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

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 CLUBS 1959 marked the passing of the Old Order of the nine Literary Clubs of Central — Gone are the days of Intersociety nights and the songs, jackets, dresses and crepe paper streamers. The shouting, the weeping, and the partying is over. The much contested cup is enshrined in the archives of the school. This was not a sudden demise. The clubs had been gasping in the throes of death for years. And the New Order? Clubs with membership unrestricted except by the interest of the members. Clubs for self-improvement, for school support, for recreation. Central has or will form a club desired by any group. The variety seems limitless. In these clubs vocations are inculcated, friendships are made, personalities devel- oped, and hobbies formed, which will enrich the members’ leisure for a life time. The club life at Central is a vital part of the school life. » , ♦ A 40 t t

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HAROLD VINCENT HOYLE Class of 1928 “Harold Vincent Boyle, as the saying goes, has been everywhere and done everything and yet when anything happens to, near or around Boyle it is happening for the first time to the human race. This is variously known as the fresh approach or the common touch. Whatever it is, it flourishes daily in the widely loved column Boyle turns out for hundreds of newspapers across the country. In war and peace, this Pulitzer prize winner and “poor man’s philosopher” handles the monumental and the tiny everyday fact with down-to-earth ease. He applied this unusual knack of writing on the beaches of North Africa, the hedgerows of Normandy, and in the rice paddies of Korea. At home, he finds it in a wide variety of places and events — in the adoption of a baby, a passing thought about father’s day, getting his first set of false teeth or being called down to explain things at the internal revenue department I where he pleaded “temporary insanity”). Boyle’s columns have been widely reprinted in magazines, anthologies and textbooks and dramatized on television. Many individual readers have framed his reflections on their living room wall. Others have engraved his thoughts about Christmas, Thanksgiving or St. Pat’s day inside personal greeting cards. A writer with the soul of a poet and the big, broken-nosed face of a friendly bartender, Boyle went into North Africa clutching a slender volume of Emily Dickinson. He also carried placards saying, “Vote for Honest Hal. the Arab’s pal.” The man himself, almost as his copy, became a legend. The son of a Kansas City butcher and a graduate of the University of Missouri. Boyle started with AP in Kansas City and moved on to New York. Came the war. and there was Boyle, landing half-drowned with the first assault troops in North Africa. He landed with Patton in Sicily, with the infantry at Salerno, followed the GI’s across France and Germany and ended up with a Pulitzer prize for his moving daily chronicle of the lowly foot soldier in war. When fighting broke out in Korea in 1950, Boyle was back in harness again, covering the hard combat in the Pusan perimeter, the break-out and the big drive into North Korea and finally the withdrawal back south. In February. 1951, the Veterans of Foreign Wars gave Boyle its coveted Omar N. Bradley award for “outstanding contribution to national security.” The citation was presented by General Bradley himself, an old friend of the columnist. Boyle also has earned awards from the Overseas Press Club, the University of Missouri, the Gold Star Mothers and other diverse groups recognizing his uncommonly common touch.

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Ruth DeGraffcnreid Charlette Herndon Julius Jackson Ann Kosmiski GOLD MEDAL HONOR SOCIETY Left to Right: J. Jackson, Vice-I'rcsident: C. Atterbury, Secretary; J. Markle, 'resident: R. DcCraffenreid, T reasnrer. Carnation day at Central is Honor Society Day, for the Honor students are distinguished by the carnations pinned to their left shoulders; white for those with gold pins and pink for those with silver and bronze pins. Central Honor Society is an honorary scholastic organization for the purpose of furthering academic achievement and is open to any student maintaining at least fourteen scholastic points for two successive semesters. He is then eligible for membership and may wear the bronze pin of the society. After attaining fourteen points for four semesters. he may wear the silver pin. and after seven semesters. the coveted gold pin. This year there were forty members eligible to wear the bronze pin. twenty-six eligible to wear the silver pin. and twelve seniors eligible to wear the gold pin. I)r. Jeremiah Cameron is the sponsor.