Central YMCA High School - Centralite Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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, P wQ ' ' ' KHJEQQ QQ Q ,Dj T an 5 fm gi ' an Seniors Evening john W. Erickson Herbert H. Boettcher Arthur E. johnson. john P. Mountain Secretary President Vice-President Treasurer Upon looking back over our last year at Central, we feel that we are very fortunate, indeed, to have been the Senior Class during a school year which was so successful in all respects. The early part of the year showed that this school year was to be the greatest yet at Central. The Class of '25 takes modest pride in the bit that it has done to make it mean so much. The class gave its entire support to all activities, the inter-Class Mixer, junior Prom, and activities of the class itself. Much could be said of the good work of the officers, committees, and of the whole Senior Class. For the first time in the history of our school, the February graduating class had a complete class day and commencement program. The class play, A Successful Calamity, staged by the Dramatic Club, marks the beginning of class day exercises for all the following February graduates. Not only were the February graduates given full graduating exercises, but they were also given a theatre party just before they departed from the halls of Central. Dinner was had at King's Restaurant with favors, speeches, souvenirs, songs, cheers, and a world of fun and fellowship. Lowell Sherman in High Stakes at the Adelphi was the comedy drama visited. The play was a fitting show for such a glorious night. After the theatre many, being reluctant to depart, lingered. Another theatre party, with dinner, was held by the June graduates, just as merry as that given to the February graduates, but tinged with sadness as the end drew near for the happy Seniors. The thought that this was our last get-together just before graduation made us sombre. The memory of this, our last senior theatre party, we shall cherish throughout the swiftly passing years. We leave with our hearts filled with gratitude and reverence for Central. We leave fully prepared to go out into the bustling world and into higher institutions of learning, filled with the ambition, spirit, and the resolute de- termination which dear old Central has embedded within us. JOHN W. ERICKSON. lPage 361 .F.T.'. ' '-S' ' 'T' . - ' ' ' uliluin-:muh--.Wu-3-Lum-ni-ifwrmnnnm-ruin 5 ' 7 - Z E. 7.5.3.5 'If 'vt-E....'....7

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5- Y f.- Tt 4-.a 'fthe 412 Q no fllmil ii de at g Seniors Day With these accomplishments and the evident progress of the class, we can readily be recognized as a product of a great school located in the heart of the greatest city in the world. With our years of training, guided by competent teachers, we have developed a remarkable class, just as our great engineers, architects and sculptors have developed the magnificent struc- tures and works of art which one can see upon our campus. As they have trained themselves to develop this wonderful city, so are we training ourselves for our places in the business and professional center which is situated in the City of Go. WALTER OTTO. OUR CAMPUS In the heart of Chicago stands our school, with its unusual, but impressive campus. Bordering the campus on the north is the calm flowing Chicago River. Up the river to the east is a beautiful white building, towering sky- ward to the clouds. This mammouth monument was erected with the money given by the massive gum-chewing public. Across the river directly in front of this building is one of the largest double decked bridges the world can boast of constructed to handle the traffic of thousands of people who daily cross our campus. To the east is Lake Michigan, the Field Museum and annexed to the Museum is the last word in stadiums. Running north and south parallel to the lake is Michigan Boulevard, with its wonderful Art Institute. Throughout the day the chimes peal forth the quarter hour from the Straus Building tower, as the busy public hurry in their race with time. Toward dusk the rays of the setting sun play upon the steeple of the Chicago Temple giving a touch of inspiration and spiritual repose to our campus. If you were to circumnavigate our administration building by airplane you would view the buildings of such a variety of industries as is known to no other school campus. The path that leads to the entrance of our Central Building is known as the Second Wall Street, where fortunes are made and fortunes are lost and money flows like the babbling brook. Our students are busily occupied throughout the day, perhaps traveling from one building on the campus to another, and in the evening they can be seen trooping like gallant soldiers into our Central School Building. At night they can be seen leaving the building. Some go to the north, some to the south, some to the east, and some to the west, seeking perhaps the quickest means of con- veyance from our campus to their homes. We have automobiles, busses, street-cars and elevated trains, and some day perhaps we shall have airplanes for the convenience of our students, friends and others. EARL W. HANLEY. IPage 351 1, - -- -7 M' ' ' 'f' '''ma. .,.........m..s::.. ........m.,.. ....:.r''- - - - - --- - - -----'- - - -. .. , . A , .A 'uma'-it:4,441:-.L-: .

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Q ,. , 'r zoiiwi -. ' 11619 g Q m fl H- Q, H 5 QQ .sr --' Seniors Evening LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE SENIOR CLASS, 1925 lndited by ROBERT F. KELLEHER To Whom It May Concern, viz., id est and to wit, our parents, our faculty, our friends and benefactors, et al.: Know ye that we, the Class of i925 of the Central Preparatory School, sound in mind but weak in purse, with full realization of the deplorable fact that poor old Central Prep must now be deprived of over one hundred of her ablest, most intelligent and stalwart sons as they fare forth to challenge a Evickecl world, with due pity and full sympathy for our bereaved Alma Mater, o Firstly, in all compassion and generosity bestow upon her bowed head our beatific blessing. Secondly, we do most humbly entreat Mr. Herbert F. I-lancox, our dis- tinguished director, to act as executor ex oHicio of this, our last will and testament. Thirdly, we do hereby, hereupon and herewith, not to mention heretofore and hereinafter, make the following bequests: To Mr. Buck, the privilege of welcoming the hundred thousandth student to the portals of our magnificent sky-scraper school in l950: To Mr. Everett, the sole privilege of enrolling that hundred thousanclth pupil in his newly bestowed capacity of registrarg To the Faculty, the right to heave a solemn sigh to heaven as one more batch of incomprehensible incorrigibles gleefully slam the door behind them, never again to haunt those hallowed halls. To our successors the junior Class, we throw the torch, to carry on, to hold on high, with futile hopes that they may not so nearly drive their poor instructors to idiocy or insanity as we have. To them we also entrust our fond advisor, Mr. Frederick William lVlcClusky, the First, to their certain edification. To the Sophomores and Freshmen, the privilege of producing minstrels, mixers and proms in future years to their little hearts' content and to the incidental indentation of their treasury. We hope and pray they may never break our breakage record in chemistry laboratory. To lra, in the bookstore, we bequeath the inalienable right to keep on hand forever an inexhaustible supply of examination books to the joy and exaltation of those poor unfortunates who yet remain in resignation. To Baldy, the Candy Kid, we grant the right to maintain at any and all times a most complete assortment of Ohl l-lenry's, Ohl lVlabel's, Old Nicks and old whatnots, most especially for classroom consumption. To the elevator operator, in conclusion, we bequeath a fur-lined gold- knobbed elevator cage which should be sufficiently elastic to accommodate the muttering mob that he always leaves behind. ln Witness Whereof, we have hereunto affixed our signature and seal. Class of i925 CENTRAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL lfPage 371 - ------Egg,-g7,g,,m,g,m,,,r ' ' '7i.m-m.1.I.5I..T'.EnLFsionTn3.E.iff'' '- - TMI F, I..y,T '- ' - '