Central Methodist University - Ragout Yearbook (Fayette, MO)

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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

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under Round Robin Smarts direction with a couple of 11ew players added to the ranks. Another sign that school was starting was the rejuvenation of the :Xnderson-Clingenpeel feud with the niusic prof and the coach trying to entice students to their own organ- izations. 'TX 11ote of reality about the things in the outside world eanle when we heard that the lroys in the National Guard would he sent dow11 into the wilds of Arkansas on November 25 for a year's training. The date was later changed to two days hefore Christ- mas. and hy that tiine a large nuinher ol' the hoys were not associated with tlonipany 'Xl' any longer. Yes. son. I was a slacker. and lucky at that. You I't'll19IlllJ9l' that hand we saw' last fall with all the pretty girls leading it and the old director with the worried look walking along heside it? lle had the ancestor of that hand when I went to Central. and the foothall games were worth going to only to see the hand. 'Ilhe flag-hearers and twirlers of lflltl were just as pretty. too. as they have been lnefore or since. . , , lxlflwr' ll 1' 1 'nw-,y ffl 1.111 f'l'f',clfl1mH litlflllllll l'lll'tl1lt' lfllllllt' llf wolur ulnl rnllwlx HlH4Il.N'1 l'ully'pfrlvxfl!f1HHl1f1f.N'tll1f1'Hl limlx' li':':'1'f:llorf. Hum! .vlwpx out Ill Nlwillo rmllwflr-rr.: ,hula lfrrffrlf :mtl ljlltll' llrlfrrfllx' HI ll em florrn rlf ,', Hr'ful1l1':lxl nt illtl Pugi' 10