Highlands High School - Highlander Yearbook (Fort Thomas, KY)

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STUNENT GOVERNMENT bly. These members, elecTed by The STudenT Union, review The opinions and inTormaTion gaThered and discussed by The Assembly, and make The laws Tor The sTudenT body. This year The Council sponsored dances and assemblies. IT also broughT abouT beTTer gov- ernmenT by TormulaTing a new consTiTuTion. The meThod oT elecTing members was changed, The boThersome old peTiTion plan being abolished. One oT The many oTher duTies performed by The Council is The awarding of leTTers To The TooTball, baskeTbaII, and Track Teams as well as The band, cheerleaders, and C-irl's AThleTics. The lisT oT aThleTes nominaTed by The coaches is presenTed To The Council which musT approve iT, order and pay Tor The leTTers. An awards commiTTee handles This. A new acTiviTy begun This year is iunior cheer- leading. Under The supervision oT John PaTTon and Dick Sullivan six iunior high girls were selecTed Tor cheering aT reserve baskeTball games. lncidenTally, There was a biT oT mysTery abouT The way John and Sully had To conducT The Try-ouTs behind closed doors. No one else goT so much as a look-in aT The Tair young Things demonsTraTing Their pep and energy be- Tore These Two sTern and sTaIwarT judges. Also iT Took Them an unconscionably long Time To narrow down Their choices To six. However, when aT long lasT The TorTunaTe girls were chosen, They added color To The second Team games, and helped draw larger crowds To These conTesTs. They were presenTed wiTh cerTiTicaTes oT award aT The end oT The season. The presidenT oT The Assembly was Bob Luecke. Roger Neff was vice-presidenT and Audrey Lukens secreTary. Roger also served as presidenT OT The Council wiTh Homer Rice as vice-presidenT and Audrey Lukens as secreTary. As The Treasurer Sam lv1arTin leTT Tor The armed services aT mid-year, Wanda Heinlein was ap- poinTed To Till ouT The year. STudenT governmenT owes much To iTs TaculTy advisers, Mr. Ewell Waddell, Mr. Howard Law, and Miss MargueriTe lvioery. Boffom Row: Landberq, Reeves, McAnally, Triifschuh, Lloyd, Ball, Harding, Lukens, Nulsen, J. Moore, Williams, Weber, Crawford, Youfsey, 5coN, Swenson, Grapes. Second Row: Troui, Stegeman, Rice, Addams, Mays, Duncan, McFarland, Fannell, Sullivan, von Sprecken, J. Moore, Wight, King. Third Row: J, Harris, Nieman, B. Harris, Sarakatsannis, Luecke, Enos, PaTTon, Grimme, Neff.

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Siilingz King, Luecke, Lukens, Neff, Rice, Swenson, Landberg. Standing: Fennell, Marlin, Grimms, Enos, Patton, Harris, Sullivan, Duncan. The Presidenis, Roger Neff and Bob Lueclxe 'A' Before lhe meeling can gel down lo business. lhere is 'lhe usual search io locare busy Audrey Lulcens, who is secreiary ol iusr abou? everylhing in school. Someone suggesfs 'rhar she is finishing some lyping for Miss Jones, and somebody else says maybe she's faking Thai civil service exam. Finally Audrey and her minules are corralled and 'rhings gel under way. A regular ieaiure of ihe fall meelings, when lhe queslion of old business came up, was Jim Harris making his liiile speech proving iusl why 'rhe Council should feel obliqaied lo false an ad in ihe l-liqhlanderf' During ihe spring, Mr. Law, one of our advisers, worried us by frequenlly falling asleep in meelings, bur Mr. Waddell 'fold us noi' 'ro disiurb him, Thai he'd probably been up all niohi wirh lhe new baby. Sfudenr governmeni is one of +he imporfam' lunclions ai Highlands. Originally composed of a Sludenr Council of +hir+y members, il is now di- vided in+o lwo groups, +he Delegafe Assembly and 'rhe Sludeni Council. The Assembly consisis of forly members elecled by fhe sfudenls 'ro repre- senl oermanenf school acfivilies. Hs purpose is io galher and discuss sludenf opinions. The Coun- cil is made up of fourieen members of fhe Assem- UVEBNMENT STUDENT E V-.. - .----- .-. r- ,seg - - ' - '- HJ. -V 4 4,. , ,,,,,g, .,,, , .

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