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

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Senate Row 1: Forrest Kettering. Eugene Acuff, Colleen Mc¬ Govern. Alice Butcher. Barbara Wright. Gilda Jacobson. Karlee Buhman. Lois Hansen. Carolyn Wessel. Barbara McGuire. Donald Rudd, Charles Heriford. Row 2: Jerry Elston. David Criswell, David Pearson. Cyrus Dietz. Marilyn Whiteside. June Goodwin. Betty Lou Nelson. Kay Edwards. Patricia Raymond. Marilyn Miller. Kay Holst, Robert Boeye, Randall Peterson, Ward Good¬ win. Row 3: James Knoblauch. Milton (Sharm) Scheuerman. Tom Blumenthal. Gerald Scott. Robert Wheelan. Richard Thomas. Donald Rowe, Robert Berry. Richard Hause, John Voss. Roald Fryxell, Richard Huntley. Every student body needs a spokesman, and the Senate serves this need at Rock Island high school. A representative is cho¬ sen by each senate room on the basis of the following ideals: leadership, loyalty to the school, and the ability to maintain at least a C average in all studies. Meeting with the sponsor, Dean E. S. Metcalf, the Senate assembles regularly in the activity room during the ninth period on the first Monday of the month. Special meetings are called whenever necessary. Robert Wheelan. vice-president; Betty Lou Nelson, secre¬ tary; Richard Thomas, president. 20 At the group’s meetings, various problems are taken up, discussed freely, and solved whenever possible. Often student opinion is invaluable to the faculty in formulating school activities and laws. Many different activities were sponsored by the Senate this year. Among them were the traditional homecoming activities, the Junior Red Cross drive, the filling of Christ¬ mas baskets for families of needy students at school, and after-game dances. Another major undertaking which the Senate directs is the choosing and planning of the assembly programs for the coming year. From bulletins advertising many of¬ ferings, the programs thought by the stu¬ dents to be most popular are chosen. Officers chosen for the year’s Senate were Richard Thomas, president; Robert Wheelan, vice-president; and Betty Nelson, secretary. Freshman senate rooms from Franklin also elected senators to meet with the sophomore, junior, and senior representatives. The aim of the Senate is to improve the relationship between all students and facul¬ ty members and to work for a more effective school government.

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Office and Clinic tan U Office assistants: Row 1: Carol Riceman, Gilda Jacob- Row 2: Lorretta Foster, Jean Emrick. Alyce McWilliams, son, Helen Shuck, Lauretta Royal. Phyllis Houston. Ruih Biscontine. Barbara Drinkall. Carolyn Hoefle, Donna Ohms, Marilyn Jones. The office assistants have many varied duties to perform. Among other things they run errands, collect attendance slips, and take out detention slips. Principal Owen B. Wright selects as office assistants junior and senior girls who have free periods. This year there were 21 girls working in the office. Ten of these girls worked in the deans’ offices under the direction of Dean Florence J. Liebbe or Dean E. S. Metcalf. Ten girls were assigned to the clinic this year to work under the supervision of Mrs. Mathilda Bacon, school nurse. The duties of these girls were to check in all girls who came down to the clinic and see that they rested, and to take care of all minor cuts and bruises. The clinic is open the entire day. Clinic assistants: Row 1: Constance Rummels, Marilyn Row 2: Lois Barr. Jean Emrick. Doris Snyder. Carol Laude, Cathryn Nissen. Edna Makedon. Coulter, Jean Morgan. Gloria Mullen. 19

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