Sexton High School - Oracle Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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REPRESENTATIVES FROM SEXTON HIGH SCHOOL TO LANSING YOUTH FORUM Y Standing Mr Maunder Charles Allen Robert Haan Davld Pomtz Wallace Pearson Seated Dons Humes Elame Thlem Polly Mullenburg In the fall of 1948 a new youth organlzatlon appeared nn Lansmg Newspaper man Mark Brower along wlth Mr LaSalle other c1v1c and educatronal leaders and a steermg commlttee made up of one representatlve from each hlgh school recognlzed the need for some place where the young people of Lansmg could alr thelr op1n1ons And so the Youth Forum was born The purpose of th1s organlzatlon was to mold public op1n1on After each meetlng the State Journal publlshed a The meetmgs are bl weekly Each high school ln Greater Lansmg IS represented the delegates servmg for two meetmgs After due dlscusslon Youth Speaks Up was chosen as the groups name Durmg the year a w1de varlety of subjects were dxscussed Among them the need for teen age recreatxonal f3Cll1tl8S 1nter school rxvalry labor problems and parent relations The group pxctured above IS the orxgmal charter group Durlng the year other Sexton young people took thelr turn as representatxves They were Helen Rltter Robert Steele G11 Wanger Joan Goodknecht Page Nineteen full account of the discussion, with pictures of the participants.

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