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CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL TUX SIT” Published by the Students of Central High School Calgary, Alberta, Canada 50
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2 PRINCIPAL’S FOREWORD I his year Central High School students publish the fiftieth volume of their yearbook. The Analecta. This year also marks the close of the sandstone building on 12th and 8th as a senior high school. It was on September 1st, 1908 that Central High School opened her doors to the stu¬ dents who transferred from Calgary ' s first high school, the now almost forgotten Sleepy Hollow . Almost immediately the Analecta came into being. The faded minutes book of the Literary Society records that at the meeting of November 20, 1908 the first Analecta was read to the students. It was not until several years later that Volume 1 was published. How long ago 1908 really was can be appreciated by the 1965 graduating class if it is recalled that the year after Central High School opened, the Frenchman, Louis Bleriot performed the incredible feat of flying across the English Channel in his areoplane, a non¬ stop flight of over thirty miles. Four years after Central opened, David Wark Griffith pro¬ duced The Birth of a Nation , the first picture of a quality to suggest that the motion pic¬ ture might some day displace other forms of theatre entertainment. The minutes of the early meetings of the Central High School Literary Society show that in common with many other high schools Centralites debated the question: Resolved that the Automobile will some day displace the horse as a means of transportation . The negative side nearly always won. In that distant era of 1908, there was no radio, no television, no sulfa drugs, no antibiotics, no automatic telephones, no long distance telephone lines, no color photogra¬ phy, and no memorial tablets hung in the main corridor at Central. That Central High School then as now instilled in her sons a sense of duty is attested by the fact that in World War 1 twenty-six former students gave their lives in action. In World War 11 seventy-one names were added to the list of Central ' s illustrious dead, and ex-Centralites won every Commonwealth decoration with the single exception of the Victoria Cross. IN ow in 1965 the old sandstone building is closing. Two years will elapse before the new Central, Central Memorial High School will open in 1967. If the Central Memorial student of 2024 can look back to 1967 and see that her record equals the record of the old sandstone Central between 1908 and 1965, then Calgarians may well be proud of this new school. For old sandstone Central ' s corridors have known the tread of the feet of future Rhodes Scholars, Cabinet Ministers, Supreme Court Judges, leaders in Medicine, Law and Business. lo the group of students headed by Editor, Cliff Prowse, who by their hard work have made the publication of the 50th Volume of Analecta possible, I offer my sincere congratul¬ ations on a job well done. To the members of the graduating class of 1965, old sandstone Central ' s last class, may I on behalf of the staff of Central, offer congratulations and best wishes. You go into a very different world from the world of 1908. A world where the aviator dreams not of crossing the English Channel but of the conquest of space, a world of automation, a world of rising nations in Africa, a world of the solving of the mystery of the living cell, a world where the human race faces the alternative of utter destruction or unimagined plenty and prosperity. It is a world of challenge, of opportunity, of great things remai ning to be done. It is a world for bright ' minds, courageous hearts and faith undimned. Like other sandstone Central classes back to 1908, you will not fail - you dare not fail. Goodbye, good luck. God bless you. O ' . I f
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