Latin School of Chicago - Sigillum Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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SIGILLUM letic Association. Other responsibilities, such as the football dance and gym night, were assumed by the Council and have since been continued. The following year, 1935-36, Gordon Spens discovered the effect of stern and rigorous discipline, supervising a well-run Council. After him Robert Antonsen and Charles Ford made the Council popular while accomplishing its work. The way in which the Student Council can succeed to govern the school is to command the cooperation and respect of every member of the student body. The Council is hampered by not having a suitable Way of punishing a boy in order to gain respect. This respect may be gained if the boy is taught to have greater respect for the school. It is on this theory that we have endeavored to fulfill our duty this year. I believe that we succeeded to a certain extent, but not nearly as well as if we had had a more interested and earnest group. I also believe that the Council should be smaller, and this we have tried to accomplish. So with a smaller Council and more earnest and sincere boys coming up from the Junior Council, you are destined to have a fine Council next year. The Student Council of the Chicago Latin School will be a well-respected and well-liked body of leaders. EDWARD BENNAN, Senior Prefect ,38 DRAMATIC CLUB The Dramatic Club was formally initiated into the school in the fall of 1935. Naturally dramatics was nothing new, for plays had previously become an important part of the school's extra- curricular activities. It had been the precedent that both the junior and senior classes present a play each year, and plays were also produced by the lower forms and the lower school. However the need became apparent for the organization of some formal group, created not only for presentations, but also the reading and studying of plays. Mr. Darrow consented to supervise its activities, and weekly afternoon meetings were held. The success of the club since its inception can be measured not only by its productions in assemblies, but also by work and study accomplished during meetings. Although hampered by an inadequate stage, lack of proper lighting, and limited scenery, the Dramatic Club has pre- sented plays ranging in scope from John M. Synge's Riders to the Sean to George S. Kaufman's comedies and A. A. Milne's The Man in the Bowler Hatv. The proposal to establish a fund for the purchase of necessary scenery, costumes, and stage and lighting equipment should be carried through, so that the Dramatic Club may become an even more vital part of the school than it already is.

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SIGILLUM Crowe, Seipp, Blossom, Bennun, Pnferl, Denniilon, Frrmclze, MfCarty, Poxlfll THE STUDENT COUNCIL ln view of the fact that the school is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year l believe it fitting that a brief history of the Student Council be given. The faculty started the Council in 1927, its purpose to help maintain order and discipline in the high school. With this organization the faculty hoped to get the boys to assume responsibility, to teach them self-government, and to be more independent. The Council was at first composed merely of seniors appointed by the faculty. The group, numbering three at first, was presided over by a Senior Prefect. The first three Councils, then known as the Senior Councils, were headed by George Lill Q'26D, Harold Hodgson C27-,28D, and Peter Fortune C28-'29D. They conducted highly successful Councils, creating a close and friendly relationship among the student body as well as maintaining discipline. ln 1930 the Council, under the able leadership of B. Henry Sincere, drafted the present constitution. According to this Coun- cil members were to be elected by the student body and were to represent not only the senior class, but also the fourth and fifth forms. With these changes the Council became an even more responsible part of the school. First under the leadership of Frank Lagorio and then with Thomas Cveraghty, the student body came to respect the Council, finding that student government could be both effective and popular. Several important amendments were added to the constitution in Geraghty's year, as well as the Ath-

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SIGILLUM FRANK, Eats, SEIPP, Editors THE FOLIO The Fofio first appeared in the fall of IQOI, started by Arlene K. Niiller, it was a small magazine, which carried both literary material and notes about the school activities and athletics. The cover was designed by A. IC. Bates, and the magazine was financed through subscriptions and advertisements. The Folio was intensely popular, and it quickly developed into a very complete magazine. Nlr. Bosworth and R, P. were instrumental in its development, helping out and improving it. The Folio was soon made larger, continuing to run literary contributions as Well as write-ups about the school activities. The magazine provided a line stimulus for literary development and was edited by many persons who have since become notable. When, in 1926, the school moved, the format of the Folio was changed, the cover utilizing the bookplate of Rock- well Kent which had just recently been presented to the school, was adopted, as well as a change in the style and size of the mag- azine. The content, however, remained much the same, and was not changed until the adoption of the News which allowed the Folio to become a purely literary magazine. As such, it is indeed unusual, especially for a school of the size of Latin. It is certainly hoped that the high literary standard can be maintained.