Arcata High School - Advance Yearbook (Arcata, CA)

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DON PETERSON and SALLY CONKLIN First Semester Srudent Body' President and Vive President PETERSON - CONKLIN Through the years a student government system has been developed at .Xrcata Linion High School which is as satisfactory as that of other American schools and su- perior to that of many. Students of fX.L'.HS. are fortunate to be able to govern themselves and to have modern faculty and administrative heads who encourage stu- dent participation. lion Peterson and Sally Conklin were elected by the student body to the offices of student body president and vice presi- dent for the first semester of the 1954-55 school year. Being energetic. alert leaders. they pro- ceded to work out the planks of their plat- form. More assemblies were promised and the picture story on pages U6-97 is evi- dence that the students were given many interesting assemblies. The new office of assembly chairman was created. Through their efforts. grass was planted in the yard between the classroom building and the new science building. A telephone in the gym. a project that had been spoken of since its opening. was installed in the autumn of 1954-. A very important change concerned cheerleader and song queen tryouts. Previ- ous to this time. all participants wore special outfits which entailed considerable cost. That this was unjust to many would- be candidates was the general concept. Therefore. a ruling was passed that street clothes. gym clothes. or pedal pushers should be worn. This inet with unques- tionable approval by the student body. Don Peterson was elected parliamentar- ian of the Humboldt-Del Norte lnterschool Conference. which met in South Fork and Eureka during the first semester. STUDENT GOVERNMENT - AN IMPORTANT

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SPENCER - JOHNSON Ed Spencer and Beverly Johnson were elected lui the student lmody to the offices of student lvody president and vice presi- dent for the spring semester of the l'P5-l-55 school vear. lievision of the .-XlfHS Constitution was the most amlmitious project undertaken luv the student administration. Because of the lielief that many provisions had lmecome out-dated. a committee that included john Payne. Bruce Chetty. Ron Siemens. lion Peterson. and the student executive officers went to work on the constitution. culling out obsolete parts and providing new measures that a larger school enrollment has made necessary. Calendars of all scheduled activities were given to the student body' card holders during the second semester as they were in the fall. New trash cans. which the first semester council voted to liuv. were installed. A light was provided hy the telephone booth on the front steps during school evenings activities. This step eliminated a safety hazard. The matter of putting a slot in the lihrarv door to facilitate easy return of hooks when the library is closed was given consideration by the council. llumholdt-Del Norte Inter-school Coun- cil met twice during the spring semester. at Fortuna and Del Norte. Ed Spencer. 2- 'N BQV I V J I 1 D P t FIG. ED SPENCER and ISEYERIX JOHNSON 7 ler 5 U mann' on 8 C-rslm' A 'le Sec0mfSen1e5Ier Student Body Presiffent l'hornton. and Penny Ford were :Xrcalas ay1,1I'l',-9 p,,1,,',1,,,,, delegates at the first meeting. PART OF LIFE ON A.U.H.S. CAMPUS Q5