Hellgate High School - Halberd Yearbook (Missoula, MT)

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STUDENT COUNCIL Max McPike, President OFFICERS Student Association officers were nominated and elected in home rooms last spring. Max McPike be- came president; Tom Rollins, vice- president; Bob Beach, secretary; and Bill Demmons, treasurer. Barbara Hill became S. C. sec- retary at a meeting this year. Officers must have passing grades the prior semester. The president and vice-president must be Seniors and have attended MHS two years. COUNCIL HAS ACTIVE YEAR In MHS’s constitution, given to every frosh and new student, is a provision for Student Council, or student government. Members of S. C., including one elected representative from each home room and officers of the Student Association, meet every Monday after school. Anyone besides the S. C. members may attend these meetings. S. C. members are divided into four committees, presided over by officers appointed by the S. A. president. Reports from committee meet- ings are given at general meetings. There was no Athletic Committee this year, as S. C. members felt it was unnecessary. By the new Five Per-Cent Plan, which calls for five per-cent of all profits from school activities to go to S. C, about $900 was made. MHS is the only school in Montana with such a system. Among this year’s activities was the beginning of a five-year plan for improving Victory Field. A campaign was started to raise about $7,000 for a new fence. Twelve cheerleading finalists were chosen from among 41 tryouts. Interest in the Single Session Plan, which would allow school to be dis- missed at 3:15 P. M. and the lunch hour to be shortened from 65 to about 20 minutes, was furthered. Busses were chartered to football and basketball games in Butte. Viola Borgstedt was paid $150 to attend a twirling contest in Minneapolis. Among other activities, S. C. also sponsored a safety and traffic campaign, including a safety poster contest won by Laurel Seaward, and an assembly. Clubs were given rights to give dances and have conces- sions. Tom Rollins Bob Beach Bill Demmons Barbara Hill 4

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ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE One of the first activities of the Administrative Committee this year was the selling of Courtesy Cards, which allow student owners reduced rates for one year at Fox Inter-mountain theaters. From this project, S. C. made $190. Meeting most Wednesdays after school with Chairman Roy Barkley and Sponsor Reuben Zeig, members considered and planned many varied pro- jects. They directed the frosh election in the latter part of November. At Christmas, they made a large Santa of plyboard to be used as a decoration on the school lawn at Christmas in years to come. Later they drew up a plan which had to do with allowing an average of one assembly a week to be presented. This plan was accepted. Interest in the Single Session Plan was fur- thered, and questionnaires concerning it were sent to parents of students. Problems such as whether S. C. should pay for tumblers’ emblems were also considered. WELFARE COMMITTEE Most of our home room drives this year were supervised by the Welfare Committee, which was headed by Evelyn Herbig, chairman; and Miss Marie Ray, sponsor. Members cooperated closely with the Junior Red Cross. Evelyn represented Missoula high at down- town Red Cross meetings, and those on her com- mittee ushered at a local Red Cross convention. Sponsoring movies on health and the welfare of others and keeping track of cheerleaders grades were other responsibilities of these committee mem- bers, who usually met Wednesdays after school. DIRECTING ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE On one of the walls in the main office hangs the school calendar of events, which is kept up by the Directing Activities Committee. Members of this group consider requests of clubs and classes for dances, sales and other activities. These events are then scheduled at the best possible times. Members worked on many projects this year. They planned and supervised the two-week safety campaign, and they were in charge of the movement for improving Victory Field. They also were respon- sible for presenting most S. C. assemblies such as a safety assembly and the General Motors Assembly. In charge of this committee were Caryl Wickes chairman; and vice-Principal Charles Hunt, sponsor. Meetings were Wednesdays after school. PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE Editing The Digest, a report of all S. C. acti- vities and decisions, read in home rooms each week, is the main responsibility of the Publications Com- mittee. At each regular S. C. meeting on Monday, cer- tain committee members took notes. Immediately afterwards the committee would meet in the room of Ralph Soroos, sponsor, to write the Digest. After this committee meeting, Patty Burnett, chairman, would take the write-up home to be typed. The following morning committee members would run off separate copies on the ditto machine and would distribute them in home room teachers’ boxes. All other S. C. publications, are prepared and distributed by this committee.