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

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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

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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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The Senate was not without its personnel problems, for three members were gently but definitely ousted for pre- vious failure to comply with the much-debated 1.5 grade requirement. Max Ramey, erstwhile law school president, left the fold by request even after noble but vain attempts of law cohorts failed to move the stolid senators. Lester Evans, interfraternity council president, was removed with less fanfare but with equal certainty. The lawmaking career of Earl Maddox, chairman of the music council, also was abruptly ended. One evening the senators even became a self-constituted committee for the suppression of un-American activities when it entertained a membership proposal of the assertedly pink California Youth Legislature. Instead of biting at the red Herring so brazenly flapped in their faces, the senators unanimously threw it back into the uninviting waters from whence it came. Messrs. MacBan and Jones were not alone on those semi-monthly Tuesday evenings. There were others, thirty-one of them. Most of them sat quietly on their prerogatives, but some were vocative if not rational and voluble if not explicit. There were infrequent but oh-so-vehement chirps from the sopranic secretary, Helen Herweg. Always present was generously-proportioned Jack Baird, who often managed to raise his substantial girth to hem and haw through a decision or two. And there was Daily Trojan Editor Reavis Winckler, who could be depended on to use a nickel ' s worth of time in which to put in his two-cents ' worth. 21