Central High School - Caldron Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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The 1941 graduation sent many fine young people into a far from quiet world. They have done well with the trust Central put in them. Classes are the biggest part of Central and the study was never easy and the work was always worth doing. Mr. Fred Croninger showed the map of the great war to his students. Central has never been afraid to face the reality of society.

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d much to Centralites u I l.l l; I- |i hi -i Wilfred Hosey, captain of the 1923 cage team, was the first real captain of Central since it The 1942-43 Basketball team went all the way and took the state title to show the state who was tlien tnat Fort Wayne High was made was who. Central.

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Central will live in what we learned The trees are all that is left of Central that is alive. Central is now gone. Quiet Halls mark the passing of an era. though they are sometimes disturbed by the Ghosts. The 1937 Recognition Day included a pageant to let the students show how much they had learned. Samuel Stuart in Speech was one of the finest products of Central High School. Studies are what it has been all about. The search for understanding and the good feeling that a person has when he does understand. It may be the spread of the NAZI threat in 1945. or it may be learning of a man who held a bleeding country together and helped bring free- dom to millions. Study was communica- tion. Has it succeeded? Has learning and understanding really made any differ- ence? Look around you at the world you have created and see that it is good. Not perfect, but good and Central was a part of that. You and all the other former Centralites are a part of the goodness that exists. Sometimes learning was painful and there were a number of times we just sort of hammed it up. But there was always Central around us protecting us. The halls had grace and charm. That charm is no more for there is no more a Central high school, but if we can remember, perhaps it will not fade away so fast. Perhaps it will live.