West Goshen Elementary School - West Go Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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,. V,-.y..... N : Q X, HI-Y-CLUB This international organization, having a triangle as its emblem of service develops boys mentally, spiritually and physically. The Hi-Y successfully terminated another year with George Crossley serving as president, Conrad Letter, vice president, Eugene Harvey, secretary, and Richard Gentile, treas- urer. The Hi-Y was composed of members of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. The Club meets on the second Friday of each month. At the meetings numerous talks on conduct, manners and other topics were presented by Mr. Hengst, the Y.M.C.A. Field Director and outside speakers. The platform of the club is built on WClean Living, Clean Speech, Clean Athletics and Clean Scholarshipn. The club was very active having collected victrola records, books and old toothbrushes for the boys in the service. Basket ball and baseball games were played with other Hi-Y clubs of surrounding schools. As a final activity the boys were hosts to the Tri-Hi-Y and the faculty at a party. TRI-HI-Y The Tri-Hi-Y under their Faculty Advisor, Mrs. Edith B Ferrer had a very active year. Their officers for the term were president, Ethel Cox, vice-president, Lenore Jones: sec retary, Jane Myers, and treasurer, Patty Winters. Meetings were held twice a month during which time we tations. During the social part of our meetings we played bingo and other games and on one occasion enjoyed movies with the Hi-Y in a joint meeting. We donated 62.00 to the American Red Cross, made scrap books for convalescent soldiers and knit squares for blankets for the Red Cross. In February we had a dance acting as hostesses to the Hi Y-Club. Everyone had a most enjoyable time. We are hoping for more affairs similar to this in the future. Mrs. Ferrer has organized three baseball teams and at pre sent we are running an elimination series. conducted interesting discussions of youth problems and temp-

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v--,vm ,..-u .f X - '- '.,: Z.4'fL-sg-f,j'-'-. JOURNALIST CLUB The Journalist Club was organized to publish our school paper nThe West-Go News.n It is quite a job to keep up on the news of West Goshen-guinea pigs in Grade lA, a spring garden in Grade B, movies in Room 9, puppet shows by Fifth Grade, colored chicks for Grade 1B at Easter, reports on baseball victories and paper drives. Ethel Cox as editor-in-chief heads the group with her staff of Ronald Yeager as assistant editor, Virginia McCardell as news editor, John Bogle as art editor, Stanley Johnson writing the sports news, Helen Browne and Joan Atwell are editors of the fun page, while Amy Wright does the secretarial work and Elaine Harvey manages the business matters. Twenty-one reporters see that no news item is over-looked. From the first word cut on the stencil for page l to the last joke on the fun page, the girls and boys who are interested in writing, interested in learning to express themselves, to report whay they see and hear, or to describe some exciting event, find space for their offering and occupation for their spare time recording the news of a West Goshen year. ORCHESTRA The orchestra was organized in 1944. We had little to work with in the beginning, and we still haven't advanced too much farther, as far as instruments are concerned. We have done well, considering certain handicaps which have been a considerable drawback. Two of the most important ones are: Q15 No instru- mental set-up comparable to larger schools. 123 Inability for individuals to purchase instruments at the present time, because of war conditions. Because of the former we've had to depend entirely on privately owned instruments. This has been a decided handicap, because it means training each year someone new to re-- place those who leave. This has to be done before the orchestra can function again, and consequently, there is a waste of precious time. The second handicap will be solved when the war is over. The orchestra meets once a week, and now has ten members. Instrumentation consists of four trumpets, two violins, one sax, one clarinet, one drummer, and a pianist. The balance is not the best, but we accept what we have. There is set aside two instrumental periods a week when students, who provide their own instruments are given the oppor- tunity to take through the school, trumpet, violin, and clarinet lessons. We have done very well the short while we have been practising, but we can't hope for too much improvement until we acquire a bigger variety of instruments that will be available to students.