Harlem High School - Meteor Yearbook (Machesney Park, IL)

Page 173 text:

FIRST ROW: Nancy Smith, Peggy Kankaala, Mary MeVinnie, Carol Hillary. Mary Allen. Karin Lindsay, Karen Board, Phyllis Teaster. SECOND ROW: Judy Shipper. Fred Lemmerhirt. Bob Bender, Pat Clinton. Dan McLcvige, Lynn Oswald. Andra Hotchkiss. National Honor Society Established by the National Association of Secondary School Principals, the National Honor Society combined the efforts of the separate local honor societies into a single nationwide endeavor. Its constitution was drawn up in 1921, and the following year the official emblem and form of charter were adopted. The idea expressed was that the fundamental objective of the high school should be the realization of American democratic ideals, and meaningful recognition should be given to those most nearly attaining the desired goals. Through the efforts of the student council, a Harlem chapter was chartered on March 5, 1951, under the sponsorship of Mr. Paul Mann and Mrs. Dorothy Wood. Since then each spring the Harlem faculty has rated for nomination to membership the top junior and senior students, based upon excellence in scholarship, leadership, character, and service. The present fifteen members were elected in the spring of their junior year, only 5% of their class then eligible. At the impressive spring ceremony before the student body, candidates were inducted, having attained a goal, yet only a steppingstone, in the ever upward path of knowledge. This year the Harlem Chapter received the high honor of being invited to install a National Honor Society chapter at Hiawatha High School, Kirkland. Considerable effort on the part of Mr. Mann and the fifteen members went into preparations and the completion of a new plaque. Mr. Moore, Mr. LaLoggia, Mr. Mann, and the members made the trip for the ceremony held in the Kirkland auditorium. Mr. Moore presented the new charter to the Hiawatha principal. The processional of candidates to be inducted, led by the robed Harlem members, was followed by a scries of short speeches on the ideals of the society. The oath administered by president Daniel McLcvige and the prayer by Andra Hotchkiss preceded the recessional. A reception in the home economics room ended a most successful and rewarding experience.

Page 172 text:

FRONT ROW: Judy Shippec, Karen Board, Peggy Kankaala, Mary LaForcc. SECOND ROW: James Wylde. Andra Hotchkiss. Ron Mackey. Lynn Oswald. Holly Minehart. Karen Lindsay. Quill and Scroll, the International Honorary Society for High School Journalists, was organized in April, 1926, by a group of high school advisors. Today the society includes 3,200 chapters in every state and five foreign countries. The purpose of the society was to honor high school journalists and so encourage and reward individual skill and achievement. Quill and Scroll is now the highest recognition attainable by members of high school yearbook and newspaper staffs. The Harlem chapter, organized in 1955, is under the sponsorship of Mr. Mann. The present members have met the five qualifications for membership: junior and senior standing, rank in the upper third of their class, superior work completed in journalism, recommendation by their advisor, and approval by the executive secretary of the society. For the last purpose a complete journalistic record of each candidate was sent to society headquarters in Iowa. The present Harlem chapter sponsored a dance and an induction ceremony for new candidates. The dignified, stirring candle-lighting ceremony impressed upon the candidates and student body alike the ideals of the journalist. To work for the advancement of his community, to be impartial in his interpretation of the truth, to possess loyalty, dependability, and vision; these arc the journalist's goals—the heritage of the past, the challenge of the present, and the hope for the future. Harlem Chapter Scroll 168

Page 174 text:

Wyt $tpet October, T963 Harlem High School Twenty Cents V- u' x « i:« •i- r ’ l,cit to Right: l.ynn Oswald. Ciail rorsrud. Judy Shippce. Advertising layout: Ralph Hotchkiss. Business Manager; Pcgg) Kankaala. Circulation Manager: Richard Fitzgerald. Advertising Layout.