Central High School - Centralite Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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HISTORY OF CLASS The year l947 brought a new experience into the lives of us students who are now Seniors at Central High School. We climbed this sacred hill to take our places as freshmen at the high school of our choice. How green we were then! How susceptible to the pranks of our superiors! When we'began to feel a part of the school, we chose officers to lead us in this first important year. They were Joe Searcy, president, Bill Marks, vice pres- ident, Martha Sue Dilworth, secretary, and Mickey Cooper, treasurer. With members of our class participating, the Glee Club took away an A rating in the festival at U. T. The band, under the direction of Mr. Lillard Luttrell, took an A rating in the regional contest and a B rating in the state. At mid-term we showed that we were also inter- ested in the scholastic side of school when a large num- ber of our class was taken into the Junior Honor Society. The freshmenlshowed their dramatic talent when Shirley Jones was the humerous reading entry for the school in the T. l. L. L. contest at'U. T. A On Peter Block Day,N Polly ,Powers received the first scholarship award, and R. V. Norman, Jr. received the Senior Honor Society award. ,Norman Brooks was presented with the freshman algebra cup. g , We started off our sophomore year with a bang, choosing the following officers to lead us: Joe Searcy, president, frank Horton, vice-president, Martha Sue Dil- worth, secretary, and Bill Marks, treasurer. We were represented among the cheerleaders with Nancy Ballou and Mickey Cooper. ' H The band did a wonderful -iob again taking an A rating in both the region and the state festivals. Clark Roberts represented our class in the play, PickeIs ls Pickles, that won first place in the district tournament. When the last day of'school came around and the awards were presented, Philip Sexton won the first schol- arship award. Norman Brooks won the second award and again showed his math genius by also winning the sopho- more algebra cup. R. V. Norman, Jr. won the English cup, and Warren Boop won the Lucy Curtis Templeton Bird Award. When we returned to the campus the next fall we were full-fledged upperclassmen. We again chose Joe Searcy to act as our president, and to aid him we chose David Smith, vice-president, Barry Poe, secretarv: and Paul Monger, treasurer. The band, now under the direction of Ma. Odell Willis, again took top honors by taking an A rating in the region and a B rating in the state. The Glee Club cap- tured an A rating in both the region and the state. Both groups enjoyed their trips to Memphis for the state fes- tivals. Mickey Cooper was again chosen to help in leading cheers, and Clark Roberts was chosen to help him. At mid-term thirteen boys and four girls with ex- cellent records were taken into the Senior Honor Society. Central High School took away almost all the hon- ors at the T. l. Lg' L. contest at U. T., with the iunior class doing most of the taking. Katie Whillock won first in the state in poetry interpretation, ,Ted Goddard won first in the district in humerous readingg Jerry McDonald won first in the district in extemporaneous speaking, Betty Fritts, Shirley Jones, andvPat Stein were members of the cast ofthe play, Life Mask, that won second in the district: Bettye Koehn won second place in the dramatic reading. Ruth Bradfute and R. V. Norman were members of the debate team, with R. V. and his col- league, Barri Burrage, winning first place in the dis- trict and second in the state. On Peter Block Day, Ruth Bradfute was presented with the first scholarship award and the Brickey Cup. Norman Brooks took the second scholarship award and the English cup. Roger White won an award with his essay that had been entered in a contest sponsored by the'American Medical Association.

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Shirley Jones Jim Price Marian Riffey Kathleen Sharp Ben Solomon Donald Minor Ronald Minor David Talley Barbara Cummings Amelia Oglesby

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Jim Acker and Bob Warters were Central's rep- resentatives to Boys' State, Ruth Bradfute was chosen to represent us at Girls' State. Back at school again we were seniors at last, but it was hard to believe. To carry on the business of this, our most important year, we chose Joe Searcy, president for the fourth-consecutive year, Joe Black, vice president, Ruth Bradfute, secretary: and Bill Lovelace, treasurer. Out front leading the band were Joe Black, drum maior, and Nancy Ballou, sponsor, Among the majorettes were Shirley Jones, Jeanette Felts, and Betty Sharpe. Warren Boop was band captain and Hugh Glasgow was the student conductor. David Smith and Joe Searcy served as captain and alternate captain, respectively of the football team. Bill Lovelace was captain of the basketball team, Cheering our athletes on were Martha Sue Dilworth, Bob Logan, and'Dorothy Hollingsworth. The dramatics department gave the three act play, Our Town. Seniors with :i leading role were W. K. Wolfe and Katie Whillock. Having more minor roles were Bettye Koehn, Betty Fritts, Shirley Jones, and Paul Holmes, Bill Knight, Georgia Hawkins, Janet Sunstrom, and Pat Stein. Katie Whillock was the very able editor of the Regular Centralite, and Mr. Paul Cate acted as adviser of both the Regular and the Annual. Ruth Bradfute was chosen to receive the D. A. R. Good Citizenship Award. A - Class Night was held May 29 at the school. Baccalaureate was heldqat Central Baptist Church, Fountain City, on Sunday, May 27. Rev. Charles Bond was the speaker. The graduation exercises were held at the U. T. au- ditorium on June l. The student speakers were Ruth Bradfute and R. V. Norman. l May Day, 1951