Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Mr. Frank Copley (98) is attending Ann Arbor. Mr. Kersey Reed (98) and Mr. I). L. James (98) are at Vale. Miss Ruth Gentry (98) is at Vassar. Misses Virginia Moore and Marie Pugsley (98) are at Smith. Miss Fthel Osgood (97) is clerk of the Manual Training High School. Mr. James Yeager (97) is attending Ann Arbor. Mr. Earl Rieger (97) will in a short time be admitted to the bar. Miss Grace Hawes (98) is studying elocution in Boston. Miss Alice Russell (98) has been in Chicago taking the kindergarten course. Miss Mary Bone (98) is substituting in the Kansas City schools. Mr. Benjamin Lee (97)1 is at Harvard. Miss Bernice Wells (98) is teaching in the Humboldt school. Miss Cora Waring (98) is substituting. Miss Sophia Baum (98) is traveling in Europe. Mr. Steve Ganson (96) is at the Missouri State University. Mr. George B. Longan (98) is reporter for the Times. o—

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THE FRESHMEN. Yell. Central Ree, Central Rah! Freshmen! Freshmen! Sis, Boom, Ah! Colors Burnt Orange and Light Blue. RECIPIENTS for all anti-diluvian jokes, unspared objects for jest and jibes so called, milk-drinking, candy-eating, sand-pile-playing Freshmen, we want to state right now that we are here, four hundred strong, patiently, calmly serenely abiding the time when the hated name of Freshmen will be relegated to the past and we shall be Sophomores, rampant in name and in deed. The history of our year’s existence has been one long series of abuses imposed upon a patient, long-suffering class of individuals whose only fault was inexperience and extreme youth. But how can we help being young and unsophisticated. We were born young and we have not the grinding out of the years so that we can make ourselves older faster than other people become; and as for being inexperienced, the time will come when we will talk back to our teachers just as Seniors do. and chew gum like Sophomores, and flirt like Juniors. Just wait ’till we get started and the school will be in a continuous hubbub as we pass through the four years’ course. Already we have had a meeting where one obstreperous member was bodily expelled, where chairs flew through the air like meteors through the sky, where frightened girls lost their false hair and boys fainted in the excitement. Just think when we get old and strong how we will tear things up. We advise the Board of Education to brace the building with iron girders so that in future years it will stand the strain of our meetings. We are organized and ready to do business; we have chosen colors and a yell and have elected officers. These are the regulators: President, Fred Pugsley (strong enough to enforce all rulings by physical backing); Vice Brest., Martha Brent (good to look at); Sec., Lucile Gibson (adds dignity to the meetings); Treas., Will Singleton (counts coin easily); Ser., Roy Russell (a good rustler); Ser., Helen Swofford (does cake-walk when performing duty); Reporter, Lloyd Morrow (a regular sunbeam. )

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Mr. Halsey Lyle (98) and Mr. William Wallace (98) are attending the Medical University. Mr. David Hirsch (97) is a sophomore at Harvard, lie is president of the Sophomore Debating Club, and is considered one of the best speakers in the University. He won second place in the contest for the Pasteur Debating Medal. Miss Lea Woolf of the class of ’96 graduated with the highest honors at the Medical College this year. Mr. Guy Lewis, Central’s declaimer (96) graduated from the Kansas City School of Oratory last year. He is now teaching elocution in Rich Hill, Mo. Miss Elizabeth Parkinson (96), whose beautiful voice has charmed so many hearers, is now studying Music in Europe. Miss Bertha Elston (96) is substituting in Kansas w City schools, preparing to become a teacher. Mr. Will Vaughan (97) is in business in the city and has been very successful. Mr. Will Whitfield (96) is on the exchange department of the Star. Miss Edith Davenport (96) has been taking a postgraduate course at Central, and is now preparing to go to Europe to study art and music. Miss Nathal Sharp (97) is teaching. Mr. Frank Wilbur (97) is in business in the city. Miss Lucilc Stewart (97) is substituting in the Kansas City schools. Mr. Ralph Wakefield has become a very successful minister. Mr. TheodoreCriley, the valedictorian of the class of ’98 has spent the winter in Arizona. Mr. Shelton Stone (98) is a deputy sheriff at the Court House. Miss Pearl Constable, the winner of the senior latin medal in the class of ’97, is traveling in the South. Miss Martha Criley, who graduated in ’97 as valedictorian of her class, is at Smith. Mr. Clifford Snow (97) is employed with Swofford Bros’. Dry Goods Co. Miss Virgie Hubbell has been compelled to leave college on account of ill-health. Mr. Charles Eldridge (98) is employed at Emery, Bird, Thayer's. Miss Fannie Rembert has been traveling in the South the past winter.