Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Holiday Happening Twas the week before Christmas vacation and all through the school- students and teachers were anxious for the season of yule! Getting into the Christmas spirit wasn't too hard around C.H.S. With posters. Christmas trees, and garlands hung about the halls, we could tell that the special time of year was finally here and the long awaited two week vacation was just around the corner. Instead of the traditional Christmas aud this year, the music department presented a special program. The orchestra, under the direction of Rayburn Pierce played selections from the Nutcracker Suite.” Then the a Cappella. headed by Milton Anderson, sang some favorite carols and religious songs, including the Hallelujah Chorus from Handels Messiah. While the Christmas spirit lingered at school, holiday happenings were going on throughout the city. Stores bustling with Christmas shoppers, decorations of red and green and colored lights dotting the cold wintery nights. Mix those with visiting old friends and being with families and the result is a relaxing two weeks of holiday happenings.

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Ring-g-g ... The bell rings and with a sudden jerk we glance at the clock. It seems too early for the class to be over. Wait a minute ... we're on A bell schedule today, wow that means there's an aud. There's an interesting yellow poster in each classroom at CHS that lists a bell system from (A-D). Whenever a period is shorter or longer we know that usually something spe- cial is going to happen that day. And it’s most likely an aud. On their way to a pep aud streams of students saunter to the gym. picking up the vibrations of Fly Robin Fly” being played by the pep band. Once the gym is filled, the clapping and cheering begin with a deafening roar. But not all auds are rowdie”. Who can forget the touching moment when Daintry Price was named Homecoming Queen as she walked majestically alongside senior class president Mark Kilmer to her throne? Or the exciting performance by the Henversons? No matter what the occasion for an aud from humorous to ceremonious- the scheduled interruption in the day is welcomed by one and all. Part of the Gong Show, contestants are CHS students' impersonations of our West-end oppo- nents. 30