Central High School - Girardot Yearbook (Cape Girardeau, MO)

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FOR EWCDRD Few indeed are the towns of the Middle- west that have a more historical background than our own fair city of Cape Girardeau, for over it has flown the flags of three na- tions - Spain, France, and the United States. Inspired by this romantic past, the 1934 Girardot Staff has striven in this an- nual to rekindle an interest in the colorful history of our community and to blend with this eventful past a record of the school year.

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T I-'EG I RA R D UT A young French ensign, Pierre Girardot, risked the hardships of the forests and danger of the Indians to establish in about 1700, the first fur trading post on what is now Cape Rock. Here he bartered with the red man and became acquainted with, all the tribes of the surrounding region. ln the course of time the post became known as Cape Girardot, furnishing the pres- ent name for our city. The publication of the Senior Class of CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL Cape Girardeau, Missouri Nineteen Hundred Thirty-four Volume Sixteen

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DEDICATION To those 'sturdy pioneers who braved the hardships of a new country that they might found a community characterized by a love of home and school, we dedicate the 1934 Girardot. May we carry on the torch of progress in the same lofty spirit with which it was so nobly borne by our forefathers in their struggle for the maintainance and es- tablishment of our city of Cape Girardeau.