Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Class of January 1913 OFFICERS President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer James Barrett Jessie Smith Agatha Tuttle Webb Lasley Social and Entertainment: Jessie Smith. Chairman Genevieve Cook Webb Lasley Eleanor Olds Chester Ornes Music: Charles Wehmann Margaret Deane Lucile Fay COMMITTEES Memorial: Harold Armstrong Spencer Parker Picture: Harry Eddy Allen Baker Harriet Berry Announcements: Margaret Skinner Dorothy Hanson 1913

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Annual Staff Editor-in-Chief................... Managing Editor . . . Business Managers . ... Bain Carey Andrew Cochran Myron Balch ] Gordon Young Organizations Athletics . Literary . Art . . Humor ASSOCIATE EDITORS ........................Brookes Deane ............... . . . Cecil Searle Agatha Tuttle Ruth Williams Irene Blanchard I Dorothy Brooksby j Mildred Mekeel I Hazel McCarthy Editorial THIS Annual has been edited under a new policy. Heretofore the June class has brought out the book; the January class leaving its record to be incorporated into four pages of it. This year, because of the large class graduating in January, and because the other policy was seen to be unjust to the January classes, the two classes have worked together and the date of publication has been changed to March first. This change has been a hindrance in one respect, namely, that while there is more material to be included in the book than formerly, thus increasing the expense, we were not allowed to change the size or the price of the book. Future classes should be allowed to issue a 150-page, seventy-five cent book. It has been the policy of the editing staff, therefore, to give articles pertaining to school life precedence over articles strictly literary. This makes the book more of a school catalogue than a literary production, and this change can not be looked upon as detrimental. While the book may not seem as bright or as clever for the present, it will be of increased value as the years pass, for .it will portray all those phases of school life that are so pleasant to remember. With all due respect to previous annuals, of this and other schools, it can be said without fear of contradiction that high school students are not able to write entertaining or natural short stories; and the essays are apt to be so ponderous and learned as to give the book an encyclopedic turn. As this is the first book under the new policy, there are many things which may be corrected and improved by the boards of future annuals. The June class hereafter will have to transact much of its business early in the first semester, so that they can leave their record in the book; and the two classes will have to work together even more than they have done this year. These foregoing suggestions must not be looked upon as being apologies for the succeeding pages, as the annual staff feel that this work is in need of no apology and that it approaches more nearly to the idea of a school record than any previous annual. 8

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The Class of January 1913 WE have just completed an important moulding period in our lives, four years of preparatory training and character building. It certainly gives us a feeling of great gratitude when we think of what those competent, untiring hands have sacrificed and how greatly they have labored in making each mould perfect,—those of our ever thoughtful faculty and principal, who will always be remembered by us as being deeply interested in our success and as having inspired our good works. We realize that it has been their sole aim throughout our whole course to make us, by their example and unceasing efforts, thoroughly capable of meeting all problems which may confront us, and mastering them. Let us show our appreciation for all that they have done for us by our determination to carry out their good teachings. Actions have always spoken louder than words; whatever we do let us place our standards at the top. If it be a college, let us lead our classes; if it be a trade, let us make good: if it be business, let us establish new records: and in every event, let good deeds result from our good intentions. Then let it be known that we are from Central and let us glory in it. Let us put our unstinted force into all our future attempts. Just as we have shown what effort has done during our past four years of character discipline, so let us show what effort will accomplish in the future. Let us show that the painstaking care which has been expended upon us has not been expended in vain; let each and every one of us make our mark in the world; be a credit to Central and to the brilliant class we graduated with; make life a success: and in all our seeking let us keep, in a separate compartment of our memory, the fondest regards for those friends we had during the four years at Central,—for those kind, helpful teachers of all that is good and for “Old Central.” JAMES E. BARRETT, President. 10