Webster Groves High School - Echo Yearbook (Webster Groves, MO)

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Hold that line! Guard Duty! Student ontrol The object of Student Control, the newest organization at Webster Groves High School, was to put the student body under the control of a group of students instead of under the faculty. Assemblies were conducted by the officers of the different grades to explain Student Control and to ask for the students' full co-operation. The students were also told how Student Control worked at Cleveland High School in St. Louis from where the idea Was taken. Following these assemblies, the idea Was put into action for a trial period. Volunteers called Student Guides were on duty for a week at a time to see that the students did not get out of hand. Next year the student body will elect the student guides. Finally on February 21, the student body voted in favor of keeping Student Control. Although no officers were elected to Student Control, much of the credit for the success of the organization goes to Herb Nolan and lean Weaver, who Worked long and hard to put the idea over. Cglze onitors The Monitors was a well known organiza- tion in the junior school. lt Was under the supervision of the lunior School Student Council and sponsored by Miss Brantley. The main duty of the Monitors was to see that law and order were kept in the junior school. The members controlled the lunch and check lines and blocked certain areas of the halls. They also made sure that the students went to and from lunch quietly. An undesired duty of the Monitors was that of reporting repeated offenders to the Student Council. An effort was then made to reform the offender. This group of boys was chosen by recom- mendation of the eighth and ninth grade counselors and homeroom teachers and by the Iunior School Student Council. After a discussion on each candidate, the desired number was finally chosen. ln order that their fellow students might recognize them, the Monitors Wore on their arms orange bands with black M's in the centers. These bands were checked out in the mornings and returned at the close of school.

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cgltucfent period, and other projects which interest the school as a wholeg to improve the citizenship and friendship of the school. ln the fall the Student Council sponsored a new students' program which aimed to acquaint the newcomers with Webster Groves High. lt also sponsored the Turkey-Day Pro- gram, which has become a tradition. lt han- dled the publicity of activity tickets at the beginning of the school year and then pro- ceeded to sell and distribute them. It arranged and, in some cases, presented the assemblies for both schools. At the beginning of the second semester the Student Control Plan was put into effect. This placed responsibility for control of the students in their own hands. The meeting will please come to order, said Oliver Biederman to the junior Student Council on each Wednesday during the year. The junior Student Council is the governing body of the junior school. lts members are elected from the various homerooms by the OUI'lCl. S students. This year, a representative and an alternate were elected in order to assure representation for each homeroom at all the meetings. The total membership was forty- eight. lt was the duty of the homeroom rep- resentative to report the business and the projects of the council to his group. Aside from governing, the council had con- trol of the Monitors. Various committees were chosen by the president. They were as fol- lows: a telephoning committee, an assembly committee, and a publicity committee. Several of the boys attended to the bicycle racks and made certain that the bicycles were locked. This year set a precedent in that the council had several joint meetings with the Senior Student Council. The meetings proved to be very beneficial in that they increased the co-operation between the two schools. Other officers for '46-'47 were: Bob Gremp, vice-president, and Buck Weaver, secretary- treasurer. The organization was sponsored by Miss Brantley, and the meetings were held in her room. Madame Secretary Miss Brant - IQ g ley and the Cabinet

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Peterson, Kraich, Coggeshall, Ritzen, Major, Muth, Noonan, Cole, Peat, Gavenman Hayman, Martin, Younqdahl, Spotts, R., Conway, Buollaig, Shewman, Burkett, Fitzgerald, Lippincott, Breitshaft Haack, DeBoer, Harris, Blair, Quigley, Zakarian, Schultz, Richmond, Rogers, leffries, Dunbar Moeler, Bland, Fairfield, Mead, Connelley, Whitterreore, Greene, Urban, Miller, Grernp, Morgan, Kirk Butler, Spotts, P,, Theiss, Breckenridge, Weaver, Gilli'and, Shattuck, Haack, D., Stadelhofer, Wilson, Simons Ross, Meffert, Frier, Eschenroeder, Strauh, Hodges, Mutn, Abernathy, Cruickshank Simmons, Keefer, Gremp, Vfeaver, Booth, Rogers, Eiederman, Porter, Dunkel, Crowe Weiss, Skilling, Cates, Kremer, Harrison, Osborne, Fischer, Gavenrnan, Dahl Massengaile, Laatsch, Kaiser, Carlson, Shirley, Clark, Shillington, Youngdahl, Straulo 421-