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

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platoman Society About a score of years ago Central’s first literary society was organized, known as the “High School Debating Club.” It admitted both boys and girls to membership. It is safe to presume that in such an organization of school boys and school girls not more than eleven twelfths of the time was devoted to serious debating and literary wor while the other twelfth was spent in having a good time. It is even probable that the smaller part was oevoUd to work and the rest of the time to play. At any rate it is known that some of the more serious boys and several outsiders got together and formed an entirely new society for boys and work only. Thus in bssb the Platoman Society” was organized. In that year they gave their first open session, a modest little entertainment in a study hall in the old building. Each year the open sessions grew better and were carried out on a larger scale. No longer were they given in the afternoon in a study hall, but at night in the new assembly hall. The year of the first open session was also the year of the first contest with the C. L. C. Unless one has been a member of either of the two rival societies, one cannot judge of the excitement and the spirited rivelry that exist during the whole year, gradually growing stronger and stronger as the contest approaches, and reaching the climax on that night. During the early years of their existence the societies were obliged to hold their meetings any where they could, but when the new building was added, they were all provided with rooms adjoining the assembly, “Plato Hall” was on the fourth floor in the extreme northwest corner of the building. The very thought of it brings a flood of pleasant recollections of the meetings held there. The members of the society sat on three sides of the room while the president and secretary were at the other side, all forming a hollow rectangle. No Plato who ever attended a meeting in that room can forget it. But those good old times are gone. We have been deprived of open session, contest, and even our room. We are worse off now than we were in our first struggling years. Why was this done? Surely not as a punishment. Let us hope is was far some other reason and that by next year Central’s societies will have all their former privileges restored to them. ALBERT J. BONE. -2?-

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Officers and Members of the platonian Society. COLORS: Apple Green and Pink. YELL: Agomen! Dergomen! Rip, Ray, Rah! Plato! Plato! Sis Boom Ah ! Active Members of the Platonian Society. OFFICERS. Mr. Chandler Warren Watson, - President. Mr. J. Fredrick Green, - Vice President. Mr. Will IIogsett, - - Secretary. Mr. Wilbert Rodgers, - - Treasurer. Mr. Tom Branifk, - - - Critic. Mr. Richard Robertson, Sergeant-at-Arnis. Mr. Roscoe Potts, - - Praetor Platonian. 1 his Year’s Past Members. Mr. John R. Walker, Jr. Mr. Tom Reed, Mr. Dan Saunders, Mr. Arthur Brown, Mr. RicharP McCarthy, Mr. Henry Thayer, Mr. Harry Lyon. Chandler Warren Watson, Reed Byers, Albert J. Bone, Lee Philbrook, Bvers Love, Dan McFarland, Richard Robertson, Wallace Lee, Will Hogsett, Kim Barton, Wilbert Rogers, J. Scott Harrison, Jr., Tom Bran iff, Burnes Moore, J. Fredrick Green, Roy Bradbury, Norman Lombard, Roscoe Potts, George Kilpatrick, Frank Howard, John Taylor, Harrj' Wayman, Ewing Cole Clifford Langsdale, Lawrence Blodgett, Paul Kirtley.

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