Francis W Parker School - Record Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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TDETGO ERMET Student Government this year has had the usual amount of criticism, but on the whole it has run very smoothly. The committees kept within their budget and functioned in a parliamentary fashion. A clever scheme for raising money .to increase the sinking fund was initiated by the students and put into practice. Study-halls were run on a cooperative student-teacher basis. The idea of having a used-book store worked very satisfactorily and the above mentioned increase materialized into a pleasant reality. The year was an orderly one with singularly little bombast or theatrical effects. A great deal of hard, earnest work was put in by the committees and the year was a busy but hardly experimental one. The new House Committee had a chance to function properly and the zero hour system was instituted in place of the old work hour. Both seemed to be successful solu- tions to the age-old problems of penalties. The assembly behaved and acted with a reasonable degree of maturity. While the out-side world raged the battle of election year, our Student Government proceeded calmly through a constructive year. Frank Eisendrath SOCIAL COMMITTEE We have come a long way this year in making Parker's social life more varied and interesting. We proved that informal gatherings could be just as successful as the traditional dances. We have instituted a new form of group activities that surpassed in many ways the old style. ln our club form each student participated rather than going to be entertained by a few, and usually the same group of students. At Parker the size and facilities have made it possible to have a really fine and all embracing social life. However, it is always the students in the final analysis who make or break the school activities. This year the group of students has been helpful and cooperative to a high degree. We feel the aims we started out with have been fulfilled successfully. ' Caryl Hollender MORNING EXERCISES This year the Morning Exercise Committee has tried to reach two main goals. lt has striven, through a series of Parker Parents lectures on different vocations, to give students a small picture of the types of work that may await them in future days. It has also tried to give as many students as possible an opportunity to take part in an exercise. With the French, Spanish and German classes giving plays, the language departments were better repre- sented than they have been for many years. ln all its aims we feel that the Morning Exercise Committee has been successful, at least to an extent. There has been seriousness, reality, humor, and imagination all combined to make this a harmonious and happy year. Bunny Meyer Thirteen

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I-'ront row: Ncxkane. Florsheim, Bloch fComm. of Four membersl. Second row: I. Hegner CCo- Head of Lunchrooml, Hollender CSocial Comm. Chuirmcml, Eisendrath CPresident of Student Governmenil, Mixon CSecretaryJ, Greenspuhn KCQ-Head of Lunchrooml. Third row: Cotton U..ibrary Comm. Chuirmanl, Reif lHead of Budgeting Comm.J, Meyer fMorning Ex. Comm. Chairmcmi. Straus lRelief Comm.J. O'Regan lComm. of Four mernbersl. I. Stone fHead ot Study Hallsl. STUDE T GGVER ME T Frank Eisendrath, President Caryl Hollender Social Committee Rosemary Mixon Secretary Bunny Meyer Morning Exercise Committee

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Fourteen Come play with us Halloween . . and eerie strangers haunt the school