Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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 News Review WITH excellent support from the student body, and unlimited co-operation among the members of the staff, the News had one of the most successful years of its eixstenee during the school year of 1920-1921. The winning of the state high school newspaper contest at Carlcton College was the feature of the year’s work. During the past year the News has done many things towards enlarging and improving the paper. In order to stimulate interest in the use of better English, a slogan contest was held in connection with the Good English Week. A politeness contest was also held. New office equipment was added to the News room and over 2.000 subscriptions were secured, this being the largest circulation the News has ever had. By virtue of this large subscription list, the News has been placed on a firm financial basis. The first High School Journalistic Convention was held at Carleton College in January. In the contest for weekly newspapers, the News was chosen as the best school paper in the state. A new era in high school journalism was marked at this convention by the forming of the Minnesota State High School Press Association. Through the activities of this organization the various school papers will have a chance to get into closer touch with one another, and it will allow a larger interchange of ideas. The News also entered the inter-state high school journalism contest at Beloit College in May. To each individual member of this year’s staff goes the credit for the success of the News. The present staff wishes to thank the student body and the faculty for their support, and to express to Mr. Mulligan, the faculty adviser, its deep appreciation for his work, as the members feel that he has been chiefly instrumental in the growth of the News during the past year. To next year’s staff, the retiring members wish the greatest possible success. Donald Rogers. Edilor-in-Chief.

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The Central High Cadet Corps Dl’RING the past year there has been an advance of some extent in the status of the cadet corps of the Minneapolis high schools. The War Department, in August, 1920, authorized the formation of a junior unit of the Reserve Officers Training Corps in this city. The number of cadets was limited to five hundred, the quota of Central High School being one hundred and twenty. All equipment and uniforms are furnished by the War Department and commissioned and non-commissioned assistant instructors. The officers in charge of the cadet corps in Minneapolis are Major Tom Fox, Commandant, and Major W. S. McWade, Assistant Commandant. The cadets have been very active since last June. The Central companies, with those of West and East High Schools, spent four days in camp at Fort Snelling in June of last year. The cadets performed all the duties of soldiers including night guard and outpost duty, advance guard, target practice on the Snelling range, trench warfare and that romantic duty, kitchen police. This year there will be a camp for five days and probably a thirty-day encampment at Central with cadets from other states. In the competitive drill Central has held top honors. In June. 1920, a Central company for the second time earned the privilege to carry for another year the colors presented by the Scottish Rite Masons. December, 1920, witnessed the competition for the Lion’s Club sabre, in which Company B of Central under Captain Hugo Erickson, tied with Company A of West; and Central’s Company A, with Captain Rollin Dobbins commanding, won second place. At a second drill in January, Captain Erickson’s company won the sabre, which must be won again liefore becoming Central’s permanent property. The cadet companies also starred socially, presenting two military hops, in Central's gymnasium, and an “army feed” at North High. I 20 1