Topeka High School - Sunflower Yearbook (Topeka, KS)

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Seated: Coats, Wellman, Nightingale, Brownlee, Mr. Van Slyck, ad- Instruction room, and the Activity room. After con- siderable dither- ing, the sopho- mores found the Visual Instruction room and proceeded to do their duty by their school. - . A strange and significant fact may be seen in the election returns. for statistics prove that 508 sopho- mores, 413 juniors, and only 383 seniors used their franchise priv- ileges. Interest obviously is in in- verse ratio to intellect. No offense, sophomores! Bill Brownlee The Student Council Bill Brownlee, president Harryette Nightingale, vice-president Jean Wellman, secretary-treasurer Charles Bray Helen Beth Coats Barton Phelps Carl Stanley In the Student Council are vested the powers of representing student opinion in the discussion of school problems and of acting as an advisory board to the principal. Members also promote the various activities of the school and further law and order among the students. There are no requirements for membership except in the office of the president, who must have served either as an alternate or an elected member. A new group of six alternates-two for each class-is chosen every nine weeks. The Council also includes three ex- officio members who have the visorg Brown, Dice, Abrahams, Bra-y. Standing: Van Slyck, Murrow, Phelps, Harris, Davis, Stanley, Weeks. STUDENT COUNCIL right of discussion and nomination, but are denied the power of voting. These three are Vernon Murrow, chairman of the Proctor systemg Jane Dice, secretary of the Point system: and Meade Harris, presi- dent of the Representative Council. The Representative Council Meade Harris, president Harold Weeks, vice-president Bob Boyle, secretary-treasurer Charles Bray. head safety council Members of the Representative Council are chosen in the home rooms at the beginning of the school year. This system has been in use since the advent of our worthy activity ticket, which has necessitated considerable Worry and marked ability in high finance on the part of the representative. This Council is largely responsible for the balanced or unbalanced budget at the end of the school year, for REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL its members must be able to chisel, cajole, threaten, wheedle, and beg for the students' money to pay for their activity tickets, Worlds, and other school activities involving the all-important currency. Meade Harris was chosen to head this group for 1933-34. Be- ing well versed in the idiosyncra- cies of council members, he man- ages to get a maximum of work and suggestions out of the members with a minimum of perspiration and coercion. The Safety Council was created as a part of the Repre- sentative Council at the last of the term of the 1932-33 school year to take care of the traffic problems in and around Topeka high, and to cooperate with the police in the so- lution of their common problems. The Service Club John B. Covey, president Harold Weeks, first vice-president Dorothy Jane Willcuts, second vice-president Harryette Nightingale, secretary Barbara King, Publicity chairman With his selection as president of the Service club, John B. Covey took unto himself divers duties and responsibilities. Not the least among these duties is leading the meetings held in the cold gray dawn at 7:30 o'clock. With his cohorts, John helps with the enrollment cards, grade slips, ticket-taking, ushering, and all other unpleasant work around the school. T h e Service Meade Harris club is composed of ten members of Row 1: Johnson, Brown, Sheahan, McClenny, Harris, Clark, Frost M McCord, Belden, Landon, Kinzer. Row 2: Mansfield, B. Anderson, Coats, Laundon, R'eed, Jones, Buch, Dice, Searle, M. Davis. Row 3: Burroughs, Murrow, Washburn, Shaw, E. Anderson, Patten, Stevens Coates, Reynolds, Weeks. Row 4: Stickley, Covey, C. Davis, Boyle Petereck, Christner, Mallory, Grice, Wright, Turner. Row 5: Sheetz at 5 's M,r,.,iI , p ig, MacDonald, Harris, Stark, Mr. Van Slyck, advisor: B. Davis, Neis- K i wender. Page Seventeen

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SENIOR CLASS Harlan Schlicher, president Dorothy Jane Willcuts, vice-president John Davis, secretary-treasurer Jane Dice, chairman social committee JUNIOR CLASS Rudy Petereck, president Jean Swan, vice-president Julia Ann Duff, secretary-treasurer Billye June Abernathy, chair. social committee SOPHOMORE CLASS Tom King, president Betty Bucher, vice-president. James McClure, secretary-treasurer Jean Bucher, chairman social committee The General Elections NDER the able but harassed direction of Helen Bushacher as election commissioner and Hil- degard Breihan as her assistant, the 1933 student election got off to a fine start on Sep- tember 26, when t h e registration b o o k s w e r e opened. The stu- dents rose nobly to the occasion and turned out en masse to register, A - - - inscribing a total Helen Bushacher O f more t h 3 n 1600 names in the books for their respective classes. A cursory glance at the election books proved that there were several hundred students who were a bit hazy as to whether they were sophomores, juniors, or seniors: but with a large expendi- ture of time and effort, the names were duly tabulated and the elec- tion board was ready for the pre- liminary fray, i . e., the primaries. A noble deed was done for the school when the office practice class de- ciphered the names of the register- ites and bound them in book form for future reference. In former elections there have been several offices that were un- Plze Sixteen Young Topekans Try Voting With Petitions, Primaries, Polls Students Elect Cflicers for Year contested, but such was not the case this year. A total of eighty students ran for office, and seeing that misery loves company, the 59 defeated candidates could not pos- sibly have been lonesome. The elections ran close in several offices. giving a decidedly political air to the affair. Another unusual aspect of the election was that in two out of every three cases, the candidate won whose name appeared first on the ballot. Proving something or other... . . . Eight Have Tray Meals As has been the custom for the last two years, an election board of eight members was chosen from the constitution classes upon recom- mendation of the teachers, Those serving this year were Harriet Black, Eugene Anderson, Frances Replogle, Wayne Carlson, Meade Harris, Peggy Paine, Helen Cmriffee, and Hobart Johnson. The only thing they got out of it was two meals served to them on trays and a legitimate excuse for not having their lessons for the two days. That may sound pretty good, but the catch is that they had to make up their back assignments. The final election garnered a to- tal of 1301 votes. Only nine of the 21 successful candidates were boys, while 39 of the 60 candi- dates in the primaries were boys, showing that they only stand 279 chances in 819 of winning, believe it or not. Phyllis 'McPherson Barbara Mansfield by Betty Lou Ufford Ladies Second in This Election All the class presidents were boys and all the vice-presidents girls. The girls further asserted their rights by pocketing all the social committee offices. The Student Council in each case had one boy and one girl. The students were fortunate in their choice of officers, because most of them, excepting, of course, the sophomores, had served in an official capacity be- fore. Bill Brownlee, president of the Student Council, was an alter- nate last year, as well as president of his class. Vernon Murrow, run- ner-up for the Student Council presidency, won the position of Chairman of the Proctor System. Vernon was experienced in this work, having been a proctor chair- man in his junior year, as well as co-captain with Bill until the time of the election, when both ran for president of the Council, As further evidence that the stu- dent body knew their business when they nominated officers, Rudy Petereck as president and Charles Bray as a member of the Student Council had previously served in the offices of president of the sophomore class and vice-presi- dent respectively. The vice-presi- dent of the junior class, Jean Swan, was secretary of her class in her sophomore year, and Julia Ann Duff, a Council member, was the chairman of the social committee. No novices for these juniors! Har- ryette Nightingale, senior Student Council member, and Dorothy Jane Willcuts, senior vice-presi- dent, were Student Council mem- bers in their junior year. The elec- tion of previous office-holders shows students' appreciation of the services given by their leaders. Sophomores Use Sleuth Tactics The voting places this year were the Classical room, the Visual

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each class, who are elected when they are sophomores to serve dur- ing their high school career. They are eligible only if they have no grades below B. Each term. the eli- gible students are voted on and the ten chosen take on the duties of full-fledged members. After they are elected, they must keep an aver- age of B or else. . . When a vacancy occurs, a junior in good standing is chosen to fill the place. The Proctor System Vernon Murrow, chairman Charles Bray, first hour captain Harryette Nightingale, second hour captain Jean Swan, third hour captain John B. Covey, fifth hour captain Bill Brownlee, sixth hour captain Heading the Proctor System this year is Vernon Murrow, who has proved his trustworthiness during his high school career by consistent- ly devoting himself to the best in- terests of the school. Vernon is the third student to take over this posi- tion of trust and criticism since the system was inaugurated with the new building. The size of the building, coupled with the terror of the sophomores when first behold- ing its countless denizens, has made it necessary to keep a corps of proc- tors to assist in times of need. Assisting Ver- non as captains of the five periods are Charles Bray, first hour: Harry- ette Nightingale, Vernon Murrow Row 1: Bentley, Abernathy, Willcuts, Hogeboom, McPherson, Hale. Row 2: Pressler, Dice, Lepper, Nightingale. Row 3: Covey, Brownlee, Gilpin, Rankin, Weeks. SERVICE CLUB second hour: Jean Swan, third hour: Vernon Murrow, fourth hour: John B. Covey, fifth hour: Bill Brownlee, sixth hour. Barbara King was originally chosen cap- tain for the second hourg but, be- cause her program could not be ar- ranged to provide a free period, the position was given to Harryette. Each captain chooses some thirty proctors from the study halls to assist him in showing visitors around the building, inspecting passes, and keeping order in the halls. The proctor system in To- peka high school has been com- mended by many persons and copied by other schools who see PROCTOR CAPTAINS Row I: Harryette Nighingale, Jean Swan. Row 2: Vernon Murrow, Charles Bray, John B. Covey, Bill Brownlee. Page Eighteen in Topeka high a shining example of what students can and will do if . left t o t h e i r honor. John B. Covey Student Groups Work At the opening of each term, the Service Club helps in the office by sorting cards, delivering messages, and easing the burden of detail that slows up the work of the harassed office force. The proctors similarly begin their work early, recruiting aides from the study halls to regulate hall traffic. Effort is made to keep the organization representative of all interests. This year for the first time Negro proctors were appoint- ed. The Student Council's first big project each year is the All-School Party. It then turns its attention to such matters as the Point System and election rules. During the vo- cational lectures, its members meet and introduce the speakers. The Representative Council, be- sides caring for the activity tickets, World subscriptions, and Sunflow- er sales, this year has Worked es- pecially on the entertainment of de- baters attending the National Speech Tournament.