Central YMCA High School - Centralite Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Elementary-Evenine p T AA lg , 1 N l . z i The Y M C A Evening Elementary School is composed of several classes: one for foreigners learning English, and the regular Sixth, Sev- enth and Eighth Grade classes. They meet on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights each week, between the hours of 5:45 and 9:45. The students are young working men who have come to realize the .fact that they cannot progress without a better education. As boys they re- fused to believe that education was worth while but experience has taught them wisdom and they are ready to pay the price. Their earnestness is apparent to anyone who visits these classes or who stops to realize some- thing of the sacrifice it means to attend regularly. And regularity of attend- ance is the salient characteristic of the student in this department, although it involves self-denial in the matter of social and recreational activities, since a program of three school nights a week leaves little leisure to the man who works long hours each day. I Many of the men come long distances from their work in order totake advantage of the education which they are acquiring here at the Y M C A School And as these long trips are utilized for study they are thus turned to good advantage. As a whole the Elementary Classes are doing excellent work and if attendance continues to increase at the present rate, new classes will have to be formed to accommodate the new students. ej 4 Eg ,fr fl Page Sixty

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1 Nxifn. f Student Council-Evening N lf IV A0 k Standing: John Erickson. Sitting: Arthur Johnson, Wm. F. Paterik, Gustav C. Bierstedt, Herbert Boettcher, Ferdell O. Rounds, John Stih, Conrad VVageman. Absent: Jack Cook and G. R. Luther. OFFICERS Gustav C. Bierstedt .......... ..A...,..,..,............,...... ................,.... P r esident Herbert H. Boettcher ...,,... ,,....................,. ........,.............. V i ce-President William P. Paterik ..............,.,.,,..................................,....... Secretary-Treasurer The Student Council is a representative body composed of the presi-' dents of all the classes and organizations in the School. The object of the council is to create and maintain a proper school spirit, by promoting and managing school activities and to bring about a friendly atmosphere in the classes and between students and faculty. The present council has been especially active and successful in this line of endeavor. The Inter-class Mixer held December Sth, 1923, was the best attended and most enjoyable of any in the School history. The Coun- c1l also sanctioned the Junior Prom, Senior and Liberal Arts Classes' theater parties and other events. The Council sponsors the Centralite and in a general way helps to keep order in the School and at assemblies and settles any difficulties that may arise among students or classes. It has proved to be an invaluable aid, both to the faculty and the student body by the efficient manner in which it has handled the various problems which have come before it. Self-government of the students in the evening school has been very successful, much of the credit being due the Student Council for its efforts along these lines. WILLIAM P. PATERIK. Y J Ai Page Sixty-two