Little Rock Central High School - Pix Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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Junior English students, taught by Mrs. Hazel Bullock, study the different types of sentences. Layne Huckabay writes a compound sentence at the board while Mrs. Bullock explains the elements of a compound sentence to the class. On the job at Murry's Dinner Playhouse is Industrial Cooperative Training student Creg Nichols, a junior. Students in ICT attended classes during the mornings and then worked in local businesses during the afternoons, thus gaining actual job ex- perience while attending school. Selecting'a book to read as part of an assignment in one of his classes is senior Darrell Oliver. Most classes required students to do extensive reading outside of their regular classroom work. 4—Theme

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Using a mirror, junior Allen Wayne prepares for a Friday night dale. Shaving isn't fun. even though as a kid I thought it would lx-. he said. With the aid of his car mirror, senior Ricky Funderburg takes a final look at Central as he leaves school at the end of another day of classes. Mirrors have many uses in today's society.

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Outlooks... Learning takes top priority for Central Checking the progress of senior Carolyn Retlus in doing a problem in Accounting II is Mrs. Joyce Arick, instructor of the course. Modem equipment in the classrooms enabled students to gain training for employment in today's modem business world. Theme—5 Foreign exchange student Achim Cullatz delivers a speech on his native Germany in Communications I class. In advanced journalism, senior Margaret Camer works on doing paste- ups for the student newspaper, the Tiger. In most of the classes, students got the opportunity to learn what was being taught by actually doing it. No student should leave Cen- tral High School until he has received an education that will allow him to gain meaningful employment or will allow him to enter an institution of higher learning where he will favorably compete.” This statement by Acting Prin- cipal Gene Hooks partially sum- marizes what the 1979-80 school year was all about. And. Central High School did all that it possibly could do for its students. Central offered the most exten- sive high school curriculum in Arkansas, it had classrooms with modern equipment designed to improve learning situations, and —above all —it had a dedicated faculty intent on pro- viding a superior education to each student. Throughout the 52 years that it has been in its present location. Central High—because of its sound educational program—has graduated students who have had meaningful roles in society. The outlook for the coming years remains the same.