Central School - Deeds and Misdeeds Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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DEEDS AND MISDEEDS —15 lete was injured which ultimately meant death. This little tow-head, hero worshipper, vowed and revowed to live to take the place of this greatest athlete, his ideal. Our tow-head lived true to his ideal and his vow, and grew to be a fine, clean, clear-brained athlete, an hon¬ or to his school, a “scrapper” worthy of his ideal. He lived true to tradi¬ tion and left illuminated tradition be¬ hind. A player was once heard to remark, “As a player I have never used to¬ bacco or liquor in any form. As a lad, I used tobacco; but when an ath¬ lete’s life lured me, the desire, strong¬ er than the desire to smoke, was the desire for a strong body. I could not afford to break training. I wanted the best physical machine possible to build. I wanted endurance, speed, agility, and all that made a good play¬ er. Success comes to the team, which obeys training rules, also to the teams which follow, due to that training tradition. Team brotherhood must be upper¬ most in each squad member’s mind. Teammates find a secret pride in helping each other. Friendliness is closer companionship. Friendliness promotes a feeling of kinship and soon petty jealousy is wiped out; and the men are one big thing—the team. The reflected habits of the boy wor¬ shippers are the habits of his ideals. Strive to be worthy of the trust im¬ posed upon you. Give the best you’ve got and the best will come back to you. Be always “up and at ’em.” Deal the knocker a knockout blow. In crisis boys play outside of them¬ selves. Freed from the bondage of entity, loosed souls afire, they forget all but the sting of defeat. Inspired men like this lead teams to victory. In our sectional tourney this year our center, Gerber, was withheld from all games (due to injury) until the latter part of the final game. The game was anyone’s game with only ten minutes left to play. Gerber went to the rescue and immediately scored three field goals. The team became an inspired team. Bell, Bebout, Ana- dell, and Krick followed with a bar¬ rage of field goals, scoring twenty- five points in ten minutes, winning by the score of 42-17. “If you think you’re beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don’t. If you’d like to win, but think you can’t, It’s almost a cinch you wont. If you think you’ll lose, you’ve lost; For out in the world you’ll find, Success begins with a fellow’s will. It’s all in the state of mind.” —H. L. Curtis. --o- Once again we have arrived at the close of the school term. Another year has vanished into the dim and shadowy past and we are about to enter upon a period of time which will bring for us—we know not what. But, on we must go. There is no turning back or standing still. For many it has been a pleasant and profi¬ table year. The future abounds in opportun¬ ities. What they will mean to us lies wholly within our power to decide. Will we grasp them? -,-o- (Miss Gilbert)—“Who killed Cock Robin?” “It must have been two other fel¬ lows.” Getting the baby to sleep is hard¬ est when she is about eighteen years old. (James Burke)—“Do you like cod¬ fi sh balls, Alice?” (A. James)—“I don’t know. I never attended any.”

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14 DEEDS AND MISDEEDS BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM COUNTY CHAMPIONS ATHLETICS AND IDEALISM The Central basketball team ended a very successful season by defeating Kirkland in the final game of the county eighth grade tournament by a score of 40 to 8. The team had prac¬ ticed hard since they lost the city championship to the St. Joseph Cath¬ olic eighth grade, and as a result play¬ ed much better ball in the county tournament. Central will lose three of its best players this year as Debolt, Andrews and Fred Brown will enter High School next fall. However, C. Hill, J. Hill, McNeal and Fox will only be in the seventh grade next year and will play two more years on the team. Line-up—Forwards: McNeal, Snedek- er, C. Hill and R. Brown; guards, F. Brown, Fox, Debolt and Steele; cent¬ ers, Andrews and J. Hill. Winning teams make athletic his¬ tory. Without victories, schools lack traditional atmosphere for the boys who come after. Real teams are built around such traditions. If we don’t have this type of tradition, we must build it. On-coming athletes must have superb players to emulate. Every player should have an ideal. High school players should pick an old-timer or a college star. Let the star athlete of the high school be the grade boy’s ideal. Boys, never miss an opportunity to meet and shake the hand of an “old-timer” or to mingle with the star athletes. It is through such associations that boys form a deep desire to emulate the skill and courage of such stars. Once a little, tow-headed boy in the grades studied the maneuvers of the school’s greatest athlete. This at h-

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16 - DEEDS AND MISDEEDS CENTRAL SCHOOL ORCHESTRA OUR ORCHESTRA MUSIC Boom! Crack! Bang! That was the name of one of the first numbers we learned. No, it doesn’t sound very musical but you know “there’s noth¬ ing in a name.” You must hear us play before you can appreciate what beautiful (?) tones we can produce. Miss Chester, who directs us, has worked hard and patiently with us and has encouraged us to continue our efforts and some day reach the goal for which we are striving. The following have remained faith¬ ful members of the orchestra through¬ out the year: Violin: Virginia Miller, Louis Buch¬ er and Robert Coffee. Cornet: Roll- and Reppert. Slide trombone: Rich¬ ard Odle, Paul Hancher, Robert Schroyer. Saxophone: George Helm, and Franklin Keller, Glenn Dickerson. Drum, Carl Buffenbarger. Piano, Olive Teeter. The pupils of Central building have shown unusual enthusiasm in music this year. Besides the regular funda¬ mental work in Public School music. A Glee Club, made up of boys and girls from the Eighth grade, was or¬ ganized with forty members enrolled. James Burke, president; Thurman Andrews, vice-president; Chalmer De¬ bolt, secretary and treasurer; Bernice Closs, librarian. Three part songs, soprano, alto and baritone were used and so well done the Glee Club was invited to sing on the Chapel programs at the High School and Central. This training will be very valuable to the boys and girls preparatory to Glee Club and Chorus work in the High School. The following numbers were sung on Chapel programs: “On Parade”.Loomis “Boating Song”.Ely “Buccaneers” . Frazier An Orchestra was organized with sixteen members. Four violins, two