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

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12 0 Left to right: Phyllis Birkett, Lois Baker, Pat Waterman, Grace White, Dorothy Swift fDepartment Headl, Mary Io Radovitch, Iane McDougall, Barbara Garlinghouse, Nancy Woodhouse. Cv 5QJllLlk.Q Q Left to right: Patty Wright, Pat Topping, Pat Pierce, Lee Fridlin, Galina Kay IDepartment Headl, Barbara Amidon. Q Front row: Shirley Good, Betty McCoy, Beverly Snow, Yvonne Cleverly !Department Headl, Rosabelle Carl- son, Florence Fell. Back row: Roberta Pfiel, Beverly Whaley, Connie Iensen, Marjorie Myers, Pat Burkett. Pnfmnnal Q Left to right: Margaret Dear, Gerry Gaillac, Ioyce Couch KDepartment Headl, Hazel Escott, Betty Amsler. CSQJLUIICQ gon Uicfvfuf 0 Left to right: Ioan Arps IDepartment Headl, Eileen Eide, Cmissing is Marie Blythl.

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Dila' OFFICERS Mary K Pre 'd t Marilyn M rilyn Record Do Pete Vice President thy Cor.S M Yd oira Tre C! McDonald in Q Swift Bb D1 VPdt Suns ago, this ter- ritory lay timbered, quiet and serene, in- habited only by scat- tered tribes of native lndians living in their peaceful, friendly en- vironment. With the passing of many snows and winds, a new people came in wagon and on horse- back to cut away the virgin forests, build- ing in their stead, a city of stone and steel. Yet, as when a tepee was the only shelter, the same spirit hovers in the hearts of men and women of today. That spirit depicting friendliness, coopera- tion and good will was enshrined in a certain tepee on the West Seattle reserva- tion-the Girls' Club Apartment, the lodge where all of the school activities of the more than 788 maidens of West Se- attle were culmi- nated. Under the guid- ance of their advisor, Miss Chilberg, the maidens' affairs were conducted by their president, Mary Kin- zelq vice president, tfirst five moons? Mar- ilyn Peterseng vice president Clast five moons?, Barbara Daley record- ing secretary, Marilyn McDonaldg corresponding secretary, Dorothy Swiftg treasurer, Moira Yadon. Dorothy Swift was chief of the Administration Department. This clan kept the club running smoothly. Writing letters to maidens out of school because of illness, ,greeting newcomers to the reservation, and maintaining the Lost and Found were but a few of the jobs done by the Community Service Department led by Galina Kay, with Marilyn McDonald as officer-sponsor. Tribal festivals were supervised by the Entertainment Department under the hand of Shirley Good Cfirst semester?, Yvonne Cleverly tsecond semester? Moira Yadon was the officer-sponsor. Guiding girls on personal health and charm standards this year fell to the Personal Efficiency Depart- ment. headed by lackie Dahl Cfirst semester? and loyce Couch tlast semester? with Mary Kinzel as officer- sponsor. X M a i d e n s shared in the war effort by organizing the Service for Vic- tory Depart- ment. headed by loan Arps, with Marilyn Peterson tfirst semester? and Barbara Dale tsecond semes- ter? as officer- - sponsors. MISS CHILBERG

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50144 ' One tepee on the YN est Seattle Reser- vation always sure to be crowded with young lndian war- t riors, and often many maidens, too, was the Boys' Club Lodge. Boys' Club includes in its membership any brave who lays down wampum for an Activity Stamp book, some 620 war- riors, and for the past ten moons has exist- ! ed under the guid- , ance of Big Chief Pop l-lannaford, dfo rating for its presi- dent, Mike Mohun- drop Bob Clithero for vice-presidentg and Howard Bellows as secretary-treasurer. As in the sun of '44, Boys' Club tasks were carried out in true lndian fash- ion by various committees, organ- ized to get things done in an effi- cient way, while braves grew mighty under the stimulus of giving friendly, constructive service. Perhaps the most important com- mittee of these would be termed the Personal Achievement Committee, which had the vital but difficult duty of developing leadership and direc- tive gualities within the braves, ulti- mately inducing tribesmen to get into school activities for experience in leadership. Because lndians are known from the Cascades to the Olympics as friendly, it was quite natural that braves organize a Friendship Com- l4 OFFICERS Mike Mohun President Bob C1 thero Vice President H ward Bell ws S .-T . mittee. which not only kept up cor- respondence with lndians who were out of school because of illness, but made any new members of the tribe feel at home on the range by intro- ducing them to school life at West Seattle. Furthermore, the Boys' Club estab- lished a minute-man organization, the School Service Committee, that hourly was on call to perform the miraculous emergency services which creep up, even on an lndian reservation. West Seattle braves are deeply conscious of the morale of their war- rior brothers in uniform and had at least one sure way of keeping it tip- top. The Letters to Servicemen Com- mittee was originated so that stu- dents in roll rooms could cooperate with the Boys' Club in sending let- ters from home to former school mates in service. Each roll was allotted the names and addresses of certain warriors in service, then braves and maidens c o l l e c t e d appropriate newspaper clippings and wrote letters. Thus, while the earth was - e afire with war, and peoples were thrown off balance mentally as well as physi- cally, the West Seattle braves lived through days of worry over studies, draft classifica- tions and jobs, without risking - scars. MR. HANNAFORD