Mcloughlin Union High School - Great White Eagle Yearbook (Milton Freewater, OR)

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Homecoming in spite of the The queen ruled from a hospital bed, a 100 day dry spell was topped by a seven day drizzle, Mac-Hi's first taste of the Kansas tie breaker rule ended in a 13-7 thrilling victory, and the assistant homecoming chairman had to step in at the last minute to spare the soggy activities of Mac-Hi 1974. Vicki Clark, this year's bedridden Homecoming Queen and Homecoming Chairman, was being hospitalized from a car accident the week before. The court nominees were: Ms. Clark, Terrie Heine, Leslie Yantis, Arlene Gaines, and Debbie Bass. Co-Chairman Marie Humbert took over the sudden responsibility and was faced with a week of dismal weather. Danny Weber, Senior Defensive Guard, received the Rick Gullixson Award for the best per- formance in the Homecoming game 1974.

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Tomlinson resigns from presidency How do you say you resign? Throw in the towel? Remove your name tag from the office door? Turn in your key to the mens room? Dear editor, This letter is to inform the student body of my resignation as ASB Pres- ident. fsignedy Roydan Tomlinson. This is the way Mac-Hi ASB President Roydan Tomlinson chose to resign. And so started another chapt- er in the stormy history of Mac-Hi student government. The lackadaisical action of the students and outright op- position to his plans gradu- ally built up until Tomlinson no longer felt he could do any good for the student body. He said that the students were not receptive to what he was trying to do. He believed that this was an attitude great- ly affected by parents and tea- chers. Townspeople, too, took out their gripes on Tomlinson, about poor student participation, i.e. at basket- ball games. DISAPPOINTED IN STUDENTS Tomlinson was disappointed in the lack of involvement and attitude of the student council as in the prophylactic issue. After getting a positive re- sponse from the student body they voted to drop it because they were afraid of the com- munity response. He admitted that there was a definite lack of communicat- ion between himself and the student body and that person- ality conflicts developed with many people. Tomlinson felt that for stu- dent government to be suc- cessful there must be a lesson- ing of the school board's and' principal's power over student activities, making the ASB pre- sident more responsible. He said the decisions he made were not really effective be- cause they always had to be okayed by someone else, which he didn't care for. WORRIED ABOUT FUTURE OFFICERS believing that these same problems will hinder the presidents of the future, Tomlinson believes that if who- ever takes charge doesn't get a strong hold fon student gov- ermnentj it will just fall apart. ll PEASE COMMENTS Chuck Pease, as elected vice president, inherited the helm from Tomlinson. Pointed to the fact that the constitution calls for him to hold elect- ions for '75-'76 officers in just a few weeks. Those weeks contained spring vaca- tion and midterm exams. Pease laughingly commented, ...W . . sets is-, I hadn't planned on getting too involved this year. In addition to the ASB job Pease was president of the senior class which was in its most active stages in April pre- paring for commencement activities, managing editor of the Spirit, and was an active member of choir, football, wrestling, and track. Attendance policies draw criticism The '74-'75 school year at Mac-Hi suffered through two different atten- dance policies and both received cri- ticism from the student body. Dur- ing the first semester the then new policy allowed for ten absences be- fore failing the class. The policy didnot stipulate absenses caused by school functions as any different than absences caused by skipping classes. Those that were hindered by the code were those that wanted out of school more for participating in extracurricular activities than for skipping. The policy was criticized enough that parent-student meetings were held to work out the problems of the code or adopt a totally different one for the second semester. Out of those three meetings came a policy designed to subdue the skipper. The administration was given the power to OK or veto excuses along with parents being required to phone the office in the morning. In past years a note from the parent was enough to OK and excuse. The students again chose to disagree with the policy and the unrest came to a climax in a fourth period English class where teacher Don Davis, Principal Bud Down, ASB President Poydan Tomlinson and Vice-Presi- dent Chuck Pease listened to those students who wished to air their grievances. Those students hadn't heard about most or all of the meet- ings held earlier because of the lack of communications on the campus. The code was criticized by those that felt their hooky time was re- stricted and those that thought the policy was produced by and for a select few. The policy remained and criticism lessened as most stu- dents realized the policy wouldn't hinder them. Down plans to install yet another code for the '75-'-76 year which will have many charac- teristics of the fall policy a year prior.

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