Leilehua High School - Ka Leilehua Yearbook (Wahiawa, HI)

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STUDENT COUNCIL A DECADE ago the first student council of Leilehua was organized for the bene- fit and the general welfare of the school and its citizens. As the years have steadily gone by, it has been growing in importance until today it has become an integral part of the school and also a great necessity. With the opening of another school year, the student council operated under a new system by which student representatives and alternates were elected through their social studies classes instead of their fifth period classes. Coping with many vitally important problems at the opening of school, the student council commenced its duties with great zeal. lt successfully executed the sale of 600 athletic tickets, and a few weeks later launched the student body fee drive, emerging with satisfactory results. To carry out the various functions of the student council, and to equalize the activities among the students, many new committees and commissions were formed within the council. They were as follows: Student Participation, Social, Handbook, Constitutional Revision, and the Publicity Committees, and the Activity, Campus, and Athletic Commissions. Each commission and committee consisted of about five members of the council and a high school teacher as a sponsor to aid them in carrying out their work. As the year advanced, the student council served as the medium between the administration and the stu- dent body and has solved many problems. ' Climaxing a busy and a successful year, a revised constitution of the stu- dent body association was finally set before the students for approval. With its many new phases and systematized plan of student organization, it is hoped that this revised constitution will serve its best to the future councils of Leilehua. Officers for the year were ludith Kunihiro, presidenty Gilbert P vice- presidentg Esther Ahn, secretary, Toshimasa Morita, treasurerg Mrs. I. adviser. First row fLeft to rightlz ludith Kunihiro, Helen Lim, Esther Ahn, Violet Sato, Lee, Mae Sakamoto, Georgine Ono, Ida Teves, May Blossom Chang. Second row: es Kim, Yoshio lchikawa, Raymond Watson, Martha Procter, Maisie Eden, Adam Morita, Mrs. Knight. Third row: Morris Shinsato, Yukio Komori, Richard Furukawa, Gilbert Procter, Mitsuto Kato, Clifford Oh, Kimball Chun,. Top row: Mickey Shon, Stan- ward Kim, Howard Lindsay, lames Chun, lames Peden, Alfred Alexander,

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First row CLeft to rightl: Beatrice Mitsunaga, Ethel Imamura, Ann Pillsbury, Mamie Pablin, Bette Monte, Mae Sakamoto, Muriel Tanaka, Michie Ogawa. Second row: Evida Kim, Rosalie Hoshi- bata, Dorothy Du Pont, Mary D. lay, Maisie Eden, Edelberto Balingit, Mrs. Summers. Third row: Les I-leirich, lanito de Gracia, Revocato Medina, Raymond Kataoka, l-liromu Terao, Nobuo Taka- mori, Tokio Tsuruda, Takeji Furumizo, Morris Shinsato, Top row: Harold Owan, Young Ko Han, Philip Owen, Kenneth Goto, Masashi Tamate, Mitsuto Kato. THE SENTINEL WITH THE journalism decalogue firmly impressed upon their minds, thirty-six future editors under the direction of Mrs. Paul E. Summers, started their quest of the why, when, where, what, who and how of writing news. The fundamental aim of the staff has been to issue a school paper for the en- tire student body, covering all news accurately, introducing new features from time to time and devoting one whole page to humor. One experimental edition, printed on book paper, was issued for student approbation. Hearty approval of its present improved form, lack of funds and the desire to make THE SENTINEL wholly a school project were responsible for con- tinuation of the mimeographed sheet. There is a remote chance that some day the cherished aim of having a school press will be realized, but until that time, the class consensus is that the appear- ance of the paper is only secondary and that good news-writing is the primary goal of young journalists. Last year the journalism staff was given the privilege of being special cor- respondents to The Honolulu Star-Bulletin for the districts of Wahiawa and Waialua. This year the class took advantage of this privilege to the extent of 260 inches of rural news at the present time. ln the month of February alone, no less than 87 inches of news written by the class was printed in The Honolulu Star- Bulletin. Various editors for the year have been Mae Sakamoto, Morris Shinsato, Mary D. lay and Revocato Medina. The staff supplemented their book learning of journalism technique with a trip to Honolulu to visit McKinley's The Daily Pinion, The Honolulu Star- Bulletin, The Advertiser and The Nippu lijif' Altogether, it has been a year of improvement for the staff and interest for the four hundred subscribers.

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..- 7. l First row iLeft to rightl: Mitsuo I-londa, Katherine Lum, Margaret Shepherd, Zelda Edlavitch, Mary lane Gutzwiller, Katharine Ledinghani, Barbara Axton, Herbert Minn. Second row: Francis Masu- kawa, Chiyoko Tanii, Felisadad Fortuna, Evelyn Choi, Margaret Lee, Hannah Chung, Tong Wook Park, Miss Schwallie. Top row: Bill Sugimoto, George Shibano, Ernest Khim, Henry Song. INTERMEDIATE STUDENT COUNCIL TI-IE INTERMEDIATE STUDENT COUNCIL is a body of students organized for the purpose of promoting leadership among the students, to develop in the student an appreciation of democracy, to promote the best interests of the school, to foster sentiment for law and order, and to insure cooperation between the students and the faculty. With these aims as their guide, they have successfully undertaken numerous activities throughout the school year. The council has been in operation for the past eight years, and has proven to be a great asset to the schcol as well as to the intermediate division. This year, under the guidance of Mitsuo Honda, president: Herbert Minn, vice-president: Barbara Axion, secretary: Katherine Lum, treasurer: and Miss Wilhelmina Schwallie, adviser, they enjoyed a very successful year. Accomplishments of the year included the following: revision of the hand- book, supporting the injury fund for football boys, and cooperating with the high school student council in various school projects.