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

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s ' , i9'rc'j 4 A.- H ' STUDENT BODY OFFICERS: Ray Day, upper left, president: Ioyce Roche. vice president: Billie Iles. lower left, girls' secretary: Blake Willis, boys' secretary. Our 1946-47 Leaders . -4 Q T537 i A N 3 5-, We Value Education In Good Government TO AVVAKEN an interest in our student government program was the aim of the Student Council, organ- ized this year by the Board of Control and faculty advisers. Under the new participation plan, an executive committee composed of five student officers, president, vice president, Girls' League and Boys' Federation presidents, and a council secretary, met during third periods with representatives from each of the l2O home rooms. Here they worked with the faculty and school executives in administering stu- dent body affairs, initiating new measures, improv- ing old ones, and interpreting the will of the students. By making use of such help and opinion, the council placed students in positions enabling them to evalu- ate teacher and student activities. The plan also gave students a chance to develop leadership. Having access to student desires through the homeroom representatives, the council was able to make con- clusive recommendations that really represented the wishes of the student body. Some of the problems and activities considered were tardies, merit credit values, social problems, care of grounds and property, and supervision of the Coyote Den. ln addition to the Board of Control, credit for the plan goes to Mr. C. I. Prather, Principal Iames S. Carter, and Board Adviser L. N. Butler. STUDENT COUNCIL: Much credit lor the success ot the newly-inaugurated Student Council goes to the homeroom leaders who acted as group representatives, bringing questions and suggestions ta the council. Pictured are Packer, Salcido, Cutler. Bates, Nelson, Simpson, F. Bates. Tang. Tang, Martin, Iles, Green, Yuen, Westirck, Osbom. Hughes, Perry, W. Bates, D. Bates, Lokken, Wood, Williams, Luckie, Newland, Hughes, Cruz, Lucas, Rook, Watkins. Iones, Shieley. Bodenhom, Roche. Walkington, Head, Robinson, Popma. Bailey, Hood. Mr. Prather. Garcia, Coffman, Landy, Krell. Anderson, Fowler. Hammer, Day, Street. Willis, Schutt, Underdown, Mix, Mmks. Walker, Haines. . 5 A l 9 I 5- .ZX 4

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ll A -x,,A- MA,-il' 'V DISMISSED for your filth period! President Ray Day wears cr broad grin every time he sends us away to an afternoon oi classwork . . . And we sometimes go with reluctance. the assembly programs having been unusually good this year. The snap at the right was taken iust after assembly from an Eighth Building window. ur Rich Heritage Began 52 Years Age FIFTY-TWO YEARS ot heritage and tradition have gone into the organization known as the Phoenix Union High School. Our school has grown from a small frame building in l905 to a massive group of cement, brick, and steel structures that cover many city blocks. But the traditions remain . . . traditions of fair play, democracy, and friendliness. After all, our students today are not so different from the young people of the early l900s who came seeking an education. True, there were no automobiles or sidewalks, and it was a real struggle to keep a farm going and cows fed and milked before and after the school days. But the l947 students have their chores, toop many work after school at grocery stores or in the home to help out on the family budget. And as for automobiles . . . if you haven't a bike, take the bus! The family car is much too precious these days for Iunior to tear off to school in! Our students have had to change their objectives for a life's job, too, as times changed from the agri- cultural to the industrial. We have a number of farmers, true, but most of our students will go into mechanics, teaching, commerce, law, medicine, or SECRETARIES to the Board of Control were Ellis, Weed. Barnett. Wacker. GartrelL Smith and Ong. kindred fields. Even those who plan to be house- wives feel the need to prepare for a career in the business world, just in case . . . Leading the nation as it does in the high school field, our Phoenix secondary school system makes a high school education a complete schooling for a life's job in many fields. College still beckons to hundreds of our graduates, but the lessons they learned at Phoenix Union will do them service at college or on the job in competition with other wage earners. t