Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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PRINCIPAL CALVIN W. JARVIS To Members of 1940 Graduating Classes The administration and teaching stall have reached with you the milestone at which we bid you Godspeed on your way of life. You have been with us for only a short span of that way and we have tried to help you to develop desirable trails of character, to acquire worthwhile knowledge, to learn how to learn and live. We arc conscious of failures but are also assured of successes. We believe that for many of you this short journey together will help you to carry your share of the world’s work. Calvin W. Jarvis ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL ANNA BELLE THOMAS Graduates of 1940 Three years pass very quickly, but in the past three years you have changed from boys and girls to young men and women. Has Central taught you the necessity of facing life squarely, and thinking your problems through clearly? We sincerely hope so, and wish for you useful, happy lives. Anna Belle Thomas 12

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muiUUvU aiunlUUUuUhnnUWWiiT ilili SUPERINTENDENT C. R. REED THE BOARD OF EDUCATION Students and graduates of Central High School: On every important public building there is some inscription which has appealed to the generation which built that building. Over the portal of your school arc words of a famous educational principle, the truth of which our fellow countrymen understand as the years pass. You have paused to read The commonwealth requires the education of the people as the safeguard of order and liberty.” It is my hope that your education in the public schools of Minneapolis will be a personal and social safeguard of the order and the liberty which we so highly prize. Carroll R. Reed. The policies and payments of the public schools of Minneapolis arc authorized by action of these people pictured above. The year of their election to the Board is given. Left to right they arc Mr. Walter E. lohnson, 1938; Mr. Owen Cunningham, 1938; Mr. Roy Wicr, 1939; Mr. Henry I. Bcsscscn, 1931; Judge Arthur lx Sueur, 1935; Miss Helen L. Bauman, Secretary of the Board, 1931; Miss Alma Hccker, Assistant Secretary of the Board; Dr. Charles R. Drake, President of the Board. 1933; Mr. Carroll R. Reed, Superintendent of Schools; Mr. fames F. Gould, Assistant Superintendent in charge of business affairs.

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MR. ROHDE STUDENTS CONSULT THE COUNSELORS MISS BELL The counseling office at Central is a coordinating center for all those activities which have to do with the | crsonal and individual development of students. It is a service station to assist, either directly or indi rcctly, every student, to guide himself in the best jx s-sihlc way and to make the best possible use of his abilities. The services carried on arc varied—including everything from helping new students to find their way around the building, to working on a plan for changing the curriculum of the school. Within Central, the counselors work with the entire school personnel— students, advisers, teachers, office force, ami the administrative officers. The counselors help to plan courses of study by furnishing information about the work offered at Central, college entrance requirements, choice of colleges, special schools for special training, vocational training, and work opportunities. This may include careful interpretation of a student’s record, his abilities, his ambitions, and the parents' attitude and desires. ’Hiis often involves personal interviews with students, teachers, and parents. The counselors’ office coojierates with the visiting teacher in assigning, su-jxrrvising, and keeping time for the jobs under N. V. A. and State Aid. by means of which pupils earn part of their expenses in school and get work experience. This service took care of over two hundred pupils this year, with a monthly payroll of $600. Scholarships for certain pupils of ability arc also cared for through this office. Miss Hell and Mr. Rohde arrange occupational conferences addressed by speakers in the more common lines of work. Some of these occupations arc medicine, law, nursing, aviation, commercial art, the domestic sciences, engineering, and the trades. A cordial relationship is maintained by Central's “202 with the junior high schools and other senior high schools, the Minnesota Kmployment Service, graduates, and pupils who have dropped out of school. It is also the job of the counseling office to prepare a school report for the employment service files, furnish recommendations and references for applicants, supply information about follow-up studies, and interview individuals. Whenever there is some question as to the correct credits for graduation, the matter is often referred to the counseling office. Assistance in solving the personal problems of students is a well-known part of the counselor’s work. This service may result in conferring with advisers, parents, teachers, and pupils regarding their failures, attendance, and relationships with other people. Program adjustments, work excuses, placement on jobs, and recommendations for jobs arc also taken care of by the counseling office. In general, the purpose of this important body is to achieve a constantly better school for Central students. 13