Red Lion Area High School - Lion Yearbook (Red Lion, PA)

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Politics, too, Hit the High chool Headlines. Nominating committees, campaign speeches and A very exuberant candidate for president, Barry Barnhart, presents his platform to the students. Fred Grove, current chief, presides over the assembly. As council advisor, Mr. james H. Adams, B. S., M. S., is confronted with many problems brought up by student representatives. His specialty in the teaching line is geography. platforms are all signs of an election, and this time Student Council oflicers were on the ballot. The dif-ferent candidates for each job were officially named to the student body in an assembly, during which Mr. George Cuyer, president of the Y. C. Student Council, outlined a council's responsibil- ities. Campaigning by the various aspilrants began immediately after the .assembly and great excite- ment marked the following Week until the arrival of election day, May 19. The counting of a stack of votes is handled by seniors Fred Grove and Carol McGuigan and underclassman Woodrow Dellinger.

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. . . Librar others as Guests at Cluhls Tea. Heading the program as guest speaker was Mrs. Herman Ebert, the first librarian at R. L. H. S. Handling little mischief-makers in the library all day . . . ordering new books . . . checking library fines . . . the librarian, Mrs. Hilda Shermeyer, B. S., is kept busy and welcomes this chance tn relax. I W 5115, pf Imagine! . . . tea time at R. L. H. S. But it actually happened and indeed has become an annual custom. With the library decorated to the hilt, the Library Club members as hostesses and their mothers as guests . . . what more could be desired, except a good program. That, too, was a part. Mrs. Shermeyer was able to induce a former teacher and friend of the school to handle the day's theme, Books Influence Our Lives. Add to this Joyce Burg's baton twirling and the refreshments prepared by the home ec girls . . . in all, it was quite an afternoon affair. It's refreshment time for the always hungry library helpers . . . and who woulaln't be hungry after trying to keep umpteen books in order?

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Trips are clteduled for Fun and Competition Freshmen and sophomores en route home from the Latin convention . . . after a day of fun and information, they're still full of pep. Ah! 'tis a grand day when Lionites are lucky enough to be on the visiting list. Two of the groups so favored this spring were the Forensic participants and a score of Latin students. For the former, it was the usual, but nevertheless exciting, two day trip, this time to Pittsburgh. There the vocalists and instrumentalists took in a round of competition resulting in an accumulation of high ratings. For the language folks, however, the day at Susque- hannock marked a first . . . actual attendance at the state classical convention! These trips furnish lots of fun and Worthwhile experiences, but pity the poor bus driver after a nerve-wracking ride with thirty wound-up students.