Oakwood School - Quercus Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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Fil'.l'f row, left I0 1'igblASusan Moger, Barbara Webster, Nell Kneihler. Terry Rosenfeld. Serwm' mu'-Anita Kent. Janie Miller. jane Darrow fAd- visorj. jill Marshall, Degen Marshall. GIRLS' COUNCIL HIS year's Girls' Council has undertaken such responsibilities as selling food in the dorm twice a week, and managing the sign-up sheet for the town bus and the annual Christmas party. Most important of all, we have tried to maintain understanding and co-operation throughout the dorm. In order to accomplish this, we emphasized the necessity for individual responsibility. Thanks must go to jill Marshall, the council pres- ident, and to jane Darrow, the faculty adviser, who have helped the council to maintain the respected re- lationship between faculty and students in the dorms. BOYS' COUNCIL HE Boys Council, under the advisorship of Mr. Vance and the leadership of Bill Reid and Ed I-lershberger, successfully carried to completion its various and sundry duties. Among others, these included distributiion of linen, sale of food, and super- vision of minor maintenance items. The various mem- bers played their part in assuring that each student might come to accept his responsibilities as an in- dividual within the group. We look forward to the time at which mature student self-discipline shall provide the Council suf- ficient grounds to request more active responsibility within the dormitories. Fiiiil wzc. lefl I0 rigful-Kelly Kammerer, Pete Cortum, Al Hart. Bill Reid. Serrnzd wir'-Aaron Spaulding. Ralph Skeels. Gerry Vance fAdvisorJ. Dick Merriss. Ed Hershberger.

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STUDENT COUNCIL MESSAGE Firrz row, left zo rigbz-Bill Reid, Mary Hendricks, jackie Barkan, Timmie Fagans, jill Marshall, Alf Hiltebeitel. Second mu'-Aaron Spaulding, jeff Brooks, Sam Legg fAdvisorJ, Bob Blackman, jane Darrow fAdvisorJ, Bill Moger, Dave Niehoff, Ralph Skeels. NE of the most important functions of Stu- dent Council is to promote true understand- ing between students and faculty so that the school may operate as a unified effort. This year the council has perhaps become overly conscious of this aspect of its responsibility, we learned that some students do not feel that effective commu- nications exist between Student Council and the general student body. We have tried to remedy this situation by re- vising the council's constitution. In an effort to formulate a plan for student government satis- factory to all, we sent representatives to a confer- ence in Rhode Island, and held an all day semi- nar of council members at the Henderson's Cottage and numerous meetings and assemblies with the student body. In addition to our regular business, we have been particularly concerned with stimulating stu- dent acceptance of personal responsibility and have effected various means for achieving this goal. We hope that programs such as the one providing for student supervision of study halls will continue in success, for we see this as a means, for the students, of accepting responsibility as well as of unifying the student body and the faculty towards a common goal.

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Fim row, left zo rigbz-Anita Kent, Sally Connor, Sue Moger, Carol Davidson, Nell Kneibler, Sue Gehrke. Second mu'-Ralph Skeels, jim Eng, Mary Hathaway, George Darrow, Nichola Bailey fSponsorsJ. Dee Andrews, Timmie Fagans. Not rfaouvz-Eileen Grace. SOCIAL-CALENDAR COMMITTEE HE Social-Calendar Committee is the student organization responsible for the planning and management of Oakwood's entertainment sched- ule. As such we work in cooperation with our amiable and imaginative Program Director, George Darrow, whose weekly pre-weekend publication, Punt, we all welcomed as a fresh and humorous change from the usual announcement of events. The acquisition of a new 16 mm. sound movie projector and screen was followed immediately by improvement in the quality of the films showng Friendly Persuasion, The Caine Mutiny, and The Living Desert were among the more popu- lar presentations. Such innovations as popcorn and marshmallow parties in winter evenings and pre-planned dance cards at the Dedication Dance opening the new gymnasium seem to have been successful ventures. At times we had our little problems, but all in all, the yearys entertainment passed smoothly and, We trust, to the greatest satisfaction and least inconvenience for all. After forming a ten- tative sequence of events for next year, our re- sponsibility, and our enjoyment, will end, We wish our successors successive successes.