Monroe High School - Senior Issue Yearbook (Monroe, MI)

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Senior Issue First row: Pat Shauf, Joe Sterling, Paula Kessel, Vernon Lapps, Katherine Zeisler. Second row George Stoner Shirley Robinson. Pa! Birch. Barbara Paxson, Carl Herkimer. Janice Everett, Charles Zanes. Inset Don Wilson. A class period, academic credit, modernistic make-up, and a new and different cover have been factors in the experiment with this year's Senior Issue. It was decided at the end of last year to give this publication a class period so that the staff could work as a unit and have an opportunity to express and edit their ideas. Many changes have been made in this year's make-up. By reducing the amount of writing and having more pictures, the book is following the yearbook style intro- duced last year. Placing the senior section at the back and putting all activities in a directory are in keeping wih the modern trend. A white padded cover completes the look of this year's Senior Issue. For the first time a sales campaign was conducted by the staff. As a result of this campaign the students of Monroe High School were able to receive a 72 page book. The campaign not only depended upon the support of seniors or senior high, but upon junior high as well. This support of junior high enables them to have a section of their own. The staff of the Senior Issue was composed of thirteen members, each contri- buting his share to the book. This group, responsible for the publication of the 1950 Senior Issue, was headed by Pat Shauf, editor-in-chief. Assistant editors were Barbara Paxson and Paula Kessel. The remainder of the staff was composed of: Katherine Zeisler and Janice Everett, activities editors, Don Wilson, sports editor, Shirley Robinson, copy editor, Pat Birch, make-up editor, Vernon Lapps, business manager, Charles Zanes, circulation manager, Joe Sterling, chief photographer, and George Stoner and Carl Herkimer, assistant photographers. The staff was guided by their adviser, Miss Veronica Larson. The sports editor was taken ill second semester and at the time of the group picture was home in bed. This is the reason for the individual picture of him. -7-

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Lotus Leaf First row: Don Atkinson, George Tiegs, Pele Becker, Jean Rosenbalrn, Francella Edmondson, Dolly Cohn, Sally Kohler, Joanne Chanady, Joe Sterling. Second row: Monica Bodi, Cleo Conlon, Joanne Hendry. Evelyn Gale. Sharon Keehn, Sylvia Sherman, Beverly Gilmore, Dorothy Diehl. Third row: Myrna Vollmer. Suzanne Walker, Lenore Wilhelm, Pat Venzke, Jean Waitman. Nancy Noland, Janet Wener, Sally Lenningion. Fourth row: Carl Herkimer, George Radovan, Jack Rau, Jim Barron, Marvin Kaiser, Jim Diamond, John Kemmerling. Absent: Julia Gibson, Carey May, Betty Straub. This year it was decided that the Lotus Leaf staff should follow a new system. In former years no academic credit was given to the staffg consequently all work on the paper had to be done outside of school hours. Starting in September of 1949 the staff became a class and now they receive full credit. This system has given the staff an opportunity to institute a new policy. It gave them a ch-ance to talk over the needed improvements. This year they have tried to make the paper be an influence upon the students and to bring to light con- troversial questions. To try to make the paper representative of the whole school, the staff has given the student a chance to voice his ideas in Writer of the Week, K'Letters to the Editor, and The Questionnaire. These human interest features tend to make a wider reading public and to let the student speak through the staff to the other students. This year the paper shied away from the light, social articles and brought forth a junior high column and editorials from the entire staff. The editorials were dis- cussed and points agreed upon before they were published. Not only has the reading material been changed, but also the general make-up has been streamlined. This included freak headlines, original art work, more white space, and movement of the name plate. The Lotus Leaf has been under the direction of Pete Becker, editor-in-chiefg Sally Kohler, Jean Rosenbalm and George Tiegs, page editorsg Francella Edmonson, Dotty Cohn, Don Atkinson and Jo Chanady, assistant editorsg Joe Sterling, pho- tographerg Carl Herkimer, assistant photographerg Julia Gibson, art editorg Carey May, circulation managerg and Miss Veronica Larson, faculty adviser. To become a reporter each student had to have eight articles or 25 printed inches and two humorous featurettes. All 23 students of the beginning journalism class became reporters during the year. -5-

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Monitors First row: Delores Kolino. Lea Velva Davis. Pat Perhatch, Connie Hubbard, Ruth Fulkeraon, Faye Waddell, Mary Mahn. Marilyn Uhle, Janet Free. Second row: Dick Waltz, Min Wood. Verlynne Sampsel, Pa! Venzke, Lena Wurster, Irene Beta, Louise Sperr, Joan Hilliard, Ruth George. Third row: Betty Stahl, Alyse Moody, Judy French, Kay Williams, Marilyn Meier, Ann Meyers, Louise Burchett, Pai Farner, Dolores Lillevig. Fourth row: Phyllis Maaas, Bob Zorn, Mary Joyce Chamberlain, Rosemary Brown, Suzanne Walker. Joann Brown. This important group of students was chosen to serve MHS throughout the year by learning good citizenship and transferring this knowledge to the other students. The main duty of a monitor is to prevent any unnecessary noise or disturbance in the halls. Welcoming the many visitors and businessmen who come here is next in importance. They also help new students who are unaccustomed to the ways of MHS and have questions to ask. This year the new plan of locking all doors except the main entrance after sixth hour was inaugurated. Its purpose was to see that no one wh-o would create a disturbance entered the school, The monitor system was headed by Dick Waltz, the vice-president of Student Councilg advised by Miss Dorothy Woody and maintained by the following captains: Ruth Fulkerson, Pat Perhatch, Lena Wurster, Dick Fulkerson, Erna Ehman and Jean Waitman. First row: Gwendolyn Webb, Jean Mull, Shirley Lewis, JoAnne Kreps, JoAnn Cornplo, Barbara Balk, Marilyn Benore, Joyce Dooley, Nancy Jennings. Pauline Rorke. Second row: Donna Bodell, Marjorie Knapp. JoAnn Carey, Nancy Jo Beck, Ann Becker, Fontella Edmondson, Vera Ann Morris, Janet Wener, Erna Ehman. Third row: Ellen Kavanagh, Sara Scheer. Anita Miller, Marilyn Stoltz, Jean Waitman, Charlotte Kaiser, Nancy Noland, Helen Hollingsworth, Mildred Wells. Fourth row: Dnck Fulkerson, Tom Ylnger, Wilburn Sutton, Clarence Soleau, Albert Lest. George Harmon, Phillip Kull, Harry Redford. Absent: Ludean Crutchfield, Hilde Ehman, Anna Marie Lutsche, Geneva Woods. -3-