Central Junior High School - Cub Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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AN EXPANDHNTG SCHOOL In 1953, Central Jr. won three Science Fair awards and Gold Keys in Art. Then in 1954, occurred an event that might have caused a serious damage. A fire broke out in the book storage room one late September day. Fortunately, it was on a Saturday, and a neighbor reported that smoke was coming from the building. There was extensive damage to the books. Contracts for a new auditorium, seating 774 persons, a sound-proof music room and library to the west of the original building were signed in the fall of 1956. The additionswere ready late in the fall of 1957, and the first assembly held in the new auditorium on .January 9, 1958, featured Mr. Stuhl, a cel- loist, from the University of Kansas. The library had opened just before Christmas. The gymnasium was converted to an industrial arts center when the new and larger one with folding doors to divide it into two rooms, for boys and girls, was completed in 1961. An honor came to Principal Shankland in February, 1958, when he was elected to the presidency of the Kansas Association of Secondary School Prin- cipals. In May, 1958, a sudden death in a car accident came to Miss Mary Ellen Parker, a long-time teacher at Central. ln 1959, Miss Nettie Davis received one ofthe Kansas Master Teacher Awards. Later, Miss Eula Bridger, also, was similarly honored. Carter Burns, personnel director, for the schools and Fred Kohl, di- rector of physical education are former teachers. Miss Ruby Crary and Mr. James Hammer are principals of elementary schools. Miss Virginia Shink- le is head of the home economics departments in junior and senior high schools. The late Paul Mitchum, mayor here for years, was one of Central's honored graduates.

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