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

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PRESIDENT RALPH Smith spoke many times before the student body, introducing speakers, giving sage advice about school spirit, cmd such. But he is most famous for these words: Dismissed for lunch! What shall we remember most about the school year we have just completed? Will it be the football season, with its pent-up excitement, the new cheers, that new pep song, There They Go, and the touchdown plays that made us yell our heads off? Or will we best remember the school dances, those Grade A dates, and the swing assemblies! We may even recall, with a degree of fondness, a number of classes . . . that time We solved a math problem that seemed to stump everybody What Shall e else, including the teacher, that debate on whether the U. S. should observe strict neutrality or not: the part we had in the class play, or the operetta, or the Masque of the Yellow Moon. Whatever our memories of 1940-1941, we'll never forget the homeroom gang we sat with in assembly nor the million and one occasions on which friendly expressions of trust and comrade- ship from students and teachers made us feel that we were a part of a mighty fine school and a student body than which there was none than Whicher! Best Remember? C337

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x O9 qd O C ,Cyg- r 0 digg. ssmpgx rr on pow' ps ' eww O5 ao GX XQAX . Democracy al ork Xt By thelstudents, of the students, for the students! Self gove Nment at Phoenix Union High has been more of re ity, this past year, than it has seemed to be in pfevious term. Not that the officers have carveQ new paths to tread or have revolted X against an eeming interference by those with XX dictatorial ideas: but the fact that democracy and the right to think and speak for oneself has been denied so many of the world's people seems to have made us all the more conscious of the rights we enjoy here. Students create the laws and traditions at Phoenix High. If other students choose to ignore those laws, they are set right by a group of leaders they themselves helped to elect, the Board of Control. The Board is composed of representative students from all classes as well as other campus interests such as athletics and social affairs. A merit and demerit system is the basis upon which students are praised . . . and reprimanded. As in 1939-1940, two groups of the Board met daily to handle the business for which they were chosen. There is plenty of evidence that the Board of Control system is democratic, smooth-running, and efficient. Violators have a wholesome respect for the Board's powers, but at the same time they have no complaints regarding the fairness with which they are treated when a summons brings them into conference with the student leaders. Mr. L. N. Butler is faculty adviser of the Board. HOW DOES IT FAIL to be up before the Board of Control? Ask this little lady, who is pictured here defending charges surrounding CI D excuse of theb day before! Board members shown in the picture at the left are tseatedi Elliot, sophomore president: Phillips, senior representative: Schick, girls' secretary: Smith, student body president: Deaver, vice president: Blair, boys' secretary: -Query, junior repre- sentative: Lindstrornf sophomore representative: lohnson, freshman representative. Standing-Goldberg, athletic manager: Parker, freshman president: Hassell, Boys' Federation president: Cartwright, senior representative: Mincks, senior president: Lusby, sophomore representa- tive: Iennings, junior president: and Mr. Butler, faculty adviser.

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r I ' MAYBE NOT BEAUTY Contest winners, but winners anyway Cupper leftl are Simpson and Felch at the co-ed dance. A classy council tupper right? this sophomore group puts on class for the camera: Miss Whit- well, Vinson, Smith, Wilson, Young, Harris, Eliot, Verrue, Sweat, Grant: Lindstrom, Boone, Erhardt, Nixon, Alberto, Haber, Bradshaw, Galland. luniors, first rows Whitman, Wedge, Robertson, Miller, Davis, Dong, Lewis, second row-Sherhan, Block, Beazin, Calhoun, Butler, Crawley, Ianewayp third row+Clark, Morris, Dooling, Griffiths, Strong, Ekiss, Crosby, Gabriel. Upper left-No, it's not Hickville, but the Barn Dance ofthe co-eds. By the look on their faces, they must be having fun. Let Ellen do it! Waiting for someone to give them the aireflat tire is the answer. That's Ellen Brooks yielding the pump. Senior council, of course it took four years to do it, but it was worth it, wasn't it? Standing, left to right, in the first row are Bowers, Miller, Campbell, Snarr, Whitney, Predericks, Wright, Bryan, Newcomerg second row-Ludden, Brewster, Phillips, Tribble, N over, Simpson, Butler, Woolfolk, and Mrs. Yaeger. Starting out in the business is the Freshman council, flower leftl first row-Oliver, Farmer, Addington, Hubbard, Browner, Carson, Brown, Stone, Parker, Buizy second row-Miss Coleman, Stroupe, Peabody, Louis, Davis, Gay, Carr, Wood, Busby, and Iohnson. i347