Jackson High School - Reflector Yearbook (Jackson, MI)

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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

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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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Q.: x A1 J Q.. ' in J Tv-, ' . fu -ahf .. ? Students kept tab and gave the Word Did you ever wonder who was responsible for the red lines on attendance cards that busted you every time you skipped? You can thank the students working in the attendance office for that. Working for half credit, the students did quite a bit. One student was assigned to a floor during a certain class. This student collected cards from each teacher and took them then to the attendance office, where thousands were handled daily. Other jobs of the student involved writing up suspen- sion slips, making tardy cards, attendance cards, and working at the desk helping to sign out students. The class, instructed Mrs. Gloria Hill, was taken mainly because a small number of students couldn't fit anything else in their schedule. Although students in the attendance office kept the administration aware of the absences, these weren't the only informers in the school. Maybe you remember those three strange voices that woke you up in the middle of your homeroom nap to remind you of the days' schedule. The P.A. announcers, advised by Mrs. Gloria Egeler, were chosen each semester by how loud and clearly they could read the announcements they had to give. Even though the announcers sometimes stuttered or mixed up the messages, JHS activities sometimes couldn't have survived without them. by Sue I-Iarsch WN ' s 4. 'ine 1 - Clockwise: Margret Ruge, Julie Bennet, Pam West, Linda Seppa, Gloria Watters, Brian Cotton, Tami Frey, Mrs. Gloria Hill, Dallarie Haney, Tammy Harvey, Debbie Zenz, Mike Haire, Barbara Fultz. 2 - Top to botbomg Sue Miller, Jim Forgey, Fred Grand-Girard, Roxanne Bruner, Jim Pinard. 3 - Keeping track of attendance in a big school like J HS is not easy. Cards flock to the attendance office and have to be sorted by students like sophomore Barbara Fultz. 4 - Mike Haire and Tammy Harvey help out in the attendance office by calculating the number of absences that day. Attendance Office Aides