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

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SENIORS. “We who are about to die, salute you.” Diet Yes, eveu so. We must die, although the world may never see our like again— must perish off the face of the earth. Never more will the sun shine down upon our radiance more dazzling than its own. Never rao— shall we move, majestic, through the halls of old Central, a source of awe and reverence to the timid Freshies, a vexation and an annoyance to the important Sophomores, whose brassy arrogance was shamed by our sterling merit, an example to studious and admiring Juniors, a joy to our teachers and a terror to Mr. Coll. Never more. Cone are those joyous days, and our fate is close upon us. On Commencement Day will the awful consummation of our destiny arrive. We whisper it to you lest the shock of our sudden destruction be too great for your loving hearts to bear. The cause of this dire misfortune to the human race is one which you have never suspected. Dike a thunderbolt from n clear sky it falls upon you. We fain would mitigate the pain it must cause and yet the dreadful truth mast be told. The Seniors have become afflicted with a strange enlargement of the cranium. It is growing rapidly worse and worse, and such is the amazing speed of the fatal march of this malady that by graduation day our skulls will no longer be able to contain the brains that are endeavoring to fill the universe, and they will burst, leaving their contents to be diffused through the ether. Thas will be quenched the light of Central, nay. even of the whole world. Dear friends, bear it calmly. And yet we cannot blame you for those tears. It is fitting that you should weep. Central, lift up thy gates in lamentation. Let the sound of thy wailing he heard in the land. For whom thou shalt cry aloud in anguish. “Where are my darlings, the delight of my heart, the pride of ray soul?” The answer will come back to thee from the depths of thy desolate halls, “Gone—gone—gone. ’ ’

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SEN I OR OFFICERS. Adcltx'rt Heritor. 8erg«nnt-nt-Armn. Florence Trotter. 8 ct. Kalph K. Kill . Gift Giver. Karl Well . Treas. him Beardsley. Class Prophet. Dell D. Dutton, V.-Pree. Wni. MacLarcn, Pres. Mary Ixnilse Moore, Class Historian.

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JUNIOR OFFICERS. Howard Hudson, Gift Receiver. .Victim M. Barr. Secretary. Hyden Baton, SerK ant at Arms Madce Topping Treasurer. Will Scarrltt. President. Hula Hay., Vice President.