Southwestern Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Jamestown, NY)

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RADITIONALLY, it is only the senior class who says Farewell to the old school in June. It is the accepted rule that they will close its doors behind them at that time and take with them a store of fond memories of the place where they have spent so many of the years of their lives among friends who will ever remain dear. This year this tradition will be broken at Southwestern, and all junior and senior high school students, as well as their teachers, will be leaving the halls of their familiar schools. When schools open in September, the seniors will, as usual, be scat- tered to the four winds, but the other classes will be entering the new central school for which we have waited so long. l However great the anticipation with which we look forward to the future, there is always a note of sadness and uncertainty accompany- ing the leaving of the known and the venturing into the unknown. Perhaps we seniors may find comfort in the thought that we are not the only ones who are pulling up long established roots and transfenring to new fields. For our teachers, some of whom have been here over twenty years, it will be a time of parting from friends and well-known scenes. Many new adjustments will need to be made by both students land teachers. The lower classmen, of course, are eagerly looking forward to enter- ing the new school, but even they will never forget the days they spent in the old schools in this, their farewell year.

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In Dea'z'eatz'0a . ...,. .. ,.,4 it . -,.v - .4-.DFW Pauline Lopus, Celoron Advisor Mildred Burk, Lakewood Advisor The Class of '54 is proud to dedicate this Cerztralian to Mrs. Mildred Burk and Miss Pauline Lopus, the yearbook sponsors. Miss Lopus is not new to Celoron. She was a member of the first class graduating from the present Celoron High School building. After her graduation she entered Fredonia State Teachers College. After receiving her diploma from Fredonia she taught first in the primary grades of the Celoron and Glidden branches of our school. Although Miss Lopus now has her hands full with the seventh and eighth grade citizenship education classes, she is always willing to help any other student needing her assistance. Everyone in the cast of the senior play will remember how patiently and capably she directed it. One Foot in Heaven would never have been such a big success without Miss Lopus behind the curtains helping us whenever we needed her. Miss Lopus also sponsors the Teen-Age Talent Club of which many of us were members back when we were freshmen and sophomores. Besides all these other activities, Miss Lopus is the Celoron sponsor of our yearbook. She has cheerfully contributed her time and her services toward making this one of the best yearbooks ever published. We know we will never forget all that Miss Lopus has clone for us so we want to repay her in a small way by dedicating to her this, the 1954 Centralian. Mrs. Burk attended grade school Union City, Pennsylvania, but was a member of the last class graduating from the old Lakewood High School. Mrs. Burk also was graduated from Fredonia State Teachers College. She taught sikth grade at Randolph, and at the North Side School at East Williston, New York. Mrs. Burk was a substitute teacher for all the grades at Lakewood from 1935 to 1943, and started teaching full time at Lake- wood High School in September, 1943. Mrs. Burk has, in her nineteen years at Lake- wood, been the secretary of the Faculty Club, president of the Faculty Club, seeretary of the P.T.A., and a member of the faculty play. At the present time Mrs. Burk is the seventh and eighth grade mathematics teacher and one of the eighth grade advisors besides her duties as year- book advisor. Mrs. Burk has worked diligently, year after year, to improve the yearbooks. She has spent countless time and effort to makd this and past Centralians a success. Her efforts have long seemed to go unrecognized, so Welshould like to use this dedication to show our appreciation and that of the staff of past yearbooks, to Mrs. Burk for her competent advice and ability.