North Shore Country Day School - Mirror Yearbook (Winnetka, IL)

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SCHOOL ORG ANIZ ATIONS 1920-1921 Student Government Dramatic Club Athletic Association The Purple and White

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28 THE MIRROR We have done some investigation work. We want to tell you the Story of Rubber. Frances was going to Para, Brazil, a city in South America much noted for rubber. Her father owned a farm near Para and grew many rubber trees. He had promised her that she might make some raw rubber, so she was eager to reach Para. On reaching the farm she dressed in a pair of white over¬ alls. She was given a tree of her own and a small knife. She was to make incisions in a triangular shape with a straight cut down the middle. This brought the sap or rubber liquid down the large incision into a small-wooden can or cup. When this was filled she put it into a pail until she had about five pounds of this rubber liquid or hervea. This took nearly a week because the hervea flows so very slowly. It reminded her much of milk or milkweed juice. Then she made a smouldering fire of leaves and a kind of nut that grows in the forests. Then she took a wooden paddle, dipped it into the juice, held it over the fire until the water evaporated from the liquid leaving a thin coat of rubber. She kept it up until she had a thick coat of rubber on the paddle. Then she scraped it ofif and rolled it into a ball. That night she proudly showed her father three balls of rubber about five inches thick. Frances sent the balls to a manufacturing company that made them into two dozen little balls for her to play with. The Sixth Grade. Mr. Price: “Sometimes, looking down when you ' re flying, you can see reflected in a cloud a circular rainbow around your plane. Bill Miller: “If your head only had been there you would have been a saint with a halo. V. Elting (walking through the country) : Well, how’s the little milk maid this morning? , Farmerette: Fresh! It’s not made. The cow gives it.

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30 ■ THE MIRROR Student Government Ex. Com., Upper School Harriman Rogers, Chairman Beatrice Ripley, Vice-chair¬ man Robert Clark, Secretary Mary Hall Willoughby Walling Malcom Stevenson Sylvia Haven Ex. Com. Lower School Doris Ferry, Chairman Billy McEwen, Vice-chairman Ralph Greenlee, Secretary Jack Couch Gertrude Edwards Eleanor Sherman Louise Badgerow At the beginning of the fall term 1919, the first term of the North Shore Country Day School, it was proposed at a meet¬ ing of the entire school that a system of self-government be made. Accordingly, a committee for the drawing up of a constitution was elected. This committee set to work and after much delay submitted a constitution to the school. Upon approving it the classes elected their members to represent them according to the terms. The council thus formed met at the beginning of the 1920- 21 school year and took command of the student body. They operated for about a month and then reported that there was something radically wrong with the whole scheme of repre¬ sentation, for with the lower school representatives in the Council action was greatly delayed. So the old constitution was made void and work was begun on a new one. This new constitution calls for an entirely different type of organization. There are two Assemblies, one of the entire Upper, the other of the whole Lower School. Each Assembly has its own Executive Committee elected from the whole Assembly instead of from Classes as before. It is too soon to say just how well the new system of Student Government is working, as we have not had adequate time to give it a good trial; but we feel that this time we have a method of govern¬ ment of the pupils, for the pupils, and by the pupils, which will prove entirely satisfactory.