Champaign High School - Maroon Yearbook (Champaign, IL)

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Students Change in Fashion but Not in Their Loyalty to Central High School From Registration to Graduation student life played an important role in and around Champaign Central High School. Students found themselves actively participating in the many activ- ities Central provided. They had bake sales and they participated in intra- mural sports. They enjoyed marching to the Unit Four football field in the Homecoming parade to see hidden spirit come out in the open as downed Danville 9-7. Artistic and spirit shone in the halls of as once again the students for Beat Urbana. All of their paid off as Central beat Urbana by doing so captured the Big 12 pionship. They always found time read the Weekly newspaper Chroniclef' Students spent Ep E

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decorating for various dances they were as formal as Prom as informal as the New Year's Even in 194-1, as shown in the of their Christmas dance, the represented the hard work to transform the gym and make dances successful. In-school activities kept the stu- busy but what about outside activities? Throughout the years that Central existed, the students always had time to find a place of their own where they could go to relax and be with their friends. As far back as the 1920's students chose restaurants. McDonalds seemed to he the most popular place this year though Uncle john's Pancake House and several of the local pubs ran a close second. A former restaurant, Lendales, now called the Red Wheel, held the longest record as a student hangout of all restaurants in town. According to former Central students, the restau- rant was a hangout for nearly thirty years. All of this kept the students striving for one goal. That goal was to make their stay at Champaign Central High School a success.