Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

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Four Years Df Good Advice 2 JUST LIKE home is the Library at Christmas time! Here adding the gay touch to a Yule display are Leta Weaver, head librarian, Helen Lane, Barbara Swincher, and Sharon Womack, assistants. Four years of friendly guidance is offered every Bobcat on his enrollment at Central High. The school counselor assigned to him will take a personal interest in his welfare, problems will arise, but the student can count on help to solve those worries. Perhaps the first year is the most difficult, but once launched, the willing student finds smooth sailing as he nears graduation. Finally, his MORE SCHOLARSHIPS? Could be, announces Head Coun- selor John Kendall to, from left, Eleanor Wallingford, counselor will help him toward vocational and scholastic success in selecting after-graduation paths for which he is best suited. No modern high schooler has had superior opportunities for a place of quiet and comfort to search for reference material than is offered at Central. Designed for utility and beauty, the well-arranged Library is a popular place for those who seek knowledge from books. Vera Swanger, Paul Hatch, and Merle Lange, These well- informed teachers seek and find answers to our worries. ix

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WHAT'S MY LINE? English teachers have fun playing the popular TV game with a prominent figure of tho stage. Well, at least what has to do as a stage at Central. Dramatics Department Head Donald Krischak plays the part. SEATED are English teachers Mattie Foes Of Sem War has been declared at Central High by a dedicated group of teachers with master's degrees in English. The enemy: semi-illiteracy. It is a sad tact that many high school students go through eight years ot grammar school and four years of secondary school without achieving more than a feeble comprehension of English reading and writing. A new deter- mination to teach Johnny how to read and write calls for increased emphasis on compo- sition and literature study at Central High. HARD WORKERS indeed arc these teachers of English. SEATED and busy are John Morrow, Myrtle Goff, Rae Arnold, Chris Carnahan, tennis coach, and Mariory Dust- -5 fi ge 3. gli? Hackett, sponsor of Blotters Club, Arthur Orman, Pep Club, Harold Lind, Lucille DeWitt, Elizabeth Leftwich, dramatics and Masque and Gavel. STANDING are Howard L. Beazley, English Department chairman, William Ken- dall, English, German, and adviser of the German Club. i-llliferacy For those interested in other English activ- ities are courses in speech, drama, and jour- nalism. Central's achievement has been high in these areas, with many students winning honors. Our school won top city honors in the Constitutional Speech Contest, state honors in the Central Echoes newspaper and national All American honors with its yearbook. Best of all, there is no limit put upon students who want to try their experimental wings in these currently great vocational and literary fields. man. STANDING are Lu Boyle, Y-Teens, Virgil Lewis, Bridge Club, Zeno Johnson, Marjorie French, and John Hardaway, junior class adviser and JV tennis coach. l20

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'I I s A is 1 I is iisl sf, That life is not always a bowl of cherries is a lesson many learn too late. Some people always feel that Santa Claus takes care of those who wish hard enough, some hope for the best while doing little to prepare for the worst. l-lence, it's a good thing we have teach- ers of such increasingly practical courses as Central's business education and home making! SO, IT HAS FINALLY come to thisl Apparently absorbed in cutting paper dolls are Business Education teachers. Actually they are helping to prepare a bulletin board display for the typing room. From left are Marvin J. Sordahl, who sponsors Fellowship Club, Betty McCubbin, x .. ,ctw ,.v , -.. , sifffff By Practice THIS ONE looks good! Wilhelmina Satina takes a Christmas cookie from Bernice Kennedy while Margaret Christian approves. All are teachers of home economics and the occasion was the faculty Yuletide Tea. Home- making students prepared the goodies. Mrs. Christian sponsors FHA. Mrs. i Kennedy is sophomore class adviser. Whether you finally wind up as a home maker or in a business office pursuing a career, the training offered at Central stresses the need to think one's problems out . . . ail the way. Budgets can be planned and careers carved out if you learn the ropes. Central's faculty members have long-since learned from experience one must work at a job to learn. Y-Teens, Edna Davis, Senior Class sponsor, John B. Cace- letto, Business Education Department chairman and co- sponsor of Future Business Leaders: Virginia Hepburn, Pep Club co-sponsor, Benjamin W. Feiler, Key Club sponsor, Mancelyn Boykin, sponsor of Future Teachers of America. V Can Learn I22