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

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The Society of Literature and history. YELL. Boom-a-laea! Boom-a-laca! Boom! Boom! Bah! S. L. H! S. L. H! Rip! Ray! Rah! Colors: Purple and White. OFFICERS. President Vice President Secretary Treasurer S. L. H. Critic Sergean t-at-Arms Reporter Ralph Morrison Mary Pepper Eunice Langley Carrie Rockefeller Joyce Richardson Bessie Daniels Newton Wagner Chester Swan MEMBERS. Bessi Daniels Gwendolen Edwards Madge Elliot Mable Jenkins Nellie Milam Winnifield Patton Ethel Peeples Olive Richardson Aliene Triplette Winnifred Carpenter Eunice Langley Joyce Richardson Margie McDonald Carrie Rockefeller Frank Mary Pepper Georgia Burns Ruby Adams Lorenzo Dewey William McLaren Ralph Morrison Edward North Clement Richardson Alfred Seddon Chester Swan Allen Wayman Will Singleton Carl Craig Newton Wagner Kaynor. —83-

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 SOCIETY OF LITERATURE AND HISTORY.

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Sketch of the Society of Literature and History. (As told by An Alumnus) in the year 19 0. Fifty years ago in the village of Kay See, which overlooked the glittering(?) expanse of the Big Muddy, there stood a “little red school house,” from which many of our most brilliant beings (and others not so brilliant) have been launched upon the world. This building was called Old Central; here the verdant children of the townspeople daily digged and delved, searching for the roots of knowledge. Some, making pitible attempts to trace the source of the tree recommended to their attention, came to the conclusion that, like Topsy, knowledge “just growed.” Others, possessed of fertile minds and ambitious spirits, swept on toward the longed for goal and at length burst upon the startled community of the town in the full light ot graduation and glory. To this class belonged the members of the Society of Literature and History, and of the four secret societies which, by the kind but somewhat hesitatingly reluctant permission of the School Board, had maintained an ex-istance through many years. Philos might intersperse hard work with dance and giggle and shriek; Platos might rage and storm and make cyclonic attempts to devastate the property of the school; C. L. C’s. might be torn in twain by civil—or uncivil—war;—still onward sped the strong current of the life of the S. L. H.; still upward climbed its mem l ers toward understanding. Recorded in the annals of the society were many honors won by the wearers of the purple and white. Written in the book of membership were the names of many of the brightest and most conscientious workers of the .school, students who had for their standard, earnestness and integrity, and who had won their high rank through ability. In the sands of time, footprints indelible mark the progress of these boys and girls who were searching for wisdom and glory, and who found fun and frolic while they waited. For the god of knowledge did not rule alone in their midst; pleasure ever sat beside him and made bright the path of duty. Indeed, in the words of William Allan White, “The Lord said, “Let there be light, and there was.” The S. L. H. -84-