Central High School - Red and Black Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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ameri .xgA5a om WA L S H C Oldest Living Alumnus of Central High School Iamcs Absalom Walsh Graduation Picture. 1861 OOKING back through a vista of ninety-three years, Mr. Walsh finds it difficult now to recall people and events that have played a part in his long and busy C3I'6EI', Yes las he came unfalteringly down the stairsl, I graduated from Central High School- and from St. Louis University, too, but I recall little about it now. I know that Calvin Pennell, my principal, was a fine man: and my German teacher, Mr. Keller, I have never forgotten. I think he taught me French, too, but I can't be sure-. I studied Latin and Greek, but this may have been in the University. I knew Mr. Childs and Mr. Morgan, but I suppose that was after I left school. Yes, I graduated during the first year of the Civil War. My most distinct memory is of running to hide with a crowd of boys at the time that Captain Lyons marched upon Camp Iackson fMay 10, 1861l. One of the boys with me may have been I-Ioldridge Collins, for he was my best friend. He and I sang in the choir at the old Presbyterian church on Pine Street. Another may have been Tom Page. I can't be sure. i'Yes, I remember the old slave market in front of the courthouse and the room where slaves were kept prisoned until time for the auction. Although my parents owned slaves when we lived in Natchez, Mississippi, they did not believe in slavery, and they freed their slaves soon after they moved to St. Louis, just before I started to high school. I was just sixteen. That was a long time ago, and I'm not sure that my memories are correct. And he went back upstairs, leaving his daughters to sketch the rest of his long and eventful life. rvvvvvvsr.-ee.-: .-.-.-.-eerawsasay-:-Y-v-.-.-ru-.--: :.-.-::.- -.-:.-:-rvvvvsree.-.n --:ev-v-Y-