Northwest Area High School - Northwester Yearbook (Shickshinny, PA)

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FIRST ROW: Mrs. Beishline, Kathleen Honse, Janet Franklin, Rita Hoyt, Patsy Sponauer, Alice Strait. SECOND ROW: Phyllis Gensel, Mary Steeber, Madelyn Harvey, Ethel Goss, Peggy Whitesell. THIRD ROW: May Stout, Dorothy Pszeniczny, Geraldine Cope, ,lean Oliver, Jacque- line Conrad, Joan Croop, Rosalie Young. Future Homemakers of America .lanet Franklin displays the housecoat which won her fourth prize at the farm show. The most outstanding activity of the F.H.A. was its participation in the Pennsylvania State Farm Show in .loan Croop, Kathleen House, Marie Busch, and Phyllis Gensel prepare one of the posters which they used in their demonstration at the farm show. Harrisburg where a group of girls presented a demonstra- tion entitled '6Get Out Alivef, This skit, which showed ways of escaping from a burning building, won first prize. Our F.H.A. chapter also won sixth place for a window exhibit entitled The Nursery School Trains the Girl To- day-The Woman Tomorrow. In March the girls put on a fashion show. Representatives attended a regional meeting in October and a state convention in June. Other activities of the organization are pictured on this and the next page.

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SITTING: Mr. Edward Augustine, Gloria Zubris, Nancy Mincavage, Betty Learn, Arline Ed- wards, Pearl Gryziec, Kathryn McDaniels, Carol Ditata. STANDING: Mr. Gale Gregory, Martha Zubris, Alfred Gizenski, Tony Conser, Gary Benscoter, John O'Donnell, Lynn Williams, Larry Adams, Irvin Post. tudent Council The Student Council is made up of representa- tives from each class, two faculty members, and the two supervising principals. The purpose of the organization is to give the representatives an op- portunity to present the problems of their fellow students to the group and attempt to find solutions for them after pupil and faculty discussions. Among the activities undertaken by the Council was the selection of special assembly programs to be presented to the student body during the year, planning the Harvest Ball and the Christmas party, holding occasional locker inspections, working on the constitution of the organization, and making plans to produce a student handbook. Fuling the need of a student hand- hook. the Council took its production as one of the projects for the year. ln the picture to the right, the offi- cers of the Student Council are shown with Mr. Gregory, one of the faculty advisors, examining and discussing sample handbooks which were secured from various other high schools. u ful affair. Members of the Student Council and Mr. Augustine are getting ready to decorate the gymnasium for the Har vest Ball, a semi-formal dance which proved a very success

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Dorothy Pszeniczny, Mary Stee- lu-r, Rita Hoyt, and Ethel Goss are arranging a centerpiece for their uSf'V1'Dlt'ffIl Tahle Setting Contest, sponsored by the Bos- ton Store. Oliv 'llht-sv tnernlwrs -,lean e r, Rosalie Young, and Geraldine l ' -f songs to sing Vopt' are 1' ioosin, ut tht- regional l .H.A, meeting ut Nazareth, Q l x Y SJ Madelyn Harvey. Jacqueline Conrad, l d in and ,lanet Pranlxlin are engage another activity--the making of Christ- mas candles. O f the F.H.A. projects was to ne 0 send clothes to Crossnore, a school f underprivileged c h i l d r e n 1n or North Carolina. Here May btout, ' nd Alice Strait, Patsy Sponauer, a Peggy Wh ing the clothes. itesell are shown pack 4.1