Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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 But Moscow can’t be only two hundred miles away!” resolve these ROTC boys, Bill Eye, Dick Knuth, Ed Daasch, Dick Wulf, and Ron Johannsen as they study and plot maps. Getting a more realistic taste of Army life are these ROTC boys as they practice shooting targets at the CHS rifle range. Expert marksmen from ROTC classes are members of Central High’s Rifle Team, who “fire away” in competition with area schools. ROTC Provides Future Leaders While the academic departments prepare students for leadership through knowledge, the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps enhances theory with actual practice. Past President Eisenhower once described the program as “designed and perfected to develop the qualities of leadership required in both military and civilian enterprise.” With this in mind, ROTC strives to foster patriotism by movies and discus- sions on Anti-Communist activities, good citizenship through understanding, and leadership through actual experience in commanding groups, making de- cisions, and assuming greater responsibilities in a chosen field. Additional incentives to leadership occur outside school hours through the Service Club, Officers’ Club, Rifle Team, Drill Team, and Color Guard, all integral factors aiding to satisfy the goal of the ROTC department. CAPT. CARL MORRIS Military Science and Tactics SGT. DONOVAN DARLAND Military Science and Tactics SGT. ROBERT CHIPMAN Military Science and Tactics SGT. OAVID VROOMAN Military Science and Tactics

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Deciding which colors and lines are best for different shapes and sizes are Phyllis Crawford and Doris Heb- ler, both students of Adult Living. One of today's homemakers biggest problems is maintaining a good budget. CHS Foods students, Pat Schaecher and Beth Hutchison, prepare for this problem by comparing foods in the muskrat and mink lines that produce equal servings and equal nutrition, but differ in cost. Homemakers Practice Arts MISS CATHERINE DOWNING Department Head Family Life Home Economics MISS CHARLOTTE CARSON Home Economics Young Adult Living Because approximately 23 per cent of Davenport Central girls marry the first year after high school and 45 per cent are married two years after graduation, CHS’s home economics department assumes an im- portant duty. Interested girls may elect any of the three courses carried through two semesters and offer- ing two credits each, which deal particularly with the art and science of personal, home, and family living, with practical experience in such skills as clothing construction, foods and nutrition, home nursing, money management, child care, and home arts and crafts. For college bound seniors or future business girls, a young adult living course presents information about personal living, consumer education, and marriage in a manner in which girls will be able to utilize it in future situations. Family life education attempts to instill each stu- dent with understanding — of himself, his family, his friends, and his marriage. Designed to improve per- sonality, to develop leadership, to accept future re- sponsibilities, to foster wise shopping, and to improve present and future homes, home economics trains girls for the biggest career in their lives, through the belief that America will be no stronger than her home.

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Morning hours in the Principal’s Office find Mrs. Mary Jean Lafrenz recording student’s schedules and Miss Diane Siefers compiling the daily absence list. MRS. EVA MOELLER Registrar Principal s Secretary MR. ORVILLE KAHLER Activities Director Facilities, Specialties Enrich Curriculum Only the long line of students buying tickets and supplies is missing in the Activities Office, but it gives Mr. Hollis Brown and Activities Director Orville Kahler an opportunity to check ticket sales for a Friday night game. Without the aid of certain personnel throughout the building the work of the school could not run successfully. As Registrar and principal’s secretary Mrs. Eva Moeller must schedule the classes of all students besides handling the principal’s important corre- spondence. Aiding her in the Principal’s Office are Mrs. Mary Jean Lafrenz and Mrs. Corailee Kendelsperger. In addition to handling the paper work for 1300 students and the 70 faculty mem- bers, the office staff is in charge of the lost-and- found, all school bulletins, permanent records, and attendance records. In the Attendance Office, formerly the Counsel- ing Office, Miss Marcia Clemmens, secretary, does everything from issuing late slips to making ap- pointments with college representatives. Here all excuses are returned, and the necessary bookwork which accompanies them is carried on. College bound students soon discover that in the Attend- ance Office they can secure information on many colleges and universities as well as on available scholarships. Cumulative records of the student body and graduates are kept up to date and filed here.