Coker College - Milestone Yearbook (Hartsville, SC)

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SEATED LFFT TO RIGHT: Miss Mills, Faye Baxley, Suzanne DuRant, Dr. Barry. STANDING: Vivian Ruthven, Dr. Sisson, Dr. Kuehner, Emma Kate Thomason, Marian Duke, Sylvia Sweet. oint ae), Sia Cou 5 { Left: Dr. Ingram plays Santa for the Christmas Party. Center: “Telephone, 198,” Mary calls, as she works for Student Council. Right: Sylvia rushes Jan in trom a date.

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Joint Council is the judicial power of Coker’s Student Government Association, dealing with major offenses and matters referred by Student Council. This Council also determines student eligibility for participation in extra- curricular activities. Yet, most important, Joint Council is the meeting ground of faculty and students to form a board for con- sultation and advice, and to promote the general interests of both student body and faculty, as a college community. It is seven o'clock on a Monday night, and behind the closed doors of Acree parlor Student Council is in ses- sion. Each week this legislative body of Student Govern- ment Association meets tc discuss problems concerning the regulation of student life. Yet Student Council at Coker is not a police force. “This organization exists to give student opinion a means of expression,” states President Sylvia Sweet. “We hope to help each student realize her own responsibility in upholding Coker’s standards of Character, Culture, and Christian Service.” And through the efforts of these our representatives we are assured a voice in the government of our school. Sometimes in stressing the importance of this major function of Council, we overlook their many other les; important but necessary duties. Secretary Marian Duke has a never-ending job in checking our sign-out cards. Student government girls work in sign-out office at night and on weekends—always available for any problems that may arise. Council spends much time in discussing our suggestions, making decisions about minor infringement of rules, granting permisisons during closed study hour, keeping down noise so that others may study, handling midnight “scares” on the halls, conducting mass meeting so that we, the students, may keep informed. Sylvia Sweet, President of Student Council Faye Baxley, Chairman of Joint Council There are the many Council sponsored projects— orientation of the freshmen, publication of the Student Handbook, the Christmas dinner, high school weekends, direction of competition for the President’s Cup, a “fare- well” picnic in the spring. Our Student Council does not exist only behind the closed doors of Acree parlor on Monday nights. They are a vital part of every phase of our college life, ready to serve us individually and as a student body. SEATED, left to right: Langford, Degenhardt, Ward, B. Crawford, Duke, Baxley, Myers, Max- well, Boland, Barnes, Ruthven. STANDING, left to right: Cook, Sweet, DuRant, Oates.