Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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FOREWORD WE have embodied in this yearbook a certain symbolism of the Indian with the purpose of re-establishing the original people of our val- ley in memory. In the period of the Indian, the councilfires of the Sacs, Sioux, and Ottawas were emblems of tribal potency in his domain. Today the Red Man is restricted to the servitude of the reser- vations, where he is wont to pass a stoical existence —the remnants of a fallen race. As a tribal host, the Indian shares history; yet as a scattered people, he is gradually being forgotten. The destiny of the Red Man resembles in its ele- ments and phases the course of a class. While band- ed together as a class we represent the pinnacle of achievements for that group, as did the Indian in his tribal state. And as the Redskin passed into obli- vion upon exodus from his primeval domain, so does a class vanish as a unit when its members enter life’s individualism. As the wigwam hieroglyphics, the wampum, and the basketry reflect the Indian today, even though exiled; so may this book recall our activities as a class in the years which lie beyond.

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 THE BLA6KH WK ASSEMBLED A PUBLISHED Mh CLASS f 1922 . ““DA EHFOKI HIGH SCHOOL THE SIXTH VOLUME iii

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PROLOGUE AUSE, oh palmers, one and all, Loiter at our festival! Strange the deed accomplished here. Within the covers of this book Is bound one golden, living year, If you will for a moment look. Tender, nurtured memories, Silhouettes on the stage of life, Furnished with the silv’ry keys, Reveal the days that never die. In years of retrospect and yearning Flit these visions of the past— Days of joy and days of learning— Within this book are truly cast.