Gratz High School - Gratzonian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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iv? COURT Arnold Carnevale, Janet Tophimv Chief JU' tice Inez Jones, William Kotsch, Herbert Ro gove, Sylvia Zimmerman. ourt T HE Co11rt is also an important organ of the Students Association. The Court has a system of penalties for those students who, after trial, are found to be guilty of some infraction of the rules. However, this is not its main objective. It tries to guide the student by helping him to realize that he was wrong and to curb further misdemeanors. The Court consists of seven members, namely: The Chief-justice and two asso- ciate judges from each grade Qone boy and one girlj. These judges are elected only from the IIB, IZA, and IZZB grades. They are elected at the close of each term for the following semester. The Court meets each Monday afternoon for the hearing of cases. A very important committee which works under the Court is the Six-Footers' Committee. It is composed entirely of boys who are six feet and over and its re- sponsibility is to cover those portions of the school building and grounds not covered by other groups of monitors. It has come to hold an important place in the Stu- dents Association. This term, under the joint sponsorship of the Senate and Court, the Five-Foot Femmes were organized as a committee of girls to augment the Six- Footers. Though new. it has shown itself to be a valuable asset to the Students Association. The Court had one main project on which it concentrated its efforts- a big no-smoking campaign. With the cooperation of all concerned a decided change in the prevalence of smoking on school premises was noticed. VVe can only hope that the Courts in the future will continue to function as elliciently. This term our Chief-justice was Inez Jones and the 12B Associate Judges were William Kotsch and Janet Topham, all of whom must be congratulated for their splendid work on the Court. Tzccnfy-three

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Senate 'l'HlC highest governing body in the school is the Senate. Its function is to take the proper steps towards correction of conditions which arise about the school. These conditions are reported by a corps of monitors, representatives, members of the faculty, and the Senate and Court. The Senate consists of thirteen members, namely, president, two viee-presi- dents Qone boy and one girlj, two senators from each grade Cone boy and one girlj, except the 10A and 10B grades, which have only one. They are elected at the close of each term for the following semester. The Senate mects once a week, on Tues- day, in the Students Association office for the discussion and solution of problems. The Senate's main project this term was a novel houseclcaning campaign. During this time the various grades were made responsible for specified floors of the school building. It was their duty to try to keep that floor as clean as possible. In this way, the work of the Students Association is interlocked directly with class activities, therefore, making cooperation between the two much easier to accomplish. The eflicieney of the Senate is further heightened by the semi-monthly meetings of the House of Representatives. In this new plan, instead of meeting as a group, the representatives of the individual grades meet their respective senators for a discussion of problems and ideas. The combination of 'these things with the regular activities of the Senate make it one of the most important parts of the Students Association. This semester our President was .lane VVells and the 12B Senators were Rosanna Hoster and David Brunner, each of whom made this term's Senate projects a success. SENATE Sealed: Theodore Stepek, Shirley Pepp, Ros- anna Hoster, President Jane Wells, Evelyn Bender, Gloria Lorch, Ruth Dunn. Standing: Martin Carbonell, William Finnel, William Sharps. img, Twenty-two

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Representatives TIIIC House of liepresentatives is a large hody which forms the essential tie he- tween the Senate and Court and the student hody itself. liaeh advisory class in the sehool eleets a representative to the House at the heginning of eaeh term to serve for 'that term. Onee a month eaeh representative at- tends a meeting which is presided over alter- nately hy the two viee-presidents. At these meetings the aetivities of the other hranehes of the Students Assoeiation are hronght he- fore the llouse and diseussed. and eertain notiees and reports are given to the represen- tatives to he in turn reported to the students. ln this way the Students Assoeiation keeps its finger on the pulse of the student hody. Monitors REPRESENTATIVES AND ALTERNATES Seated: Wanda Lubas, Mary Pantone, jane DeCray, Ruth Goldberg, Muriel Kearns, Doris jackson, Anita Haase. Second row: Mary jane Baldt, Rosemary O'Hara, Ludmilla Deslciewicz, Nettie Sovtza, Loretta Wilson, Mu- riel Salidor, Marion Weiss. Third row: Paul Comissarow, Stanley Budsynski, Bernard Levy, Morton Simon, John Sutton, Timothy Resnick. MONITORS' COUNCIL First row: Mary Renyc, Miss Haldeman, Betty Murphy. Eleanor Kahn. Second row: Dorothy Bar ker, Beth Hinken, Benjamin Winderman, Beatrice Los Kemp, Phyllis Feather. TIIE corps of monitors is the largest lr tl Str X lll w 1 aneh in ie nl idents 1 ssoeiation. ' ' ey are enlisted from the student hody itself at the heginning of eaeh term to take over duties ahout the sehool which are compar- ahle to those of patrolmenl that is to say. they report students for infraetion of the rules. 'l'heir work eovers many parts ot the sehool. sneh as: the lunehroom. lihrary. study hall. eorridors and staireases. Other groups of speeial monitors sneh as the Six- footers. l iye-foot lfemmes. llouse and Grounds l'ommittee are responsihle for the remaining parts of the sehool. It is an estah- lished faet that if this force of monitors did not lnnetlon as they' do the ett ieieney of the whole Students Association would he greatly im paired. Tzewllly- fn ll r