS Philadelphia College of Osteopathy Entered Central in September, 1925 (ae ALpA (loz. es “A lillle bundle of cheer.” ELIZABETH HARRIET TRUE Forsythe Dental School G. A. A. (1, 2, 3); Advertising Committee for “Julius Caesar” (3): Vice-President of Nisimaha (3). “Silence is the mother of truth.” yas nie STUART GIDDINGS WAITE Post Graduate Course B. A. A. (1, 2, 3); “As You Like It” (1); “Julius Caesar” (3); House (1, 2): 1A Declamation Contest (1); School Band (3). “T have a soul above bultons.” FRANCES LORELEI ZIRKIN Curtis Institute of Music Editorial Staff of ““Recorder” (1, 2, 3); G. A. A. (1, 2, 3); ‘“ Patience’’ (2); Glee Club (2); Pierides Alpha (2, 3); Pierides Beta (1, 2); Music Club (1, 2, 3); Secretary-Treas- urer of Music Club (1, 2): Vice-President of Musie Club (3); French Club (1); Gym Assembly (3); Usher at Grad- uation (3); Drama Class (2). “She charms us with her music.” History of the Class of 1927+ Back in the dim, distant past, we arrived at Central. Save for a few of us, this wasa strange and pathless wilderness, peopled by cannibals of various degrees of ferocity; namely, the teachers. Besides them, other savages inhabited the building: these were members of the tribe of upperclassmen. In our first classes, we learned that they were quite harmless after all. After passing through the strange ritual, the making out of our programs for the first time, we felt that we were really Centralites. Then after what seemed two or three days, we became pos- sessed of the ability to vote, and elected Bill Lieson our freshman president. After another short time, we reached the day of reckoning, the last day of the semester. Coming back from our vacations, we made the acquaintance of the portables and forthwith began coining adjectives indicating our disgust. We also took on a new dignity; we could look down on the incoming frosh. Having gained the necessary, we gave a social, which, as a social, was a success. At this time those of us who were taking Latin came across that learned and able talker, Cicero, and promptly wished that he had been chocked while yet a child. After the smoke of battle had cleared (2B Elections) and the last vote counted, Al Gariepy became president. We then gave our never-to-be-forgotten 2B Social, which in our estimation, was a huge success. Having now advanced in age and abilities, we were able. to use without blushing the excuses, “T was sick and couldn't do il,’ or “‘The page was torn out of the book.” When this semester was laid away and