Southeast High School - Crusader Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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PARENT-TEAEHER ASSUEIATIUN Conservation, First Aid, Home Nursing, Nu- trition, Saving, Salvage, Production! These have become words to conjure with. The Nation has organized itself into a compact unit to carry through with full strength its program of war against force and aggression. We know now that in this program each of us has an important part to play. By accepting the responsibilities written into our script, We can contribute to a performance unsurpassed in any of the great dramas of world history. The struggle in which America is engaged will not be brief. The things we do without to meet the immediate national needs must therefore be carefully weighed against simple, basic needs upon which human life depends in war and peace. Consider health. Certainly we cannot allow it to be jeopardized by shortsiqhted economic policies. Every hy- gienic precaution we have learned must be exercised more vigilantly than ever. The same principles apply to education. Long range con- servation recognizes that our schools have a vital place in building the strength of the nation. Let us, Parents and Teachers of America. stand together with unity and steadfastnessg strong in our resolve to preserve the democratic spirit for our children and to strive toward the building of a world in which truth and justice, equality and freedom, are not words to be fought for in battle, nation against nation: but ideals attained, appreciated, asserted and main- tained by all mankind. MRS. LEON R. HUNTER - 12 -

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ABLE THIRD ROW-William Miles, Eleanor Ellis, Clyde Bowles, Iack Hayward, Melba Hightower, Melvin Smith, Cheryl Iackson, Earl Dunn, Hughie Strup, Pat Palmer. SECOND ROW--Bonnie Bannister, Glen Stinson, Barbara Cox, Richard Hitt, Irma Eldridge. Richard Kraft, Mary Cozad, Harold Goodman. FIRST ROW-Clifford Gill, Louise Pratt, Dorothy Boone, Iohn Gosman, Mary Anderson, Bob Major, Ruth Smith. In a world fighting for freedom and democracy, public education in the United States believes in training American students to participate in their own government. The Southeast Student Round Table is a part of the national system of student government associations. Our Student Round Table is composed of representatives and alternates elected from the various home rooms. As part of their citizenship training, students are encouraged to consider the qualifi- cations of their candidates on the bases of ability, integrity, and willingness to serve. Successful can- didates assume the responsibilities of office as Well as the honor of representing their constituents. All Southeast students are invited to attend their Round Table meetings. Most of the business of the Round Table originates in the home rooms. Any suggestion made in a home room and supported by a majority vote of the students of that home room may be presented for consideration to the Student Round Table. Measures that are approved by a majority vote of the Round Table are taken to the principal for approval or veto. Our Southeast Round Table participates in the All-City Student Council. For the past semester, we have cooperated in the Buy A Bomber Campaign through our purchase of defense stamps. The Round Table acts as a clearing house for student suggestions, promotes all-school projects, sponsors school mixers, presents two student talent assemblies a year, and participates in worth- while community projects. Members of the Round Table serve with faculty members on the Victory Corps Committee and on the school Assembly Committee. The Student Round Table is as vital or as weak as the students of Southeast High School make it. A year ago, the students of our school rejected several clever, well-worded slogans. Their philosophy was plain, direct and forceful: Education is the cornerstone of democracy. It is equally true that active participation is the cornerstone of self-government. The Round Table, like democracy, will never fail. We may, however, fail it. Our student government pleads for intelligent interest and time for a consideration of student problems. The privilege of student government carries with it the responsibility of intelligent par- ticipation. The hope of our country lies in American youth, trained to the ideals and practices of democratic procedure. ' THIRD ROW--Bob Brenner, Charlene Lambertz, August Hambacher, Ray Hall, Victor Wilson, Cyril Baucke, Frances Hibbs, Iim Wright. SECOND ROW--Harry Lee Henry, Bob Major, Ted Blocker, Clyde Bowles, Mary Riddle, Ioanne Rupert, Fleta Mae Scott, Ioan Beggs, Eleanor Ellis, Creighton Burk. FIRST ROW-Donald Newsom, Sanford Lerner, Alice Comer, Louise Pratt, Beverly Cochran, Pauline Cater, Nancy Trent. Donna Clark.

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