W F West High School - Chehalin Yearbook (Chehalis, WA)

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L. NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY HONOR SOCIETY BANQUET Speaker: Miss Janet Reed, England GLORIA LINDSEY President One of the few select organizations is the National Honor Society. A student becomes eligible in his sophomore year and is admited if he meets standard re- quirements in scholarship, leadership, citizenship and service. Besides regular meetings, activities include a Christmas party and Spring banquet. SEATED: Miller, Olson, Steepy, Wedin Betts, Casad, C. Gun- ther, S. Johnston. STANDING: Cooke, Svinth, Lindsey, Worth- ington, Kelso, Blunt, Smith, Flem, Updegrove, Anderson, Schindler, Benedict. 67

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GIRLS' LEAGUE ,,,, , V KAROL KELSO President The Girls' League was especially active and succesful This year under The leader- ship of Karol Kelso. Activities of The year included The annual Girls' Mixer,' The Sweetheart Tolo, The Big Sister Pro- gram and The Leadership meeting held with The Centralia Girls' League Cabinet. The Sweetheart Court looks on as Wayne Johnson and Yvonne Ford step forward as King and Queen of Hearts at the 1961 Girls' League Tolo. SEATED: Richardson., Kelso, Svinth, Updegrove. STANDING: ' ' Evers, Miller, Huber, Newcomb, Talbott, Briem, Knudson, ' Reichert, Mallowney, Benedict.

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SPENCER JOHNSTON Presidenf Forensic activities aT W. F. WesT gained new impeTus This year for several reas- ons. In January The mem- bers adopted The charTer of The Forensic Club. The ad- option of The charter set The True groundwork for future forensic activities in our high school. In addition To This sTep forward as an or- ganizafion, The Forensic members have done a not- able job aT The different speech Tournamems. AT an inviTaTional Tournament aT Grays Harbor College in January Chehalis members Took The sweepsTake Tro- phy for best accumulaTive scoring. This scoring was implimented by one of our debaTe Teams which Took first and by a firsT in inTer- preTaTive reading To other lower scores. The close of other inviTaTional Tourna- menTs aT Cenfralia College and ST. MarTin's found Che- halis had Taken second place in debaTe and firsf in ora- Tory in each case. BuT prob- ably The crowning achieve- menT of The Forensic year was The disTricT debaTe TournamenT in O l y m p i a where a Chehalis debaTe Team for The second year won a righT To comppeTe at The STaTe debate meeT aT W.S.U. aT Pulman in April. Much crediT for The success of the Forensic Club goes To Mrs. Mildred DenisTon, advisor. 68 FORENSICCCLUB ww FIRST ROW: Evans, Wilcox, Gaden, Spears, Lofberg, Miller. SECOND ROW: Larson, McGandy, Hokenson, Johnson, Wor- thington, Svinth. THIRD ROW: Dybvig, Dugaw, Casad, S. Johnson, Panesko, Hines, Johnston. SIGNS OF SUCCESS -- Spencer Johnston, Phil Hines, Susan Lee, and Nita Svinth display some of the trophies won at Forensic tournaments this year. ,,'...