Kingswood Oxford High School - Retrospect Yearbook (West Hartford, CT)

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PREFECTS Prefect Dick Screen helps lower school student with some math. Tutoring and counseling for lower school students was a main concern for the 1971 Prefect body. The Prefects, charged by Headmaster Lazear at the time of their appointment with examining the role of the Prefect at Kingswood and determin- ing its future, have spent 1970-71 constructively. Concentrating their energies on three areas: discipline, the maintenance of upper 'school- lower school ties, and student spirit, the Pre- fects attempted to maintain a balance be- tween the various power elements at Kingswood while retaining their student’s viewpoints. Elected Chairman Jim McDonald cited the Prefect's functions as “things that could be done by any responsible senior — I think the Prefect is outmoded.” Brennan. Watson, King, McDonald (Chairman), Smyth, Montgomery. Missing: Screen. ACTIVITIES

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FORM V Isi Row: Mr. O’Brien, Geer. Kerin, Matt, Kruger, Mathis, Lawrence. Preston. T.. Wolf, Fielden, Coco, Raskin, Seltzer, Schatz, Thomas, P.. Carples. 2nd Row: Wcthcrcll. Pcrzan, Morrison, Gillette. Hodgdon. Carangelo. Fritzson, House. Nwccia. Vogel, Hulme. Stack. Preston, R., Bradley, 3rd Row: Fink. Dohl. Flynn. Rice. LaCava, Goldstein, Mollcr, Barker, Lewis, Groundwater. Stratos, Lambert, Malinconico, Virgicn, 4th Row: Howard. Agritcllcy. Thompson. Hanrahan. Kessler, Stone, Waters. Dickinson. Powell. Austin, Bergen. Thomas. J., Dimmitt, O’Hurley. 5th Row: Gcllcs. Russell. Hartigan. Jones. Bulkelcy. Lenehan. Grant. Chotkowski, Kerin. Mark. Alderman. Swain. Munnik. Missing: Fcchtor. Greenberg. McEnroe, Seymour. Twitchell.

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STUDENT COUNCIL The student council faced a period of transition in the past year. It was a time of transition from a complex, representative government to a more streamlined, oemocratic form. It was a period of pessimism when the widespread feeling emerged that student government could do little, that it was a sham — a play government. Yet out of the destruction of many of the old illusions and myths of the potential of student power emerged a determined effort to consolidate the powers that students already have to meet the new reali- ties of student voice and student responsibility. 1970-71 was for many involved in student gov- ernment a year of frustration. There was frustra- tion in the relationship between student govern- ment and the “school establishment.” As one student played the game “power, power, who’s got the power?” in an attempt to find out just where the authority to change a hair code lay, others asked where and what power did the es- tablished student government have to effect change. Although student council members took part in the attempt to change the hair code, the action itself took place outside the structure of the council. Aside from the qualified success of the hair code proposal, the action served as a stimulus for a change in the structure of student government. The most significant change that has been adopted by the student council is the new consti- tution. The complexities and ambiguities of the old constitution spurred a desire to change, but the most urgent need lay in the fact that the es- tablished student government was falling behind Clockwise: Moller, Schwartz. Marvin. Perlman. Russell, Treas.. Smyth, Pres., Hauss. Sec., Krevolin, Dunsmorc. Wypcr. Grody. Missing: Talbot, Connolly.