Woodberry Forest High School - Fir Tree Yearbook (Woodberry Forest, VA)

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Seated: Ficklen, J., Cassell, Greene, Robinson, C., Thach. Stancling: Harrison, Shannon, Clark, W., Alden. . . . Q52 16,6271 fgezmzf The session of 1941-42 brought a drastic change to the Prefect organization in the form of a great reduction in the size of the board. The failure of the large boards in recent years to work without fric- tion caused the Headmaster and his committee to devise an entirely new program. Instead of a large board, the new one consists of nine members whose authority is almost unlimited. Included in the radical change was the creation of the Board of Monitors who work with the Prefects in the government of school affairs. The Prefects share with the Masters some of the supervision duties, are the advisers of the younger boys, especially the new boys, and are the guardians of the Honor System. As a strong bond between the Masters and the stu- dent body, the Prefects are all- important in the administration of school business and discipline. To use their authority in the interest of both boys and faculty for the smooth functioning of the School is one of their biggest duties. Chosen by a vote submitted by the Prefects of the preceding year as the boys most outstanding in high character, leadership, ability, and loyalty, the new board, with the future welfare of Woodberry in mind, served conscientiously and efliciently and ended the year with a successful record. By a fine spirit of sympathy with the students and of co-operation with the teachers, their influence and authority gained the respect and confidence of both masters and boys alike.

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First Row: Willingham, Curtis, Tavener, Ware, D., Stacy, Ware, J., Mercer. Second Row: Searle, Watt, Hallett, Preyer, A., Smith, D., Valentine, B., Brothers, G., McNeer. Third Row: Howard, C., Britt, White, C., Crawford, Fitzsimons, Efird, Tillett, Smith, R. Fourth Row: Hipp, Sloan, Dougherty, Guyton, J., Starks, Eimers, Rankin, M. We afzfirw rw . For the first time in the history of the School a new branch of student government, the Monitor Board, was inaugurated last fall. Some of the important responsibilities of the former Prefect Boards now fall upon this group which is composed of every full Sixth Form boy who has had at least two years in the School. One of the main purposes of the new plan was to give to every member of the Sixth Form the prestige and influence that should naturally be his. Among the Monitors' duties are the inspection at bed hour, the maintenance of order on the cor- ridors after bells, and the per- formance of such other duties as may be delegated to them by Prefects or Masters. Their out- standing responsibility is not, how- ever, the discharge of these specific duties, but rather that they by their influence and authority, and most of all by their example, main- tain to the best of their ability the traditions of the School. The privileges of the Monitors are two in number: the right to keep lights on one hour after the light bell at night and the exemp- tion from task work for all de- merits under twenty. Remedying an old injustice, namely the failure to include on the Prefect Board boys who de- served the honor and privilege no less than some members of the board, and drawing its strength from one of the strongest Sixth Forms in the history of the School, the first Board of Monitors shared a great deal of the responsibility for this successful school year.