Central High School - Cehisean Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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THE SENIOR ANNUAL THE TEACHERS. During our four years at Central we have learned much of our teachers, not only from them. but about them. Our attitude toward the faculty has gradually changed since we were freshmen, no longer do we regard them as instruments of oppression, but as friends and counselors. ' Their association with us has meant more, perhaps, than we now realize. Looking backward, we can see that the teachers have always been striving to bring out our good points and correct the bad. lf they have ever seemed impatient, it was because of the magnitude of their task, because they had such poor material to work with. The teachers have done much to make our stay here a pleasant oneg their influence will be with us long after we leave. They have strengthened our idealism, they have done much to make us true men and women of the future. They are teachers. but they are more than teachers. more than instruc- tors, more than advisers-they are friends. OUR PARENTS. Qui' parents! They were the ones whose aid and encouragement, whose advice and suggestions helped us over those rocky stretches of our school days when we might have faltered and fallen back, when our discouragements were soimany that we might have thrown away what we had already won. They may think that we do not realize the sacrifices they have made in our behalf, and perhaps we do not altogether understand, but we do know and we do appreciate a part of those sacrifices, and we are thankful. VVe are grateful for what they gave up that we might complete our coursesg we are grateful for the assistance they have given us with our problems-problems which, in retrospect, appear childishly simple, but which at the time were mountains of difficulty: we are grateful for their faith, which moved those mountains, we are grateful for the restraints, for the hands which held us back when we might have plunged over the brink, we are grateful because they rejoiced when we rejoiced: we are grateful to them for remembering their own youth and acting accordingly, we are grateful for their understanding of usg we are grateful for the fortitude with which they viewed our reports. But above all this. we are thankful that they are themselvesg thankful that we have them and their support. VVe shall appreciate their sacrifices better hereafter, when our perspece tive is adjusted. and when they have confided to us some of the difficulties and disappointments they have passed through for our sake. And we are grateful, too, because we know they will excuse the crudity of these words and understand the feeling beneath. Donald Cooley Page II - I'-' 4

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THE SENIOR ANNUAL QI Tribute THE TAXPAYERS. As the time comes when we must leave the schools in which we have spent the greater part of our youth we naturally turn about in our minds for words to express the appreciation we feel for those who have made pos- sible our educational journey. Foremost among these are the taxpayers of the city, that great body of citizens whose financial support has made the schools what they are. They may feel that we are not grateful, that we accept the privileges they give us merely as a matter of course. It is not unnatural that they should think so, for we have had no means of ex- pressing our sentiments. Hence these words. We are gratefulg we realize that many of us could not attend the high school were it not for the support of the public. And we should be blind, indeed, if we could not see the benefits we have derived from our training, the discovery of latent aptitudes and abilities which will make us better citizens, and if we were not thankful for them. We have learned much aside from books. We have learned to be democraticg thrown together, two thousand of us, we have learned to be human and to understand our fellows. Someone has called the public schools the greatest agent for democracy todayg certainly, none can deny that they are democratic. Learning these principles, we apply them to national life, and we understand better this cosmopolitan nation of ours, and we ap- preciate the workings of the melting pot and the fires beneath it. Because we have learned these things, we must be better citizens. Be- cause of this training, the public school means something to every Ameri- can-for every American deals with citizens, and every citizen is influenced in some way by the public schools. VVe feel sure that the present condition of overcrowding and insufh- ciency of necessary equipment in our school growing out of the marked in- crease in attendance, which during the past few years has outstripped the means of accommodation, will soon be remedied. XVhat the taxpayers have spent in our behalf will not be forgotteng it will come back to the city mul- tiplied. VVhen we become full fledged citizens, we shall, thanks to our early education, be more capable of returning in civic enterprise something of what has been expended in our behalf. VVe will do our best to return the bread cast upon the waters. Payc IO 4. Q K Z,

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