Bay View High School - Oracle Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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INTER-HIGH SCHOOL REPRESENTATIVES THE COURT STUDENT GOVERNMENT TAKING THE OATH OF OFFICE-SEMESTER II The first semester of i948 saw a new feature added to the Student Government Association, the Student Court. The establishment of this body remedied the unpleasant situation wherein students make the rules, but teachers en- force them. The Court, which consists of five members, tries cases brought before them by teachers and other school authorites. After listening to the plaintiff, the de- fendant, and the witnesses, the court reviews the facts and arrives at a decision. Court members were Robert Barczak, chief justice, Howard Wachholz, Daniel Owen, Arden Kreider, and Naomi Bennett. The second semester a new board and a new treasurer of the association took the oath of office. The policy of having the board operate as a continuing body was carried out by adding two new members to the board. Dorothy Severance and James Healy were Bay View's representatives to Milwaukee's Inter-High School Council. One of the main proiects of this group was their investigation of rowdyism after football games. Dorothy headed the com- mittee on teen-age driving problems.

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT THE BOARD-SEMESTER I By the school year i948-49 Student Government at Bay View had proved itself. The skepticism with which the new is often received had changed to general admiration. One small evidence of this change is the fact that a student made a gavel for the organization in addition to his assignments in woodworking. When presenting his handi- work to James Szulczewski, president, Gerald Hurley re- marked, lt was an honor to do something for Student Government. ln accordance with the original plan, the Student Board oversees all the activities ofthe Student Government Associa- tion. The membership ot this includes a representative ot each grade: Lawrence Suhm, senior, Dorothy Severance, iunior, William Galligan, sophomore, and Nancy Walsh, freshman, two members-at-large, James Healy and Dalton Lawrence, and the president of the organization, Ervin Zube. Honor study halls, after two years of operation, have been accepted. Members of the central committee, Joan Van Stelle, Robert Steuck, Philip Wruk, and Florence King, were in charge ot them this year, and worked under the direction of Fred Helmer, the first vice-president of S.G.A. K PRESENTATION OF THE GAVEL CENTRAL STUDY HALL COMMITTEE

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT Page Thirty-two 9B INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE DANCE COMMITTEE Many students were very willing to serve S.G.A. in any capacity, and many worthwhile endeavors were undertaken by the group. A 9B instruction committee was set up, the dance committee functioned with little adult advice, and a clean-up committee sponsored a clean-up week in April. Three students were placed in each 98 homeroom to instruct the freshmen in the workings of Student Government, and to offer information as to the oppor- tunities to be had at Bay View both in studies and co- curricular activities. Under the direction of the dance committee, dances were held for and by the students Saturday nights throughout the school year. The school's dance band provided the music, and students assumed the re- sponsibility ot checking coats and of running the coke-bar. ln coniunction with the City of Milwaukee's clean- up campaign, the clean-up committee planned and directed the spring-freshening activities at Bay View. CLEAN-UP COMMITTEE