Phoenix Union High School - Phoenician Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

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For Them, a Taste of Good Government Representation is the citizen's first prerogative, and on our Board of Control every student has a voice through his appointed messenger. Board members consist of elected representatives from the four classes, the Girls' League, Boys' Federation, and student body officers. Before the Board come violators of our merit system. Cutting of classes, disorderly conduct, or other infringements of rules keeps this governing group busy each day. Be- ware those pink slips-and the green! Other schools admire the success of our student administration plan and are putting it into effect. The secret, of course, lies in the Board's determination to give everybody the same square deal. No student who, because of repeated violations has been called before the Board for a showdown , has honestly complained that the rules by which they gov- ern are unfair or discriminatory. lf anything, the offender secretly feels that the Board is over-generous! Membership on the Board of Control is our school's best apprenticeship to leader- ship in government. Problems here are similar to those any city magistrate or council- man might encounter. After all, is not the way to better citizenship to be realized only by seeking a better understanding of each other's problems? instead of the daily seventh period session, increased enrollment and the success- ful operation of the Board this year necessitated the addition of a sixth period meeting. Mr. L. N. Butler is faculty adviser. BOARD OF CONTROL-fStandingD Lindstrorn, Stevenson, Gibbons, Casey, Ashby, Lewkowitz, Blanchard, Stewart, Foutz, Larson, Hoy, CSeatedt Hall, Lindstrom, Deaver, Xalis, Stapley, Dean, lamieson, Christy, Berg, Donegan, Mr. Butler, adviser.

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Before the IIJ'or1d, I'm an Hmerioon! What is the way to Citizenship? Perhaps there is an answer in this Voice of Youth- Before the world I am an American! I envy no many mine is a nation of youth, made ot a new kind of steel, alloyed with the blood of many peoples . . . not too stubborn to bend, but too strong to be broken. With its far-flung frontiers, mine is a land so broad, so rich in its hidden treasure, we could live forever- alone. Mine is a people of common stature, uncursed by class, vaccinated against all isms, cults, and crackpot philosophies-Noisey at football games but danger- ously silent in battle-My people THINK! Amid the Clank of dinner buckets, in the depths of mines, in factory and field-wherever they are, even now they are think- ing-thinking out the answers that others cannot find . . . Tumultuous events both in America and abroad have thrown to us the chal- lenge for better government, for some way out of chaos. What merit, if any, is in dictator-type government? Is democracy, after all, without faults? Only by main- taining a genuine interest in and making a careful study of their government can tomorrow's voters prove their worth. Although many of us at Phonix Union I-Iigh School can learn the answers to the problems that will be ours so soon after graduation, we certainly do not feel smug, safely hidden behind our classroom walls. In our social science courses, in English, industrial arts, in business and home economics, we follow with keen in- terest the trends of our government and of those in other countries. Nor are we without a reason for this alert- ness. Citizenship is no meaningless, empty term to Phoenix I-Iigh School students. Before we are halt way prepared, as it is, we know that graduation will shove us out to face that startling question, What now! PRESIDENTS Connie Xalis of the Girls' League tat leftl and Lorel Stapley of the Boys' Federation compare notes on a current project. fAt rightl Every morning from 8 to 8:15 there's a line up like this at the Why I was absent desk. Thai's Roy Hoy in the vari-colored levies, and lerry Doyle at the end of the line. Dllrcron ..-.f,. ,- PM t

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Do You Remember the Time that- President Charles Christy has had his worries as head of the 1938-1939 student body at Phoenix Union High School. But there have been moments, too, of pride in his 5000 fellow students. Take their enthusiastic response at football games, for ex- ample. Even with the team losing one, two, three games in a row, our pep rallies grew peppier, our cheers at the next game were all the louder. And then came the Mesa classic! We were hoarse days after that triumph. Bemember, too, the downtown parades, Fiesta del Sol and the Bodeog re- member the after-game dances, the semi-iormals, the Eraunfelder Swiss Singers and the other swell assemblies? Altogether, it has been a year full ot breath-taking activities. Picnics, club dinners, the follies, class plays, radio broadcasts, conventions, contests in public speaking and writing, elections, the Masque, - well, that's just a few of them! Equally busy and interested with Charley in all our student activities were these officers: Mae Virginia lamieson, student body vice-president, Spencer Dean, boys' secretary, Mary Ann Berg, girls' secretary, Constance Xalis, president of the Girls' League, and Lorel Stapley, Boys' Federation president. STUDENT BODY OFFICERS-Charles Christy, Mary Ann Berg, Spencer Dean, Mae Virginia Iemieson. . L20