St Xavier High School - Xaverian Yearbook (Junction City, KS)

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Editor Janice Rombeck and Assistant Editor Mark Jones determine whether a picture will make size . Business Managers Richard Nenow and Leslie Jones type copy for the Advertising section. Workshop Prepares Xaverian Staff Planning, editing, and managing a yearbook involves long hours of work, a sacrifice of valuable time, and the constant pressure of threating deadlines. The ten members of the 1969 Xaverian Staff were faced with these problems. Striving to overcome their challenging problems, seven members of the Xaverian Staff attended the High School Publications Workshop held at Kansas State University from June 3-8. The workshop offered lectures on the fundamental principles of Journalism and gave the staff a chance to plan and organize their 1969 yearbook. The Xaverian Staff also attended a yearbook clinic at Abilene on September 10, to increase their knowledge of making layouts, writing copy, and handling business affairs. Yet all these long hours of work proved extremely rewarding for the yearbook staff as they captured the fond memories of another year at St. Xavier's. Xaverian staff members: (Standing) Mike Kopmeyer, Collette Fiffe, John Helton, Jeff Wild. (Sitting) Pam Mudd and Connie Perilla. 24

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Student Council Enacts Reform Student Council Officers are: Vicky Levett, treasurer, Ed Castaneda, secretary, Steve Hoover, vice-president, and Harry Lauri, president. School lunches, fire drills, lockers, Student Court, assemblies, signs in the hall, respect for teachers and school property, and the daily Mass schedule were among the diversified topics dis- cussed within the 1969 Student Council in an at- tempt to strengthen communication between the student body and faculty. In September, the Student Council officers and representatives attended a clinic in Manhattan to prepare them for the various duties of a Stuco member. An especially important reform enacted by the Student Council this year involved the daily Mass schedule. So that those desiring to attend daily Mass would be given ample opportunity, Student Council members voted to begin classes at 8:00 a. m. with an optional Mass scheduled at 10:45. This plan went into effect with the approval of the Board of Education. Besides reforming the daily schedule, Student Council also received permission for a represen- tative to appear before the faculty at its regular meetings to bring out student grievances and defend constructive suggestions. Stuco representatives: (back row) Gus Gustafson, Pat Pound, Jeff Wild, Steve Hoover, (front row) Tom Winterscheidt, Cathy Teply, Linda Grant, Peter Murphy. Students participate in daily Mass at 10:45, a Student Council project. 23

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United We Stand, Divided We Fall The 1969 Pioneers: (Top iow) Danny Hebert, Tom Regleman, Elbie Loeb, Larry Jones, and Gary Timmons, (Bottom row) Sheila Nicholson, Mary Lou Devane, Collette Fiffe, Linda Grant, Janice Rombeck, and Mary Beavers. United We Stand, Divided We Fall can well be applied to the eleven pioneers, who have attended St. Savier's for twelve years. Through past experience these seniors have found that their real strength lies in remaining together. Together, the difficult work has been more rewarding, the activities and special events more thrilling. As these pioneers look back to that eventful day in September 1957 when they eagerly passed through the first-grade door, they recall the many events that comprised twelve years of schooling. First communion, holiday parties, holy cards, music-time, Christmas crib scene, The United Fund Organization, St. Xavier's Day, selling Christmas Cards, May Day processions, forty - hours processions, group pictures, class picnics in the park, water balloon fights, baseball teams, basketball teams, show and tell, relay races, first boy and girl dances, first dates, cheerleading, French and German, Thanksgiving plays, term papers, the first school paper The Rambler , Confirmation, slam books, retreats, carwashes, final exams, Impossible Dream , class rings, the Junior-Senior banquet, the first Homecoming, the last Homecoming, presentation of the 1st place trophy to the senior boys during a pep rally, choos- ing graduation announcements, speeches at K-state, selling ads for the yearbook, junior fund raising projects, class picnics at Tuttle Puddle, and of course, graduation . . . All of these events and many more have played an important role in developing these students into mature young adults. But most important of all, is the development of lasting friendships, in which united they stand . 25