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

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jim yllldf Hivm Bu FREDERICK OAKES SYLVESTER Immortal teacher of Central, painter, and poet By the red man's grave and the ancient trail, By cabin and camp I glide. Dark pines o'er which the eagles sail Stand guardians at my side. In a cradle of gentle hills I wake, I nurse and sleep on the breast of a lake-d And when my first full leap I take, I tremble in my pride. By the fields of wheat and the fields of corn, By forest and isles I flow. Now shadowed by dusk, now mirror of morn, Far down to the sea I go. I ioin the mirth of a thousand rills That laugh in the meadows and dance on the hi My song the path of the springtime thrills And the tide of the pathless snow. By the great cliffs and the prairies wide, By valley and farm I speed. Fair Heaven I clasp, a willing bride, To my ocean home to lead: Her garments of gold and azure light, I fashion anew in our onward flight, I double the jewels she wears at night. Her every word I heed. lls

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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -ws::-:-:-:::::::::e-vw:+::e+:+:.-e:xiii-1-515-:iqqiqv 5154151 - s?1e:-1-QQ :4ew :,w:-2544442:Wah-aes..-.-ae.-Q.-Q:: ::::,:.-aaaaw. - - - - - - sw - - - - - He was born in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1844. One still vivid memory of those early days is of his being frightened by suddenly confronting a whole troupe of grotesque wax figures in the dark attic of his father's warehouse. His father had taken these waxworks as surety for a loan he had made to a circus. The loan was never paid and the figures were melted and moulded into candles for sale. After high-school days, Mr. Walsh married Iennie Lind Conn, a grade teacher in St. Louis. He has been engaged in various businesses, was at one time a member of the Merchants' Ex- change, and when he retired from business life, eight years ago, was cashier and bookkeeper for D. I, Bushnell. He has always been a scholar. interested especially in languages. He mastered Spanish after one of his daughters married a consul to Mexico. He still reads from his beloved German books. But in his latter years he has derived his greatest pleasure from a study of plants and flowers. To frequenters of Shaw's Gardens he has been a familiar figure. for he has spent most of his time there during the past eight years. As one of his daughters remarked, Truly, his has been a long span of existence from those candlelight days of his boyhood in Natchez to the present. MR. IAMES ABsA1.oM WALSH at Ninety

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If i D. NICHQI-5 Presenting Hqfhg .... A Chronicle of Central High School Mine eyes have seen the glories of our dear old Central High, They have seen her sons and daughters by the thousands marching by.