University of Southern California - El Rodeo Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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SECRETARY HELEN HERWEG with her warm smile and ingratiating personality gave life to the rather cold and impersonal job of student secretary. Helen has been a member of all of her class councils, Amazons, and the Student Council on Religion. It just seemed natural that she should be chosen to fill the number three position in the stu- dent body administration.

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VICE-PRESIDENT BARBARA VI II It I I) might well be regarded as having reached the pinnacle of political and social success in her college career, having become engaged to the school ' s foot- ball captain and elected to the highest office a woman can hold in the student body. With charm and affability she carried out her duties as Troy ' s official hostess.

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Left to right: Bob Herten, Fred Powers, John Maxwell, Howard Bergherm, Bob Boulger, Ed Killingsworth, John Lindsay, Reavis Winckler, Ed Jones, Barbara Morton, Mike MacBan, Helen Herweg, Phil Gaspar, Charles Dole, Zuma Palmer, Lynn Moody, Harry Eddy, Lona Romano, Mary Lou Braun, Bill Busby, Jack Baird. s E N A T E True to tradition now hoary with age, the 1939-40 student senate spent a rather harmless year complacently voting confidence in the occasional accomplishments of a few of its more active members. Handsome Prexy Michael (l-used-to-be-a-child-actor) MacBan provided a sense of earnestness to the semi-monthly meetings in his own affable manner. He functioned as a coordinator, not an imitator, and his coordinating received reasonably popular approval. But the senatorial Heavens of the fourth floor of the Student Union were not without their shining star. Jones was his name — Ed Jones. Above all things Ed Jones was a man, and like all men he liked to hear himself talk. And talk he did. Never did the night pass in which the vibrant voice and gesticulating hands of the pompous debater-senator failed to dominate senate discussion. His outstanding contribution, however, was effected outside of the room in which he exercised his volubility. Practically single-handed he completely reorganized the A.S.S.C. constitution into an orderly, concise business-like document. 20