Rock Island High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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Senate Donna Handley, Sylvia Redding, Mildred ln the group: McCreight, Elaine Dornacher, Evelyn Stahl, Mary Jane Gibbon, Marilyn Palmquist, Sue Sudlow, Simmon. Anne Phyllis Houston, Benjamin Hunter, John C. Searle, Richard Whitcomb, Jack Lomen. Arlene Clanton, Rodgers. Dean Shirley Jones, Joie Lu Angle, Eugene Rudd, Marjorie Johnson, Gerald Pahl, Frank Edwards, George Schneider, Janet The student governing body of Rock Island high school is the Senate. It is made up of students chosen by their senate rooms because they have qualities of good citizenship, leader- ship, and loyalty, and hold at least a C average in their studies. The officers of the 1947-1948 Senate were David Lund, president, Jack Eggspuehler, vice- presidentg and Janet Kaminsky, secretary. Dean E. S. Metcalf is sponsor of the Senate, and meetings are held once a month in his room during the eleventh period. Problems are brought before the Senate, discussed, and solved when possible. Something new in the Senate this year were senators at large, who were hold-overs from last year's Senate. ' Some of the activities sponsored by the group this year were Homecoming, Old Clothes and Costume Day, the Christmas project, the Amateur show, the Junior Red Cross drive, and various after-game dances. For the past two years the Senate has been partly responsible for choosing the following year's assemblies. Bulletins advertising various acts are studied by the group, then the most popular ones are chosen. This year the group decided to dispense with the Homecoming king and have only the queen. It was decided to do this because the ceremony was made more solemn, and also because it is not customary for a school the size of Rock Island high school to have a king. It is the aim of the Senate to better relations between the teachers and students, and to make this an even finer school. ' Kandinsky, Juanita Flora, Shirley Baker, Mike Corken, Mike Carr, Donald Ballinger, Clayton Daubert, Hartley Clark, William Rogers, Richard Smith, Robert G. Long, Jack Eggs- puehler, Donald Manhard, Robert Wheelan, Theodore Mor- rison, David Lund, Hugo Zadach, Roger Peterson, Dale Nelson. David Lund, Janet Kaminsky, Jack Eggspuehler

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National l-lonor Society Row 1: Richard Rodgers, Frederick Goard, Eugene Leman, Robert Kowert, William Miller, Leo Lundberg, Marilyn Van Trump, Doris Ryan, Joann Swanson, Dorothy Risley, Sally Pleasants, Nola Bradley. Row 1: June Clark, Marilyn Learner, Nancy Coffler, Sue Sudlow, Sue Hauerwas, Alyseann Wiesman, Virginia Polzin, Anne Gibbon, Shirley Klugger, Kathryn De Noma, Norma Nixon, Barbara Mills, Barbara Birkel. Character, service to school, loyalty, and scholarship are the requirements for admission into the National Honor Society. This year 58 seniors became members of the Rock Island high school chapter of the National Honor Society by meeting these requirements. Forty-five of this num- ber had an average of 92 or above. Thirteen members, having an average between 85 and 92, were elected to the society. All seniors having a scholastic average of 92 or above were automatically ad- mitted. The names of the seniors having an average between 85 and 92 were sub- Row 2: Meredith Ostrom, David Lund, Nancy Louden, Hans Deutsch, Evelyn Stahl, Barbara Knope, Arlene Shrader, M J S' N E A d'th M'1l B b ary ane lmmon, ancy ngman, r 1 1 er, ar ara Adams, Caroline Johnson, Alfred Balk, William Powers: Row 2: Zena Kagan. Lois Laws, Joyce Hennem:-in, Mary Bennett, Leon Sabath. Hartley Clark, Robert Meeker, Marie Grevc, Dorothy Littig, Dolores Mejerle, Joanne Johnson, Shirley Baker, Elaine Drobner, Corinne MacNeill, Ruth Ann Clanton. mitted to all the seniors in this division to be voted upon. There were 124 students in this group. The names of the 62 students fone-half the total number eligible for admissionj receiving the most votes were submitted to the faculty, and 13 of this number became members of the Honor Society. - The officers of the National Honor Society were Alfred Balk, president: Hart- ley Clark, vice-presidentg and Ruth Ann Clanton, secretary. The National Honor Society was made a part of Rocky High in 1937 by the Senate,

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