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

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Two for the first period. Are there any for fourth period? I'll have one for the last period. Do these remarks mean anything to you? Well, they do to a member of the Library Staff. Each member has taken several turns at passing out library slips. She has, at one time or another. served on the desk, checking out books and passing out magazine slips, or assisted by putting books back, or by locating desired materials. The girls were busy socially as Well. A tea at the beginning of the year was a means of introducing members to each other and acquainting them with some of their duties. Later in the year, the girls spent an enjoyable evening when they Went in to see Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep. They enjoyed the play and the topenotch performance of Erederic March and Elorence Eld- ridge. The most anticipated event of the year, the Mothers' Tea, took place in March. After Mr. l'lofferty's interesting talk, each mother was introduced. Einally, the girls rounded off the year with a delightful excursion to Miss Pratt's summer home. The Library Staff is an important organization and performs a real service for us all. President, Jacquelyn Dowling: Vice-President, Eileen Dearing: Secretary. Ann Peterson: Treasurer, Beverly Chorlton: Adviser, Miss Sherman: Co- Adviser, Miss Pratt. LIBRARY STAFF l X Z Sa 21 '15-i ., Wm K

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The old saying Experience is the best teacher is the basis of an organiza- tion which is of great service to the school, the Student Secretarial Staff. Senior girls interested in getting valuable office training may do so in a number of ways. Members of the staff are appointed to work in the ofiice of the assistant principals Where they are responsible for compiling, typing. and mimeographing the daily absentee list. The staff is also called upon to mimeograph programs for special events such as the Christmas assembly. Other students are selected to do secretarial work for teachers. In this capacity their main duties include typing, filing, taking dictation, and duplicating tests or study outlines. Although it means giving up spare time in study periods and after school, the girls do so willingly because they are gaining increased con- fidence and poise, thus improving their prospects for placement after graduation. President, Jean Paige: Vice-President, Marjorie Pitts: Secretary-Treasurer, Marilyn Johnson: Adviser, Miss Gormley. STUDENT SECRETARIAL STAFF

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When you are fortunate enough to have movies shown in your class room, you may notice one of Mr. Forest's skilled technicians come quietly into the room with a suitcase-like box in each hand, and cords and films under each arm. He quietly goes about his business in the back of the room while the teacher con- tinues to conduct the class. Soon he signals that he is ready, and you see a com- plicated piece of apparatus known as a movie projector ready to go into operation. Someone puts out the lights, there is a whirl of machinery, and the show is on! What you don't see, though, is the training period that that operator had to pass through before he was allowed to show that movie. Under the leadership of the sponsor and ofiicers, he and many other newcomers to the club had to spend one night a week after school in Room 330 learning how to run various types of projectors and sound systems. He was taught the workings of each machine in order, until he had mastered it, and then he was carefully tested under many handicaps such as he might meet in actual classroom operation. Then after a practice period, he was given opportunities to prove himself in actual class- room experience. Films are ordered for various teachers, shown to those who want to see them during their stay at school, and promptly returned to the distributor. President, Philip James: Vice-President, Kenneth Lothrop: Secretary- Treasurer, Donald Willy: Adviser, Mr. Forest. MOTION PICTURE OPERATORS' CLUB