Lima Central Catholic High School - Flame Yearbook (Lima, OH)

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Roiw 1-Bob Spees, Jack Doty, Jack Butler, Howard Barber, Don Staup Row 2-Art Neth, Don Slaybaugh, Dick Griffin Row 3-Bob Reynolds, Jim Welding Sta e Club Stage Manager - - - Art Neth Assistant Stage Manager - - - Don Staup Secretary-Treasurer ---- Bob Spees Advisors - - Stanton Steiner, Albert Smith Did you ever hear any group talking in their own lingo? When this occasion arises, don't you feel sort of ignorant and neglected? Well, imagine our chagrin upon hearing the stage man- ager issue orders in these words: Move those flats backg we need the room. Haul that screen into the flies, and check' those border lights. Listening to all this was bad enoughg but when a discussion of the gridiron arose, we decided to learn something about the stage or perish in the attempt. Upon investigation we found that flats are movable, cardboard pieces of scenery: the flies is the space above the visible stage, not those pesky little insects: and the border lights are those near the ceiling. As for the gridiron, we had to cast from our minds all pictures of broad-shouldered heroes and focus our eyes on a skeleton platform near the ceiling on which are mounted rows of pulleys. These pulleys carry lines which haul certain pieces of scenery up out of sight into the liies. This fact solves the mystery of the screen in our auditorium floating up and down. Questioning further, we were enlightened about the curtains. To the stage hand the regular curtain is an act drop. Behind this are the teasers. These are short border curtains hanging from the ceiling to hide the gridiron. In certain cases, there is no scenery except drapes hung all around the stage. Do you know what these drapes are called? They're termed cycloramas. lsn't that musical sounding? We'll admit the word tormenters doesn't seem to at stage scenery, but it s there, so we learned that tormenters are those first pieces of scenery or curtains just behind the regular curtains on each side of the stage and are the back boundary for the apron. Now don't look so surprised because that's just the name for the part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra pit. Still in a quandary, but having learned a lot, we wandered back to the' Mirror room, marveling at the way the Stage Club boys are able to accomplish anything when they're confronted with terms like these. ELEANOR WILDXERMUTH 4-8 Q--

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Wf1o3'W!1o?????? The The most popular boy - The The must handsome boy - The The most popular girl loveliest girl - shyest girl - - most bashful boy - Marcine Percy - Wayne Wells Frances Ousley Dick Zimmerman - Jean Heinze - Ben Green Ther girl with the best personality - Ruth Alice Miller The boy with the best! personality - Jim Waltematll The neatest student - - The most courteous student The one most likely to succeed The most active student - The wittiest student The cutest couple - - Joan I-Iinkle John Tirnmerman - - Bill Geiser Henry Timmerman Laura Mae Gnagi Joanne Hinkle and Dick Zimmerman Hey, Joe-who would you consider the cutest couple--Huh?-you did-well, O. K. Oh, of course she's cute but l voted for-she is lovely, isn't she? This goes on for an interminable period until the results are finally in. The Weekly Mirror many years ago starred the Who's Who feature which has become an annual poll. In the following years the Student Council took it over, and the results are fea- tured in the Annual Mirror. The second and third choices for the contest were as follows: Pat Roberts and Joan Lutes. most popular girl: Jim Waltemath and Ben Green, most popular boy: Joanne Hinkle and Har- riet Sandifer, loveliest girl: Wayne Wells and Dick Grainger, handsome boys: Marcine Percy, Pat Roberts, Wayne Wells and Henry Timmerman, best personalities: Pete Newland and Bar- bara Bowman, neatest students: Henry Timmerman and Jean Heinze, most courteous students: John Timmerman and Marcine Percy, most dignified students: John Timmerman and Ruth Alice Miller, most likely to succeed: Jim Waltemath and June Webb, most active students: Bill Geiser and Bonnie Custer, wittiest students: Kenny Harrod, Corrine Keve, and Ben Green, Betty Reese, cutest couples. AUDREY CANTERBURY Sembr Scbolarsfztv Cream rises to the topg smoke descends. Scholarship had its zenith and its nadir. Time is necessary in any action: in ascension, declination, or immobility. ln the years a person spends in school, he is proving himself either the gold, the dross, or that greater portion, the medium. The same holds true for life in its entirety. We don't label ourselves rationalists, but we believe most action has a cause. There is some reason why a few of our students rise to the top in our school as scholars . . . the refined product of education. We believe it is because they spend their time collecting facts. When Elbert Hubbard penned his choice morsel of philosophy on bookplate collecting, he began it with a very fascinating sentence: Life in this world is a collection, and all the men and women in it are collectors. The only question is, 'What will you collect?' Most men are intent on collecting dollars . . . We like to think of scholars as collectors of knowledge. Scholars are students, although we would hardly call some students scholars. Then let us say that it is the quality and value of the gatherers collection that rates his ability as a collector. lt is the magnitude and quality of the student's erudition that marks his classincation as a scholar. Knowledge, the intangible, produces the tangible. Knowledge is the basis for all progress. Without knowledge nothing worthwhile can be constructed. E. DON SNOW -79- T

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