North Quincy High School - Manet Yearbook (North Quincy, MA)

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To all at North the Senior Student Council means service- service not only to the school. but also to the community and na- tion. The twenty-one council members are elected representatives of the student body and each serves the school in the same way that a congressman serves his district. Service to the community and nation was displayed by the council's handling of the Community Fund Drive, the Red Cross Drive, the Victory Loan Drive, and the March of Dimes. All four drives proved highly successful, the results of the Victory Loan Drive, which proved to be one of the biggest tasks ever under- taken by the council, were praticularly gratifying. Service to the school was displayed by the council's organiza- tion and direction of the traffic squad, its improvement of cafe- teria conditions, and its supervision of yearly elections. Other activities sponsored by this year's Student Council were sports rallies, assembly programs. and a square dance, the first of its kind at North. Wfhatever the activity-great or small-it is undertaken with a zealous determination to make all the council's projects a success. Mr. Hermon Noyes is the faculty adviser for the group. This year's ollicers were Robert Chase, president, jilda Bernardi, vice- president, john Alexander, treasurerg and Mary Barry, secretary. W

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If you have ever heard, Go around the other way, shouted at you or-more likely--felt an arm thrust out to lead you in the right direction, you grinned cheerfully. It was just a traffic of- hcer doing his duty, trying to keep orderly traffic in the corridors. Since the squads policy is to rotate members from floor to floor, traffic officers have an opportunity to observe all types of students. On the first two floors are young students comparatively new to the building. The passing crowd includes clusters of chat- tering boys and girls as well as lone students who, looking neither right nor left, are earnestly endeavoring to reach class on time. On the other hand, the upper floors are frequented by older students, who are veterans at between-class procedure. Here traffic is more evenly distributed with little congestion, possibly because senior students don't care whether they're late for class or not. The squad is under the direction of the Senior Student Coun- cil. It consists of thirty seniors and ten iuniors. who are elected by teachers. Floor captains this year are 'Ioan Meade, first and second floors: Donald MacLeod, third floor, and Allan Tate, fourth floor.

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f i s l Q Future secretaries at work! would be an apt slogan for the Student Secretarial Staff. This organization is of immeasurable value both to the student and to the teacher. Designed to serve a twofold purpose, it not only gives commercial students an oppor- tunity to apply to actual practice procedures learned in the class- room, but it also serves the school by supplying secretarial and clerical assistance to the faculty and to the school office. These future secretaries take dictation from teachers, type class lists and forms for counselors, make duplicate copies of tests on the mimeograph and ditto machines, and prepare the school absentee list each day for the office. While performing these duties students are rated by their teachers on efficiency, depend- ability, initiative, and cooperation. These ratings are taken into consideration by counselors when recommendations for employ- ment are made. The staff planned several assemblies during the year at which films on secretarial and clerical procedure were shown. Because of these movies, her class lessons, and her actual prac- tice, a member of the secretarial staff may be confident when she goes to work after graduation that she knows her duties thoroughly.