Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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, i Q -,W ., V 1- - ' M 7 ' , ,. .. f. A. . :Q .,ff,'Q's 'f - f - ' A . A. . - ff ff? ' ' if if T-15:1 W . - A -1 -3' -. c,:.:I-.gy 1-.hz I-'-f 's U: .... ,V ' '- . - Mr, Charles Beyer, Mr, Arthur l,undahl, Mr. Elmer Dewey. Mr. james lllue, Mr. l'aul Conklin. Robert Puget. Mr. james Laude, Leo Stasica, Mitzi Capron, Louis Czustigliiviii. George l'rentice. Athletic Board of Control llli .-Xthletic Iioard of Control is the board which governs Rockford Senior High School athletics, Formerly it was an independent body, but noxv it is a branch of the Student Council. lt is in reality an athletic committee although it still retains the name of .Xthletic lioard of Control. The group xvas primarily organized to stimulate interest and attendance at the ganies. The next function of the board is to govern all affairs pertaining to athletics and to award letters. All problems and disputes that arise concerning' school athletics are discussed and settled by the athletic goveriiiiig body. The ,Xthletic lioard of control is composed of eleven members. These include the principal, Mr. james E. lllueg the assistant principal, Mr. l'aul S. Conkling the athletic direc- tor. Mr. Charles lieyerg the heavyweight football coach, Mr. Arthur l.undahlg the heavy- weight basketball coach, Hr. blames Laude: the heavyxveight football captain, Leo Stasicag the heavyxvcight basketball captain, l,ouis Castiglioni 3 and four representatives from the stu- dent council, Jeanne Rogers, Mitzi Capron, Robert Paget, and George Prentice. Robert l'ag'et is the chairman of the board, and Mitzi Capron is the secretary. This year Mr. Elmer Ilexvey has been made a member of the board as he is the faculty director of finances. At the beginning of the football season, the lioard sponsored educational football talks in the assemblies. The heavyweight and liglitxveight coaches introduced their teamsg Coach l.undahl talked about the new football rules, the various signals and plays used during a ganie. and the part each member of the team played in carrying out these formations. A similar program was given for the basketball teams. These programs helped to boost attend- ance at the games. f21l

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fgsA f?Ai . . .- -' Lf is Guy VVilliams, Secretaryg Harry A. Mellberg, John I. Ford, Vernie E. Olson, Matt Maggio. Lorenz NYeber, Mrs. Gunnar L. Ericson, Fred H. Smith, President: Miss .Xda Waldo, Charles XY. Holmquisl. Board of Education HE Board of Education is a governmental body of men and women who meet at least twice a month to discuss the educational system of Rockfordg but, IHOTC than that, it is a medium by which the will of the people may be carried out. The board consists of eleven members nominated from the city at large by the mayor and confirmed by a majority vote of the city council. One member. designated by the mayor as the president, is the pre- siding officer. The Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Frank A. Jensen. is the executive officer. As planned in the city charter, the Board of Education has six very definite powers or duties to perform. These are to lay off and divide the city into districtsg alter and create new districts, purchase or lease the sites for school houses with necessary grounds for eachg furnish schools with necessary apparatus and equipmentg engage teachers and determine their compensationsg support and maintain common schoolsg and prescribe the studies to be taught and the books to be used. In order to carry out its plans more efficiently the board has four standing committees: Education, which makes appointmentsg Business and Finance. which takes care of revenue and provision of funds for the operation of the stystem and makes the annual budgetg Build- ings and Grounds, which supervises the construction and maintenance of buildingsg Pur- chasing, which has charge of the buying of all supplies and equipment needed for the public school system. The standing committees assume a large share of the responsibility, but they delegate some of their powers to various other officers. From this general description a conception may be obtained of the importance of the Board of Education as a central point in the plan making organization of the school system. f20l

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R. johnson, Zilinskyg I,. Hanson, Bonlay, Murray, Hewitt, Brace, Gutzwiller. Carson: ll. Olson, Freekg lf. Johnson, Cedarleaf. Lillyquist, Garland. Powellson, Lord, Friberg. llzinielson, Youngs, NYilsou, Sllnnhouscg fi. Swenson: .X. Anderson. XY:xlliu. l.:i firaiulc, lfllgalr. Student Council HE Student Council of Rockford Senior lligh School was founded in l9l7. It is plan- ned as a part of the school administration to give the students a part in the planning. The Student Council, being a group which meets to take counsel concerning problems affecting students. is the only student representative body and the only means of communi- cation between the students at large and the faculty. The members of this student governing body are elected from their respective home rooms to be accredited representatives. Representatives must have passed in at least three subjects the semester previous to their election and must be passing in everything at the time of their election. The council meets every other Friday of the school year, when there are no assemblies, during the home room period. At this time all the affairs of the school are discussed from the students' angle, and different school problems are debated as they arise. Taking care of school traific problems and cleaning the school flags are two special duties assigned to the Student Council. One of the outstanding services performed by the council for the school and connnunity is the collection and distribution of Christmas baskets for the needy. Each representative directs in his home room the filling of a basket. The materials needed for each basket are assigned to the home room by the council, and the home room representative attends to the assigning of individual contributions so that all may have an opportunity to participate. Eighty-one of these baskets were distributed to families this Christmas. An effort was made to confine the baskets to families of needy students. The contribution of thc Student Council to the social life of the school was in the form of an old-fashioned carnival, an evening party, given in the second semester. V - .NWS . ,X , .y-says., J Wmiw-,f. ,,:fv'9g,a' .. .i,f1:1-in asf If i, -W. - wf f w ifneif -e ' M: .az WW ? ----'fs-s .-ac Us --. M. 1. v 14. - K ,W 11- - ,- -.1 f22l