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

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WE JUNIORS! Bertha Teasdale. OW often—how very often—have we heard that old, familiar adage, “Every little dog must have his day,” applied to the Junior classes as, at each passing of the mighty Seniors, they have risen from three dreary years of enforced obscurity, to the long-coveted seat of honor—to the rank of “next year’s Seniors.” And how applicable has it been! For each respective class, from its entrance as wee “Freshies, has struggled up and up, valiantly overcoming obstacles in the “Rocky road, until, at the end of the third year, it has at last reached its goal, and, glorious in victory, brought itself before the school and demanded due notice. Such has been the precedent; but wc have come to change it all! No! No! We do not come now to demand your notice and your respect, for—and we are all unpretentious in saying it—we have, for almost three years, been the glad possessors of your esteem. It is true, we have had hard places to pass and obstacles to overcome, as have our predecessors, but it was the very strength, and skill, and determination that we evinced in these straights which caused Old Central to open her eyes to the fact that the future class of '07 was one which would bring honor to her name. So it has and will more than once again. We are not too proud to deign to look back on the year —now long past—when wc were Freshmen; and we aye happy to recall that, so soon did we learn that the wire cage was not an elevator, that we must not drink out of those mysterious red buckets, and that slate-rags and pencil-boxes were out of style, that the august local editors of “The Ij minary” were obliged to offer rewards for jokes on the “Freshies.” Our accomplishments in our studies were equally rapid, and by the middle of the year the entire faculty proclaimed us to be an exceptionally “all-around good class.” Such was our beginning; in proportion has been our advance. As Sophomores, many of our class became members of literary societies and. in the worthy work of these organizations, added new honors to our rapidly increasing list. Now that you know something of our past successes, you can very readily understand why, at the end of this, our third successful year, we are able to advise you, dear Freshies, to follow carefully our well-given examples: you. poor Sophomores, to cease your vain search for the royal road to knowledge; you, haughty Seniors, to acknowledge gracefully that you could have done better; and you. oh noble faculty, to prepare yourselves for honors innumerable and glory unbounded, which wc, the members of the good old class of '07 shall, within the next year, bring to our grand )ld Central High!

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SENIOR OFFICERS Harry I). Minton Sergt. at Arms. Clement Parker, Giver of Gift. Harold McKibben. Vice-President. Roy Dietrich, Prophet. Moxie Frischer, Historian. Judith Connelly, Secretary. Vale L. Nance, President Irene Shepard, Critic. Lucius McConnell. Treas.

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JUNIOR OFFICERS.