Medford High School - Crater Yearbook (Medford, OR)

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SlUllElll lIllUlllIll 9 Students of Medford high are very fortunate in having an administration which believes in self- government by the student body. To carry out this plan, there is a guiding group called Student Council, composed of student leaders chosen by popular vote, lt is the business of this group to out- line plans and activities and to initiate necessary legislation, This it does at its regular meetings in room lO every Monday morning during activity period. During the past year the principal aim of the Council has been cooperation with the war effort. With this in mind, one of its first acts was dis- pensing with the annual bon-fire, which heretofore had consumed much scrap material. Later, the annual noise parade became a scrap parade. This scrap drive netted twenty tons, with the senior class leading in scrap collection, the FCA. in noise, and the Pep team in advertising. The next all-school drive was the key kam- paign, supplementing the national drive. Sixty pounds of keys were collected. Juniors took first place in this, with sophomores, then seniors fol- lowing. ln cooperation with the national book drive, the high school collected l,5OO books, more than two-thirds of all those collected in Medford. The juniors again won the contest and were guests at a dance sponsored by the losing seniors and sophomores. Besides the Council's war work, it planned and carried through several other interesting activities. The first dance of the year was sponsored by the Student Council, this was after the Medford- Eureka football tilt. A fall theme was used, with traditional black cats, ghosts, cornstalks, and scare- crows decorating the bays' gym for the affair. An- other feature sponsored by the Council was the appearance of Lee Grabel, magician, and Happy, the ventriloquist, who were co-starred to entertain the student body at a general pay assembly. The Council sponsored a va r i e ty show in December, with talent from each class being used. Bob Davis acted as master of ceremonies for this. Noon dancing each Wednesday with music by the Tornado Ten was arranged by the Council, as well as school dances after home basketball games. Several other activities had been tentatively sched- uled by this group when the Crater went to press Members of the Council this year were: presi- dent, Darrel Monteith, vice-president, Don Fawcett, secretary, Natalie Parker, treasurer, Joyce Utz, business manager, David Dawson, Hi-Times editor, Chuck Braley, Crater editor, Shirley Weisenburger, Boys' league president, Bill Bayliss, junior class president, Ray Casebeer, sophomore class presi- dent, Earl Barnhart, senior class representative, Alice Day, junior class representative, Leigh Eden, sophomore class representative, Glen Kircher, and student technician, Jack Moffat. Adviser to this group is Principal Leonard B. Mayfield. il it -WWTF I - Yi 9

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E g X! oa0 U i I f C e A H It may be a number of years before the full measure of value received from you commercial teachers will be fully appreciated. Future gold you have given us, money in the brain-and fingers. Thanks for the jobs your capable instruction will earn us-and for the satisfaction we have had in doing something new with just a little skill. You've been generous, Mrs. James, Miss Breeding and Mrs. Jerome. Our gratitude also to the praeceptor Latinus and the magistra Espanol -language teachers, anyway. What you have given us can never be taken away, and the sympathetic interest you have stimulated in us for people of other coun- tries will never be dulled. l hope you're listening Miss Demmer and Miss Snyder. Good sportsmanship is not an easy thing to teach, but you in the physical education depart- ment have done it completely and smoothly. Changing high school boys into fighting men can- not be done easily, but this, too, you have achieved. And thank you for showing us how to care for our bodies, and perhaps our lives. On the drill fields of our nation, or maybe in fox holes and trenches, the cycle of your priceless gifts will come full. This i l f NO f, X if I 0 5 3 is to your credit Mr. Arnold and Mr. Kirtley. But we weren't content to let you be just teachers -advisers you must be also. You must help us with our publications, yea, even when getting copy is like pulling teeth, you must turn out prize-winning debate squads and speakers, and write colossal programs for us-and, crowning glory, you have done all this, apparently gladly, and we know, very well. An apple for the teachers, then--a big one for all of them, for the big and little things that have made these short three years of high school a pleasant and a profitable lesson in life. Of course, we can say that we admire you, that we would like to show our gratitude-but that will not suffice. What then? Our futures, perhaps- they are surely yours in part. For we are your pos- terity, your heirs-you have passed the torch to us, as you do to all your classes. If we can make you proud of us, that will, perhaps, be the pay- ment of the debt. lf we can earn success, it will in a way be yours, too. And we will, most surely, for how can we lose with backers such as you! Then the scales will balance, and only then. tkPl5l XX - is E - X 0 U C A - ' T y T - 3 I l 0 N

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STUDENT LEHIJEHS A. S. B. PRESIDENT DARREL MONTEITH A. s. B. vlcs-PRESIDENT A. s. B. SECRETARY DON FAWCETT NATALIE PARKER A. s. s. -nznsunza ncaa uma A. s. s. susmzss Mnucsx JOYCE u'rz ELLIS MCCURLEY DAVID DAWSON AW., ' .if 9 A. S. B. TECHNICIAN CRATER EDITOR HI-TIMES EDITOR JACK MOFFAT SHIRLEY WEISENBURGER CHUCK BRALEY 'I'I