Westtown High School - Amicus Yearbook (Westtown, PA)

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Stcmdin Mltchell Wlnn, Priscilla Richardson, John Radbill. Advisor: Olive M. Charles, James Colby Middle Row Jo n Beidemen, Ruth Harvey, Wistar Comfort. Front row: Murllyn Sutton, Wlltrud Richter, Asia Alderson .. . .Zee That serious and attentive group meeting in the French room is Westtown's Religious Life Committee, guided by faculty adviser Olive Charles. Headed byr Ruth Harvey and Wistar Comfort, this group planned the religious activity of the school. During the year they have sponsored intervisitation with other meetings and churches. Classical music was enjoyed in South Room after Sunday Meeting throughout the year under jim Colby's super- vision. Five interested committee members attended a conference at Penn Charter where they discussed various pertinent questions with other students. A suggestion box in Central at the beginning of the year was responsible for many helpful revisions, which helped make this such a successful year.

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Standlnq Robert Nevitt, Frederic Bell, Betty Ann Furnas. Seated: Jane Carpenter, Advisors: Barbara Taylor, Charles K. Brown III. Z ' Z 'Zee One of many organizations to make South Room its headquarters this year was the Steering Committee. Among its activities, the group sponsored social dancing, co-ed volley ball, and square dance jamborees, while once in a while a big show would be produced. The best of these were an amateur show, a White Elephant auction, and It Pays To Be Ignorant, an extravaganza in which student bright lights acted natural to the amuse- ment of the crowd. The committee's successful sidelight was the Canteen, in which the casino was utilized on a number of Saturday aftemoons for informal dancing and games, where the girls drank Bofsto beverages and the East-enders sampled the confections of the girl's A.A. store. The goal of this Saturday afternoon activity is to develop the casino into a student lounge where Westonians of the future may congregate in the evenings.

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Standing I-larry Allen, Advisors: Charles K. Brown III, Agnes Thomas. Middle row: Caroline Hoqq R1 hard Simon, Marshall Severance. Front row: Helen Noyes, Alice Hoag. ' ' we This year the Service Committee, headed by Carol Hogg at girls' end and Dick Simon at boys' end, has been very successful. Other members were Helen Noyes, Alice Hoag, Marshall Severance, and Harry Allen, Master Charlie and Teacher Agnes Thomas being faculty advisors. The relationship between Ommen and Westtown was extended with both students and faculty corresponding, and several articles needed there were sent to them. A new type of Christmas Project was developed this year, the Christmas Fund was modeled after the Red Feather Campaigns, except ours was the White Feather Drive, the white feather denoting peace. The students and faculty were divided into twelve groups, creating a feeling of competition, thus we were able to raise approximately five hundred dollars. This sum was divided between the American Friends Service Committee and the Friends' School in Tokyo, which was destroyed during the war. The boys chopped and de- livered three truckloads of wood to nine needy families in West Chester while the girls knitted garments. We also helped furnish a community house in West Chester, which desperately needed games and magazines. Thanks to everyone who helped to make this such a profitable year! f X