Hermon DeKalb Central School - Demon Yearbook (De Kalb Junction, NY)

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25 (Front row, left to right) Irene Rowland 5 Eloise Titbits 6 Gloria Boclair 1 Gladys Vijleneuve 2 Mary Jane Fuller 3 Dorothy Rowland (Back row, left to right) 5 Stanley Turner 6 Leo Benware 1 Marion Durant 2 Helen Mary Reed 5 Mrs, Burston 4 Elwin Bigelow 7 Virginia Raymo 8 Julie Anne Titbits

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STUDENT COUNCIL September the 9th the Student Council for the school year 1949- was formed and the following officers were elected: President---------------------------------------Ethel Newcombe Vice- pesident--------------------------------—Darrell Hughes Secretary-treasurer-——— -----------------------Arthur Tibbits Other members of the council are Eliot Bigelow, Roscoe Stowell, j retta Boprey, Eloise Tibbits and Audrey Wood. Mrs. Dorothy Coates }s faculty advisor. The Student Council has done much towards the improvement of the school. At the beginning of the year, the library was re-arranged under the supervision of our president. Eloise Tibbits was appointed school librarian. On October 21, the play, Swept Clean Off Her Feet was presented t0raise funds. Refreshments were sold and altogether, this enter- prise brought in thirteen dollars and ten cents which was used to join the National Association of Student Councils and to buy the Membership pins. A Thanksgiving dinner was sponsored on Friday noon, November the 18th and at Christmas time a party was planned and the Council decor- ated the tree upstairs. Christmas cards were sold to raise more funds. Early in January, the school constitution was re-written and put into effect. Several trials were held for offenders. In March the decorations and place-cards were prepared for the basketball banquet. The Council took charge of the arrangement of the dining room and was given a special vote of thanks at the banquet by Mr. Bowler. An album of square dance records was purchased to aid in the noontime program, and in this field of endeavor, the council regulated the pin-pong schedule all winter long. The year has ended with three dollars and forty-three cents in the treasury. This was turned over to Mr. Bowler, to put in the fund for the school picnic. Actually it has ended with benefits which cannot be measured in dollars and cents. How do we arrive at that conclusion? We have had valuable experience in cooperating in group activif ties. We know more about planning and carrying out whatever project toay be important at the moment. We have all gained through the vatLo-3 efforts Which.have been taken--for granted.

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BEACON | BEACON II In your hands you have the last cony of the 1949-50 edition of i I Richville Union Free School's paper, The Beacon. As you remember I I year started out with a . history making change; the format of the paper was completely changed. Gone was the usual book cover and in its place we had headlines with right up to the minute news II This last issue, a combination of present and yearly summary, is another innovation in The Beacon. (At no extra cost to the subscriber too II Beware, advertisers, next year.) Seriously, we do feel that we have accomplished a lot this year with our paper and since we have received compliments from so many people, we have the «ill to work for a bigger and still better edition next year 11 Bot only the format was changed but regular columns were es- tablished and were followeo by the subscribers with avid interest. Chit Chat. a page for the girls, Between the Covers, the book column, Silver Screen, a movie review column, On the Air, a radio column, opppialtv Page.a page for everyone 6 to 60, Letters in the Editor. were the new pages that were added to the regulars such as sports, gpeaking Frankly, and the editorial page. However, one of'the biggest innovations in the columns was the Around the Town, the column-- which caught all the local scoops. In fact, this column did have two (2) actual scoops over the big newspapers in our short per- iod of publication 111 The mimeograjh machine caused considerable difficulty and the printing was not top-rate. (A new mimeograph machine would be the perfect answer.) Headlines improved with the purchase of lettering guides but more are needed. Here again we need more money as these simple gadgets cost from $2.75 up. and next year perhaps we can raise the money. In 1948 The Beacon joined the Empire State Scholastic Press Association and received a very low rating in comparison with the other schools in this association. However, this past year, although we did not make the top three ratings, we did pull ourselves up some 40 points, which in itself was quite a task. Next year we plan to latch on to one of the top three. We are going to follow the sugges- tions of Miss Mary Gilmour, Executive Secretary of the Association, and change our format again, this time doing a newsmagazine, rather than the straight newspaper that we tried to do this year. Our hand was guided for half of this year by Anne Hawn and when she left, Irene Rowland quickly jumped into the breach and very competently took over. Elwin Bigelow should be complimented on the ad and illustration work. For a beginner in the art field, this boy really put out the goods . Those are the only people on the staff that are to be mentioned as all the rest really worked hard to g£t the paper out on time and make it good. In fact, sometimes the town girls, who were not even on the paper staff helped to put it out. It was a cooperative effort by every student We hope thay jrou have liked it and we'll see you next year II