Red Bank High School - Log Yearbook (Red Bank, NJ)

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STS Unifies Three Communities school, dealing with problems, and relating with others. After just two meetings with his leaders, freshman Robert Clark commented, STS is very good because it teaches you how to get along with other students. Marion Henderson, also a freshman, said, I like the way we talk; we talk together and everybody's into it. We've got nice leaders. Junior STS leader luanita Lewis said, I like STS because it really helps you get to know yourself as well as others. Many administrators agreed that STS was a good program because it offered the freshmen a peer figure to turn to with problems and questions that they might normally not ask teachers or other authoritative figures. Other pro- grams which STS presented dealt with peer pressure, alcohol and drug abuse, and proving self-esteem. Once a month groups of freshmen met in small groups with junior and senior peer facilitators to discuss various issues, alues. and feelings Student-to-Student was a program which developed relationships which were not based on rank, grades, or judgment, but on mutual understanding and friendship The STS leaders con- sisted of approximately sixty juniors and seniors students who. through time, devotion, and training, aided freshmen in the transition from grammar school to high school Advised by faculty members Miss Elizabeth Nicholson. Mrs Ginger Mulligan. Miss Lynn Salm. and Mr lohn Hird, the group attempted to draw together students from the three towns that attended Red Bank Regional High School (Red Bank. Little Silver, and Shrewsbury), and engender into them a sense of community. Students who wished to be STS leaders had to fill out an application, a form which was reviewed by faculty and advisors Students selected for the program attended six two-hour meetings in the summer, during which time they learned the meaning of such concepts as Focus Listening . IALAC , Killer Statements , and other com- municative skills. The culmination of the training for these students was a weekend retreat This intense weekend provided STS members an opportunity to develop more sophisticated group facilitating skills While eating, sleeping, laughing, crying, and playing together. STS leaders learned more about their fellow leaders and themselves The leaders returned home from the retreat as a circle of friends, ready to greet the incoming freshman class and offer treshmen advice on coping with high Student 27

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LEFT During the first STS meeting in September. STS leader Monica Basin and freshman Andrea Isley exchange likes and dislikes BELOW The tools of the STS leader include the journal, where personal thoughts arc written and the workbook that gives many ideas for activities OPPOSITE PAGE RIGHT STS leader senior Lisa Fahay works with freshman Kathy Covinghon on an activity where they cut out pictures that described themselves. ABOVE LEFT The 1981-82 STS Leaders Front row Liz Izzo, Amy Marr. Juanita Lewis. Terri Spinks, Sandy Greco. Peggy Muller. Louie Gill Second row Brigid Evans. Marianne Pennington, Winkle Powers, Lisa Fahay, Wendy Walter, Peter deGroot, Brain Blount Third row Bob Mulligan, Jay Waters, Kathi Sturn. Sue Skoog. Deneen McQueen, Kathy Adams, Lauire Bagiculoppi Fourth row Suzanne Conolly, Ainsely VanWinkle, Kathy McMullen. Mona Simmons, Arty Weinkofsky ABOVE At the STS retreat in September, leaders senior Mike Fleischer, junior Winkie Powers and senior David Barnes take time out from the day's activities to relax 26 Student to Student

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ABOVE: Disc Jockey Paul Simms prepares to heighten the romantic atmosphere of the dance with the hit song, Sweet Home Alabama ” RIGHT Homecoming King Steve Finnegan and Queen Susan Hukkinen preside over the dance floor as they sway to their victory song. TOP: Student Council President and A C Burgess watches as senior Amy Susser commences the traditional 'King and Queen” dance for King Steve Finnegan and Queen Susan Hukkinen as alumnus Jim Conner and junior Queen Gilly Kahn await their turn on the floor 28 Homecoming