Central High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Pueblo, CO)

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Page Twcnz Ofhcers of the senior class were B. Finney, president: F. Wilson, treasurer: B. Baker, secretary: and R. Andrews, vice-president. Leading the junior class were J. Murten, president: G. XVall, retnry: F, Foley, vice-president: and R. Uchida, treasurer. dfassas fatty A716166 of 678126165 life . Climaxing 12 years of secondary education the seniors take their leave in June to become alumni of Central high school. The class of 1939 has been energetic in its attempt to establish new traditions and to keep pace with the old Kid day was revived by the class and it was observed with customary costumes and a party held in the evening. Tacky day and Martha Wash- ington day were also observed by the seniors. The class was led in its activities by Robert Finney, president, Richard Andrews, vice-president, Betty Baker, secretary, and Forrest Wilson, treasurer. For the first time in the history of Central a girl, Betty Kilfoy, was elected student president. As presiding ofiicer of the student council she was assisted by the following senior members: Robert Finney, John Trevithick, John Mohar, Joe Dillon, Hazel Walker, Nelle White, and Doris Dayton. Those serving as roll representatives during the course of the year were Juanita Baker, Wayne Carter, Louis Schwartz, Richard Andrews, Eleanor Predovich, Marianne White, Alyce May Whittington, Betty Price, Albert Myers, Bill Dugan, Jane Phillips, Dan Price, Herbert Casebeer, Virginia Martin, Estelle Gavotto, and Ruth Rita Eden. Nelle White was crowned Central's queen and her attendants were Betty Price, Marion Broberg, and Loretta Hill. Many seniors were active in planning pep assemblies and encouraging the support of football and basketball games. Active members of Catsclan were Wayne Carter, Marjorie Barr, John Mohar, Betty Kilfoy, Juanita Baker, Stanley Vansickle, Fred Myers, Nelle White, Fred Huling, Eleanor Predovich, Pauline Cid, George Marshall, Betty Baker, Bill Wilson, George Sabott, Forrest Wilson, Patty Ann Taylor, Alice Carlile, Dorothy Pressly, Justine Mason, Doris Blackburn, Bernice Williams, Bob Finney, Lester Ottinger, Louis Schwartz, and Eddie Skaro. The class of '39 claimed many of the lettermen of the school. Among them were Ted Elkins, John Mohar, Louis Schwartz, George Marshall, Ed Lesar, Sylvester Di Nardo, Ernest McCarey, Fred De Wan, Jack Dunlap, Fred Huling, Bob Johnson, Bill Saunders, Herbert Casebeer, and Ed Micklich. Many individual honors were won during the year. Sylvia Giarratano was selected as the D, A. R. delegate. The winners of the annual Declamation contest were Betty Baker and Robert Finney. Their speeches were entitled Americas Unknown Soldier, by Warren Harding and The Dilemma of a Pacif1st by Dorothy Thompson. Betty Baker doubled her honors by winning the Keating essay contest with her essay i'Fashions. Hollywood Extra, the annual operetta. had many seniors in the lead- ing roles. The cast included John Trevithick, Betty Young, David Alexander, Lorraine Rainer, Dorothy Stravia, Nelle White, Bob Johnson, Fred Myers, and Fred Pickett. y-two

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:Sheen--C74 gbcmf of gbusgfob life Steel! The backbone of a civilization! Steel! A not-so-costly silvery-blue metal that is more priceless than gold. Steel has made the modern world what it is today, without it tomorrow would be another age of darkness. Trains, automobiles, airplanes, and sea-faring vessels, surely transportation owes its progress to steel. The machinery upon which the industries of the nation de- pend in turn depends upon steel. The housewife, the soldier, the businessman, the farmer, directly or indirectly all depend upon steel. Man would not even be able to wage a successful war without his steel battleships, tanks, trucks, cannon, guns, planes, etc. Modern man is helpless without steel: yet it is pitia- ble to find how little modern man knows of the story of steel. Throughout the world, throughout the United States, there are many cities almost entirely dependent upon steel manufacturing for the employment and support of their citizens. Pueblo, often called the little Pittsburgh of the West, is one of these cities. Although the Colorado Fuel and Iron corporation employs only a small portion of the population of Pueblo, the entire city is almost dependent upon the plant for economic success or failure. Under normal conditions the steel mills bring work to 10,000 men and women and affords support to 40,000 other persons, members of employee's families. The Colorado and Wyoming railway, a company owned railroad operat- ing between Pueblo and outlying mines, employes over one hundred men. The railway connects the steel plant with its sources of raw materials, Valdez, Colo- rado: Monarch, Colorado: and Sunrise, Wyoming, These mining towns em- ploy several thousand men. Fluxes in the demand for steel are transmuted by small depressions and booms to these mining camps hundreds of miles away. The influence of Pueblo's steel plant is felt as far away as San Francisco, California, where a CF'i5I branch mill operates. This mill produces wire cloth and similar products. The actual steel plant in Pueblo employs almost 6,000 men and provides for the care and education of them and their families. For the men, study courses are designed to aid in advancement in their kind of work. The women receive instruction and help in such household arts as cooking, sewing, etc. The children of the mill employees also benefit from this recrea- tional and educational program tutored by the steel YMCA. Corwin hospital, built by the C F 'Ed I insures medical care for mill employees and their depend- ents. In Pueblo, Valdez, and Monarch, Colorado, in Sunrise, Wyoming, in San Francisco, California, the power and necessity of steel is particularly felt. In all these cities the tradition of steel is passed on from generation to generation. In Central high school almost 75 per cent of the student body come from homes entirely dependent upon the Colorado Fuel and Iron steel mill. Their grandfathers were among the first men to spread the gospel of steel: their fathers are veterans of 25 years or more steady employment at the mill-the skilled masters of the open hearth, the blast furnace, and the blooming mill: and the younger generation, with the eagerness and confidence typical of youth, look forward to subduing the God of Steel. With the student body so vitally interested in the C F iff I, it is only natural that with the publication of its twenty-fifth yearbook, Central high school should pay tribute to Pueblo's greatest industry, the manufacture of steel. Page Twenty one , f ' . - y 5: I , I- -. - A , ,,f- K , lg. Z? - I- gal, ' f -if ..::5, lm T521 -L- I ff! ' ' X J ' 4 X .Q 1 A ff C95 f za- 1 gi, i so z -..'..- 'E , 0 . i :. .. - .

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1 The seniors were well represented on the scholarship team by James Ehl. Bob Finney, Dorothy Gruden, James Hannan, Betty Kilfoy, and John Trevithick. A successful debate year was made possible by Doris Blackburn, Bob Finney, Loretta Jackson, Frank Sakaley, De Wayne Morrell, and Jack Myers. These seniors won berths on the debate team early in the year. The year drew swiftly to a close with the traditional senior banquet and the junior-senior promenade. Councilors for the class were Mildred Woodside, Dorothy Sprengle, Nelle Hayworth, Jeane Fillingham, Anna R. Castle, Sara Mulnix, and Blanche Taylor. With 13 members of the class on the football squad, several likely candi- dates on the basketball team, and four members on the scholarship team, the class of '40 have achieved a wide variety of accomplishments. Joe Horvat, Jack Neelan, Phillip Pryatel, George Bensik, Robert Mc- Govern, Dan David, Harry Garett, Sam Giarrantano, Norman Mergler, Richard Milhan, and Harry Johnson played on the football team. Albert Davis, J. Ray Langdon, Gordon Samuels, and Georgia Melvin won places on the scholarship team. Oflicers leading the class were James Murten, president: Frank Foley, vice- president, Gwen Wall, secretary, and Richard Uchida, treasurer. Those assisting in governing the school were Helen Ponder, Jean Garrett, James Sakaley, and Robert McGovern who served as the junior representatives to the student council. Hazel Allen, Burt Bovee, Carl Calloway, La Verne Dakin, George Hatha- way, Katherine Keating and Ann Spiller served in the capacity of roll represen- tatives during the year. The annual DAR. history prize was won by a junior, Albert Davis. although many seniors competed in the contest. Kay Freed and Dan David were active as junior members of the editorial board of the Wildcat. The principal achievement of the junior class was the presentation of the junior play Excursion, directed by Richard P. Beatty. The large cast in- cluded Gilbert Cain, Walter Conrey, Herbert Virden, Marie Bucciarelli, Joseph Parliapiano. Bonnie Jean Easter, Dorothy Gallaher, Margaret Abel, Elfie Loud, and Daniel Grant. The members of the junior class who tried their hand at debating were Morise Weindling, James Sakaley, William Reese, Andrew Dorazio, William McClain, and Joe Parliapiano. The class was directed in its year's course by sponsors Anna Maud Gar- nett, Laurence Carlson, James C. Stratton, Bula Leddy, V. P. Atkinson, B. S. Tedmon, Helena C. Tedmon, Rex Laird, and Paul Hansen. Sophomore oflicers were Robert De Vore, president: Dorothy Babish. secretary: Mary Ellen Francis. treasurer: and Robert Larson, vice-president. Leading the freshman class were Jack Sisson, president: Irene Horvet, vice-president: Alice O'Leary, secretary: and Ray Ricotta, treasurer. ,,,,,,,,,,, I Pug Tue ry th e