The ‘Raider’ Central Catholic’s student high school paper was printed in 1957 for the first time. This year it received the highest award by the Catholic Scholastic Press Association of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The Auburn St. School had been chosen from Catholic schools newspapers throughout the 48 states to be named to the All Catholic rating. (There were only 48 states in those days.) This rating is based on many facets including, editorial content, service to school, physical appearance, layout and design, uniformity and consistency of style, and headline accuracy.
In winning this award the Centralites scored 830 points out of a possible 1000 points. The school will receive a citation for this venture. They also have been named to an honor rating in Saint Bonaventure press competition and last year they placed second in the school’s first try at publishing a newspaper. This paper was then accepted as a member publication of the International Member of the International Quill and Scroll.
Bernard V. Khoury the Raider editor was awarded second place in the Saint Bonnies press competition in the editorial division.
Vytenis M Vasyliunas an associate editor received an award in the poetry division. Richard Turcotte won an award for sports writing and associate editor William Cavanaugh also took a prize for news writing.
Rene Roy who is now Brother Rene Roy and now a day’s former head man at this Catholic school won an award, Pete Roy his brother was an all-star hoopster in his day. Pete along with Joe Lee, Jackie Dean can be seen at most CC basketball games to this day, I know they miss their former LHS three sport star Tommy Ruffen and all of them would sit together at these games.
Dean and Lee were exceptional athletes in the day and Mike Dean went on to play and star for the Raiders. Laurence Cippola join Rene in getting awards for editorial and newswriting.
Cleaning the desk.
The love story of Ralph and Edna just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to, doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have. Ralph and Edna were both patients at a mental hospital. One day while they were walking past the swimming pool Ralph suddenly jumped into the deep end of the pool and stayed there. Edna promptly jumped in to save him and swam to the bottom to pull him out.
When the head nurse heard of this heroic act she immediately ordered Edna to be discharged from the hospital as she was now considered to be mentally stable. When the nurse went to tell Edna the news she said, “I’ve got good news and bad news for you. The good news is you’ve been discharged since you responded rationally to a crisis by jumping into the pool to save the life of the person you love and I have concluded that your act of bravery displays sound mindedness. The bad news is that Ralph hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him and I’m sorry but he’s dead.”
Edna replied, “he didn’t hang himself; I put him in there to dry. How soon can I go home?”
Perks of Living After Sixty
#1 Kidnappers are not very interested in you.
#2 In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first.
#3 No one expects you to run anywhere.
#4 People call you at 9pm and ask “did I wake you?”
#5 People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
#6 Things you buy now will not wear out.
#7 You can eat supper at 4 pm if you feel like it.
#8 You can live without sex, but not your glasses.
#9 You get into heated arguments about pension plans.
#10 You quit trying to hold your stomach in no matter who walks into the room.
That’s it for now; and remember: If you’re driving make sure you have a car.
