Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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....,......1p-.nuns fl'w3' 'vu ri if 'Ti Q4 'nm f fi' W THE COUNCIL Iiarlr lfmr: .l. Ellix, Willmer, Fosler, Euslis, .l. JI. fll'fII1r , flnxlirr' l 1'm1l Nou-.' 1 ifmPg, lr'equ11r1l!, Quinn ffllll1il'lllIllID, 7'ruxIow, lfnlrls forums and elected hy the entire Student Body. Iiac-h new Council takes oftiee on the May first. preeeding the Sc-hool Year of their administration so that the old Vouneil can prepare theni for the task of Student Government. Menihership in the 1939 Council includes: Cyrus J. Quinn '89, fill!!!-Tlllfllll XYalter Truslow. Jr. '39, Ser-rotary: J. Frederic' Requardt. Jr. '39: John li. Rawls '39: Wiilliani NV. Pinney. Jr. '39: Gardner ll. Anstiee 3103 James M. Vrane, Jr. '4-01 VVillian1 R. Eustis '4-0: Julian V. S. Foster WI. Srfrgealzi-at-.lrmx: David li. lvillnier '4-1: John F. Ellis '-ll. Priya Izvrrrly-.s'r1'1'11

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mhinations ol' the Self-Ilelp System, if hy setting a goocl example in what Kent st The Council 'I' 1-annot he saitl with jnstim-e to l'at.er antl 'IR-it Evans and Bill Nadal that the Sc-hool is run hy the Student. Vouneil. lt. is sonietiines helieved. her-anse thc anals for. that those fellows who make up the Vonneil clo everything in the way ol' atlministrat ion. Stlt'll is not. the vase. lf, however. in regulating the intliviclual Johs anal the 4-are of rooms whim-h exist as part of the tliseiplinary enml in the ma- anals for, the 1939 Student C'onn1-il has raised the tone of the plat-e any, then it has clone its Joh. 'llhe t'ounc'il was organizeal thirty-one years ago umler a C'onstitntion clrawn up hy Mr. 'l'itns. who inc-iclentally is at present Business Manager ol' the School. The llUl'lIllll'Ill clral'te1l hy linnny, who gratlnateal as a prefect with the Vlass ot 1909. exists with one important anfl one unimportant ainemlinent, in its original frm. The important t'll2llllLf0 provitletl for four atlclitional llll'lllll0l'S when it was gmlgt-tl in l9Q8 that the representation on the flonnvil shonlcl grow along with the size ol' the S4-hool. The other 2lIll0lltlIIl0lll states that the fellow chosen hy the ll1'2ltllll1lSll'I' to he Sllll-lll'l'l.l'l't shall autoniativally heeoine a flounvil nielnlwl it-g'arrlless ol' sanction from the Stnclent llotly. .Xml so for thirty-one years The Stmlent C'onn1'il has snc-c-essfully fulfilled their eluarge as representing K1-nt's itleals. l urther, it. has hem-oine an eftivient intl harmonious steppingstone hetween lleaulniaster anml hoys. .Xt present there are live melnhers on the f'onnc'il from the Sixth Form. and three eat-h froln the Fourth antl Fifth Fornis. The Sixth l oriners lllC'llltl0 the l'hree l'refef'ts ancl Suh-l'refeet c-hosen hy the lleathnaster and an additional memher 1-lem-tetl hy the Form. The others are noniinatecl hy their intliviclnal C' Y .i stiff t at Q QW . Sell'-llelp system is so entrenc-hefl at Kent. anal is synonymous with what Kent

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