Lima Central High School - Annual Mirror Yearbook (Lima, OH)

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HOWARD C. GROVE, BS., M.A. Wilmington College Ohio State University Prunc pol To the Members of the fluss of 1900. You stand upon the threshold of a Iufe full of promuse Durung the years of your youth you have shared un experuences of lufe together un the small com munuty of Central Hugh School The scope of your development has been gaged by a mutual sharung of the many classes and actuvutues that you have partucupated un whule un Central Hugh School You wull be graduatung from hugh school at the mud pount of the century Thus partuculcur tume presents to all of us a challenge to the future and a record of the past Great strudes un cuvuluzatuon have occurred un the last half century We have accomplushed much un a mechanucal cuvuluzatuon Yet there us much to be done uf we are to contunue our present rate of advancement un cuvuluzatuon Basuc among these utems are those of HUMAN UNDERSTANDING and RESPECT forthe other fellow World turmoul exusts today because thus understandung does not exust It us necessary that every human beung understand and apprecuate the problems facung you as young cutuzens Democracy us not merely a form of government but A WAY OF LIVING TOGETHER un a hughly confluctung socual order whuch us undergoung rapud change To luve up to the udeals of democracy each person must have basucally an under standung of respect and confudence un hus fellow classmates To each of you I extend my hecurtuest congratulatuons on your accomplush ments thus far un lute and to wush you the best un your future endeavors Suncerely Howard C Grove Pruncupal Central Hugh School SPI FII ' u .. . , I , . , . ,

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Ohlo State Umverstty Superuntendent of Schools To the Graduating flass of 1950 My dear young frtends My message to the graduatlng class of 1950 wnll not be exhortatory un character I know full well that skeptucal youth refuses to be caloled wlth the notnon that the world ns theur oyster to be opened wnth thetr dnplomas Nevertheless uf not on commencement day then probably the day after the new graduates begun to wonder what theur educatnon has been good for That as why I am remmdung you that your educatton lm poses certaun obllgatuons upon you whnch are common to all From the socnal pomt of vnew these oblugattons are far more tmportant than any speclaltzed skulls whtch you may have acqulred As Vtttormo de Feltre sand many centuries ago Not everyone IS called to be a lawyer a physlcuan a phul osopher to ltve un the publlc eye nor has everyone outstanding glfts of natural capacity but all of us sable for the personal mfluence which goes forth from us Thus a luberal educatton as a preparation for the vocatuon of lnvlng and not merely for a ltveluhood There as one vocation common to each of you the vocatnon of llvnng a human lnfe of playlng your part as a cutlzen In the polmcal soctal and cultural ltfe of the commumty to whtch you belong It us my snncere hope that the preparatton whuch you have recelved wlll enable you to llve uprughtly and stnmulate you to do honor to the world Cordually Gordon G Humbert Supernntendent of Schools June 1950 BOARD OF EDUCATION Dr Josephme Pelrce Mr E L Baker Clerk Treasurer Maxine Muller Secretary to Clerk Gordon G Humbert Supermtendent E J Word Presudent A L Simmons Vlce Presxdent H R Stallbohm Harry A Gross Durector of Business Affalrs .Ui - - 1 I I . . . l . H I I I . ' I I GURPON G- HUMBEBT' 5-5-I MA' are created for the life of social duty, all are respon- I , . . . . . , . I I I I

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GAYLE H HOWEY AB Wittenberg Ohio University Ohio Wesleyan Dean of Girls Soc1alComrnuttee Girls Council Future Teachers of America H W SCHEUERMAN AB Defiance College Ohio State Unlverslty Assistant Principal I 0llgI'dlllldll0llS blrlsl Six years ago the doors of Central High School opened to you as students You entered with great hopes and aspirations to be attained l hope that I t t h le ou have been here you have attained in some measure a rea :za ion o these hopes and aspirations t roug s u y and the faculty lt has been a privilege to work with you As the doors again open to larger fields of endeavor it as my smcere wish d for each of you that you will meet these new experiences with courage an honest endeavor Sincerely Gayle H Howey Dean of Girls To the Boss of the flass of 1900 As you leave Central High School I am not worried about your ability to d nd earn a living or to get along with each other but I am greatly concerne a sincerely hope that you have established standards and have developed a sense f t t and of values so clear cut that you have a definite idea of what is Irs ra e what is not This will determine the quality of your civilization Howard W Scheuerman Assistant Principal .lo Hydulwer Secreta ry Ernestme Worrell Secretary to Mr Grove 41,111 rj ml, . . , M.A. 19' 1 . W. 1 ' I n' Luo W i Y . . . . ' ' h h t d and associations with other students I