Ames High School - Spirit Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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Health Office HE HEALTH Office’s most out- standing achievement of the year was the tuberculin testing program, which was conducted on a voluntary basis among high school students. Al- though awaited with fear and trem- bling, the needle-sticking proved to be a relatively painless process, and no students found their wounds to be mor- tal. Those showing positive reactions were eiven low-cost chest X-rays to deter- mine the presence and progress of the disease. The purpose of the program was to detect early symptoms of tuber- culosis and thus safeguard both unsus- peetime victims and classmates. Dr. W. B. Armstrong, giving time from his private practice to be the school physician, and Mrs. Sadie Dempsey supervised the unusually outstanding program of making the young people of Ames as physically fit as possible. Mrs. Dempsey replaced Miss Henrietta Gron- fourteen lid, who left January 1 after thirteen years of service as Ames publie school nurse to fly over thirteen states as as- sistant In the mid-area office of the American Red Cross. Following a precedent set in previous years, more than 2,200 young people in the first eight grades were given a physical checkup, while all twelve grades took time out from regular schoolwork to have their molars in- spected. A constant bugbear to students was the invariably forgotten rule requiring all those who were absent because of ill- ness for more than three successive days to recelve permission from Dr. Arm- strong or Mrs. Dempsey in order to re- turn to school. To aid those who could not otherwise afford needed medical attention, the health office purchased glasses and paid for tonsil and dental work out of one of its special funds. Although Dr. Armstrong still looks skeptical, Mrs. Dempsey writes out the ex- cuse necessary to get Marilyn back into class. б „ Ш sf $ EJ Ка,

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Student Council Тор Вох: R. Lorch, B. Wiersar. В. ۱ 3 4 4 MeClain. M. Ballard, J. Wellhouse, P. Sills SECOND Row: M. Potee, H. Breckenridge, К. MacDonald, Miss White, K. Hein, F. O'Neil, J. Brouhard 3oTTOM Row: V. Kulow, F. Bender, J. ITH national defense duties head- Ine an already imposing lst of projects, the Student Couneil undertook an ambitious program of accomplish- ments for the year. Ames High's student goyernine body sponsored the Victory Book Campaign. which netted 1,500 books for the armed forces, the sale of Defense Savings Stamps in the school and high pressure salesmanship for the Red Cross benefit basketball eame with Mason City. The council was divided into six standing committees for the more effi- In addition to the council members, each class had cient handling of business. one representative on every committee. Duties of the committees included plan- nine the midyear and matinee dances sixteen Galligan, R. Taylor, E. Feldman, B. Grant and the open house, determining the el- oibilitv of students to receive awards, arranging for assemblies, pubheizing school events and supervising the lost and found. Acting as host for the annual State Leadership Conference held in April at Lowa State College, the council sent out Invitations and arranged for visitors housing accommodations, entertain- ment and meals. First semester officers were Earl Feldman, Floyd Bender, Rosemary Taylor, and Jerry Galligan. The sec- ond semester group chose bruce Wier- son, Ed Carty, Harriet Breckenridge, and Jean MeClelland. Pulling the strings for this student legislature was adviser Miss Eva White.