Sault Ste Marie High School - Northern Light Yearbook (Sault Ste Marie, MI)

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Qscientists When the United States entered the war last December, the Atom Crackers, Sault High science club, decided to help the war effort by purchasing enough var stamps to buy a bond so that future science organizations might benefit by the money ln order to accomplish this, each member contribu ted ten cents or more, according to the amount he thought he could afford, and an equal sum was drawn from the clubs treasury Meeting twice a month, the members dnided in four groups to study photography, ultra violet ray chemistry and soulless plants A student could choose to study in any group or groups In the future the organization hopes to set up an inexpensive photography service for the student body in order to earn money ,Audzo Cvzsual Club Composed of 16 members, six of them seniors, the Audio Visual group is an always busy organiza tion At weekly meetings the boys study the care of the equipment and arrange for the showmg of classroom and auditorium films as well as for the use of the microphone in assemblies and classes The club has two operators on call for every hour in the school day New members called ap prentices are taught how to use the movie machine by the older operators, whom they observe durmg the actual operation of a film If the apprentices pass the required test, they are then given operators cards The boys sponsored one actlylty ticket show, The Count of Monte Cristo and one public movie, Heroes of the Alamo Forty one classroom films were shown during first semester and fifty two durmg the second About 500 hours were spent showmg films during the year, these dlvided among the oflicial operators An interesting fact is that the social science department had the most movies this year and the mathematics department, one, the first in its history A Fnrst Aid film was shown yarious evenings for the First Aid classes, indus trial organizations, and night school students Golonnade Tvm enty sennor girls and tvt enty junior gir s eompose this sery ice club and serye it has and vu ' As ID past years, Colonnade guided new stu dents about on the first day' of school, and with H1 Y sponsored a party for freshmen and new students during the openmg week in September Then the girls sold candy bars and hot dogs at the home football games and the traditional lex bites at basketball contests With Hi Y they spon sored an all school party and alone a spring party Beginning in February Colonnade conducted a dancing school for about six xx eeks to teach anyone who vnshed to learn hovx to dance Last year as a memorial the club left S50 to help needy girls At this time of vsriting the memorial for 1942 is still a secret you rnalists Twenty-five students, twelve of them seniors, have produced the school newspaper this year. Al- though fewer editions were published, due to the fact that finances which were quite low had to be balanced, about eight excellent issues were put out Next year it is hoped that the Keynote will appear regularly Featured for the first time were colored issues to correspond with yarxous holidays The staff also tried to emphasize that a war is on and publicized the necessity for buying war stamps and bonds, for contributing to the salvage campaign, for doing every thing possible to further the war effort To increase student interest, more articles about stu dents were written, cuts were better, ads were at tractively written, and there might have been a photography page had more student photographers been interested The co editors plan worked out better than that of a single edltor, and a special Keynote typist relieved the editors of much vsork A great part of the Keynotes success was due the business staff who secured the advertising The school paper sent three delegates and two adusers to the UP con ference at Escanaba on April 18 Es erythmg the staff has done has been for Sault High s benefit, so hats off to them and their advisers' ,Artes ts Service is certainly thc word to use in speaking of the art class, for these twenty five students of Art Supervisor Robert Bishop do work for everyone and everything Fifth period each day these students troop over to a bright and cheerful room, which was remodeled and painted last summer by the instructor, and do all manner of interesting things Their regular work consisted of free illustration, figure drawing, animal sketching, and working on a picture library called of mounted pictures whlch can be used by various rooms for their bulletin boards Besides entering the annual American Legion Poppy Day poster contest, these artists made dozens of posters for home room and club dances, Amer ican Education Week, war bond displays, the music departments Victory Concert, the Womens Hos pital Auxiliary, the Camp Fire Girls, the Boy Scouts, and many other things and organizations Members of this class also painted the back ground for the umor Senior Play Txsh or Little Theater plays and they helped with the Christmas N espers These are but a few of the services of Sault High s artists jffa tliematzcza n s Docs vsorking vuth the slide rule and doing mathematical puzzles sound interesting? 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Activities on Qldoard 4 Among the many thmgs that provlde mterest, servrce varrety, and creatrve act1v1ty on the good shxp Sault Hrgh are the clubs and orgamzatrons 1n vxhrch the crew works Speech actrvrtxes were treated on an earlrer page Pnctured here are officers of thxs year s Student Councnl, whrch, advlsed by Mxss Ruth Haddock, has just closed another year of servxce to the school Projects whrch the Councll ntself took over thxs year centered about a solutxon to the problem of stealmg, carrred over from last year, and the prob lem of provrdmg a soclal center for hrgh school and out of school youth To remedy the problem of steahng the Councll made a survey through a home room questnonnanre, tabulated students rephes, and prepared bulletms from these for home room dns cussron Wrth regard to the Youth Center, the Counc1l was mstrumental rn obtammg permnssron for certam nlghts to be set asxde for out of school youth as well as hxgh school students to dance 1n In addmon to these two projects, thrs goxern 1ng group not only purchased a war bond, but under took the sale of war savmgs stamps Ten years from now when the bond matures, the Student Counenl of that trme wxll rece1ve the money, or, rf there IS no Councxl then, the money IS to be dl uded among the four hlgh school classes Student theater uckets were agam secured through the ef forts ot thxs orgamzatlon, whxch also attempted to seeure summer theater rates for students Another aceomplnshment xx as .1 new amendment to the con strtutron, whreh states that the seruor class shall alvs ass hue one more representatxve than the other Iraqi fuentj fit f' 1? classes whose representatlon shall be equal Strll another contrnbutlon of thls orgamzatnon was the purchase of frames for two large pxctures, one of the US deeoratlons and the other of US flags Thus year for the fxrst tnme Councxl members had pms on whrch were engraved the numerals of the year durmg whxch each served as a Councxl member Two partles, one on Halloween and one on Xalentmes Day were sponsored by the Councxl members for act1v1ty ticket holders and other smgle admrssnon purchasers Of course the Student Councll supervnsed the regular projects, those of ushermg, carrymg an nouncements, helpmg teachers, supervxsmg the Lost and Found department, carmg for lawns and rest rooms, and other projects granted to varrous home rooms Thxrty four members composed the Student Councrl th1s year, tvso jumors Donald MacLachlan and Bette Remhart and three senlors Kenneth bemg representatn es at large These members were mstalled at an assembly program on September 26 at vshrch Colonel Fred T Cruse, commandmg ofh cer of the Sault Ste Mane Mrlxtarx Dxstrxct, was guest speaker Gordon FCHWlCk, nee presldent of the 1940 41 Student Council, conducted the mstal lltnon ceremomes, and the class presldents ohn Trarge, Walt Boldrg Paul Rlpley, and Dlck Bruce led the flag salute Ofhcers were presldent, Kenneth Hermanson, vlce presrdent, Chesley Nlxon, secretary, jean Brown lee, assxstant secretary Ruth MCMOFYIS, treasurer, Glorra Kemp, sergeant at arms, Francrs Sayer I . ' S ' ' T . . ' . ' . . . . . , . . . S ' r. . ' '- , , ' 5 . . , . ' X ' ' ' - - . Q V V s - Ta the gYm- Hermanson, jean Brownlee, and Chesley Nixon- - - 7 . . - . 1 l ' X I I 1 I A , H - . '. , , . , ' 1 ' -. af ' - A ,. - ' ' ' U 1 ' v, A . 1 3 , ., ,, X . .

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gfall Qatrol An addition to the Hall Patrol this year was a sixth hour patrol which maintained order m the halls during the last period of the day and a lunch room patrol which supervised the order in and the cleamng up of lunchrooms Some of the members also were umor Air Rald Wardens who dnd such jobs as handle the fire hose and keep students away from doors Forty hte to 48 students composed the patrol headed bs a Captain two lleutenants and six sergeants 96:17 Accompllshments of the H1 Y Club have been few in number but great m value The club sponsored the football tr1p to New berry for Sault Hlghers last fall hmng the buses and taking entire charge H1 Y members united vuth Colonnade to entertam new students and to put on an all school party in january TWICE thls year delt gates attended conferences one at Ishptmmg last November and one in May at Newberry Thirty boys compose this servxce club twelve of them seniors Lthrarzans How would the school library function without the help of the library Staff? These thirty girls g1ve at least an hour a week aiding Miss Moles and students too Though more of a servlce group than a soclal one the girls do have fun and a highlight of this year was a mid winter slexghride party They also enjoyed giving a Book Week tea for the teachers of junior and senior high a function at which there was almost a hundred per cent attendance Meetings are held monthly and concern mamly staff gftstonans Hoping to close the years activities with the annual trip to Mackinac the Hlstory Club com posed of 15 members has enjoyed variety m IIS programs Highlights of their meetlngs mcluded a trip to the museum at the Carnegle Library the readmg of a play on the life of Buffalo B111 hear mg papers on the lives of Washington and Lincoln and the discussion of current events QSafetLy Qatrol Vital to school life IS the Safety Patrol whose membership varies from 30 to 45 students headed by a captam and two lneutenants Established this year was a winter patrol whose value was proved in many respects chlef among whlch was the 9592 decrease in snowballmg about the school due to the patrols effective rules An other new branch of the Safety Patrol was the umor Air Raid Wardens whose business lf was to make and enforce rules for the student body while going to alr rald shelters Upon suggestion by Student Council the patrol also enforced a rule prohxbmng smokmg by students on the school block Patrol members regulated trafhe at the athletlc field for track meets and at the end of the year the organization was pre sented a plaque for its oursrandmg and mentornous service page tuenfg sewn S E N I O R S ' WE CONGRATULATE YOU MOORE S GROCERY Phone 349 209 Ann St THE CO ED FLOWER SHOP Sa3 if ulfh flowers Our Flouers Telephone 1970 W BEST WISHES SENIORS ALGONQUIN SERVICE STATION Sfruce with a Smile Phone 1112 1610 4th Ave BARISH BROS LO Your Money s Worth Your Money Back Foons or Surfnmoa QUALITY Best Wishes, Seniors' G A S and O I L DONNELLY OIL COMPANY Cor Ann and Easterday Dzstrlhutors of CONOCO PRODUCTS Congratulations to the CLASS OF 1942 Andary s Store 409 ASHMUN Opposlte City Hall CONGRATULATIONS' From HAHL S GROCI RX The Home of Finer Foods . , . . . . 1 . , n , Y . ' 1 ' 1 ' ' ' ,v . 1 I s --T rr , - ,' Y, in-. , . ' H - V . , . . 9 I . ' D ' M , ,-, V' ' U l . i Q , J. . ' 1 . . . I Q n K K l I , . . , . or , . . . . - . H . . . . , ' u l , n literary topics. Six senior girls are on the library , , LELIEVRE S MARKET . , . . . . . . ' , I - , . I - 9 9 , - , n . - . - Xl' - - ' N . I I . , . My 4 ' , ' ' f 5529 he' ' l l - P . . . . . J V ll Y . . . . , ' . W . z Y X P, J Y . . - A J - . . . ff ' I!