West High School - Westerner Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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Under the sponsor- ship of Miss Mary Ol- son, the Senior Class has been preparing for graduation exercises which will be held Tuesday, june 9. The nature of the graduation is a patri- otic program and the theme is Let None But Americans Keep the Watch Tonight. Other activities off the class have been the Senior assembly on October 22, of which Life in an Army Camp was the title, Senior election on September 23-24 for the first se- mester, and February ll-l2 for the second semester. On Novem- ber l9, the gala Senior anion Cllalm Gtticenb FIRST SEMESTER MARGARET BETTY NORMAN DOROTHY McMlLLAN WOELBING PRESSE WHOWELL Secretary Vice-President President Treasurer party took place. Danc- ing, a floor show, and refreshments gave ev- eryone a delightful eve- ning. The Senior play, under the direction of Miss Lois Griffey, was presented on March 20, and this was fol- lowed by the outstand- ing dance of the year, the junior-Senior Prom, on April 'l8. Alumni night and Orange and Black day both came in May, and the last day of high school for the Seniors, june 5, will be memorable Class Day. The colors of the classlhave been changed each year but red, white, and blue are the colors for the graduat- ing class of l942.

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eacll Qinh cmcll Jteacll 05Ol5A CLASS OF '42 6 l FIRST SEMESTER S SECOND SEMESTER MERLYN SALMON Mcrlyn Salmon was elected head boy of West in May, l94l, and took office the following September. Merlyn made his term a successful one. As head boy he became President of the Student Council and proved his leadership by leading the Stu- dent Council in constructing a new consti- tution tor West. El LEEN TAVENNER Eileen Tavenner, head girl for first semester, gave much of her time to improve the halls, assemblies, and lunchroom, Taffy, as she is better known, is always ready to lend a helping hand. This willing- ness gained many friends for her and proved one of the main factors in making her a capable leader. BILL RICHMOND Bill Richmond was elected to fill the place of Merlyn Salmon on January 29, l942, and continued the work and met the standards set by former head boys of West, He im- mediately took up the work on the consti- tution and with the Student Council finished it before his term ended in June. He also worked in close cooperation with the administration an settling any problem that arose in West. BETTY WOELBING Betty Woelbing was elected as West's head girl January 29, and took office February 2, the beginning of the second semester. As head girl she automatically became vice president of the Student Council. By hard work and cooperation she has made her term very successful. She has mode a straight A average throughout her school career.

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Let none but Amer- icans keep the watch' tonight, the immortal words of the first pres- ident of the United States, George -Wash- ington, was decided upon as the theme of the graduation exer- cise for the class of l94l2. The membersiof the graduation plan- ning committee de- cided that in these critical times, the or- dinary graduation ex- ercise would not be ex- actly appropriate, and therefore energetically strove to prepare a commencement exer- cise which would be of a serious and patriotic nature and incorporate important phases of the history of the Amer- ican people. They decided that the program for the ex- ercises would be some- what similar to the familiar Ballad for Americans, and that the important high- lights of American his- tory would be recalled through the sayings of Seaton Cllcum Cttlccna SECOND SEMESTER lil? ALBERT IAIVIES CAROLYN cARL FIELD ci-i i NN suLi.ivAN scuivif-xc:-itEisiisERcER Treasurer President Secretary Vice-PreSiClel'1'f great American leaders themselves. The pro- gram recalls Patrick Henry in his famous orations, George Wash- ington at Valley Forge, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas jefferson, Al- exander Hamilton and the other leaders of the Revolutionary periodz The proud story of American history will go forward with the Monroe Doctrine, the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln, the World War l, and will lead to this present day with the World War ll, un- der two great leaders, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Douglas Mac- Arthur. The class of i942 felt that through this panorama of the eter- nal quest of the Amer- ican people for liberty and justice, the audi- ence will fully realize what a proud heritage the United States is fighting to maintain.- Submitted by Arnold Cook.