San Diego High School - Gray Castle Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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these meetings was the place where it was held. Combatants stood around in groups mating nasty cracks about each otl1er's records. dancing space and morals. until the meeting brote up with hearty resolu- tions on both sides that next time they were going to meet wiH'i some really hot babes. or boys, as the sex might be. Another chance the boys had at equality was that they too could set up require- ments for prospective girl friends. A girl in . - r ip L2 sy' X., yi is iiflyspm B i cg '17 Si CCJU. U question simply had to be faultless. The frequent mention of girls might lead the reader to believe that boys .spent all their time thinlring about girls. To the con- trary, they studied constantly. ln chemistry, for instance, they learned that some things are insoluble. meaning they won't melt. They 'had this proved abundantly to their own dissatisfaction after school hours. There's nothing like a practical education. including our school system. SN

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One of the most stirring things about school life was the way. the students learned democracy through their own student government. It was just lilre a democracy, too, with a full third of those eligible to vote voting the same people into office year a ter year. The dominant group in the government was Mr. Ken- nedy's I60 study hall, which for let- terhead puiooses was divided into two parts: L .incil and Assembly Most of the Council obtained their positions in school-wide, lunch- period-long elections, of which the first omen was the passing around of petitions. The students always care- fully checlred a candidate's scholas- tic record and his qualifications for office before signing a petition. Their conscientiousness in this matter was clearly shown by The Russ last year when it circulated, and had fully signed, a petition nominating Genghis Khan for garbage collector. Climaxing weelrs during which many heretofore concealed friend- ships between voters and candidates were revealed, was the election as- sembly. Here, candidates proclaim- ed their virtue and morals, or laclr of same. Students listened, agreed, ap- plauded and voted for their friends. Its members having been duly elected, the Council proceeded about its business, which was mostly tabling measures and resolutions. When the pile of resolutions had crowded the feet of members off the table, the council would send a few bills to its not necessarily better half, the Assembly, whose members came from those veritable hot-beds of democracy, the homerooms. Thus the students and their elect- ed government marched inconse- quentially through the year, not really changing the world at all.