West Seattle High School - Kimtah Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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Li bmry and ffice To weld the armed forces into well- organized fighting units, much plan- ning, besides that of the basic military strategy is required. The communica- tions and supplies systems today work unceasingly to maintain constant con- tact between all points of importance to the Allies, and scientists continually -do research work in order to better the lot of the fighting men. The efficiency with which our school Front row: Pearle Beery, Attendance Clerk. Dorothy Rand, assistant library. Back row: Erraldine Snyder. office assistant. and Jean Lane,Hbradan. is run depends on the office. It is the central agency of the school, handling business matters, keeping individual school records and supplying information, thus serving as a focus for bul- letins, attendance, mail, telephone calls and the like. Front row: Chester Babcock, history department Mary Walters, English, George Welch, industrial arts Lansing, English. Back row: Ellen Davenport, head clerk: Marguerite Sorenson, commercialg L. R. Logan, hall: Edna Babcock, language. head: lrene office study Etc. .. Whatever you are looking for, and anything from physiology to Bible Texts can be found in room lOl -better known as the school library. An effi- cient staff with Miss Lane at the head, the library operates an as smoothly run basis as can be found anywhere in the school. Every year the library receives stores of books on nearly any subject, both fic- tion and non-fiction, that the average high school reader has any interest, or any use for. These books are all given over to the use of the student body, with the one reservation that they bring them back on time, and also that they treat the books with proper respect.

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First row: Marian White, Commercialg Leona Culver, Languageg Martha Hague, Language. Second row: Marcia Magillicuddy, Patience Lockhart, Edward Meyer fheadb, William Murphy, Commercial. ommercial and Language The valuable training the students in the commercial classes are receiving will enable them to step into essential po- sitions. The wheels of business must turn as surely as those of industry, especially as the demand grows greater for those skilled in typing, shorthand and bookkeeping. For those who Will not use their commercial training until later, they will find it indispensable. Building the peace will be a task greater than any one nation can do. It will require the understanding and patience of every- one throughout the world. ln the foreign language classes efforts are being made to stim- ulate the interest in the people behind the language. These students of language have an excellent opportunity to study the problems of foreign nations and to realize their people are much like us, similar in ideals and the desire for peace. Home EC. and Arts Courses in industrial arts take on new significance now that the need is great for skillful fingers in war industries. The fair sex has finally invaded heretofore forbidden territory and has a course of its own, Victory Shop, which offers to girls basic shop training. Now that Uncle Sam would rather have eligible young men in the armed forces instead of in war factories, the opportunity for young women in industry is heightened. First row: Gering Chamberlain, lndustrial Art: Eula Frey, Home Economics, Vernon Behymer, Music. Second row: Fred Gorton, Ind. Arts fheadjg Hallie Donaldson, Art: Amelia Bachmann, Home Ee.: George Welch, Ind. Art. In these days of rationing and sky-rocket prices, fortunate is the girl who can plan a thrifty, well-balanced meal. In the home economics department students learn to make the best of available food and clothing. The music and fine arts departments are busy as ever this year- the music students endeavoring to keep America singing, and potential artists enlisting in patriotic projects and contests as well as their regular training.

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Student Body The Co - ordinating Council consists first of I6 members, 8 students and 8 teachers. It was re-organized in the fall, and one more division, Schools at Warii was added. The members are elected in the spring during the annual Boys' and Girls' Club elections. It serves as a fact- finding, policy-making body in Front row: Barbara Afflerbach, Margaret Hunter, Patty Sweazey, , Annabelle Aller end Helen Torney. Beele new: cneflee Hannaford, 3 matters felatlng to H 'SCh001 advisor, Dick Smith, Phil Brewer, Tom Ruggles and Noel Hancock. affairs- Many things were accom- plished by the groupg the Drive for 1002 Stamp Plan participation, headed by Margaret Hunterg the Co-ordinating Council Assembly, directed by Noel I-lancock's Assmbly Committee, the work of the drives handled by Dick Smith's Schools-at-War divisiong the War Stamp drive under the management of Pat Sweazey and the Scholarship Committee, and many more constructive improvements. Starting in the fall of l943, the name Co-ordinating Council will be abandoned in favor of making it a President's Cabinet. It will have the same duties, but will be under the authority of - the President of the Student Body, who will be elected by the students. Our school government is in an experimental stage, working steadily toward a practical, democratic society. When Steve Ellis suddenly died early this spring, it was a blow to West Seattle student government. Steve, working with Mr. Hannaford, Student Government Advisor, interviewed teachers, read many reports of student government in other schools, and finally wrote the constitution that our present plan is based on. During his Sophomore year, he served as President of the Student Council. He held the office of President of the Co-ordi- mating Council up to the time of his death. STEVE ELLIS According to Mr. Hannaford, who perhaps knew him better than any other teacher through their work together, he was the most outstanding student ever to enter West Seattle student government in that he was more concerned with creating a more perfect system, than in tearing down the present one.