Spartanburg High School - Spartana Yearbook (Spartanburg, SC)

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TI-IE STUDENT CGUNCII IS INSTALLED The installation ol the l94l-'42 Student Council was held on Thursday, November l3, in the gymnasium. The entire student body attended this ceremony. Seats in a section ol the gym were reserved For the parents and liiends ol the Council members. Programs were issued to these visitors. The Council consists ol the presidents ol homerooms, the president of the Senior Classs, and the president ol the Council. It is a representative group through which the students have the privilege of making a contribu- tion to the improvement of school relationships. The installation program was one ol the most beauti- lul and impressive assembly programs held this year. The gymnasium was decorated in blue and white. The window paintings, done by art students of S. H. S., used a King Arthur motif. Both the orchestra and the chorus toolc a special part in the ceremony. The ceremony was opened by the student body sing- ing two verses ol the Alma Materfi Catherine l-lale, president of the Council, then led the processional while the orchestra played and the chorus sang Wagner's Pilgrims Chorus, alter which the chorus and Council sang ulnteger Vitae. Next, Mr. C. l-l. l-lumphries, one ol the faculty ad' visers lor the Council, read the Scripture and led the student body in prayer. The chorus and the orchestra then gave the Chil- dren's Prayer from 'il-lansel and Greteln by l-lumpe erdinclr. At that time Miss Amelia Sanders, sponsor lor the Council, administered the oath to both the Student Council and the Council otticers. Catherine l-lale made a briel but inspiring tallc ac- cepting the ottice ol presidency. A candle-lighting ceremony Followed, in which all the Council toolc part. The recessional was l-landel's Largo, Because ol the seriousness of the program, no ap- plause was given during the ceremony. l-lonorary members ol the Council, who do not talne oath, served as ushers for the occasion. The installation ceremony is traditional. The window paintings ol King Arthur motif, the colors ol blue and white, and the use ol l-landel's Largo are to the Council symbolic ol its obligation always to uphold the highest ideals ol school citizenship.

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Helen Foster Mildred Blackwood Vernice Whelchel Robert Vct laun Lucile McMiIIin STUDENT COUNCII Beverly Carlisle Alvin Johnson Harry Wood Creole Arthur W. E. Jett SOPHOMORES Jean Saclcett Jane Farmer Jean Erwin Anne Dissell Kenneth Webb Will Kennedy Bernard Rudisail Alice Moore Juanita Ross Jean Robbins Marcella Easler Cena Bishop HONORARY MEMBERS Miriam Lyles Curtis Anthony John Brady Ruth Malone Jane Lynch Edna Byars Almon Dill Jane Owens Charles Hughston Marjorie Taylor Jimmie Glominslci Michel Patton Frederick Robertson Parlcer Tabor COUNCIL MEMBERS NOT PICTURED George Justice Jay Bridges Millard Johnson lhonoraryl Fay Spearman W. D. Sawyer Helen Anthony lhonoraryl Jim Mabry Hazel Seay Marjorie Caldwell lhonoraryl Grady Stewart Vernon Wear

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S. H. S. Teachers Answer Call To Arms . . . LIEUTENANT MARVIN SELF LIEUTENANT LONNIE L. DUNLAP LIEUTENANT WALTER FOSTER Three of the members of the Faculty of Spartan- burg High School had been called into service in the United States Army, as the yearboolc went to press. Each had been, prior to call, a member of the Ctticers' Reserve Corps, and each entered the armed Forces as a tirst lieutenant. MARVIN SELF, instructor in manual training at S. H. S., entered the army in August, 1941. He has been stationed since that time at Camp Croft, and is still a resident of Spartanburg. Lieutenant Sell is attached to the camp head- quarters as a senior instructor in the armorer artiticer school, which trains men in carpentry and mechanical work and prepares them to make repairs and adjust- ments on all infantry weapons. He is a graduate of Clemson College. LONNIE L. DUNLAP, teacher of biology while at S. H. S., received his call in March, 1942. He soon began teaching in the Army Air Corps' candidate school at Miami Beach, Florida. As a member of the Spartan High faculty, Lieu- tenant Dunlap was an enthusiastic amateur photog- rapher, sponsor ol the Biology Club, and coach ol the varsity baseball and traclc teams and the B football team. During students days at Presbyterian College, he was a star athlete. WALTER FOSTER, a member of the commercial department of the high school faculty, received his orders from the army in March, 1942. He was soon stationed at the otticers' training school at Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia. A native of Spartanburg, Lieutenant Foster gradu- ated trom Spartan High and from Wottord College. Alter graduate study in commercial subjects, he began his teaching career at Ellenton, Georgia, later taught at Bailey Military Academy, and came to S. H. S. as an instructor in 1935.