St John Central High School - Centralite Yearbook (Bellaire, OH)

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101411011 eo ---i-0-0---f-1--'-1--4-N ----b-' T H E L A M P A D I S T -0-'--'-ff-1'-0-1'-0--'-M ' 1880--1930 EVENTS OF 1930 SOCIAL AFFAIR On Thursday, December 19, the Senior Class sponsored a card party for the benefit of the athletic fund. The auditorium was artistfully decorated in the school colors. The majority of the large crowd assembled were occupied for the evening either at euchre, five hundred or bridge. For the benefit of those who could not play cards a tango game was in session. Prizes were awarded to those who held the highest scores. At the close of an enjoyable evening cakes were raffled off, and some who had not succeeded in winning prizes for the games were lucky enough to win cakes. -Josephine Halenar, '30. ARMISTICE DAY On the morning of November 11, .Armistice Day, the High School pupils and those of the more advanced grades were delightfully entertained in the Church Auditorium by some members of the American Legion. The well arranged program opened with a short address by Max Duga, a war veteran. Following this interesting talk, the American Legion quartet came out on the stage singing that old favorite war song, Over There . They gave us other songs still famous and held by many as sacred memories of those lamentable days, among these were, The Rose of No Man's Land, On the Banks of Brandywine, The Old Grey Mare and also K-K-K-Katie. Q The program ended with a very interesting talk on What Armistice Day Should Mean to Us, by John Lavalle, an old graduate of St. John's High School, who has recently been elected City Solicitor. We enjoyed the program very much, and I am sure that everyone present felt a glow of patriotic pride as he came from the auditorium with his mind filled with memories of the awful days of war in which men bravely made the supreme sacrifice for the sake of their country. -Henry Boiarski. SPAGHETTI BANQUET It is very unusual that a team is feted in midseason, but that is what happened to the St. John's squad. To say we enjoyed the banquet is hardly necessary. It was appreciated by each and every player. Everything was fine, everything from the spaghetti to the jokes offered by the speakers. You may hardly think so, but one learns many new things at these banquets. Sometimes the speakers are boresome and long-winded, still 01030 iuimuinioivinil It 1 10101014 1

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