Central Methodist University - Ragout Yearbook (Fayette, MO)

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To catch these shadows of tl1e ever- changing pattern of college life has been our purpose. We give you pictures of the buildings Where you have worked faithfully or played happily, pictures of the places and times when you met your friends and enjoyed yourself, pic- tures of your best friend and your favorite teacher, and a running com- ment which will try to help you keep the most treasured things you have gained from Central College. This book will serve as a11 index to the campus, a catalog of students, and an autograph book for some, but we hope that the 1941 RAGOUT may mean more than that. It can serve as a record of achievement, a history of passing events, a source of entertain- ment, a springboard for memories, and an indication of the future. An annual is a book both for the present and the future, and the 1941 Page? RAGOUT hopes to H11 both orders. We hope that you will like it now, that you can enjoy the possession of this record of your year at Central, and that if you thumb through it again in fifteen or fifty years that you can still enjoy it as it recalls to you your own best times of the nine months we have tried to picture as they sped by us so fast. Ladies and gentlemen. with- out further ado may we present the annual publication of the student body of Central College, Fayette, Missouri, The 1941 BAGOUT. Nalure and Books belong In llu'fjvP.v lhal see lhem- Elll1'FS4lll

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s'Daddy, what's this funny old book here? ' That, my son, is a 1941 Ragout, the annual of my alma mater. I've just been looking through it to see if I could recall some of the fun I had before I married your mother. What does Ragout mean? 66 It means hash. Why, Daddy? 66 Well, it just does, and the reason the book is named Ragout is that it tries to give a sort of general mess of everything that happened during the year, like your mother takes everything in the icebox and stirs it together. '5Was it good hash? Yes, 1941 was a good year. It had promises of being bad, too. I re- member Walter Winchell defined an optimist that year as 'a person who thinks the future is uncertainf It was a year when everyone seemed to be fighting somebody else. Central even had a few fights that year. 6'Did you fightilw 'iWe won't go into that. 1 remem- ber the year before had ended in a blaze of glory with the first name band that Central had ever had, George Hall's orchestra with Dolly Dawng and then the commencement was successful in getting a lot of us put out into the world to look for jobs. Page 9 lfupples Hall framed 1' n Goilzic There wasn't such a big enrollment in the September of 1940, but the freshmen were inducted in fine fashion, and turned out to be one of the smartest and liveliest freshman classes I was ever in. They put on an amateur pro- gram during freshman week that was better than a program of upper-class- men a few nights before. The C. C. A. was gallant host during that week, and the upper-classmen got back just in time to get in action to nip budding freshman romances. The band was slowly quitting the jitterbug music and became sweet ...W 1 .x