Altoona High School - Horseshoe Yearbook (Altoona, PA)

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Front Row-M. Sharer, P. Shaw, S. Sender, J. Beeler, B. Harris, D. Maddocks. Second RowfT. Ferguson, R. Simpson, D. Ritchey, E. She- raw, D. Brallier, G. Butler. Third Row-W. Smith, K. Kane, L. Earon, L. Ca. n o n, H. Gleichert. conduct at football games were suggested by this group, and the result of these drives was pleasing to everyone. The Student Senate, along with its many other activities, sponsors a special uCollege Nightji session which gives students who Wish to attend college an opportunity to interview representatives from the schools of their choice. A poll is taken of all the Altoona High School students to determine the colleges these students wish to attend. With this list as a guide, representatives are invited to be present on College Night. This year College Night Was held on the twenty-fifth of April and only representatives from Pennsylvania colleges Were present. Please don't think that membership in this group brings all work and no play, because on various occasions during each year the Senate office is attractively decorated for a luncheon. One of the most enjoyable social occasions is a Senate banquet held annually near the close of the school term. This able group participated in the State Convention for Student Par- ticipation in School Government, which was held at Lancaster, Pennsylvania last fallg Altoona was honored in having one of its members selected as second vice president of the state organization. Our local president presided at the luncheon and another of our members spoke on the organization of the Student Senate of Altoona. Page Twenty

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.1 SENATORS SHARE RESPONSIBILITIES . . . Our student governing body, the Senate, is comprised of twenty-three students of Altoona High School, representing the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior classes, and various other organizations of the school. Some Senate members receive their positions by popular election, while others obtain theirs by appointment. No matter which way a student receives his seat in this body, he must have recommendations from his home room teacher, his subject teachers and other members of the faculty, as to character, leadership, and scholastic achievement. Also a scholastic average of at least eighty per cent must be maintained. To take care of the various duties of this group, committees such as welfare, ticket, 'aSenator,77 legislative, luncheon, auditorium and College Night, are formed within the Senate. This group participates in welfare work by providing families with baskets at Christmas and Easter, and conducts special welfare programs, the benefits of which are received by needy students of Altoona High School. Our successful ticket campaigns, some of which were the sale of activi- ties tickets, P. T. A. tickets, and tickets for special assemblies, were handled by this able body. This year, the Senate originated a new idea-to maintain a special bulletin, called the uSenator,H for the purpose of conveying its activities to the student body, by means of each Home Room. This was done to keep the students informed concerning Senate activities. In addition to this bit of journalism, a column of this same nature was run in the Mountain Echo, also to impress the happenings of the Senate on the student body. Many students were unaware of the doings of the student government, and this column helped to enlighten them on the activities of their representatives. Difficulties arose in previous years, in the misplacing and losing of articles, and the Senate again took this matter into their hands by establishing a lost and found department to aid the students in recovering their lost prop- erty. During the vacation before this school term, some very convenient additions were made to the Senate Office equipment. A compartment was built in which the uLost and Foundi' articles could be placed in very con- veniently catalogued sectionsg also a wardrobe, which was used for the convenience of visitors. All legislative problems, in the form of petitions of the students, were dealt with in the Senate, and were treated with due consideration by the members. Cleanup campaigns and campaigns for better assembly conduct and good Page Nineteen Mr. Pohle Pennock, Scott, Haines

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