Suffolk High School - Peanut Yearbook (Suffolk, VA)

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SENATE . STUDENT SENATE Sitting, Left to Right: Turner, Wesson, Hines, Judy Smith, Thedieck, Pierce, Dixon, Jackie Smith Standing, Left to Right: Annas, Green, Sykes, Stein, Parker, Howell, Jennings, Godw ' in, Hohhs, Saunders, Jaffe, Austin The upper house of legislature in our government is the Senate, made up of representatives of the states. With similar purpose and composition the Student Senate of our school closely resembles this former body. The Student Senate of Suffolk High School is a democratic, law-making body. It is run on the principles of self-government for the students. This body meets regularly to conduct affairs of the school. In an election by all the students at the beginning of the year, Jimmie Godwin was elected president and Bobby Saunders, vice-president. Jackie Smith was chosen secretary. The Student Senate is made up of representatives elected by their homerooms, the Ways and Means Committee chairmen, and honorary members attending because of their other important activities. The main undertaking of the Senate is to sponsor projects, to charter clubs, and to make laws.

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CABINET . . . FACULTY In the Department of Physical Education are Miss Emily Pitt¬ man, who also teaches first aid, Miss Bell, Mr. Cockrell, and Mr. Lewis White. Making up the Industrial Arts Department is Mr. E. L. Apple- gate. In the Music Department is Miss Irene Alderman. Miss Louise Sutherland, with Mrs. Cliff Lewis as assistant, makes up the Library Depart¬ ment. Making up the Mathematics Department, which includes gen¬ eral math, algebra, business math, geometry, and trigonome¬ try, are Miss Lucy Britt, Miss Jane Hardee, Miss Tapelle Pruden, and Miss Mildred John¬ son. The final department is made up of our two secretaries. Miss Johnson, in addition to teaching, acts as secretary to Mr. Savage; Miss Essie Hurflf, to Mr- God bey. First Row: Mrs. Willard Lipscomb, Elizalieth Marable Second Row: Selma Piland, Emily Pittman Third Row: Tapelle Pruden. Thelma Pruden Fourth Row: Louise Sutherland, Reed West Fifth Row: Lewis White, Gladys Yates

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SENATE CHAIRMEN WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE Sitting, Left to Right: Jaffe, Odom, Saunders, Godwin, Mallette, Hobbs, Brothers, Mai ties. Bell Standing, Left to Right: M. Hines, Thedieck, S. Hines, N. Rawls, Jones, E. Rawls, Grant, Smith In the Senate are many committees which lessen and simplify its work. A meeting of its chairmen would be identical to the Ways and Means Committee of our Student Senate. This group is the executive body of the school which plans the work of the Student Senate and brings recommendations to that body. Its membership consists of the president, vice-president, and secretary of the Student Senate, and Dotsy Thedieck, its chairman, with the chairmen of these various committees: Social A ffairs, Assembly, Clubs, Finance, Athletic, Bonds and Stamps, Publicity, Build¬ ing and Grounds, and War Activities. The chairmen of the committees are appointed by the president of the Student Senate, and each chairman selects several students to work with him. Twice a month on the second and fourth Mondays, this committee meets to discuss important school government affairs. Though the members of the Ways and Means arc honorary members of the Student Senate, it is they who have the headaches from planning for that body.