West Seattle High School - Kimtah Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT Front How: Mary Flack. Shirley Edw cl Ioanne Wh Marilyn Peterson. BkR G ylh D1Vl MaryK l R h D hl PERSONAL EFFICIENCY DEPARTMENT Marilyn Lee, Dora Gustafso P ty C pb ll lack Dahl. ENTERTAINMENT DEPARTMENT Front Row: Delores Anderson. Pearl O b B yane Shaffer, Ieanne Lee. BICR 'Mg tMd N yP FyFr k C l Kdd COMMUNITY SERVICE DEPARTMENT Helen Stobie, Galina Kay, Betty Greaihou Me y Willoughby, Alta Nicholas. SERVICE FOR VICTORY DEPARTMENT Marjorie Voris, Ann Bovik.

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Girl ' Club This year the officers took over the departments of Girls' Club, one at the head of each department. Start- ing in September, our treasurer, Bar- bara Weaver, had charge of the department, the Administrative. Bar- bara graduated at the end of the semester, and Alta Nicholas was elected to take her place. The duties of this department center around the apartment with the following com- mittees: Election, Clerical, Installa- tion, Nurses' Aides, Minute Girls, Iunior l-lostesses, Apartment Clerks and Scrapbook. Ruth Staats, vice president, was head of the Entertainment depart- ment, ably assisted by Bryanette Shaffer. Plans for all parties, teas, and dances pass through this de- partment's hands, and the commit- tees that plan these events being Decoration, Refreshments, P. T. A. Tea, Mothers' Tea, Publicity, Art, Music and Talent, and P.T.A. Dance. With the start of the war, Girls' Club added a new department to its organization, with the Service for Victory. Doris Stobie, Girls' Club president, heads this all-important department, with Red Cross Service as its only committee. 18 GIRLS' CLUB OFFICERS Doris Stobie, President: Barbara Weaver. Treasurer: Barbara Royal. Corresponding Secretary: Molly Emswller, Recording secretary: Ruth Staats, vice president. Cur Corresponding Secretary, did not return last fall, so Barbara Royal was elected to take her place. As Corresponding Secretary, Barbara also became head of the Commun- ity Service department whose job it was to render all possible service to the school. Committees under this department are Lost and Pound, lack of All Trades, Friendship, Tilli- cums, and Pick-up. The Personal Efficiency depart- ment under Molly Emswiler, Record- ing Secretary, sponsored Charm as- semblies and the Standards commit- tee held Creed drives. Two other committees which added much to this department's work are the Health and Flower Arrangement. Miss Chilberq. Girls' Advisor: B r y a n e t t a Shatter, Second Vice President: Alta Nicholas. Treasurer. f .

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Victory Corps Front Row: Annabelle Aller, Phyllis Hilker, Ken Lowthian, Pat Sweazey, Mary Flack Back Row: Pat Loomis, Frank Young, Maryln Bardwell, Leo Rothmiller. Frank Osbun Crganized late in 1942, the Victory Corps has since become the veri- table life organ of West Seattle. Criginally consisting of five divis- ions, the corps has been reorganized and the divisions are now desig- nated as follows: All military and productions affairs concerning the school are handled by the Boys' and Girls' clubs. Community service is handled as an all-school project, every student in the school being an active mem- ber. Under the main heading, Victory Corps, is the Victory Corps Cabinet, Which, in effect, is the school's war cabinet. This cabinet consists of the student body officers, a faculty spon- sor, a student-sponsor, and student- appointed secretary. The major divisions are handled by the various classes in school. The Seniors are in charge of the Research division. This group is responsible for supplying the other divisions With 20 ideas for their groups, and also to bring in suggestions as to other activities the school can partake in to aid the War effort. The Research committee is also fundamental in de- veloping these suggestions to the point Where they are usable. Ken Lowthian, as senior chairman, handled this vital committee. The War Savings division of the Victory Corps has, since Ianuary of this year, been under the sponsor- ship of the lunior class. The division itself is divided into three principal committees: Pick-up, Research and Publicity. The Pick-up committee is under the management of Stanley Dorst plus seven other members who are in charge of collecting the War stamp sales forms every Thursday morning in the roll rooms. These forms contain a total purchase of stamps and bonds bought during the Week, the per capita and the percent- age of participation. The reports are then tabulated and the results posted in the office. A complete record of the