Manhasset High School - Tower Yearbook (Manhasset, NY)

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VZ forward to a pleasant vacation. The administration had thrown the entire student body into an uproar by considering a schedule change for the second semester. The twenty minute lunch period had drawn cries of indigestion from almost all the students, but when a change was proposed there were louder cries of confusion and red tape. Wfhich all goes to prove that people get accus- tomed to inconveniences and that they prefer dis- comfort to change. A survey conducted by Mr. Howard disclosed that any change would be im- possible. We all breathed a sigh of relief and went back to swallowing our soup in sixty seconds flat. Apparently this was the year for surveys. jack LACROSSE tMembers of Varsityj Hugh Kitchener, Ed Vogler, Burt House-worth, Fred Kyle Mike Henahan, Ross Roberts, Bill Mueller, Charles Frame, Barry Grennan, Pete Kilgus, Carl Lawrence, .loc Gisch- wind. Bob Dornich, Don Hamel, George Scott, Don Miller, Larry Edwards, Albin Strandhurg, ,lim MacLachlan, Lid Wfakem. Pete Koch. Diefendorf checked to find out what Student Congress had done during the year. He reported that the Pupils' Activity and Building and Grounds committees headed by Ginny Thompson and Tur- ner Austin, respectively, had secured buses for away games, had the pressure in the drinking fountains increased, and had obtained shower curtains for the girls' locker rooms. In February jack also proposed an amendment to the consti- tution which would limit the powers of repre- sentatives from various activities in the Student Congress. The amendment would make these rep- resentatives unoihcial members with no voting power. The purpose was to eliminate double rep- I VOLLEYBALL Row OIIL'-M. Wittschen, S. Peterson, P. Walter, L. Good- man. Rau' Treo--E. johnson, G. Smith, j. Mikkelson, J. Howard. Rau' Tbree-j. How- ard, M. Harding, C. Lane, S. Liebrecht, J. Suellau, G. Bog- ner, G. Devereux, I.. Mac- Wtxtt, J. Martin. 1

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resentation which gave some social studies classes as many as eight votes. These changes eliminated needless discussion on impossible motions and made Student Congress a more powerful and valu- able organ of school life. At the beginning of the second semester an- other organ ol' our student government began HONOR BASKE'I'BAI.L ing, Run' Tim--N. Barrow M. Frame. A. Fincke. functioning-the new judicial branch. Although Chief Justice Glenn Riggs had been elected the previous june and the other justices had been elected in October, court did not convene until February. The purpose of the court is to determine the innocence or guilt of students accused of smok- ing, committing acts of vandalism, or disorderly RliSI2RVli BASKliTl5AI.L Rau' 011:-Q F. liauser, G. Smith, I., MacXVatt, G, Cul- hrcath. Run' 'l'u'f1-P. Wallter, M, Mattson, B. Fowle. Rau' Om'-B, Dewey, L. Tlwvaits, Auch, INI. Hard- M. Wfittschen. G, Tlmmnpsonz