Muskegon Heights High School - Oaks Yearbook (Muskegon Heights, MI)

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FACULTY

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STUDENT COUNCIL The government of our school is represented by a group of students known as the Student Council. Its members consist of the class officers of the sophomore, iunior, and senior class. who act as delegates for the student body. The Council officers are now elected from the school at large' and are not officers of any class. This more democratic plan for electing the officers was favored many years before its adoption in this school in 1940. Officers of the Student Council during 1941-42 are: President-Nancy Culver, Vice-president -Barbara Tenny, Secretary-Hazel Iuhas. Reports of the Council doings are put in the school bulletin for all students and teachers unfamiliar with its work, to read. The regular meetings of the Council are open to any students who wish to attend. Many of the Council's routine duties consist of approving dates for schools dances and assemblies. The maiority of school problems are discussed at each meeting. In 1933, at the first Student Council meeting, Mr. Bolt explained the purpose of this organ- ization as being: to provide greater opportunity for co-operation between the students and fac- ulty in promoting interest and school spirit, and to afford occasion for a greater measure of student control in school affairs. No faculty member has a seat on the Council. C. F. Bolt, principal is the adviser. - 16-

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Teaching ls An Art Teaching is not merely a life work, a profession, an occupation . . . Teaching is an art,- an art so great and difficult to master thorough ly that a man can spend a long life at it without realizing much more than his limitations and his mistakes, and his distance from the ideal. In those few words a really great teacher, Dr. William Lyon Phelps, professor emeritus of English language and literature at Yale university, defines teaching. And for him, at least, teaching means much more than earning one's living. I do not know, he wrote, that I could make entirely clear to an outsider the pleasure I have in teaching. I had rather earn my living by teaching than in any other way. Professor Phelps is a man who has made an unforgettable impression upon the generation of students who have passed through his classroom. He is one of the few teachers who ever reach that place of high public acclaim. The nature of a teacher's work usually limits itself to the classroom rather than the public eye. The work of many good teachers often goes unnoticed. But this much is clear: one must love teaching or give it up, for it is not just an occupation or a way of life. Its goals are boundless and its possibilities for good are infinite. In these days of chaos, the school remains, together with the church, a refuge of courage and of hope: and the teacher, it seems to us, is the heart of the school. The youth of today is the leader of tornorrow,and the teacher is a molder of youth. .. 18 ....