Central High School - Forx Yearbook (Grand Forks, ND)

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A STUDENT LITANY School days school days Laughter Fun Thrill ofthe 1, unc Studies Books Teachers Musxc Hates and loves and skxrmlshes with llfe And throughout the whole panorama a tmge of sweet sorrow x touch of grandeur ind a lu ull forgotten hazy memory of classlc qulp and llterary jest for Stlll sits the schoolhouse by the road X rag ed beggar sleeping Around lt stlll the sumachs grow And blackberry vmes are creeplng Beside yon stragglxng fence that skirts the way with blossom d furle unprohtxhly gxy There ln his noisy mansion skllled to rule the vlllave mastcr Taught his llttle school A man severe he was and stern to vrew l knew htm wel' and every truant knew Studies serve for dellght for ornament and for xblllty Thelr chlef use for dellght IS xn prlvateness and retmng l'or ornament IS m dlscourse And for ahllrty IS ln the Judgment md d sposltlon of lJLlSll'lCSb Crafty men condemn studles Simple men admire them The cognomen of lchabod Crane was not inapplicable to his person He was tall but exceedingly lank Wlth narrow shoulders long arms and legs hands that dangled a mlle out of hrs sleeves feet shovels frame loosely hun together long snlpe nose clothes bagging Hutterlng For hum was levere hxvc xt hls heddcs heed Twenty hooks vlwd ln lultk or reed Of Aristotle and hls phllnsophre Than rohes rlche or flthele or gay sautrye But al be that he was a phllosophre Yet hadde he but lltel gold In cofre But al that he m1 hte of hrs freendes hentc On hooks and his lernlnve he lt spent And hlsnly gan for the soules preye Of hum that yaf hlm wherwlth to scoleye School days school days Dear old golden rule days Readmg and Wrxtlng and Rlthmetlc Taught to the tune of a hlckory stick and Bacon Chaucer Goldsmith lrvmg and Whittier somewhere m the lm mortal realm of llterary Valhalla laugh softly xs we llve the lmes they wrote yn' . 'su gf A L - ' Ar 3 ,z ' x ' . ,z ' L .ff jg H ' gg , . . ' . Ls ' A 4 , ' Y ' S ,Q E - hi V ' ' x y , 7 3 V4 C. ' 3 ' .,' ' ... '3 Y 15 N , - . And wise men use them . . . - , ' ' T - 7 T7 T . U . , ,... ... ... g 1, ... A ... -' ,f ' z' ' , . Q .g . I' ,, 4 , , . . ' ' V I Y I -Q T . y I . - , V 5 L . . ffl: lf,,lrf1 If ,ffrliflrr 1301 X

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TABLE OF CONTENTS I Student L1fe I Adm1n1strat1on Features Classes Alumm Ath1et1cs Act1v1t1es Humor It p4 D4 v4 I4 P1 rf P4 r4 I4 I4 I1 I I O I I I U I I I I I I I O I O

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II lay of the n1ght1ngale trep1dat1ons of an e1gl1t oclock r1ser rrmg rrmg whats th1t3 somedav lm golng to throw that alarm clock out of the wmdow ah me gee l wash nt was Saturday and here It IS just an other day wonder what we have for breakfast this morning brrh IS lt cold yes mom l ll be right down why dld l stay oat so late last night what corn flakes and milk that s a fine way to start off a day haven t time to take more than a mouth u all rrght l m off English economlcs physrcs history gee whxz will l be glad when summer comes The purchasmg power of money varies lnversely as re the what and we ve a test ln lt today too here l am about tame just 7 minutes to make lt up to my locker and to class how m the world drd l ever get all that stuff m one locker' l ll clean It up some other trme why IS lt that people cant get out of the way IH the halls l hate to bump mto other people lt s a nuxsance who s that over there by the wmdow3 a a caught you at lt thls tlme just an other of thos chronically cuddly couples who mvarlably cover up all posslble use the rest of the school could make of the hall wmdows well MISS Hall Patroller l cant help l m m a hurry guess she notxced lt anyway First class well l bet none of the other kids have done thelr s elther onathan Swxft was a man who started a packmg plant the man who wrote Robinson Crusoe was the doctor of the qulntuplets et ad lI'1f:ll'1ltLlII'1 end of the perlod study hall now l can catch up on a few months studylng boy wxll l tear mto that stuff a few minutes for that algebra and all the rest dxdn t thunk you knew wonder who invented this stuff anyhow what only five mln utes leftll but l haven t even started economics oh well l ll just postpone that say tlll next week or so and now to the next class live stock IS the only klnd that should be watered Ere drill rrght IH the middle of the period saved my life' and am l slow ln Uettlng back to class' noon at last and back home to peanut butter and cheese what a meal for an up and comlng student back agam there s the Guy l borrowed ten cents from last semester my l sure got around that corner ast hello we didnt have any homework ID physlcs l forgot about that hey you don t need to mark me late l m here class again who s that good looklng glrl across from you ohn a a glVC her thls will ya no It IS not poetry that comes later another study hall wish those klds back there would qult chewmg gum rt makes too much nolse no l really have to study this perlod we If you mslst l suppose l wrll another perlod gone and not much done oh well as the RUSSIBHS say Nlchevol history my favorite subject the French Revolution was the same as the mdustrlal revolutlon only lt happened m England very mterestmg half past quarter of ten of flve of do these minutes drag slowly an there goes the bell to end another round of school oh boy what ll we do tomght5 I I I . 01 0 0 0 I 0 ' ... I ...Ol'1... v c.... 'i ' lk ' ' ...ah... ' of the time for economics...hummmmm...say buddy, how do you do this problem?... v 5 ' ... , f ' '...oh... ' , ' ' ...no... ll, 1fl4:lr1e'nJzflIf1C1'l ll.'X