Central High School - Arrow Yearbook (Aberdeen, SD)

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Thr«r reprMrntivM of lh( Monitor Board. Harold Ro«rtli, Wallace Webb. John (ifidrr. Zclla I’nrkan . Ilnrlcy Miller. Jeanne Murphy, and l.uman Rodman, look a» If they took their work aeriously. SWALLOW YOUR GUM By Bennie Benson The GROUP OF CAPABLE LOOKING PEOPLE pictured above are by no means the “meanies” of Central. Their aim in life from sunrise (or rather early in the morning) until four-thirty P. M. every school day is to keep “we, the people” as quiet and as orderly as possible. They work on the modern “credit” basis: two points per semester, or thereabout. As yet, Central's monitor board has not developed a secret code or sign language, but it takes less than a minute to scrawl a violation ticket that will invariably land you in the student court. In the court of justice the cop confirms his slip and listens to the proceedings with the arm of the rules on bis side. These picturesque denizens of the halls airily command you (with numb hands) to remove your overshoes immediately upon entering the building. They ask you to stand outside in the sunshine and absorb vitamin I) until the first bell. They do not hold with the advert izers of Wriglcy’s products. They whip out their pads upon detecting the slightest straining of the vocal chords. W histling is out. It is their contention that walking is more dignified than running. They are definitely patrollers in every sense of the word. Seriously, though, a reasonably quiet, clean, and orderly pedagogical institution makes for better scholarship, and, after all, part of our education is knowing how to behave. Carl Gruhn, founder of the organization in Central, lends his help and suggestions when they are needed or requested. Chief Monitor Bobbin Stevens was assisted by Jeanne Murphy and a force of 20 monitors.