Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. —Robert Frost Youth is wholly experimental. —Robert Louis Stovenson 19

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Each Central scholar shared a common bond with his fellow students, that of being presented with an open door to knowledge. And each student was rewarded, di- rectly or indirectly, for every effort he put forth. Each path was planned, guided, and mapped out by the ad- vice of counselors who also helped when the trails got steep and rough. Whether his academic path was in a college prepara- tory or terminal program, whether the class was English literature, physics, bookkeeping, auto mechanics, or home economics, the scholar was faced with never-be- fore-experienced opportunities, new horizons to seek, and new goals to strive for. Problems wore faced on every trail where first en- counters with Julius Caesar, a new slide rule, a swim- ming cap, a T-square, news clippings, test tubes and thermometers, parallelograms, the Civil War, pica sticks, an empty bobbin, the Hallelujah Chorus, verb con- jugations, Longfellow, college applications, and micro- scopes presented challenges met with groans and over- come with sighs. ACADEMIC