Aiken High School - Hornet Yearbook (Aiken, SC)

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National Honor Society Membership in the National Honor Society is based on character, scholarship, leadership, and service. One must have maintained a “B” average in his high school studies, must have been a student of Aiken High School for one year, and must be a member of the junior or senior class to be a candidate for membership in this honorary organization. A number of students become candidates, but to be elected to the Aiken High School chapter of the N. H. S., a student also must show outstanding Edward Keel Laird Slade Chartee Muckenfuss George Gregory Kay Kennedy Linda Smith Ramona Pierce Barbara Wright Joe Lanning Phyl Wagner Faye Rackley Jim Fuchs Fred Maxwell Pete Wallace Drayton Sanders Jackie Brown Anne McGhee Sydney White Jim Overbeck Barbara Blair Sybil McNeil Alice Willing Mrs. Margaret Bobo Adviser Mr. J. O. Willis Honorary Adviser Dale Hagen President George Wilson Vice-President Martha Ann Rushton Secretary Karen Hansen Treasurer 18

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Garbed in painter’s attire and busily applying paint to the trash cans is Student Council president, Drayton Sanders. Repainting the trash cans was one of the projects undertaken by council in the fall of 54. Another of the duties of council was to operate the cash register during the recess period in the lunchroom. Here James Babb operates the register as Mrs. Horton, the dietitian, supervises the serving of the meal. Among these committees were an assembly committee, headed by Joe Lanning; assembly-properties committee, co-chairmened by Gary Helms and Mike Collins; audio-visual aids committee with Jim Purcell and Brookie Wyman in charge; election committee, bulletin board and display windows committee, and constitution committee, under the chairmanship of Tom Moseley, Lynn Biggs, and Jack M o r t o n respectively. A few of the outstanding projects completed by Student Council in 54-55 were the painting of trash cans on the back campus, the erecting of signs to designate parking places for school personnel, keeping order in the canteen and lunch lines, and making themselves available whenever help was needed by other activity groups. Despite the fact that the new building contributed many new problems, Drayton and council, advised by Mrs. Betty Owen, emerged not only successfully but also proudly. Joe Lanning tells the second semester council members some of their duties. Students on this council are David Crouch, Dixon Kilbourne, Merritt Nimmons, Herndon McElmurray, Freddie Wells, Edward Keel, Gail Wood, Sandra Harris, John Pope, Linda Leifer-mann, Nina Green, James Babb, Linda Howard, Diane Vander Voort. Helen Flannery, Gary Blessing, Beth Bodie, and Alice Willing.

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Members of the executive committee of the South Carolina Federation of National Honor Society Chapters, who met in Aiken prior to the March convention, are Drayton Sanders, president; Beth Jones, district representative; Ruthie Starr, vice-president; Rebecca Price, secretary; Darla Batson, treasurer; Tom McCutchen, district representative; and Mrs. Margaret Bobo, state adviser. characteristics in leadership, service, and character in his school life. The membership of the chapter cannot exceed fifteen per cent of the number of the graduating class. At the beginning of each semester the new members, who have been recommended by the chapter members and by an executive committee, are inducted into the society in a formal ceremony. In this impressive induction service the new members pledge to uphold the standards of the society. Under the guidance of the adviser, M rs. Margaret Bobo, the chapter participated in several school programs; they sponsored College Emphasis Day; they provided flowers for the principal’s office on special occasions. Drayton Sanders served the 1954-55 term as state president of the S. C. F. N. H. S. C.; the state convention was held at AIIS on March 9, 10, 11. Below: Representatives of twenty high schools of South Carolina gathered for the state NHS convention. They are shown below during the banquet which featured a speech by Dr. Donald Russell, president of the University of South Carolina. 19