Girard College - Corinthian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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l hoto rcipliij C (uti First Row. left to right: J. Warswell, J. Reichard, J. Yencel, T. Ayjian, Second Row, left to right: Mr. R. Ayjian, E. Mullen, D. Jesser, R. Bujcs, F. Dwyer. Mr. J. Demcisak This year’s club proved to be one of the most valuable assets of the school. The two vigorous advi¬ sors, Mr. John Demcisak and Mr. Robert Ayjian, gave up their time to teach and stress the important segments of photography. The club’s objective this year was to establish an active membership and a reputable name. Through the backing of our Principal we received considerable funds for club use, not to mention new equipment given to the club by Mr. Ayjian. The members of the club impressed upon the faculty and the alumni the reliability of the club. This year ' s members have built an efficient club; now it is up to the members of the lower classes to expand the club and provide the school with excel¬ lent service for all its publications. An innovation in this year’s club was model photography. Under Mr. Ayjian s guidance, the boys were taken to different parts of the city to photograph different scenes. Through talk¬ ing with professional photographers and illustrators, the members found photography to be a growing field which will always open new paths to adventure for those interested in its magic! Most of the club’s members were active throughout the entire year. The faculty mem¬ bers who participated in the activities and sports were issued enlargments of their respective groups. One major accomplishment was getting the Principal of the High School to back us. Once he saw that we were out to work he rendered his fullest cooperation. i 25 y

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] tu den t (den ter Seated, left to right: C. Troxell, Mr. F. Seifert, D Callohan, Mr. G. Dunkle, D. Carpenter Second Row, left to right: W. Linton, R. Hockenberg, D. Puzo, L. Martin, A. Richey, J. Verna, P. Lanza, A. Tangi, D. Hepperly The activities of this year’s Student Center showed a great improvement over those of past years. With the renovation of the premises, business picked up tremendously. Many new services were offered at this year’s Founder’s Day and Mothers’ Days, including waiters at each table, a clean store, and many other small things which, we are sure, made the visitors’ stop more enjoyable. The Canteen Dance appeared in the social light this year. This event, which was less for¬ mal than a class dance, brought a profit only in the sense of enjoyment. The small financial loss from the dance was due to the moderate attendence by the students. Due to more efficient management, the store was open every weekday and occasionally on Saturdays. This management enabled the store to make a good net income, and pay back the investments of the Juniors and Seniors with interest. Also due to this increase in net income, we were able to eliminate many of the debts contracted by last year’s staff. A new and dedicated member of our advisory staff was Mr. Frank Seifert, who took a large portion of the work from the shoulders of Mr. Dun¬ kle. We would like to thank him for his help. As usu¬ al, Mr. Dunkle gave up much of his free time to work at the store and, for his work, we thank him very sin¬ cerely. Dr. White also deserves much of the credit for the smooth operation of the store; without his help in keeping the books up to date, we would not have been open long enough to make the profit we did. Special appreciation is extended to Dennis Calla¬ han for doing a fine job as store manager. Through him the store was able to function. -f 24 y

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First Row, left to right: S. Bonatatibus, A. Tongi. Mr. P. Brown, C. Reed, R. Duckworth Second Row, left to right: Mr. R. Farber, Mr. J. Shuster, F. Dwyer, Mr. J. Stafford, Mr. R. Covert The Student-Faculty Senate was first organized in November by Dr. Karl R. Friedmann at the request of the student body representatives. This body was not the representative organi¬ zation that had been requested; instead, the faculty members were selected by the President and the student members by the Student Body President. The Senate, unfortunately, never accom¬ plished what it was hoped it would, for most of its meetings were wasted in idle talk. The first Senate was therefore disbanded in early December. The merits of an organization representing both the faculty and the students was recog¬ nized nonetheless and in January the idea of reinstuting the Student-Faculty Senate was promptly presented to the new President, Dr. Gayle Lawrence. Dr. Lawrence soon gave his approval to re-establishing the Senate with its members being elected by the groups they would represent. With his approval the President assigned the new Student-Faculty Senate two important tasks: to form a new and more effective disciplinary system and to recommend a fairer grouping system.The form¬ ulation of a disciplinary code was considered the most important assignment given to the Student-Faculty Senate; therefore, much time was spent in finding out what would best benefit Girard. Individual rostering was felt to be fairer than the present 1, 2, and 3, groupings, and the Senate urged that Girard hire a specialist to draw up these individual rosters. The second Student-Faculty Senate proved to be an effective and efficient representative body. It is our hope that its role of advising the President on educational policies be greatly increased to give the Senate much more influence over all areas of Girard life. The Student-Faculty Senate is a body in which both the students and the faculty are equally repre¬ sented. i 26 Y