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

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I ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Printed by Wiese Printing Co. 1 Bound by Beck- told Co, 1 Engravings by Central Engraving Co., under the management of Mr. Harry J. Swain, Jr. 1 Group photographs by Mr. J. G. Princell 1 Cover design by TX5 Siegfried G. Reinhardt, Central, '44, I I I THE RED AND BLACK Senior Annual 1945 VOLUME XXVIII Enriched by the pastg Dedicated to the Future.

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edward? 7 -xl 1 MISS LAURA R. THOMURE, Sponsor First Row: Virginia Roth. Arthur Schmidt, Lois Lisle. Helen Delahay. Bernice Sanders. Second Row: .loc Sanders. Gloria Murray, Anna May Sanders, Georgc Hunt, Fern Morgan, Anita Schnittkcr. Doris Green. Third Row: JimEtta Oakley, Shirley Schnakc, Charles Harris. Dclmos Thomas. Fourth Row: Patricia Clcvcland. Marian Mills. Laurel Tovngcs, Vcronica Neary. Miss Thomure, Dorothy Fagan, Ruth Bayer, Loretta XYilIhilc, NV:irncr Lange, XY.1lIcr Slanick. THE RED AND BLACK STAFF Editor-in-Chief ' LUIS LISLE Associate Editor ARTHUR SCHMIDT Sponsor . . . . . MISS LAURA R. THOMURE ASSISTANTS Busmcss Manager ...... . HELEN DELAHAY .-lssislanl . . . . VIRGINIA ROTH Club Editor . . BERNICE SANDERS IIVIIASI .... PHILLIP CAPPELLO fllhlelic Edilor . . CHARLES MURDOCH Sunior Pictures I DOROTHY FAGAN ' ' I VERONICA NEARY Seruire Roll Editor . . . RUTH KUHLENGEL .-lssislant Service Roll Editor . . EVELYN DIXON Photographers Qrvg, RUTH FRANK KAZUKAITIS Senior Varsists PATRICIA CLEVELAND. ALBERT COI'IEN, ESTI-IER DUNLOP, KATHRYN JAMES. MALCOLM KASSELL. WILI.ARD WOLEE General Assislants XVARNER LANGE WALTER STANICK LAUREL TOENGES Advanced Typcwriting Classes FACULTY ADVISERS Businvss Sponsor ..... MISS ELIZABETH G. RICE rlssislant Business Sponsor . . MR. ROY V. COFFEY Service Roll Sponsor . . . . MISS MARY L. BECK T Y . . Y I IVIISS IVIARJORIE EWING LJPPLLFIIIHQ Sponsors ..... I MISS ELSA SOECKNICK IVIISS FLORENCE HIGGINBOTHAM I IVIR. JESSE VERTREES flssisfrmls . . S

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I 7a Um On Wednesday morning, February 21, the faculty and pupils of Central High School were shocked and grieved to learn of the death of Miss Laura Thomure. She had seemed to have so firm a hold on life and health that for the moment we were all stunned and incredulous. Until her last ill- ness Miss Thomure had not been absent one day in the sixteen years of her teaching at Central. In fact, the records may show that she had not been absent in twenty-eight years of service. ' Miss Thomure was born in Festus, Missouri. the youngest of a large family. She is sur- vived by two brothers, Joseph Thomure, of MISS LAURA R. THOMURE Deceased February 21, 1945 St. Louis, with whom she made her home, and Dennis Thomure, of Chicago. After graduation from the Central I-ligh School in St. Louis, she attended the Uni- versity of Chicago, receiving the Bachelor and the Master degrees. The research shown in her thesis, School Publications, earned hon- orable mention, and brought numerous re- quests for permission to publish parts of it. She began her teaching career in St. Louis at the Columbia School in the days when Mr. Howard was principal and when school men of the country beat a path to its door. Miss Thomure was a leader among those