Wamego High School - Wa Kaw Yearbook (Wamego, KS)

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ORGANIZATIONS

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The Journalism Class attended the 1959-60 Journalism Conference at Manhattan. STANDING: Ben Eichem Barbara Leonard, JoAnn Berry, Ann Lonsinger, Sheila Foresman, and Harry Mansfield. SITTING: Vicky Moore, Mrs. Barbara Burgess, Pat Bussart, and Jana Capps. Reporting and recording the events of the school year was the primary job of the journalism department. With a small staff of eight this class published the biweekly school newspaper, The Chief and the annual. The Wa- Kaw. The goal of the class was improvement. Sheila Foresman, Wa-Kaw Editor, and Barbara Leonard, Chief Editor, stop for a minute from their busy duties to pose for a picture. 16

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STUDENT COUNCIL Officers of Student Council were Mr. Saffell, Sponsor; Vicky Moore, Karen Geyer, Tone Uhlrich, and Ben Eichem. The student governing body of WRHS is Student Council. This body of twenty- five was made up of presidents, vice- presidents, and representatives from each class and organization. This group was used to express the needs and the desires of the student body. STUDENT COUNCIL, BACK: Kenny Gilchrist, Larry Griffin, Vicky Moore, Roy Grieshaber, Paul Coffman, Jimmy Johnson, Darold Brunkow, Ben Eichem. SECOND: Jim Kientz, Dan Foltz, Mary Cantwell, Sheila Foresman, Judy Mille FRONT: Tom Umscheid. Tone Uhlrich, Lana Machin, Thayer Duncan, and Pat Bledsoe.