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

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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.

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MR. RAY F. KUNS FORMER PRINCIPAL

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Q TQ i 'Z Q 1 Q5 all 0PP0PTU,Vf77E ls I 25F50RE.D S . 'in ff l U I' nr ,WY5 l -nm I i 1 GENTROS-L i f ' . V0eArf0N,,, 107' H13 L l i Q 2 '14 . 'LSHOOL ffl if li v X jf! Zig' U I AVIATION NEGHANI A i ,Q 'ff f' f fy W MAGHINE roofs l K 7 i V f ff f AUTO f I lj l EL MEGHANIQS . f I ECTRIGQANS I , .- ' 7 l ' Q l 1 wvV' ' ' V' l V! ,dry wif., l it A 'Ury lfqfflfir. Q V Quai ' C I 4-V 5ilPif6H A. 5 'ff PRESENTING TOMMY TECH . . . . A few of the boys around Central recognized Tommy when he en- rolled at the beginning of the year, because they had known him in grade school before he went to the West with his parents. But not one of his former acquaintances was really up on Tommy's life history. So, because Tommy has become a personage of some importance at Central, and because Tommy's story might be an inspiration to other boys, we have felt that a little thumb-nail biography wouldn't be amiss at this point. The picture of Tommy's birthplace doesn't look pretentious, but a real home it is. Tommy's father is a hardworking Christian gentleman who knows what it takes to earn a dollar, and has learned' how to use that dollar. Tommy's mother has been, through the years, the one person who has made possible the real home that Tommy lives in. When the family came upon the scene, Tommy, his brother, and his sister, had a big advantage, because they were born into a real home. Just after Tommy finished seventh grade, his dad, who had an idea that work might be pretty good on the west coast, moved to that territory with the family, and there Tommy completed his eighth grade, and was ready to enter high school. Then the family moved back to Cincinnati. ln consultation with his mother and father, Tommy decided, that since his talents and interests lay in the technical field, he would enroll in Central Vocational High School because he and his parents felt that training there would best fit him for his life work. You've seen him around school without recognizing him, we think. We had Mr. Claude Shafer draw a sketch of Tommy, so that you might recog- nize him when you meet him. Chances are you will find him around certain spots in the school, and if you are interested in keeping up with him this might help you. Tommy is a Freshman football player, he never got into a game the whole year, but even so he reported for practice every day, and on time every day. Tuesday and Thursday mornings find him lending his voice to the melodious effect of the Glee Club, and when bowling club meets, you'll see him there. He didn't get elected to student council, perhaps because he is so new, but he is the first to volunteer for school jobs, and he keeps the Council representative on his toes constantly asking what's doing in Council? '