Highland Park High School - Polar Bear Yearbook (Highland Park, MI)

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Right, Charles Milan, successful candidate for the I2-B presidency, is congratulated by Margaret Edith Martin, his opponent, and incidentally the first girl to run for the office of senior president in many years. Upper right, Robert White, ll-B, finds news of his presidential victory in The Spectator and begins making plans for junior class activities. Upper left, Don Wisner circulates his petition for presidency of the I0-B soph class. P.5. He won. ,We ELECTIONS Every semester, come fire or flood, nominating rallies are held and candi- dates are put up for class office. Every semester, come tornado or volcano, nominees send out petitions and work for election. Every semester, then, these officers proudly wear a crown of victory for a few days, and then sink into ob- livion-or wherever inactive officials reside. Nomination is a simple aftair. Such a feeling of brotherly love exists between students that You nominate me, I'll nominate you is the accepted thing. Then come the petitions-long slips of paper, with which everyone buzzes around, signing and being signed for with great fervor. After a few days, then, campaign speeches are given. They are masterpieces of phraseology, abundant in adiectives, in which the candidate promises every- thing from burning the school down, to abolishing, ngids, finals, and report cards. Thus 'iilass elections in HPHS. 4 I ,ga -Yi Members of the Student Association cabinet, Bar- bara Cottingham and Jane Keller, work lleftl with Miss Therese Kneip counting and sorting ballots for elections. The SA has charge of elections and manages them from start to finish with efficiency. ii

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Each year the senior girls put their col- lective heads together and elect one of their number to attend a DAR conven- tion. She must be the best all-around girl in the entire class, and in l944 tiny Barbara Cottingham fcenter rightl was elected to that most honorable position. . . . The pained expresion on the face of Chris Moore Qtopl only indicates his chagrin at some particularly difficult problem. Chris takes care of student opinion polls, of which there are not a few, and spends hours over averages, percentages, and tabulations of yes's and no's .... The senior class is not slow, the senior class is not stodgy, the senior class does not take a long time to make up its mind. In fact, the senior class does things on the spur of the mo- ment. One day the lncidental was pro- posed, same day committees were appointed, and the dance was adver- tised. It was held four days later, and incidental-ly was a success. Member of publicity committee Julius Tokar fcenter leftj energetically sells tickets for this dance .... For those who wanted to learn to trip the light fantastic Miss Bly Quigley obliged by holding a class.

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WAR BONDS Bond drives are, and will be to the war's end, a part of HP's school ac- tivities. The Fourth War Loan, coming at the break between semesters, was the biggest and best yet. A Spec extra, in January, announced drive obiectives, setting pre-examination homeroom quotas, based on enroll- ment, totaling S60,000. Actual cam- paigns were opened in rallies ad- dressed by Principal D. L. Pyle and Superintendent H. L. Shibler. After finals, the Student Association spon- sored two assembly-rallies, at which 46 of HP's gallants were awarded their ribbons, the other 24 having received theirs in the old semester. Dave Gelston, JC's sleight-of-hand man illustrated with rope tricks lupper rightl his talk on bonds and Allied supply lines. By this time quotas had already been raised twice, with every sign of another upping. Thirty-one of a possible 47 homerooms had already gone over their quotas, led by Rooms 201 and 304 with Sl2,042.85 and 57,- 7l2.l5 as their respective totals. Opening with a quota of Sl09,000, Parkers met it and bettered it by more than 75 percent. Smiles adorned the faces of the bond committee when the chairman announced the record-breaking total of Sl89,523.4O. Gallants of the upper brackets are lclockwisel Mary McColl, Barbara Reisdorf, student bond chairman, Mary Vartoogian, James Wood, and Frances Morse, each of whom sold over 55,000 10-B Gallants Cleft to rightl Janet Comfort, Patty Fee, Margaret Woughter, Charles Duns- combe, Cynthia Allen, Elaine Perrett, Kenneth lee, and Lois Maesenich, each sold 51,000 or so.