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

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THE BOARD OF EDUCATION JOS. L. NORMAN J. C. JAMES E. F. SWINNEY W. E. BENSON OFFICERS : President Vice-President Treasurer Secretary J. M. GREENWOOD. Supt. of Schools. MEMBERS JOS. L NORMAN J. C. JAMES F. A. FAXON J. S. HARRISON MILTON MOORE HALE H. COOK G. B. LONGAN and F. W. THARPE, Assistants. THE FACULTY Mr. Cammack, Principal Miss Strauchon, Miss Whipple. Mr. Bonnifield, Mrs. Fluhart. ENGLISH Mr. Smith. Mrs. Ware. Miss Bain. Miss Rosenbcrger, Miss Crowe, Miss Fox, Miss Wolfson, Miss Creagcr, Miss Denny, MATHEMATICS Mr. Touton, Mr. Holmes, Mrs. Steinberg, Miss Buck, Miss Harriman, Mr. Luby, Miss Magerle. Mr. 1 emplin, Mr. Bennett. Miss Curtis. SCIENCE Mr. Ayres, Mr. Peters. Mr. Nowlin. Mr. Graves, Miss Steele. Mr. Lewis, Mr. Wright. Dr. White, Vice-Principal HISTORY AND CIVICS Mr. Lewis, Mr. Rush, Miss Burrill, Mr. Wallace. LANGUAGE Dr. White. Mr. Douglass, Miss Morgan, Miss Adams. Mr. Blocker Miss Harriman, MODERN LANGUAGE Miss von Unwerth. Miss Creager, Mr. White. Mr. Gordon. Miss Morey. Miss Whipple, Mr. Hernandez. Mrs. Clarke. Mr. Hamilton. Mr. Dillenbeck, ARTS Mrs. Voorhees, Miss Crowder, Mr. de Mare, Miss Blatchley.

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I. I. CAMMACK, Principal “Moderate, resolute, whole in himself, a common good.

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|N compiling the present Annual, the staff has endeavored to follow out faithfully the accepted precept governing the preparation of such publications: to delineate with biographical interest and vividness that portion of the school’s existence embraced by what wc might call the “Birthday” of last September, and the “Confirmation” of this June. By conforming to this conventional plan, we have, of course, precluded all possibility of offering the school anything novel as regards fundamental setting. Nevertheless, we trust the generous and painstaking reader will find his kindly search rewarded by the discovery of numerous details new in Centralian pages. Beyond this, moreover, it is inevitable but that every Annual should differ radically from all its predecessors, for a realistic portrayal of school life during one year is certain either ingloriously to fall below or triumphantly to rise above all efforts enacted in the past, in such proportion as the school’s achievements during the last ten months compare favorably or unfavorably with those of previous seasons. In many ways Central this year has stridden far bevond her best records of earlier days. In the sea of intellectual contests, indeed, we breasted a tidal wave of victory, beyond which the voices of the judges were heard proclaiming with Solm-Iike justice that Central had within her walls the three best essay writers in the high schools of the State of Missouri The unpretentious manner in which Messrs. Frank Wilkinson, and Roy Dietrich, and Miss Judith Connelly modestly appropriated the three medals offered in the contest, magnanimously leaving the “honorable mentions.” furnishes an ideal illustration of “the survival of the fittest.” tempered by an admirable generosity. However, it is not in external militations alone that Central has really ac-