Ames High School - Spirit Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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-lr Mrs. Elliott 'A' Miss Sayre ir Cogs of Superintendenfs office Command Headquarters S THE hub of a Wheel the superintendant's office served to coordinate the An1es School system. Staffed by Mrs. Grace Elliot and Miss Laura Sayre this office sent out bulletins of information enabl- ing all the schools to Work more efficiently. In addition to this, their duties include assisting Mr. Nodland in ordering and distributing all the text books and supplies necessary, selecting and supervising the teach- ers, and preparing the budget. As part of their program, also, came the arrangement and conduct- ing of the adult education program and the city forums. Among the forums held during Twelve the year Was a talk by Major Ken- neth M. Brown Who spoke on HD- Day and After with tl1e British Forces. Earl Hall from Mason City gave a talk on his experiences in Europe in HA Roving Editor Speaks. 'tT'he Critical Period, 1945-195O, was the title of tl1e ad- dress given by Robert Norton to the forum audience. Dr. Hans Simons, noted lecturer and author- ity on World affairs, discussed The Future of Europe with special emphasis on what to do with post- war Germany. The budget is prepared during the summer and the superin- tendent's report is given. The at- tendance record for every student is also found in this office.

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Serving Humanity HIS year for the first tiine, AlllL'l'll'illl Red Uross aetivities in Ames High were earried out through the work of a Junior Red Cross Founeil, under the direction of Miss Esther lvilllillllli. The work of the eouneil was organized by Elsie Brown in eon- neetion with the county ehairnian, Mrs. Martin Fritz. At Lake Min- netonka, Elsie was prepared for this Work in a Junior Red Cross camp last sunnner. During the Junior Red Cross drive which was held last fall, a total of more than eighty-seven dollars was eolleeted, a new reeord for our school. One hundred and twenty-five boxes were packed by higli sehool students to he distributed to lnen on their way overseas on Christ- n1as. Also during the 0lll'lSi'lll2lS season, eopies of favorite earols were typed by advanced eonnner- eial students and prepared for booklets to be given to serviee nien. Miss lVillianis, Elsie, and the reniainder of the eouneil deserve special eoniniendation for their inauguration of this fine program. Tor Row: Swanson, Bradish, Rothaeker, Armstrong, Loomis, Schultz, Willis Timm Row: Daugherty, Graff, Pyle, Wunderle, Starbuck, B. Martin Slceoxn Row: E. Brown, Clemens, Bretnall, E. Vifquain, McCormick, Butler Bo'r'roM Row: D. Severson, Porter, Miss Williams, Blanchard, R. Knnths Eleven

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The Assembly Line EEPING ol10ok ou four lum- drvd and lifty-four students and twenty-11i11o faculty 111CIlll7CI'S appeared to bo a fI'ClllOIlClO11S task, but to Miss Erma Zi111111er111a11, it was all in a clay's work. In the pri11oipal's olTivv, all tlio l1igl1 school aotivitios woro ooorcliiiatcfcl so that tl1v building lim-z1111v a Slllllflfllly 1'u1111i11g lllllf. The s0l1o- lastiv aucl 2lff0ll4l2llll'0 1'o1-orcls wore co11'1pil0d l101'0. A daily bulletin was sm-ut out from lilll' offivc to each tea0l1er, thus, all ll0Il1O rooms wore kept lIlf0l'IYl0ll as to the clay's pro- ceediugs. Miss Zlll'lII1l'l'I1l2lll, iuoro g2,'Cl10l'2lllj' known as NljI'lIl2l,H liall duties Wl1icl1 ll1l'l1lfl6fl givi11g' offivial ap- proval to all passvs, approving. or it Mrs. Sovewsori supe-rvises library lllS3pIll.'0Vl11g all excuses for ab- SOI100 or tardivs and supervising tl10 offivc training of ilClV2ll1I'0 com- lIlOFl'li'll stuclvuts. 'l'l1P responsibilitios of these girls were the Qf?ll'l191'lI1g up of atten- rlamro slips, the rloliveriug of pass- vs a11rl lll0Il10I'2l1l4l2l to tlw tcavlivrs, taking tolcpliouo calls and clis- tributing the IIIUIIPTOIIS SOVl'Ill'll period slips. 'l'o Mrs. Itllllilllfbl' S0vv1'so11 fell the cluty of supervising llll' library. She sorved as a sponsor for Libra- ry f lub aurl was i11 vliargrv of tlu' Elllllllill vliec-k of all thc library books. lt was also bor fluty to L'Ill01'l2llll EI'lllZl,S sovc-11tl1 period guests who wcrv assigned to tl1o library. if Erma keeps high school office runniiig smoothly I 7'I1ir11'z'11