Saint Michaels College - Hilltop Yearbook (Colchester, VT)

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114 STUDENT COUNCIL STUDENT COUNCIL Moderator, Rev. Edward I. Tining, SSE, Pres- ident, Timothy C. Murphy, Vice President, los- eph M. Shea, Treasurer, Iohn A. Terenzini, Re- cording Secretary, Robert M. Flanagan, Corres- ponding Secretary, Robert L. Sullivan. With much sound but not too much real fury, the Student Council plowed through the year 1950-'51, its second under the new Constitution. Council meetings became increasingly swift- er as President Tim Murphy made parliamen- tary procedure the order of the day and Rob- ert's Rules the Council's bible. This was no mean teat since the Council membership reached a total of 30 with the addition at mid years of four freshman representatives. Also a factor which could easily have contributed to much confusion, was the split in Council per- sonnel with seventeen members being class rep- resentatives, and thirteen, club representatives. ln '50-'51, here was the set up: Senior Class: Iohn F. Aubry, Robert M. Flan- agan, loseph M. Shea, Timothy C. Murphy, lames H. Barry - President. lunior Class: lames C. McKown, Robert L. Sullivan, Iohn A. Terenzini, Iohn I. Provenzano T President. This is a frosh week activity. Sophomore Class: Iohn Chachere, Iohn Bar- ry, Ioseph Furey, Edward Millette -President. Freshman Class: loseph Antone, Paul Lan- dry, Iohn Kendricks, Al Corey - President. Clubs: Sodality, Thomas Welch, Biology, Ra- mon Delesus, Chemistry, David Mauzerall, Outing, William O'Hearn, Mission Crusade, Paul Boucher, Michaelman, Ray Doherty, De- bating, Robert Cfelinas, NFCCS, William Ken- ney, Lance, Albert Vanasse, Knights and

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'G' showed how nts done. The Outing Club was well represented. fir.-4' I.et's give it a liitle razz- a-ma-tazz. Buzz and the Chorus. I'm iust Q lil' ole soror ity girl. Backstage Stuff. 54 may x

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Knaves, Dennis Scanlon, French, Tony LeSau- ter, Choir, Herve Cfuay, Cflee, Albert Fecteau. During the year lohn Trotier replaced Thomas Welch as Sodality representative and William Kennedy replaced Ray Doherty for the Michael- man. Although there was often doubt, and some- times pessimism, the Council did accomplish much during the year. Most of these accom- plishments, or at least, the more tangible of them, were in the realm of Student Activities. Among the more concrete achievements in this field were the following: Freshman Week which is partly planned and run by the Council, was the most successful of the three such events which have been held to date. Club budgets were balanced to the fraction of a penny by a budget committee of lack Ter- enzini, loe Shea, lim Mcliown, lim Barry, and Iohn Barry. With nearly 332,000 less than in the preceding year, and several new clubs requir- ing allotments, the Council still permitted each club enough money to stage activities nearly equal to those of the preceding year. School dances were uniformly profitable. This was in contrast to the record of some pre- vious years when it was axiomatic that 'lgood dances ended up in the red. A system of checks and balances, devised by the Council, did much to prevent this in '50-'51, The Council seniors look beiittingly grave for their picture.- Sitting: I, Barry, I. Shea, T. Murphy, T. Lesauter, D.Mau- zerall. Standing: A. Fecteau, P. Boucher, R. Flanagan, R. Gelinas, W. O'I-learn, I. Trotier, R. Doherty, R. Delesus, D. Scanlon. Besides Student Activities, there is also an- other field in which the Council is supposed to operate: Student Welfare. ln '50-'51, Council members were continually plagued by the problem of what promotes the common good of the student body ? And how far can the Council, act as an official body which will rep- resent the students of the college before the ad- ministrationu? Debate on these questions reached its height after Operation Disaster, and again when the Council was considering a proposal by the Dean of Men that Council members co-operate in the activities of his office. Tim Murphy, right, listens as outgoing Council President Buck McMahon expounds on the duties of the office. Looking on is Fr. Moriarty, moderator of the Council dur- ing its first three years. There were, however, also tangible accom- plishments in this field. An example was the change in junior regulations which was secured by a committee from the Council. Another Coun- cil activity which could be classed under the heading Student Welfare, was that of mailing out copies of the 1950 Shield to students who had been drafted or had left college. In addition, the Council in '50-'5l: set up a loan fund to tide foe College over his penni- less periods, supervised the Sunday night mov- ies and made up the deficit out of Council funds, acted as a nominating body for Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities , and fin- ally, spent much of the year in attempting to have the library left open at noon time. ln all, it was an energetic and conscientious Council. It may, or it may not, have measured up to its own expectationsg but it performed its duties as best it could and made a valuable contribution to the school as a whole. U1 5