Question: What was your favorite club, team, or organization at Central?
Most recent response:
My favorite club was the Drama Club. It was so great to create sets,
costumes, makeup, lighting, and if you were chosen, you got to create a
role on stage. Mrs. Anderson always found a way to bring out our best and
had such patience! We would get to know people from other grades and
backgrounds. Some of my favorite memories were made on that stage, both
in front of and behind the curtains. --Sara Daw Day saraday1@gmail.com
Me too, Sara. Doing Ken Scott's makeup. All the laughter and just pure joy. --Kathe Holbrook Traynham KHolbrookTraynham
The band was my love. To this day I smile to the mellow sound of the
French Horn. The theme song of "The Man From Snowy River" takes me back to
a simpler day and time with lots of friends and wonderful educators.
Recently I purchased a French Horn to play just for the fun of it! Never
forget the Orange Bowl trip. I did finally got to play the silver horn for
a while! --Mary Baskin Miller gamaymay@gmail.com
The only club I belonged to was the Radio Club. My good friend John
Pate was also a member, I didn't know until recently that he ended his
own life. Phil Sanford was also a member and was a fun guy to be
around. Some of the members were underclassmen.
Mr. Blair and Mr.
Zumbro were the overseers of the club, and also two people I learned a
great deal from and had admiration for. Mr. Blair has been memorialized
with a scholarship grant in his name. Mr. Zumbro was a terrific
humanitarian, serving in the Peace Corps, and I think he's still
involved in that kind of contribution to society. --Tom Keel tfkeel@ptd.net
My favorite club was the Bible Club. I enjoyed being with lots of kids that
I went to church with. --Walter Bowen walterbowen1951@gmail.com
Well I am sure there will be a "chorus" of replies about the band, so I
will add mine quickly. Let's just say I had a tendency to get into
mischief during high school and managed get into enough of it!..but the
time I spent in the band kept me busy and worked me hard.
Every Friday night spent on band trips and performances was a night I
didn't get into trouble. It helped give me purpose and discipline and
gave me friendships that I maintain to this day. While I did not work as
hard as I should have, I still had to work and I am better off for it.
When I try to remember classmates, I can usually remember the instrument
they played before anything else.
It also cursed me in a way. To this day, when I hear someone playing or
singing off key, it hurts my ears. I'll tell my wife that something is
off key and she doesn't have any idea what I am talking about...she
doesn't hear it.
I know one of our directors, Bill Burks, is on Facebook and is an
Episcopal priest. He's still a radical, as I am sure he was our freshman
year, and he whipped me into shape and taught me a love of music. I thank
all three for their dedication to their profession. Wayne Pegram is
deceased, Bill Lee is also still with us. --David Lasseter dblasseter@gmail.com
My favorite organization was definitely the band. Even though we had
three different band directors, each with his own teaching style and
temperament, ALL of them taught us self-discipline, marching skills and
physical fitness, and fostered the love of classical music that I still
have today. (I never did like holding up the French horn horizontally to
the ground, though. Guess my arms were too weak for that).
Reading music, a skill we learned in elementary school under the guidance
of our choir directors and band director, really helped us navigate high
school band.
That is a skill that I use today when playing hand bells and singing in
the choir at church. --Pat Todd Nelson Trishruns@aol.com
