Central High School - Centralian / Sagas Yearbook (Evansville, IN)

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ON OUR WAY By MARY IANE LAUDERBACH Well, seniors, it seems that the time has come. You are, as you have doubtless been reminded quite often, ready to step out into the world. Whether you plan to complete your education by attend- ing college, or find work, now that your high school days are over, both have the same meaning-you are going a step forward in freedom, and in independence. ' What lies ahead for the seniors? is the question that annually arises during lune. And the question is arising again, as though it were asked in two voices-two voices because there are two completely different schools of thought concerning the fate of the yearly senior class, each school vitally different, each one right, yet each wrong. For there is the group which looks upon the graduating seniors as though they were faced with all the joys that life might see fit to bestow. Peering through their rosy spectacles into the dim future, they see a bright and un- marred success for every graduate, and prophesy unlimited happiness and good fortune for each one of those setting forth into life. Then there is that other group-those men and women who, drawing a mantle of gloom about them, foretell in dreary accents the grim fate of the graduating class. It seems that they are doomed to failure: business is against them , the Governments against them , Life's against them p they warn, visualizing only misfortune for those ill-fated boys and girls venturing forth in a world that is unsafe for civilization. But surely the fates of the world's seniors-or, more specifically, Central's seniors-cannot be as perfect or as hopeless as they are so often pictured! Instead, it seems likely that in the future years of each one lies a skillful blending of each of these fates: perhaps a majority of happiness, tempered with a modicum of the disappointment and melancholy that'it seems is the fate of every man or woman to experience during life. It seems that the future cannot but hold a few of those unpleasant moments, which have so often made men's lives fuller and better for their understanding of everything that exist- ence holds. The problem of individual success, judged according to the amount of per- sonal renown or financial security a man may possess, cannot be estimated unless the -individual himself is taken into consideration. All of the various qualities that make up his character must first be taken into thought. But excellence of character is not merely bestowed by a kindly fate on some par- ticularly lucky person: it can be acquired, if he is willing to work for such qualities, and to make himself better where he finds himself weakest. And so, seniors, a toast! To the future! And with it a challenge: to look for- ward to the future expecting perhaps a bit of unavoidable grief, but a great deal of happiness, as well, and to strive for the attainment of the success that you desire by making yourself better fitted and more deserving of it! College Week Meeting . rs -:mfssks sz-max

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5, , ,W -- THE CAPTAIN AND THE CREW is N X x x Xlksggs -Q, 5.1: figs, :sei : I, ' is SVS- ' N Q . sity, -inf 5- I KE A i ' - 1:5 5-'Z - lit- President Vice-president Secretary Treasurer JOHN WILCOX, JR.-National Honor Society: Centralian Staff: Managing Editor of Cen- tralian: Hoosier Boys' State 1938: Organizer of Chess Club: Honor E , Biology and Latin: President of Chess, College Study, Junior and Senior Latin Clubs: First Prize American Red Cross Flood Essay Contest, 1937: Scholarship E, twice: Senior Play Principal: Cen- tralian Representative: Charter Member E. S. P. A., Constitutional Committee: Junior Class Social Committee Chairman: Sophomore Class Representative: Pot-Boiler and Medicine Show . Dramatics Class Plays: Member of first True-False Squad: Commencement Usher 1937. Head Usher 1938. LAVERNE CUMMINS-National Honor Society: Quill and Scroll: Drum Major: Big Broad- cast four years: Varsity Band four years: National Solo and Ensemble Honors: President of Junior-Senior Hi-Y, Les Debs. and Music Clubs: Dance Band four years: Concert Orchestra three years: Principal in Band Play 1937: Centrslinn StaH', and Representative: Honor E in Music twice: Student Director of Band: Junior Play Cast. MARIAN BEAVEN-Girls' Cabinet Member: Scholarship E: President Home Economics Club: Centralism Staff: Junior Council Member: Student Council Representative: Sophomore Nominating Committee: Friendly Service Arista Committee: Office Assistant: Operetta 1938: Minstrel 1939: Arista League Rating four years. PAUL WALZ-Varsity Band 74 years: Home Room Representative: Lunch Monitor: Gold and Brown Ratings: Adelphi Representative: National and State Music Awards: Gym Monitor: National Honor Society President: Big Broadcast: Dance Band. The clciss of 1939 wishes to express its cxpprecicxiion for the Work oi Miss Gerst, senior counsellor. Assisting seniors to obtain scholarships, preparing for senior guidance, being Q friend cmd counselor to all sen- iors: these ore but ci few of the services Miss Gersi hos ren- dered. Thcmks! Miss Gerst!! OFFICERS OF OTHER YEARS 1937-1938 IUNIOR 1936-1937 SOPHOMORE Wcxlter Riess, President ' Inge Pelikcm, President Roscflie Mullen, Vice-President Kenneth Schnuie, Vice-President Emmcxline Rusche, Secretory Mczry Ioyce Shannon, Secretory George Heilmcm, Treasurer Helen Church, Treasurer 1935-1936 FRESHMAN Helen Komm, President Bernice Hamburg, Vice-President Anna Margaret Alsheimer, Secretory Annabelle Barclay, Treasurer

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BRIDGES WE HAVE CROSSED By MARY JOYCE SHANNON Three hundred fifty-nine Central students will receive their di- plomas on Iune 8 - Leads for stories for probably all Evansville papers will start similar to this, but to three hundred fifty-nine students this lead will recall many interesting incidents of four years in Central. One of the largest classes ever to attend Central was the class of 1939 and their officers each year undertook their duties willingly and strived to make their class outstanding. The class in turn was one which always backed the officers and the sponsor, Miss Gladys Weinsheimer, and made all plans which were undertaken success- ful. The social events of the class were always attended by large groups and as a Freshman event the class held a skating party at the Recreation Hall attended by about two hundred students who can recall their many falls and bumps, but who had a grand time in spite of them. The mere mention of the words Rustic Romp recall the overall and print dress party where wheelbarrow races and square dances featured the entertainment for the Sophomore year. As Iuniors two unusual and different parties were held: first of the year was the Circus party and the second was the Basketball pep party, held just before a Iunior and Senior basketball game, where Carroll Taylor and Elnora Grin were crowned King and Queen. The class showed how democratic they were when plans for the annual Iunior and Senior Prom were formed. They didn't believe that the Prom should be a free dance for the Seniors and in turn make it a debt to their classy so a long old Central tradition was broken when both Iuniors and Seniors paid their ways to the Prom. The committee for the Prom was headed by W. O. Culley and the Stage Door Rehearsal