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

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Memorial Program or Mr. Randolph E. Scott October II, 1946 Presentation of the Occasion . , . Chorale-Oh, Light of Life . . An Appreciation ..... Song-Commit Thy Way. Oh Pilgrim . . . A Tribute from the Faculty . , Vocal Solo-The Twenty-third Psalm . . Personal Memories of Mr. Scott . Hymn-Abide With Me . . . . MR. BEN H. BARR . . . . . BAND . TED DUBOWSKI . GIRLS' GLEE CLUB . . . MR. ROY V. COFFEY . MARGARET NICHOLS . . MR. DAVID H. WEIR . . . . . . . . . BAND In Memory of Mr. Scott The faculty, students, alumni, and friends of Central High School were greatly shocked and grieved to learn of the sudden death, dur- ing the summer vacation, of our colleague, teacher, and friend, Mr. Randolph E. Scott. In recognition of his faithfulness and effi- ciency as a teacher at Central, this faculty desires to express its sense of personal loss and its appreciation of Mr. Scott's thirty- four years of service. As a teacher, his instruction was outstand- ing in its thoroughness. His students under- stood that he desired of them a high standard of proficiency. Because of his great ability in mathematics and the logical trend of his thought, he was able to perform routine tasks with speed and accuracy. This allowed him additional hours for the extra-curricular work of planning the school program. Few of us realized the amount of time and the carehe willingly devoted to this exacting work. As a man, his own character exemplified those traits he tried to inculcate in his stu- dents. He was dependable, industrious, accu- rate, and honorable. He possessed a keen mind and quick wit, being particularly apt in detecting pretense and sham, with Which he had little patience. He was also remark- ably well-read, and deeply concerned with contemporary social and economic problems. He was intensely loyal to the school, to the students, and to his ideals of service. He will be greatly missed by all who were associated with him. Be it therefore resolved, that this expression of our appreciation be sent to his family and to the Board of Education, and be placed among the records of this school. MR. COFFEY MISS LOWRY MR. VAN LANDEGEND MR. MARSHALL

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Teachers on Retirement D. H. WEIR H. F. PRATT FRANCES J. Moox H. B. SMELLIE J. S. GOCHENAUER ANNA JEAN GIBNEY Louis KITTLAUS ELIZABETH J. PARKER ELIZABETH G. RICE A FBYCWCII FTOITI Mf. WBIICCI' 1Ret1'r1'ng in Septemberj To have served as a teacher and coach in the institutions of St. Louis for a period of forty-two years, from 1904 to 1946, is a privilege to be appreciated and cherished. As the Nestor of our Central faculty of l946, the author of this message recalls en- tering the high school system when our school was the mother institution, just before the formal opening of Yeatman and McKinley. As might be expected of a mother institution, Central has contributed to the seven other high schools some of our most outstanding teachers, coaches, and many of our promising students. This contribution also includes sev- eral of the most efficient of the St. Louis high school principals and vice-principals. Before I make my exit from the. stage of action next September, I am going to take the liberty to make an appeal to the pupils, faculty, alumni, parent-teacher society, board of education, and taxpayers of St. Louis, to initiate a campaign to build a new, modern, up-to-date Central High School before the year 1953, which will be the one-hundredth anniversary of Central, the oldest high school west of the Mississippi River. We have the green light, so let us all work in a team-like way to attain our goal, which will be to have constructed a Central High School dedicated as a memorial to secondary education in the City of St. Louis. --Nl. W. WALKER.

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World War II Memorial to be made by Walker Hancoclc We announce here with deep satisfaction that the memorial tablet commemorating Central's heroic dead of World War II will be made by Walker Hancock, the same artist who executed the bronze plaque in memory of those Centralites who fell in World War I. Then a promising boy just graduating from Central, in 1919, he is now a world-famous sculptor and a teacher of his art. Busy though he is, he undertakes this service of devotion in the same earnest spirit of his schoolboy years. lt would give me the greastest joy, he wrote, to make the memorial. Our City Administrators PHILIP J. HICKEY, Superintendent of Instruction J. S. NANTS, Assistant Superintendent of Instruction in Charge of Secondary Schools BOARD OE EDUCATION TERM EXPIRES HERBERT O. WINTERER, President ...,..,.,, 1949 4247 S. Grand Boulevard ELMORE M. PUTNEY, Vice-President... 835 S. Eighth Street CHARLES J. DYER ....,....... 2006 Salisbury Street MRS. IRMA H. FRIEDE. ...,,. . 302la Allen Avenue RUDOLPH HOFMEISTER .......... 3958 S. Grand Boulevard WILLIAM SCI-IUMACHER ........ 3013 Meramec Street ...N1949 .....1947 ...H1947 .....l947 ......,.1947 FRED H. BECK .............,.,.,. 4200 Sacramento Avenue C. OSCAR JOHNSON ............. 620 N. Grand Boulevard JAMES J. FITZGERALD ......... 6322 S. Grand Boulevard FRANK P. NACEL ..........,.... 5700 Lansdowne Avenue J. HARRY POHLMAN ........... 818 Olive Street FRANCIS C. SULLIVAN ......... TERM EXPIRES .HAHHNI949 .HHHl949 ,HrM195l .HAHl951 .HHH1951 .HHUAH1951 1889 Railway Exchange Building