Brearley School - Brearley Book Yearbook (New York, NY)

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PERMANENT PREFECTSEUPPER SCHOOL PERMANENT PREFECTS--LOWER SCHOOL I S51

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT Last year student government was started as an experiment, and this year the work has been continued, so that now it is firmly established. The lower and upper school councils have been separated, each meeting once a week. On the first Monday of every month there is a combined meeting in which the problems of the whole school are discussed. There are also two courts, made up of the permanent prefects of each part of the school. These courts assign punishments to offenders. We have dealt with the questions of assemblies, elevators, and the regula- tion of study hours. The lower school, besides, has dealt with many minor difficulties, mostly concerning the mischievous pranks of the younger children. One of the most important decisions has been the establishment of total quiet in assemblies. We hope that the council will eventually become better organized and more efficient. P. PoTrs, VIII. J. RUSSELL, IV.' Permanezzl Prefer!! VIII POLLY POTTS,PI'6Jid6l1I MARGARET KIDDER LOUISE LICHTENSTEIN RUTH LAMBERT BETSY WYCKOFF VII ELIZABETH WASHBURN PENELOPE HUNTER CHARLOTTE KAUFMAN VI ALISON BRUERE V LYIJIA DAVIS IV JANET RUSSELL 34 CAROLYN DE CHADENEDES MARY MCCAMPBELL CAMILLA RIGGS ADIELAIDIZ WELD KATHERINE WELD ELEANOR YOUNG BARRIE SMITH PAULINB WASHBURN MARGOT DETHIER PRUDENCE PECK QM yearj MARY T ALMADGI2 QM yearj

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THE RELIEF BOARD Chuirmam ...,,. ..,A..A,..,......,.AA....,.,..,..A...............4A........... M iss SEDGWICK Secretary .4,.,.. ...A..,... A GNES HALSEY, VIII Treamrer ,..,,.,.A. A.,.I,........I...,.,.......... ....,..,. R 0 SALIE CI-IRISTII3, VII Class Memberx Pauline Manship VIII Carolyn de Chadenedes IV Mary Dewart VII Eleanor Young III Nancy Eggleston VI Margot Dethier II joy Hume VI Agnes Martin I year, Elise Merrill V Mary Sprague I yearj Last summer the Relief Board again sent two children to the country for vacations, and fresh flowers arrived at our pet Brearley ward almost every day from Brearley gardens. At Hallowe'en, Thanksgiving and Easter, we sent candies and favors to the Day Camp Boat at Bellevue for its festivities. At Christmas we made and filled candy stockings and managed to give each child on the Day Boat a stocking, a book, a toy, and a useful present. The books and toys were presented by the Primary classes and the useful presents such as gloves, stockings, and underwear, were bought by Miss Mills with a committee of Brearleyites. In the fall, we felt that, with the widespread unemployment and consequent misery in New York, it would be best to spend immediately what money we had in the bank. Miss Mills ingeniously portioned out the amount that each class was to control. We had two plans, to give money to the C.O.S. for a scholarship for some child whose parents would ordinarily provide its training, or to give it to buy milk and braces for crippled children. Each class voted its money for the cause it considered most worthy. In this way we have assisted in the training of one child and in increasing the sadly meager comforts of several others. We welcome Miss Sedgwick as our new chief. She represents the charitable work of the alumnae as well as the Relief Board. After many years of conscientious leadership of the Relief Board, a task which takes not a little time and energy, Miss Mills has found it necessary to give up this position and retire to a somewhat less strenuous one, as yet nameless, but one very like that of guardian angel. To mix the metaphors, she is now the dragon protecting our bank-roll from ourselves as well as others. AGNES HALSEY. I 56 I