Wilkinsburg High School - Annual Yearbook (Wilkinsburg, PA)

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The Student Council, a representative group of the high school students selected by popular vote, has a student membership of twelve seniors, eight juniors, and four sophomores selected by their respective classes, and a sponsor chosen by the princi- pal. As the name implies, the group is the organization to be consulted on matters per- taining to school affairs, and council judg- ment is accepted as the students' point of view. The duties are many and varied, some of which recur from year to year: others are special matters that come up from time to time. Among the recurring duties are to elect cheerleaders and ushers, maintain a lost and found department, sponsor tea dances, conduct class elections and election of students to serve for a day on various positions in the town government, arrange for the Activities' banquet, and trim the school Christmas tree. This year the main project has been the preparation of a hand book to be ready for distribution in the fall. STUDENT COUNCIL Each week a student council member has placed new posters in conspicuous places in the hall for the purpose of calling the atten- tion of the students to their responsibilities to the school. The council was called upon to decide whether we should enter the school safety campaign. When students have criti- cisms or questions about school life, they may present them to a student council member who in turn will bring them to the attention of the student council where suggestions are made and solutions obtained when possible. These functions assigned to student 'council in our high school are not the usual duties of high school council organizations, but the opinion is that this plan serves our purpose best. In all of these duties the thought uppermost is to provide a medium between the administration and the student body for exchange of ideas helpful to both. President ...................,.........,,,..,,.....,...........,......,,....,..... Carrol Chapman Vice President ,,,,,..,...,.................. ...,.,.,,....... D avid Liptak Recording Secretary .,...........,,..... .........., P atsy Wertz Corresponding Secretary ,,.........,, .,........ I oan Stafford Bottom Row: M. L. Keep, J. Stafford, P. Wertz, C. Chapman, D. Liptak, R. Dougherty, T. Bonacci. Second Row: C. Sheckler, B. Purifoy, G. McKinnon, N. Mercer, M. Reid, D. Watson, A. Jeffrey. Third Row: M. I-Iarner, R. Cargo, R. Neilander, W. Siebert, G. Conner, D. Hepler, G. Lehr, N. Baylor, R. Rothrauff. Absent-T. Rouse.

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Mr. F. H. Carson, Alice Sedinger, Ada Mary Duerlein, Miss Margaret E. Heazlett, James Fritz, Mr. C. F. Beck, Miss Jane E. Anderson, Cynthia Reinsmith, Ralston Thomas, Miss Mirme Belle McQuiston, Mr. C. F. Yetter. ACTIVITY BOARD v 1 I 1 J, f by ' fin!! ' I, K my ' 1f1f jl wwf, W f WJ 'mfg M x. ,T ' 4. fl! - , f Ulf ,wif J , , i ,,. iff' , .DJJ VA!! 'P II '. ip, ' W ifiw V , .y Vx! .UV ffl frlijxrru . . O I ,V I -'ff iff r M ,L ii 'J The Activity Board, an industrious group ,of five faculty members and four students elected by the student body, might be term- ed Wilkinsburg High Schools Treasury Department, for it controls all money earned and used by school activities. This year its main project has been the purchasing of beautiful robes for the A Cappella choir. Also it pays the bill for the cleaning of com- mencement caps and gowns and replaces them when necessary. It elects the editors of the Annual and Hi Ways, chooses the busi- ness managers for all productions, and con- tributes tochapel programs by paying speak- ers and renting films. ln case of a deficit in any dance, publication, play or musical pro- duction, this organization upholds the credit of the school, It is easy to see that the Activ- ity Board is essential to the Well being of the student body. Secretary ..... ......... ,........... .......... ,...... C y n t hia Reinsmith Chairman ......,, .,..,....,,..............,,... M r. Carson ,20-

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I SENIORS f Q-W Theresa Bonacci, Richard Frankenburg, Ralph Neilander, Wesley Siebert, Nancy Weston. CLASS HISTORY 'lMIGHTY MITESD,-Aft6I nine long years of wishing and with our parents hopefully praying, we hesitantly ascended the steps of Dear Qld High, on a bright September morning of 1945. We were officially sopho- mores! Soon after the election of our class officers, our first big social event was to follow--the Sophomore Tea. Here the par- ents and teachers became acquainted for the first time. Learning of Iunior's and Sis's grades, some parents left very much 'Aen- lightened with their children's prospects, while other parents just left. We competed with the seniors and juniors in the annual contest of selling tickets for the fall play, HArsenic and Old Lace. After the final tally was made, the Activities' Trophy was awarded to the Mighty Mitesf' the sopho- mores. Decidedly new to us was the dancing President .....,..,..... X41 I 0 64X ...........,.,.,......Wesley Siebert Vice President ...,......,.......... Ralph Neilander Secretary .....,,.......,.................. Theresa Bonacci Treasurer ........ Dick Frankenburg Historian ...,,..,....,,. .. ,............ Nancy Weston in the gymnasium during lunch hour. The monotony of the mornings was soon forgot- ten when we set our feet to the sweet strains of the juke box. Every activity of the year was met with exuberance by the sophomore class because we Hsophiesn in our short while here had grown very much attached to the school, the faculty, and our fellow classmates. We thought that high school was just about the nicest thing that ever happened to us. But soon our first year came to a close and with it went the teasing, the sitting on the Ushelff' and that bewilder- ment which only a sophomore can possess. We were well prepared to begin the follow- ing year as the greatest Hbackbonen ever. IoI.LY IuN1oRs -We started the first post-war year of our school life fully pre- pared for the events ahead of us. Our fall