Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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1 Members ok the Graduating Class: My association with you during your high school days has been a great joy to me and 1 count it a privilege to have had some part in directing your education. 1 rejoice with you in your graduation and yet my rejoicing is linged with regret at the parting and the separation that will come when you have l een handed your diplomas. Central High School has attempted to interpret for you American institutions and American ideals, to train your intelligence, to develop your sense ol responsibility to the community and to your country, to cultivate your ideals and tastes, and to give you an appreciation of the spiritual values of life. 1. therefore, look to you to become representative men and representative women of your day, capable of intelligent achievement, awake to the social, moral and political responsibilities, which are the complement of the many privileges of living in a Democracy. Faithfully yours, R. T. Hargreaves. J

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MISS EDITH J. BROOMHALL, Central's Spanish instructor, died on Wednesday morning, March 2. 1921, after a brief illness. Coining to Central three years ago from Spokane. Washington. Miss Broomhall took an active part in the various school activities. She was the faculty adviser of the Spanish Club, a contributor to the News, and a loyal supporter of every student undertaking. Miss Broomhall also wrote extensively, having been the author of two Spanish text books, and numerous poems, plays, and children’s verses. Central’s student body and faculty greatly mourn the loss of Miss Broomhall. Her true friendship, exceptional cleverness, and geniality of manner won her many friends and admirers. Though the loss of Miss Broomhall will lie keenly felt in the activities of Central, the student body and faculty will always remember her as an instructor, author, poet, and above all a true friend.