Whitewater High School - Aqualba Yearbook (Whitewater, WI)

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CITY HIGH LINE Meet The Press CITY HIGH LINE STAFF EDITOR ,.,............ Karen Eames ASSISTANT EDITOR Patricia Honohan NEWS EDITOR .......... Kathy Mills FEATURES EDITOR ,... Betty Paynter SPORTS EDITOR ,... Bernard Bilodeau SENIOR INTERVIEWS . . Dorothy Monn STENCIL TYPISTS ....,. Marian Ellis, Nancy Fardy, Marjorie Schonath, joy Steig, Yvonne Brown 84 Barbara Collins MIMEOGRAPHING 8: DISTRIBUTION . . . . . . Staff As in the past, the City High Line was published monthly and distributed to each student free of charge. In addition to the staff members above, forty-two students served as reporters and artists. Mr. Kendall Finger was the adviser. Students in the advanced typing class typed the hand-written articles in preparation for stencil typing. For the first three issues all of these student had a chance to type stencils. Thereafter, theistencil typists listed above were selected on the basis of the work done on the early issues. Staff members learned how to draw illustrations, put on headlines, and operate the mimeograph. Each month we benefited by previous mistakes and attempted to put out a consistently better paper. On October ll, the editors attended the Annual High School Editors' Conference held at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The annual sale of pom-pons was held before Homecoming, and the staff sponsored a mixer early in thezschool year, , On April 29, the staff members and Mr. Finger attended a banquet held at the Sterlingworth Hotel. This event was the climax of a successful and enjoyable year. Pa ge Twenty-Nine

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Our Guiding Light STUDENT COUNCIL Hack Row: Mr. Buckingham, R. Bilodeau, C. Schultz, M. Stevenson, W. llothke, H. Sweno, B. Davis Front Row: D. Arnold, W. Ambrose, J. Bosshard, J. Shrohle, IZ. Reese, J, Fisher, J. Rice, A Becker Students desiring to represent their classes on the student council circulated their nomination papers soon after school started. Shortly thereafter the general student body conducted an election at which time the members of the council were chosen, all boys except for two freshman girls. At the first meeting of the group the following officers were selected: President, Arnold Becker, Vice President, Harold Smith, Secretary, Carol Schultzg Treasurer, jack Shroble. The council was in charge of a number of activities during the year. Among these were the directing of the Homecoming Parade and entering a float, locker inspection, furnishing records and record players for all mixers, organizing with College High for the New Year's dance, furnishing the tree and ornaments for the halls at Christmas, continuing the suggestion box in the study hall, carrying on noon hour activities for those who stay at school during the noon hour, and presenting Council Capers which is made up entirely of student talent. Something new this year was experimented with on March 18 when the student body tried Lady and Gentleman Day . Everyone wore dress clothes and made a special effort to be ladies and gentlemen for the entire day. The council, which meets once a month, is under the direction of Mr. Buckingham. Page Twenty-Eight

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DEBATE F ORENSIF S The Cnncincing Wordv Standing: Miss Burgchardt, M. Shroble l Sitting: D. Monn, D. Harley, D. Arnold, B. Davis, K. Eames The debate question for this year was: Re- solved: That the President of the United States should be elected by the direct vote of the people. Debate was directed by Miss Burgchardt. Members of the debate squad were David Harley, Mary Ann Shroble, Bruce Davis, Karen Eames, Dean Arnold, and Dorothy Monn. Debates were held only within the group this year. The question proved to be a timely and inter- esting one and all the members enjoyed participat' ing in it. An encouraging number of students participated in the schoo1's spring forensics program under the direction of Miss Ruth -Burgchardt. Because there Page Thirty . were so many entries, there was a school elimination contest on March 2nd and 3rd. The following students went on to the league contest at East Troy on March 15, 1954: Marjorie Schonath, Nancy Fardy, Karen Eames, Marian Ellis, Patricia Honohan, Dean Arnold, Richard Scharine, Ken Lein, Martha Stevenson, Alice Quinn, Karen Coburn, and Evelyn Miller. The following winners went to Fort Atkinson for the district contest. Karen Coburn, Nancy Far- dy, Evelyn Miller, Marjorie Schonath, Dean Arnold, Ken Lein, Marian Ellis, and Bruce Davis. Of this group Marjorie Schonath received an A at the district contest and went on to the state contest which was held in Madison on April 10, 1954.