Port Byron High School - Echo Yearbook (Port Byron, IL)

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X STUDENT COUNCIL In September, 1942, under the sponsorship of Principal S. C. Monson, the first Student Council was organized at Port Byron Community High School. It was an organization of eight student members, two from each class, Its aim was to give the student body, through these representatives, an op- portunity to have a voice in the solution of school problems in which they were vitally interested. Meetings were held weekly during school hours. Freeman Orr and Bill Beecher 4 represented the Senior Class, Floyd Michaels and June Wood, the Juniors, Joyce Sallows and Dick Keeley, the Sophomoresg Janice Skelton and John Kelly, the Freshmen. Freeman Orr was elected Council President, Floyd Michaels, Vice-president, June Wood, Secretary. During 1943, there was no Student Council but again in '44, ten members represented their classes in closed sessions with Principal S. C. Monson where many important decisions affecting the school in general were discussed and solved. In a representative government such as the people of our country enjoy, there is no better method of student-partici- pation in school affairs than through this, their Student Council. It is at these Council meetings that student-rep- resentatives are given the freedom to bring before thier ad- ministrator, the Principal, questions for discussion which are of vital interest to them and to the school they repre- sent. In 1945, although considerable pressure was brought to bear, this right was denied the student body and was, no doubt, one of the many contributing factors which led to dissention in the high school. In 1946, the Council again functioned under the guidance Of Principal C. S. Hall, members, chosen by vote of respec- tive classes, meeting to bring before the Council-body vital roblems affecting the school. At the first meeting on October 59, Bob Steffen, Senior, was elected President, Herb Noah, Senior, Vice-president, Joyce Tyler, Junior, Secretary, Lyle Warren, Junior, Treasurer. Joyce Tyler was appointed School Reporter for the Globe and edited the weekly column nPort Byron School Newsn, under the guidance of Miss Perring, Com- mercial Department. Other members of the Council were Bar- bara Strandgard, Senior, Donald Earhart, Sophomore, Robert Carlson, Freshman. The Council sponsored school assemblies during the year, holding each class responsible for one pro- gram. The organization, also, sponsored the movement to pur- chase additional victrola dance records to be used during the noon activity period under Coach Munson's supervision. In March the organization sponsored an all-school party in the gym The Student Council is an organiration which should al- ways function in Port Byron Community High School. There is no better method of knitting together the student body as a whole and its administration than through this right of student representatives to meet with their Principal for open, friendly discussion of their problems.

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