Central High School - Prospectus Yearbook (Flint, MI)

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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

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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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SENIOR BOARD OF DIRECTORS Front Row: Alma Irving, Marjorie Smith, Ben Farah, Donna Merrill, Frank Talarico, Lois Crane. Millie Purdue. Middle Row: Mary Ann Iohnson, Ioyce Macy. Lois McPhee. Dorothy McKinley, Louella Eggebrecht, Lorraine Fisher lean Shepherd, Betty Bradtield. Back Row: Malcolm Halliday, Charles Elder, Ioy Priehs, Elizabeth Clark, lay Ward Lou lane I-leystek, Irene Wierzbicki, Phil Van Kersen, Stacey DeCamp. 1 1 SENIOR OFFICERS Ioyce Macy, secretary: Donna Merrill, treasurer: Elizabeth Clark, vice-president: Pillip Van Kersen, president. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Despite the fact that the Board of Directors of each class is not well known, this body has an important part to play in the smooth functioning of such a large school as Cen- tral. The purpose ot this organization is to make decisions concerning the activities of a particular class and to carry them out. The Sophomore Board of Directors for the present graduating class planned the Sopho- more Student Union Party under the leader- ship of Stacey DeCamp, its president. Assist- ing Stacey with the arrangements were the other officers: Dorothy lohnson, vice-presi- dent: Bethany Fraser, secretary: and Dolly Stone, treasurer. The Iunior Board of Directors for the class of 1943 concerned itself principally with their lunior Play, Bab. The board in 1942 was headed by Philip Van Kersen. Dorothy Iohn- son repeated for vice-president: Dolly Stone moved up to secretary, while Donna Merrill took charge of the treasury. When it comes to deciding details of gradua- tion, the Senior Board of Directors is kept exceedingly busy. The members must lay all plans for the senior dance and make ar- rangements for the annual Baccalaureate. The Senior Board also chooses the class colors and announcements. In addition to their other tasks this group must assist with the Commencement Exercises. Supervision of these activiities was the duty of Phillip Van Kersen, who was re-elected president of his class. Elizabeth Clark, loyce Macy, and Don- na Merrill were vice-president, secretary, and treasurer, respectively.