Central Vocational High School - Pendulum Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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MR. RAY F. KUNS FORMER PRINCIPAL

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TO THE CLASS OF 1947 As members of the graduating Class of l947, you have reached another milestone in formal education. The technical knowledge and shop ex- perience attained in Central's class rooms and shops should enable you to meet the requirements of further education or entrance into industry. The road ahead is a difficult one. There are Ruts of long and tedious work which offer uncertain reward. The doldrums of hard times, unemployment, ill health and accident will try your souls. The ride down Prosperity Slope will be easy, but the climb up Adversity Hill will be hard. During prosperity, don't spend all you earn. Save some for a rainy day. But with all the vicissitudes of life, keep an abiding interest in your chosen work. lt is a real possession in the changing fortunes of the world. How far you travel on this road and what success is attained, will depend largely on your own efforts. A high resolve to give of your best and, without compromise of ideals, to be friendly and at peace with all men will do much to lighten life's burdens. Success can be measured in two ways: accumulated wealth, and the help we give others. lt is hard for man to realize that what he writes on the hearts of others is written for eternity. Most men find out too late, that the only things they have when they come to die, are the things they have given away. Strive to be a man respected in your field, and loved by those who know you best. ROY E. CAHALL

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4' 0- we .la-.-gsqwi , .- . GOOD-BYE, BUT NOT FAREWELL It is with considerable regret that we must include an account of the retirement of Mr. Ray F. Kuns as principal of our school in this year's annual. A regret because we hate to say good-bye. For more than thirty years, Mr. Kuns has been connected with the Cin- cinnati Public Schools as teacher or principal. His first assignment was that of teacher of industrial arts in the Oyler Elementary School. At the close of the First World War in l9l9, he was placed in charge of the Auto School in rather meager quarters at Court Street and Gilbert Avenue. This school was later known as the Auto Trades School, the Automotive Trades School, and finally the Automotive Vocational High School, and was housed for a time in Withrow High School. In l928, the present building was erected on lowa Street. ln l94O, the Automotive Vocational High School was merged with other vocational high schools to form the Central Vocational High School, and Mr. Kuns was named principal of the newly-formed school, the position from which he retired in August, I946. At the present time plans are going forward for the erection of a new Vocational High School on Central Parkway at Ludlow Avenue. Mr. Kuns has had an active part in the preparation of these plans, but, like Moses of old, he has led us through our Forty Years of Wilderness until our Promised Land is in sight. Now he turns the command over to a new Joshua, but his spirit lingers on. Mr. Kuns retires with the best wishes of the faculty, and a host of present and former students. Whatever may be the extent of his worldly possessions, none will have greater value than the knowledge that he has etched an epitaph to his memory on the hearts of a myriad of Cincinnati's young men.