Willow Springs High School - Willamizzou Yearbook (Willow Springs, MO)

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The 1941 Willamizzou STUDENT COUNCIL Based upon democracy and with the thought of giving more experience to the students, the faculty has decided to let the student body select a .group of students as their student council. It was done in a very democratic way, with each home room selecting the pupil that they wanted. A home room is a group of students with one teacher as their counselor. The council elected the following officers: President, Gene Clingan; and secretary, June Schneller. The student council will in every way possible and every way within their power, try to help the faculty solve school problemsesuich as noisy halls, actions on the campus, care of the school library, newspapers, magazines. It will act under the facultyts supervision and if things get beyond their control they will ask the help of the faculty. This council was formed to eliminate somewhat the teachers continually telling the students not to do this or that and to lessen their responsibilities. It is believed that with the student body backing the student council, any pupil who has been brought before the council for some wrong doing will not want to face the student council again because they now know what the student body thinks of what they have done and also know that student opinion carries throughout a well organized school. Student opinion is powerful and therefore we have every right to as- sume that it W111 be worthy of our time and that the council will be a success.

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The 1941 Willamizzou HIGH SCHOOL PLAY THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR Comedy in Three Acts The literary department of the Willow Springs high school gave the play uThe Absent-Minded Professor on October 29. Uncle Barney, Gene Clingan, is the main character. He has an ardent belief in astrology which leads him to make predictions according to stars. He is sometimes carried away with his work. Of course, we know that all pro- fessors are absent-minded and this one seems to be no exception. Uncle Barney has two neices, Sharon and Joan, ,played by Donna Hurst and Rhea Anne Rush. They are young, sweet, innocent and attractive. They get their men, Who are Joe Watson, Johnie Cecil Stone, and Dave Carter, Rex Pace. The boys are in college and obviously well educated, but appear be be slightly frivolous as they have just icompleted their freshman year. Miss Melvins, Naomi Honey, is the family housekeeper and has cared for Sharon and Joan since their fathers death. She is loved by the girls and despised by Aunt Jessica, Jane Doinley, and Josephine, Betty Ligiht. Aunt Jes- sica is Barneyts sisterdn-law and is yery haughty and disdaihful. She is what you might say the upper-crust in society. Josephine is her daughter, an exact image of her mother. . . . Miss Esmeralda is the village widow wh0.has four times been deprived of a husband. She is very affectionate, boring Uncle Barney with her talk of her dead husbands. Esmeralda is played by Freda Graves. Mr. Butler is g1a$ed 13y Floyd Lasley. He is the man who reads the will of the late Baxter . aw Ins. JUNIOR PLAY itDON'T DARKEN MY DOOR The Junior class of the Willow Springs high school presented the play ttDonit Darken My Door by Anna C. Martens, on February 26, 1941. The cast of characters were the following: Roger Kentea bachelor ............................................ Wayne Spence Rosemary Kentwhis romantic niece . .. Maxine Williams Tom GarrickeRosemaryis suitor .................... Lyle James Poppy FostereMaid-of-all-work . Fem Roberts Alec StubbinsePoppyis devoted swain ..................... Rex Pace Jane Perkinsea writer of romances ................ Naomi Honeycutt Louisa Featherstone, Susie Featherstone imaiden laidiesi Erma Frommel, Helen Seiber This comedy concerns the love of Rosemary and Tom. Rosemary has been reading the books of Jane Perkins, who decides her Tom has iino romance in his soulf Jane shows Tom and Alec how to get romance in their souls. Jane also. manages a romance for herself, with Roger Kent, Rosemaryis uncle. LClilsa and Susie Featherstone are also captivated by Janeis stories. Poppy dealdes that perhaps Alec does have some romance in his soul after all.

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The 1941 Willamizzou BETA CLUB The National Beta Club is one of the clubs for honor students in high school. To be eligible for the Beta Club a student must have a certain number of Ees. Members of the Beta Club are as follows: Florence Godat Collins Jay Morse J une Schneller Mary Louise Snyder Ruth Ward Betty Lou Ferguson Katherine Lovan Martha Jean Brewington Rhea Anne Rush Vera Hull Pauline Frazee Rowe Finley Maxine Williams