Lakewood High School - Cinema Yearbook (Lakewood, OH)

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R All Are Lovers of Poetry Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not today is to justify me and answer what I am for, But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arouse, for you must justify me. In the year 1860, Walt Whitman, that well-known American poet, wrote the above verse as the first one in the poem, Poets to Come. Some years ago a group of students in our high school were aroused, and as an outcome organized a society for the purpose of studying modern poetry of all types. As can easily be seen, it was named after Whitman. Just as Whitman earned a name for himself, so has this society earned a name for itself. Its reputation for having interesting pro- grams is well deserved, for its programs are invariably Worked out with the care- fulness and attention to detail necessary to make them outstanding in the school. At each meeting a member of the club is re- sponsible for the entertainment, and he usually works out a program including a very little concern- Occasionally a speaker is chosen to talk on some poet and his Works, and the selec- tion of speakers has always proved Wise. During the past year programs have been held on Edna St. Vincent Millay, our American poetessg Rupert Brooks, the young English poet, who lost his life dur- ing the World Warp Walter de la Mareg Dorothy Parker, and several other mod- ern poets, besides a program featuring our own Lakewood High poets and poetesses. Once a year, just before the annual West Tech-Lakewood Thanksgiving Day game, the Whitman Society sponsors a dance. This year the dance was called the Pig- skin Prom, and it certainly started the Thanksgiving vacation off with a bang. It is not very diflicult to gain admission to this society. All one has to do is select a poem, read it before ing the poet's life and career, II'1t2I'CStlI1g the society, and accompany it and a great deal in connection with his poetry, some of which Meetings is read by various members. with any spontaneous thoughts which may come to him. Isn't that easy? Page 108

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Csvffiy Our Guardians of the Peace I am sorry, but this it not the end of the line. Haven't you heard the same re- mark or a similar one When you have stepped into the lunch line if the place you stepped in was not at the end of the line? The reminding of that fact is done by no one else than one of our Wide-awake, ef- ficient Student Council members. This or- ganization is the student governing body of Lakewood High School. The cafeteria is only one of the many places where a coun- cil member does the duty that in some other school would be given to a teacher. Using of students instead of teachers in some places helps with one of the aims of the council, which is to bring a be un- derstanding between the stud y and members of the faculty. it if Everyone remembers the signs which greeted us on our rambles through the halls during the week of November 17. They bore Words something like this, Don't forget November 203' Bring your old clothes on November 20,,' and so on through all the signs that appeared. These were just reminders of the fact that the Student Council was sponsoring an Old Clothes Day. lt was on this day that clothes were collected to aid the poor fam- ilies in and around Greater Cleveland. And did the student body respond to this call put out by the Student Council! We should say sogtheafountain could not be seen for the mountain of clothes in front of it. So let's give the council three cheers for their hard Work. 1' Representatives of the Student Body N ' All

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ATHLETICS