Central High School - Signal Yearbook (Columbia, TN)

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THE SIGNAL A Hearty Welcome EMBERS of the Board of Education teachers friends and class mates I wonder lf it is really necessary for me to try to tell you in words how truly glad we are to have you with us today We have already learned how useless words really are when they try to ex press the deepest feelings of the heart It is said that there is truly no sweeter word in the English language than the word Welcome We really do want to say it to you and to say it in the right way Perhaps it will not be amiss to say a word in explanation of our having invited you to our school today We my classmates and I have completed the course of study prescribed for graduation from Central High We have laid the greater part of our youthful years upon the altar of learning a great deal of thought a great deal of enthusiasm a great deal of application somethmg of sacrifice something of Joy Gaming an education has been the most important factor ot our lives thus far our absorbing interest It seems meet to us then that the successful con clusion of somethmg that so long has engaged our closest attention that so long has been kmt into the very fabric of our lives should be flttmgly celebrated How can we better celebrate this event than by gathering our friends together to listen to the recital of our achievements in school ness would not be complete without your being happy with us for it IS true that no man lives unto himself alone The threads of our lives have been interwoven with the threads of yours and so you are nothing if not welcome Peggy Goad Salutatorian Class Colors, Flower and Motto T THE beginning of this our Senior year we met for the purpose of selectmg three things-colors flower and motto-which wel to be our symbols throughout the year For our colors we chose marlne blue and gold for our ilower the yellow rose and for our motto ON TO THF TOP We did not choose an Alice blue or CGFIQQ or manue or any of the up to date but certainlv transient hues of the modern maids vocabulary These will all be but tomorrows as utterly forgotten in the dust heap of the past as they were known yesterday We selected only those enduring shades that haxe gleamed through the ages ln the rainbow of promise since God set his bow in the clouds For we wanted our colors to endure in Just such glorious promise through the ages of success that are to be ours F1rst then we chose the blue ot truth for our foundation the blue 4Page Twenty five v . 1 v . 1 ' v ek a . v gg YY . , ' s 9 l 7 7 . 9 7 7 ' ' F 7 ' 7 9 - ' ! and our aspirations in the life that is to follow graduation? Our happi- ' I i , . . . . .H . Y . . . W . , , c . , P Y , S ' , LA ' ii L 4 . . V K . .K , y ' ' 9 V ' ' . D ! V i . D

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THE SIGNAL nf 4 fPage Twenty fculr WILLIAM DOBBINS Slgnal Staff 37 38 Folk lore Club 38 French Club 38 DORINDA DERRYBERRY Glee Club 35 Latln Tour nament Representatwe 35 36 37 Latm Club 38 French Club 38 Sec Folklore Club 38 Camera Club 38 Sxgnal Staff 37 S1gnalEd1tor 38 DABNEY ANDERSON Dramatlc Club 37 French Club 38 Folklore Club 38 WILLTAM HOWELL Baseball '18 C Club 38 Baseball 35 36 38 Football 38 Basket ball 36 37 38 Captam Bas ketball Team 38 All D1str1ct Basketball 38 CHRISTINE YOUNG Glee Club 38 Basketball 35 36 37 38 French Club 38 Folklore Club 38 L1 brarran of Glee Club 38 V 'l ' I 7 ma, tr , EDWARD EARL wooD A fm a lv v , v . . ' -

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THE SIGNAL of the sky and the sea and of all the eternal thmgs that are as true md as hlgh as the Heax ens and as deep and unrestlng as the ocean Blendmg w1th the blue that means so much the rlch gold of pure value and true honest sterlmg worth the color of the sunshlne and the symbol of all glory what colors of more slgnlflcance could we hope to attach to our banner as we march forth 1nto the crowded throughfares ol lxfe There are many reasons why we chose the rose to be our class flower Flrst perhaps because of 1ts beauty and rlchness that appeal to our artlstlc sense but second because of the unlversal symbol of love VR today are very much 1n loxe wlth l1fe and wlth all 1ts lovely glfts We are ln love Wlth the past and all that lt has meant to us we are IH love Wlth the present and the honors It IS today holdlng out to us and we are perhaps more than all ln love wlth the future because of 1ts promlse lts dellghtful uncertalnty and the wonderful mvstery of 1ts unvelled glfts We reahze that at thls our graduatlon we are only at the begmnmg of our hves We put before us these four words to urge us on and cn courage us What better goal could We hope to reach than On to the Top Mary Pogue 600 Class ll-lllstorv F YOU w1ll glve me your k1nd attentlon for a few moments I wlll relate to you the story of a marvelous class the most wonderful class that ever happened at old Cental Hlgh namely the class of 1938 We come from haunts of QUIZ and test We drop our sad demeanors And sparkle out above the rest Of pupil hood The Seniors' By twelve grades we scrambled here And thrlce as many teachers Through nlnety books a salty tear And half a hundred bleachers Our flrst elght grades were spent ln trymg to fool our teachers IH reahty foollng ourselx es Then we arrlved at Hlgh School very elated But the noble Superlntendent And the teachers of the classes Looked upon us wlth compasslon For they knew we were but chlldren And they spake such words of wlsdom That our frlght was stralghtway melted And we Jolned ourselw es together And llke brothers l1Y6d henceforward K Page Twenty s1xJ , ' , 1 1 - T , n K ' I I Y ' - . r, - r r . ' , ' x 1 Q ' ' . . . 7 4 v L . . V N , . . W . . V My . . . . Y vn , . - v . Y . . V. . v . 3 1 . . 7 . 1 K 9 fr . Y Y. . . . 1 1 9 y r K , v 1' v v . Q - cc an . , . - . O 7 W L l 7 , . u - A 9 . K , ' ' H n 9 7 v r il ' v 7 r ' ' - . V. . Y ' ' - 7 9 7 . . Y 9 . . 7