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

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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-

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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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EDITORIAL - Continued complished things during the year. Besides the very impor-tant fact that she has greatly enlarged the school library, an examination of her diary will discover to the interested researcher records of many entertainments and many class contests of various kinds which indubitably establish the fact that she has been up and doing in domestic life. While a considerable number of noted men have addressed our assemblies, the student body as a whole has probably been most pleasurably impressed by the various manifestations of home talent. Again, out of the large field covered by the efforts, histrionic and oratorical, of the representatives of the various societies and departments, we believe the school would select the Christmas play by acclamation as having been the most spirited entertainment of the year. Next to it. the society programs have been viewed with the greatest interest. Besides these, the school has enjoyed performances giving very complete representation to the foreign language departments. Passing to athletics, we find Central to have passed through many experiences productive of an honest pride. She has won the foot ball championship of the State; her basket ball team can show a most creditable record: the girls’ basket ball team has done good work: the track team has upheld its record well, both in the Convention Hall invitation meet and in the Lawrence meet. They captured nearly everything portable in the way of trophies. Certainly our new trophy case has been enabled to assume the proportions of a “treasure-chest” quite as much through the exertions of the athletes of 1905-06 as through those of the maiorcs. But, as in literary debating work there have been many beneficial results obtained from the programs and contests within our home bounds, so in athletics we have had an inter-class meet of more than cursory importance. Such a meet is calculated to perform a function attempted bv nothing else in Central’s life, namely, the arousing of spirit in each class as a unit. The existence of this interest of individual classes prevents any stagnation of school spirit, and keeps enthusiasm at such a tension that it is ready to manifest itself without the necessity of urging, at times when it will do the most good. All in all, the year just lived through has been crowded with noteworthy events. Although it has seen the completion of some changes, it has yet been one of unified effort on the part of the students and faculty. This absence of any friction has enabled all to devote their undivided energies to the good of the school. The results have indeed been gratify-ing. Further, in naming over all the good things we have enjoyed and admired, it is but fair to designate that portion of the school’s population to whom the credit is due. We trust the Senior class is not too modest to receive with suitable composure a word of deserved praise, for it undoubtedly has done as much to contribute to the school's reputation without, and to enliven her life within, as any body of graduates she has yet produced. On the other hand. Central has been the pasture in which the Seniors have thus disported themselves. Thus there is every reason for the tenderest reciprocal sentiments to be held between the class of ’06 and our grand old school. Some would tell us that the affection we entertain towards this, our secondary school, will soon be supplanted by a more mature adoration, the zealous loyalty paid to a college Alma Mater. With those of ’06 however, one fact has acquired so powerful a significance as to stand a truth as well-founded as the greatness of the school itself: no member of this class, it matters not to what heights his contemplation of any college may threaten to raise his tributes, will ever forget that an image of our Central, and of her alone, must ever respond to the callings of memory when he hears the words, “My first love.”