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

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We Learn Democrat: B Practicing It HOW WOULD YOU like to attend one of the Big F our meetings as an important official? Or be in on the United Nations conferences to decide the future peace of the world? Such a possibility seems fantastic right now, but is it impossible that in eight or ten years some of our students might be influential on just such gov- erning councils? Our students are getting the best possible training for such work in democratic rule. They have grown up in a land that fosters freedom of speech, press, and opportunity. They have no fear of dictators or pom- pous rascals who would intimidate by their boasts of imagined greatness that only they were meant to rule. We are given every chance for leadership in school. No one person can hog all the big jobs. No clique will be allowed to freeze out those who are willing and able to contribute their services. That's the very thing we've been fighting for! No better preparation for life in a specialized society can be found than in our American schools. The old days of small schooling and a large order of work from lO to l5 hours of each 24 have given way to the eight-hour day, technical training, and much leisure. WHILE STUDENT prexy Engle, Mr. Fred Adams of the Republic and Gazette, and Coach Siegel listen, Dr. Robert Allen urges Victory Loan co-operation during an assembly last Fall. On the table rests the Iwo Iima flag plaque-proof that Phoenix Union was high in its Bond and Stamp purchases last spring. The New Era should see an increasing use of man's technological knowledge . . . in which the machine does the heavy work while men turn their extra time to full enjoyment of living. But we must learn how to achieve that goal. BORDER!-ID by Board of Control members are these girl secretaries: son, Lattimore, Steward, Walsh, Engle, Hart, and Rommel, while at Hawkins, Ellis, Barnett, McBee, McLeese, Davidson, Conditt, and the right side are Iohnson, Hawley, Stillion, Land. and Anderson Gartrell. School officers at the left are Robinson, Eichenauer, Ander- The Board met daily in the First Building. C253

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IUSTICE AT WORK: Board of Control executives try to get at the basis oi this student's problem. He is called before the Board because of too many infrac- tions of rules and his bank account oi credits is getting low. Mr. Butler. Board adviser stays in the background while Iohnson. Engle. Anderson, and Steward do the questioning. Here Student Government Works Well Home Rule B Ancl For The Students 1 WITH THE END of World War ll and the coming of the Atomic Age, students of high school have more opportunity to improve world and local conditions than ever before. Statesmen the country over are unanimous in their contention that the American youth will soon be responsible for the destiny of our nation. Here at Phoenix Union, students are trained each year in the fundamentals of democracy, through the Stu- dent Board of Control and other governing bodies. This experience in government, along with the general pattern of education, so often stated as reading, writing, and 'rithmetic, is molding the strongest gen- eration our nation has seen. To realize our responsibilities and work harder in our quest for knowledge should then be our greatest goal while still at school. Our student leaders know this, and set forth guiding examples of cooperation through the Inter-School Council. The same form of cooperation, on a larger basis, is the answer to a truly friendly World-which We all Want and need. STUDENT BODY OFFICERS this year were Harold Engle, presi- dent: Floyd Rommel. vice president: Russell Steward. boys' secretary. and Evelyn Iohnson, girls' secretary. C249

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CENTRAL COUNCIL-Back row: Hughes. Gingham. Durham. Inman. Gray. Luitiens. Scott. Russell. Willow. Sullivan. Shurtz, Tang. Ander- son, Navarro. First row: Snufier. Roach. Bates. Streeter. Nielson. Anderson, Wilkens. Wise. Tang. Miss Rosenberry. Perkins. For Every Girl--Democratic Opportunit EVERYONE, especially those girls who entered Phoe- nix Union for the first time this year, was given a genuine democratic chance to participate in the varied activities of the Girls' League of 1946. Under the leadership of Darleen Anderson, League president, this year's Central Council has helped many of these new girls to become acquainted through all-girl affairs such as the Co-ed Circus Dance, which featured pink lemonade and pop corny and the revival of the Every Girl's Dinner which had to be discon- tinued during the war years. This year's dinner, which was potluck, had one of the largest attendances since it was organized more than 20 years ago. Other social events sponsored by the League were Les Follies, in which 300 talented slick-chicks jived to the swing music of the juke box, the annual girl- date-boy affair, Midnight and Roses, whose ticket sales exceeded all those of previous years, and the many faculty teas given by the SOS, which is sponsored by the League. Central Council, composed of League and class of- ficers and all activity chairmen, is the democratic hub of the League and accentuates leadership and initia- tive on the part of every girl. This ideal was well demonstrated in the several Girls' League conventions which were held within and out of the state. The theme of the spring convention of the League Federa- tion, We Live Together in One World summarizes well the high democratic ideals of the entire Girls' League of 1946, who are the citizens of tomorrow's new world. ffl, l GQ Q F' an T' Q l.lx...-IL 426i