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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Musical and Dramatic Productions Make School Fun c .7fr-e Qaeda Jiang aifigfz The Goose Hangs High, a three act play by Lewis Beach, was pro- duced by the senior class of 1950 and directed by Miss Olema Mote. Characters in the play in the order of their appearance were: Bernard Inguls ..........,.,,...... Ronald Hamilton Eunice lngals ............ Marian Postelthweight Noel Derby.., ......,.........,.........,.. Kenneth Jones Leo Day ...,..........,. ....,,..,............. D ean Taylor Rhoda ...........,...... .,............ M arilynn Storck Julia Murdock ,..,.. ,, ...... Ann l-laeussler Mrs. Bradley ,....... ..,...,... S hirley Fowler Hugh lngals ,....... ........,, R. B. Mernitz Ronald Murdock .............,........ James Osborne Lois lngals ........,,..,, ,,...... .... R e becca French Bradley lngais .,..............,........,...... James Ary Dagmar Carrol ......................,, Helen Coleman Elliott Kimberley ...,.,..,..,.,.....,......., Bill Crowe The plot of this three act come- dy drama involves the problems, financial and otherwise, that af- fect the twins, their family, and their friends. Leo Day, a society climber, along with Elliott Kimberley the villian, are responsible for the trouble Mr. lnglas gets into. He resigns his position in a mad rage, and after coming to his senses, dis- covers it is too late to do any- thing about it, causing the chil- dren to stay home and not return to college. Hugh decided to give his dad his savings and forget about his fu- ture which was marrying Dagmar Carrol. But the twins had a dif- ferent idea. They, along with grandma's money, planned to start their father into a new business with Noel Derby. The only draw- back being-getting grandima's money. With everybody's help, more trouble developed, and of course Mr. lngals was asked to come back to his old job. After much con- sideration fMrs. Ingals said she would leave him if he went backj he decided to start out a new business, the twins could return to college, and Hugh could marry Dagmar. afaaa ZUGA Zeuine Departments Combined Talents To Present Comic Qperetta The Pirates of Penzance, a Gilbert and Sullivan production furnished much entertainment when the music department, under supervision of Robert Dickey, presented this operetta March 30 and 31. The whole plot was based around Frederic Games Sandersonj, who was apprenticed to a pirate band because his hard hearing nurse fSue Dennisonj mistook the word pirate for pilot, He completes his time of service at the age of 21. But, to add more complications, he was born in leap year on the 29 of February and is really only five years old. The pirate king QD'orris Normanj tried to keep him in com- mand, but loyal Frederic considered it his duty as a Britisher to make his ex-bosses give up piracy. Persuasion failed, so he organized a com- pany of policy to arrest them. Of course, romance had a place in this melodramatic operetta. Mabel fCaryl Haeringj, the heroine, promised to marry Frederic when he becomes 21 years of age fwhich will be in 19405 but the year in which she swears this, is in 1879. The cast also included: Delbert Christmas, William E. Parish, Wanda Cain, Janet Cheshier, Clara Keller, Bernice Marak, and Vir- ginia Sansom. Also featured were a chorus of pirates, police, and General Stanley's wards. Burnell Smith di1'ected the orchestra, which played an important part in producing this operetta. Settings were made by Jim Osborne, Don Dockery, Betty Goodge, Geraldine Walters, Juanita Elpers, and other members from Mrs. Gladys Bevers' art classes. Sidi? The Divine Flora, a three act comedy by Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements, concerns the problems of Randy and Buzz, portrayed by Dwayne Scott and Donald Weil, who wish to become press agents. Randy gets a date with Etta Dean, played by Ann Harris, a young lady who is known around school as a chronic wallflower. The real purpose of the date is to meet Etta's father, Bertis Hancock, who is head of a publicity agency, and to impress him with the boys' ability in hopes of working for him. To further impress Mr. Dean, the two boys conceive the idea of campaigning for Etta, to make her one of the most popular girls in the school. As the plot thickens, a famous crooner enters the story and many difficulties present themselves. Everything ends well with Etta becoming a glamour girl supreme and one of the boys finding himself in love with her. The cast was the largest ever used at Central and was directed by E. A. Hensley. Other members were: Charles Goebel, Martha Mahon, Wanda Vaughn, Paul Joiner, Betty Jo Bauer, Ronald Mandel, Suzzane Brand, Bruce Bahn, Jerry Brown, Geneva Gardner, Etta Rose Hollars, Senora Strouse, Gerald Culley, Beverly Nelson, Mary Sue Johnston. Bobby soxers were: Irene Cissel, Grace Ehrhardt, Myrna Embree, Jane Epley, Nancy Fellwock, Thelma Houchin, Joyce King, Marilou Main, Virginia Mattingly, Barbara Pendley, Marilyn Ravdin, Geraldine Ruxor, Ruth Snodgrass, Geraldine Walters, and Margie Mike. page 8 Page by Byrl Conkwright