Central High School - Pemican Yearbook (High Point, NC)

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gm fm Upper Left A COACHING A coed gym class takes a little more patience and understanding. Lower Left -- WORKING TOGETHER towards a goal: organiz- ing the Bicentennial American Music Festival. Lower Right - BY ACCEPTING our differences, Blacks and whites are able to work together . .. Upper Right -W . . . AND PLAY together. i, L, ' A its 5

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LOOKING BACK we saw that our changing views had af- fected the Central Angle. We had overcome many preju- dices in recent years. Com- mencement Nlarshals, previ- ously the ten girls and ten boys with the highest grade point averages of the junior class, were chosen differently this year. With no regard to sex, the Commencement Mar- shals for 1976 were the twenty juniors with the highest grade point averages. The Physical Education Department added coeducational gym courses, previously E unheard of in the High Point City School curriculum. The Fellowship of Christian Athletes opened its doors to include girls as well asthe boys it contained tradi- tionally, ln turn, nominations for the DAR Good Citizen were opened to boys. We felt that the rebellious attitudes of the '6O's were too drastic, doing little or no good to help us achieve a desired goal. Calm but effective, we found that the favorable re- sults of verbal actions greatly outweighed the results of physical actions. The drug problem was declining. Race relations and interdenomina- tional relationships were bet- ter because we had taken the time to accept people as they were. We were tired of the physical fight, but we were not tired of changes and mak- ing changes, working towards our goals. 4 There had been a time when the American ideal rec- ognized an All-American col- lege student. People in '76 were no longer striving for that ideal as forcefully. A col- lege education was becoming less important, secondary to obtaining a good job. People looked for happiness in their jobs, in their families, and in their environments. Our heritage, looking fur- ther back, was upon us in this Bicentennial year. We were surrounded by an invincible pride in America, in ourselves as Americans. The back- ground of our nation had ut- most influence on us, our life- style, our education, our lan- guage, our beliefs, and our way of doing things. Looking back on the previous classes at Central, we saw that we, the Spirit of 1976, had an inspira- tional force, more so than any previous class, the Bicenten- nial of America, boosting our enthusiasm. 1976 was a big year for the nation as a whole, but it was an excitingly special one for the Central Angle. M

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