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

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We Remem Wal, here I am, B. Wildered, and a little confused, too. This is my first day in Central. Gosh, what a place. The joint is so dog- gone big I feel like a lost steer in Texas. Come to think of it, I am lost! I started out from the auditorium where we had a big assembly. You know, the kind in which they introduce all the big fellows around the school-Mr. Shrode and all the others. They told us to go to our second period class after the assembly was over but that was easier said than done, cause here I am in a place I've never been in before. It looks like the basement. There seems to be a shortage of boysg all I can see is girls in short blue suits, runnin' around all over the place. They're stopping and looking at me like I am crazy, but I'm not-I'm SCARED! Things have just naturally taken their place since the first few weeks of school. Everyone sure is nice after you get to know them. I remember the other day, Vir- ginia Nunnely running around 'in a frenzy when she couldnit get anyone to introduce her to Jackie Brown. Jim Hohimer f is just about the best president a class ever had, I betcha. The basketball season sure helps to rush my freshman year along. I nearly had a heart attack the other night when Southwood won the sectional for us by hitting an after-the-game free throw to beat Bosse 51-50. Spring is here, and I don't know what I'm going to do on my vaca- tion, but Betty Parrent says she's going to play cops and robbers. Wonder if I could get my water pistol and play, too? :ze 4: .31 :g I've stood for hours in a line for books, met my new teachers fafter I just got acquainted with my former onesj, been trying to ad- just myself to the idea of being a sophomore, and now I just found out that Glen Bretz has left Central to supervise safety and elementary physical education. What a way to start my second year. There was a big campaign on earlier this semester to SAVE THE SHADES. Like a good sport I donated to it, but we still have the same old shades weive always had. I'm going to ask for my money back. Friday's Centralian carried an interesting article about a pretty girl I met last year. It was Eliza- beth Bland who was elected Miss March of Dimes for the year 1948. Between the games of the infantile paralysis benefit basket- ball double-header, Elizabeth was crowned by the Evansville college basketball queen. O I ber Dlstlnctly Our old Alama Mater almost Well, here I am, a senior, finally! burned to the ground the other night. It was said some defective wiring caused it. The firemen say that if they had arrived a half an hour later Central would have been demolished. We'd better have a safety check, I don't want to go to Bosse. Why the beard? From this question I received this answer: Bob Williams has refused to shave until he takes first place in pole- vaulting. He may look like Robin- son Crusoe before he make it, but I hope not. Talking about pole-vaulting re- minds me that it is spring and time for another vacation. Well, here I go .................... Do you know I've only been gone a couple of days for anyway it seems like ith and it's time to start back to school again? It is easier to come this year, though, be- cause I'm a junior. Central isn't a safe place for pedestrians anymore with Sally Barnett learning to drive. WVhy the other day she nearly came upon the sidewalk after me. I hope Mr. Katterhenry can teach her better. I'm too young to die. Hey, we've got a queen at school. No kidding. Helen Coleman has won the title of teen-queen of the city. VVe had a Miss Central election recently. Its the first one we've had, since Iive been up here. Jo Ann Steinmetz of room 132 won. Good choice! Bill Hill, a junior, no less, won the Optimist Speech contest. It just goes to show what kind of class we have. Say, that means that Central has taken every major speech contest the city has offered. I think the Big Broadcast is go- ing to be extra special this year. Look at the array of talent, Jerry Hirsch as Emcee, and other talented stars such as Darlene Paulson, Sue Dennison, Bill Crowe, Carol Thompson and many others too numerous to name. Then with the dance band furnishing the music, how can it miss? Big Bill Phillips has brought an unusual distinction to the junior class by winning the Kiwanis award in basketball. I think that he is the first junior to accomplish this at Central since the award has been given. Speaking of basketball, I guess you have noticed who has won the Intramural basketball title, haven't you? Who else, but the juniors Even if it has been fun being a junior, nothing can compare with that all important feeling that comes when one is a senior. Just three short months and I can say .................... Page Gloria Fleener is not only a senior, she is fortunate. Very few of us have ever talked to a famous movie actress. This summer she visited starlandg however, she didn't have the luck Betty Bauer had right here at home. Betty won a date with Dick Contino by sub- mitting a winning essay on Why I W'ant to .loin the Heart Fund. Here's something I bet you don't know. We have an actress at Central. Becky French has the role of 'Dinah' in the play the Community players are giving this year. In fact we have a lot of outstanding people. Just think about winning a city wide essay contest on a subject like How We Live in America . That's what Patti Plunkett did. Then, too, Pat Rohrbacher was recently chosen good citizen for the DAR. Who can tell, Patti may become as well known as Jeanette Noland, a famous Indiana author who spoke to the students in an assembly. Memorial has beaten the grid- ders of Central for four straight years. This year the Bears grew tired of the routine and turned the so-called Tigers into kittens by downing the highly-touted Memor- ial team, 12-6. Central's Golden Brown Bears roared to their fifth consecutive city championship by defeating every city team. This is the first time in Evansville basketball his- tory that any team has copped the crown five straight times. Hurrah for the Bears! The men who select the lucky winners of the Kiwanis award are very meticulous in their choices. This year, they have excelled themselves. I think everyone will agree with me when I say that they could not have made a better selection than Davey Moore, the dynamic little guard on the foot- ball team, or Jim Kiely, undoubt- edly one of Central's better de- fensive basketball players. I heard someone complaining about how few assemblies we have. We almost had one too many, for some short hours after an assemb- ly the other day, the ceiling in our auditorium came down with a BANG! Two and one-half tons of plaster and wooden beams crashed to the floor leaving as an echo the feeling of a narrowly escaped tragedy. Then, of course, there are inci- dents that happen during the senior year which occur at no other time. For instance, the senior picnic, with loads of food and soft- drinks and Miss Flood leading the girls in a thrilling game of ring- around-the-rosyg the trouble one has deciding which college repre- sentative he wants to have a con- 6 ference with during G0 TO COL- LEGE WEEKg and don't forget the Christmas card sale... Oh, brother, were they hard to convince fthe people who were buying them, that isj. Senior talent day is coming, and then the greatest time in every student's life-when he receives his diploma. My years in Central are rapidly growing to a close. The good times I've had in these old halls are nearly passed. As I look back on my four years I find that to dupli- cate the pleasurable times that are almost past I shall have to go a long way. I look forward to graduation with a mixture of joy and sorrow, joy in the fact that I'm to take my place in the world affairs, small though that place may be, and sorrow in that my school days are through. How- ever, probably most seniors have had the same feelings that I now experience as their big day also grew near. So, now, as I once heard somewhere: It is with a deep feeling of sorrow that we now bid a fond farewell to dear old Central. Page by Betty Allen and Ronald Hamilton

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Were l-lonor Day Speakers In a class day assembly held in the auditorium Monday, May 29, Central high school honored her graduating class of 1950. With th-e strains of Pomp and Circumstance aloft, the senior class marched into the auditorium. This was followed by the Pledge of Allegience and the Star Spangled Banner with the band under the guidance of Burnell Smith. Student speakers selected were: Kenneth Jones, whose topic was Athletics: Mag Ann Allen, Fine Artsg Wayne Reisinger, Practical Arts, and Marilynn Storck, Scho- larship. Mrs. Mary Alana Lahr announced scholarships and Prin- cipal Carl Shrode presented the awards. Caryl Haering, senior of home room 115, sang One Fine Day by Puccini, from Madame Butterfly, accompanied by Marilyn Ravdin and Darlene Paulson played Nun- zio's Czardas on her accordion. The presentation of the senior gifts by President R. B. Mernitz, preceded the gavel ceremony. Re- ceiving the gavel were juniors, Jerry Duncan, president, and Ethel Bohrer. Scholarships and awards were presented to the following stu- dents: Janet Mae Geisz and Sarah Jane Swallow, to Indiana State Teach- ers' college. Alternate is Jacque- line Carter. Ann Haeussler, music scholar- ship to Oberlin college. R. B. Mernitz, scholarship to Elmhurst college. Clara Keller, a scholarship to Valparaiso university amounting to 8300. Magdalene Allen, the Louise Thrall scholarship to Indiana uni- versity. Shannon Branson is alter- nate. Kathryn Johnson, a child of dis- aibled veteran scholarship to In- diana university. Kenneth Curtin, Gary L. Stone, Magdalene Allen, Kenneth Jones, Shannon Branson, merit scholar- ships. Academic scholarships to Gloria Flcener and Ray Stein amounting to sooo. William Clayton, a ministerial scholarship. Engineering scholarships valued at 95350 annually to Alfred Dim- mett, Jerry Hempfling, and James Myrick. Don Thomrpson, Sue Dennison, and Edward Estes, music scholar- ships amounting to 31395. Noma award to Patricia Rohr- bacher. Jean Green, the Woman's Ro- tary award. Kenneth Curtin, Gary L. Stone. award for the best quality in journalistic writing. The Mary Stratton Legeman award to Ann Haeussler and Dar- lene Besing. Ann Haeussler, the Mu Phi Ep- silon award in music. James Myrick, the Bausch and Lomb award in science. Sarah Jane Swallow, the Hirm Ravdin award. Patricia Plunkett, a 25500 scho- larship to be used in the school of her choice. rs:-1-f , sk 'af Q. if ,.,. -.:- E :Q .::- . r'1. wwf Mernitz Johnson Stein Clayton Jones,Allen,lQeisinger,and Storclc Diplomas Be Given For Eighty-Eighth Time Central high school's eighty-eighth commencement exer- cises will be held Thursday night, June 1, at 7:30 pm. To the music of Pomp and Circumstance, thirty-six flower girls and four hundred graduating seniors will proceed into the Coliseum. A fanfare by three trumpeters will prece-de the Pledge of Allegiance by the graduating Arion prize Given John Spayd and Don Thompson were winners of the new annual Arion award given by the Kiwanis club to achievement winners in both the band and orchestra. The procedure used inselecting the award winners was as fol- lows: Q15 The names of the eligible seniors were provided by the of- fice of each of the schools. 125 Each band and orchestra member was given an opportunity to present a confidential rating of the eligible seniors. f3J The final selection of the award winners was made by the Kiwanis committee made up of S t u a r t Hawkinson, chairmang Charles Taylor and Harry Hart. The winners of the award were presented with both pins and medals. Also the school was pre- sented with two plaques, one for band and one for orchestra, for the names of each year's winners in the two divisions. . I :J 3 r r R it x R Myrick ..... , g .. . Q ' , . K, . 3 . M. fs x X 'sts 5 W fs:..g23. 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The invocation will be given by Reverend Roland Mernitz. Follow- ing the benediction by Reverend' Lonnie Hass the seniors will march out to the music of the Festal March played on the organ by Jerry Hoover. Central P-TA Gives Teaching Scholarship Marilynn Storck, home room 127, received a S250 elementary teaching scholarship from the Cen- tral P-TA. Both boys and girls were eligible for the award, which was given on the basis of charac- ter, scholarship, leadership, and qualifications as a prospective teacher. Davey Moore, home room 212, is the alternate for this award. The P-TA Scholarship commit- tee included, Mrs. William Reising- er, chairman, Mrs. Edgar Moore, Mrs. L. H. Hass, Mrs. Mary Alana Lahr, faculty member, Miss Geor- gia Flood, Mrs. Carl Shrode, and Mrs. H. O. Barclay. Three money making events were sponsored by the P-TA in order to make the money for the scholarship. They were: a card party at the home of Mrs. Reis- inger, a basketball game between the faculty and the senior boys, and a boat ride.

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