Jackson High School - Reflector Yearbook (Jackson, MI)

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Revising the rules was a tough task Total revision of the present constitution was the main goal of second semester president Gary Jones and vice- president Doug Littlefield. Gary and Doug, along with Lori Drain, Ross Dever- eaux, Joan Ruge, and Ken Friend worked approximately 50 hours on the revision, trying to complete it before the year was over. But soon after work got underway, they discovered that it wasn't as easy a task as they had anticipated, and ended up the year with just a few articles left to be finished. I think the new constitution is a lot better, Doug said. It mainly involves-30 students, gets better student involvement, and it's not a popularity contest. Other projects of the second semester included the magazine sales campaign, challenge of the classes, and a student exchange with other schools in the league. A profit for the school of 33,262 was made in the magazine sales campaign. In which the Senior class re- ceived S300 from the 10 percent pledge sheet. Purchased for the school from the money were: two children mani- quins, 3200, speakers for the cafeteria, S503 U.N. flags for graduation, S3005 timing clock for speech classes and forensics, S505 and S100 for the library. For the first time, pupils from J HS participated in the student exchange in which Gary and Doug visited Kala- mazoo Central, Lumen Christi, and Ann Arbor Pioneer. Also visiting the schools were: Todd Henderson, '80, and Cara Surbrook, '81, to Kalamazoo Central, seniors Lori Drain and Dan Hinkle, junior Raymond Valdez, and sophomore Steve Rockwell to Christi, with Craig Brit- ton, '79, and Ross Devereaux, '80, going to Pioneer. While visiting the other schools, students learned how other student governments were run, and about different constitution ideas. Muscular Dystrophy was the recipient of S150 which was raised by the second dance. 1 Proceeds from the second annual challenge of the classes, sponsored by Student Government, went to the Jackson Lions Club. I enjoyed the semester a lot. I got to know many of the underclassmenf' said Doug. Gary and I didn't do as much as we thought we could. We did a lot of little things, but no real big things. by Sharon Ramey 1 - I-Iomeroom representative Dave Reynolds, '79, writes coming school events on the chalk board for Homeroom 318. 2 - Student body presidents Ruth DeOrio, first semester, and Gary Jones, second semester, seem to have different opinions on ideas sug- gested at an assembly. Student Government

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fag 5 . .,... . 93 . wg. miji' --4unnn1y-- Y f gg..-s. 1 - Ruth DeOrio, president first semesterg Gary Jones, president second semesterg Bill Hobart, vice-president first semesterg Doug Littlefield, vice-president second semester. 2 - Some homeroom presidents listen attentively, while others take notes of coming events during a meeting. Student Government Ax yr ., . - ,.. K Qs I , X Students made very successf First semester was full of things to do. It was rar student council did not have an event planned for a Fri night, or sometimes a Saturday, depending on the sp schedule. We had dances after every home football home weekend basketball game. We hired buses to all away games. The bands for the dances were picked from some of top bands in Michigan. The attendance was so good tha some dances we had more people than we could comf ably fit into the social room. Homecoming was organized by the council, during summer, so everything was under control during that b week. Activities were back to normal that next week. I vidual classes did an outstanding job decorating the h Events Night ran smoothly without any injuries. All money collected from Events Night and the Homecom Dance went to the United Way. Students generously gave canned goods and other nu perishable food to the Salvation Army for distribution d ing the Thanksgiving season. For the first time the student bodies of Jackson High Parkside got together for a combined dance. It was a se formal Christmas dance held in the ballroom of the Sh ton Inn. Tickets were sold in advance. First semester was made-a success, not because of r many activities, but because of the many students vt attended them. by Ruth DeO

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Magazines, blood ,. ,, both J HS Winners Winners again. Although donations were down, we still topped Parkside in the annual JHS blood bank. Donated by students, faculty, and members of the community, a total of 161 pints were collected April 26 in our 23rd annual drive. This brought to JHS for the second consecutive year for collecting more blood than Parkside, Napoleon, Northwest, Vandercook Lake, and Lumen Christi. According to senior Joan Kreiger, blood bank student chairperson, 123 students donated blood. Mr. Watkins, blood bank adviser, contributed another pint, making his personal total 48 pints, or six gallons! It was no problem for Mr. Prahl to give blood this year either, as it was his 50th pint. JHS proved as good in selling magazines as it was in giving blood. Jackson High students totaled 815,811 worth of subscriptions in the 1978 magazine campaign. Out of the total sold, J HS added 353,261.57 to its trea- sury as its share of the profit. In competition the senior class received S100 for sell- ing the most. Juniors won S753 and the ninth graders, in third place, received 350. The rookies, selling the least received 325. In more ways than one, JHS students showed that they did care what happens throughout the community. by Sue Harsch 1 - Mr. Edward Prahl finds no problem in filling out the necessary forms to donate his 50th pint of blood. 2 - Giving that first pint isn't as bad as it looks, in fact, it's quite relaxing as John Zonts, junior, finds. 3 - This blood will be weighed and marked before it is shipped to Lansing for processing. f X. 3 . K ix , Magazine campaign Sz Blood bank