Central High School - Centralia Yearbook (Bay City, MI)

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The Class of 1927 OFFICERS JAMES F. BAILEY......................President EDWARD MEISEL . . . Vice-President ALLEN MARKEY.........................Secretary VIRGIL LaPORTE ...............Treasurer JACK WHEELER . . . Sergeant-at-Arms CLASS COLORS Blue and Saffron CLASS MOTTO “Baffled—to Fight Better” CLASS FLOWER Chrysanthemum Page 15

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SALUTATORY m ♦15 Graduation is the ultimate goal of all students. Graduation is the event which celebrates the attainment of that amount of success in education that allows us to proceed in an upward direction toward higher and more difficult ascents. That is the goal that we, the class of ’27 of Central High, have at this time gained. We must forever keep climbing steadily upwards or we are lost; we must always work to improve ourselves in all ways, and above all we must exert ourselves in helping those who follow in our paths. We feel exultant in our being able to climb to the height of high school graduation, but we must not sing of a success which is not wholly ours. We must stop and think. Who acted as our generals, majors, captains, lieutenants, quartermasters, and supply sergeants in our late struggle? They are those back of us in all branches of our activities; they are those who should be and who are exultant and overjoyed at our present success: they are those who are completing the second part of the duties of life by aiding us who are now doing the first duty of climbing upwards. Who are these who stand behind us and urge us on to greater efforts? They are our elders, with whom we come in contact every day; they are none other than our fathers, our mothers, our teachers, our advisors, our ministers, our neighbors, our elder friends, and in general, the whole of human society. Even our ancestors were important factors in enabling us to have the advantages that we have in the form of excellent schools, proficient teachers, good texts, efficient methods of teaching, and all the fine equipment and apparatus that we have for the development of healthy bodies and strong minds. Where would we be at this time if it were not for the guiding hands stretched out to us in a spirit of sacrificial help? Surely we would not be the proud graduating class of ’27 as we now are. So with our success and subsequent feelings of elation, joy. and happiness there must also be a deep-set. heartfelt feeling of mingled thanks, gratitude, and appreciation which should be extended to our host of benefactors and creditors. By all rules and laws of nature we must in some measure try to repay this enormous debt which rests upon our shoulders. To do this there is no better way than to go on with our work and to reach the peak of perfection in everything we undertake to do. In this way we can pay our debts, earn credit for ourselves, be examples for our followers and living memorials to the teachings of our dear old Central High. —James L. Bailey. -22

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CLASS SONG V Words and Music by Beatrice M. Moore You could surely tell our class, every day as we did pass. In the class-room, and the halls about the school: For we worked and also played, and we mixed i every day. In proportion that would make a splendid rule. Chorus: Nineteen. Nineteen Twenty-seven, This year's history we did make. In the elass-r oo n. on the field. Our good reccrd we did shield. For we surely won all things we had at stake. We all loved the Blue and Gold: by these colors we were told. And we worked that they would win a worthy name; We have made all others flee in our sports as you did see,-- We won the highest honors of each game. Chorus. Now the grades have all been passed, and we leave you all at last. Now we tras you'll not forget our reccrd clear; In our lives the golden rule and the teachings of this school, Will from evil and temptation safely steer. ('horns.