Central High School - Prospectus Yearbook (Flint, MI)

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I' E II I' I, II These are the students of Central . . . the people of Flint . . . Seniors . . . Iuniors . . . Sophomores .. . wolves and witches . . . the big shots . . . whom everybody knows . . . the little guys . . . Whom nobody knows . . . yet . . . These are the developing muscles of Flint . . . laborers . . .mechanics . . . engineers . . . typists secretaries . . . executives . . . all of them builders . . . all of them makers . . . of spark plugs . . . gauges . . . motors and trucks . . . trailers . . . bodies . . . trucks and guns. These are Flint . . . supplier of mechanical tools to the world. 6 x,,, x f, Q-fsg I . , . as , L11

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Il MEMURIAM '4 MRS CHESTER P HENRY Thrs year brought a great loss to Central rn the death of Mrs Chester P Henry who was a favorlte of students and faculty The students of Central H1gh owe Mrs Henry a great deal for she drd many thmgs to make the1r classes mterestrng She and Mrs Wnght of North em mtroduced the modern problems class rnto the school system rn 1936 Many speakers were brought to Central to speak to these classes Mrs Henrys classes also v1s1ted the factorres and CIVIC burldmgs of Flmt One year a group of her students rn a study of Flmt s hous 1ng cond1t1ons made an excellent motron plcture whrch many other schools borrowed The most remarkable of Mrs Henry s achrevements was the model pol1t1cal con ventrons These convent1ons whrch were held rn Cen tral s audrtorrum were attended by representatrves from many of the lfhnt 1un1or and semor hrgh schools The meetrngs were conducted ln every respect as the natxonal convent1ons of the Democratxc and Republrcan partles The purpose of these meetrngs was to educate youth 1n the ways of democracy Later Mrs Henry wrote two artrcles based on these convent1ons whxch were pnnted 1n the magazrne Socral Educatron and later reprlnted 1n The Educahonal Drgest The frne work started by Mrs Henry rs bexng con tmued to grve the students of Central an opportunlty to study democratlc government rn actron I t l . ,J , t , , I I - . , , . - ll . . ll .'

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,4l we AM lil' It has taken more than seventy years to build Central High School Buildings have been con structed occupied torn down and new buildings erected. Locations have been changed. new text- books have been adopted and equipment has been modernized. Boys and girls have graduated. Their sons and daughters and their grandsons and grand- daughters have followed them through her class- rooms. Many hundreds of teachers have composed her changing faculty. It is the total of all these things, and all these people. that make the Central High School that we know today. Not least among the means of bring- ing this total forward to us has been the Prospectus. Its annual review of activities and achievements has bound each year to the past and to the future. It has helped to fix the spirit of loyalty and service which we like to think of as the sprit of Central High School. As a link of this chain, l greet the Prospectus of 1943. I. E. Wellwood. Principal The real Central High School is not a building of brick and stone it is you and the thousands of other young men and young women of the classes which have gone before you. You have created a something which we call the 'Central Spirit.' I can wish nothing finer for you than that the Central spirit may go with you in the years that are ahead. They will be difficult years, for you will share, with all the other young men and women of the world. the responsibility of bring- ing a lasting peace to the world. If this Central Spirit goes with you, you will face this opportunity with courage even though for some of you it means death itself. Our faith is in you. Florence E. Riddell, Asst. Principal