Girls Central High School - Centralite Yearbook (Butte, MT)

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l i Claire O'Reilly Irene O'Keefe WRITERS Again, Central has achieved honors in the literary world. In the school year, just past, two of her students placed in national contests. Irene O'Keefe won second place in the Spanish essay contest, and Claire O'Reilly was awarded fourth place in a feature contest conducted by Quill and Scroll. Mary Breen won the short story Christmas contest held an- nually by the Centralite staff. vi Mary Breen Pa ge f orty

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THE LIBRARY During the school year, many books have been presented to the library to keep it up-to-date. as it has been for the past few years. Both fiction and reference books were added to last year's collection. Librarians, who helped by distributing and checking books are: Hazel Sullivan, Catherine O'Donnell, Aileen Brady, Margaret Robbins, Aileen Riley, Lois Crowley, Marie Anderson, and Helen McKeoWn. The new books were Iiled and accessioned by Cecilia Harrington, Roberta Sheridan, and Alice Dwyer. A member of the faculty has charge of the library. She appoints li- brarians, who take care of the books during one of their free periods. LIBRARY AND LIBRARIANS 1 L. LL Seated-M. Anderson, C. O'Donnell, L. Crowley. Standing'-H. Sullivan, E. Riley, H. McKeown, M. Robbins, A. Brady. Page thirty-nine

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WHEN TO BE NCNCHALANT In the contest sponsored by Quill and Scroll, this story, by Claire O'Reilly, won four place in the Western district. A real reporter on a real newspaper, and now to keep the job. My heart danced with joy as I realized that the world would at last benefit by talent for writing human interest stories. Ah, that blond young man over there might be a good character for a sob story. Maybe, if I handle him right, he'll give me a few back-in- the-woods ideas about a real city. Kind of lonesome looking chapg prob- ably never been away from his mother before. I sauntered over to him as bold as you please, and handed him a big line. Harder to be interviewed than I thought he would be, but, of course, he fell under the spell of my winning personality, and soon he was talking. H'm, have only been here for a short while ? Well, well, working yet 7 UNO? When are you going back '? Well, glad you like our city. I walked away humming to myself, How You Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm '? Ha, not so bad for my first day, I soliloquized. V I went back to the office and wrote the story up, and if I do say so, myself, it was good. But when I walked into the office, every one laughed. They thought I was pretty dumb, I guess. I sat down, picked up a book and began to read. It was the latest book out on interviewing. None of that stuff for me. About three hours later the paper came out. I turned to the second page and looked for my story. It wasn't there. I ran wildly to the edito1 s room to see What the trouble was. When I reached the office, James fthe star reporterj said to me : How does it feel to be photo'd with a celebrity '? Celebrity, why I don't know. Then he held up the paper and there on the front page was my picture with the blond young man I had inter- viewed. Underneath the picture it read: Charles Lindbergh and C. A. Hicks as they were snapped this afternoon, while engaged in lively con- versationf' Of course I knew it was Lindbergh. A good reporter always knows all about the person she interviews. All thatls the matter with me is that I am too good to write human interest stories. That's all: that's all. Page forty-one