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

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First Row: Glascock, Logan, Weinig, Warner, Bussey, W., Love, J., Payne. Second Row: Hendren, Duncan, P., Rieman, Taylor, R., Emmett, Ware. Third Row: Eshelman, Rankin, Sprague, Searson, Saxton, Knisely. THE MIINITIIH BIJAHD Though still a comparative innova- tion the Monitor Board this year showed every indication of becoming a permanent institution in student ad- ministration at Woodberry. Com- posed of members of the Sixth Form who have been at Woodberry for three years or more, the Monitor Board thus makes possible a wider delegation of solne of the authority vested in the Prefects. Because the emergencies of wartime forced four Monitorsfjohn Stout, ,lack Barnes, Bill Pollard, and Earl King-to leave school before graduation, three new members were added to the group: Frank Emmert, Paul Wickliile, and Jack Glascock, who, though not tech- nically qualilied, were chosen to fill the vacancies because of special com- petence. Completing the second year of its existence, the Monitor Board has grown in power, prestige, and sense of duty. Monitorial privileges in- clude an extra hour of study at night, as well as special exemption from task work for demerits. Hand in hand with the privileges go the duties of maintaining order and upholding high standards of conduct, and it is these duties which the Monitors have loyally fulfilled.

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Seated: Hunter, Fields, Stephenson, Moore. Standing: Boyd., jones, Collins, Merritt. Absent: Arnold. THE PHEFEIIT Bllllllll Finest among Woodberry traditions, the Prefect System has, for forty- three years, administered its phase of school government with loyalty and devotion to its Alma Mater. Radic- ally reorganized in the 1941-1942 session, the new type Board was com- posed of ten Prefects, in addition to the newly-formed Board of Monitors. This system, again adopted for the session of 1942-1943, has justified the faith of both Faculty and Students by guiding Woodberry through one of the darkest periods in its history. Early in the fall Bill Stephenson was unanimously chosen Senior Prefect. The loss, in mid-year, of Frank Hun- sucker, one of the Board's most valuable members, occasioned the election of two new Prefects, Bill Bussey and Dick Keenan. Guardians of the Honor System, the Prefects share some of the power and influence of the Masters in main- taining order and upholding high standards of conduct. The work of this yearis Prefect Board has done much to insure the success of future Boards by pursuing a wise and fore- sighted policy. Their sound judg- ment, loyalty, leadership, and innate school spirit have upheld the prestige of this most important of Wocrdherry organizations.

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For more than two decades the Chapel Council has led all student participation in the religious activi- ties of Woodherry Forest. Directed hy the Reverend Charles Covell, this group, through the offerings made each Sunday night in St. Andrewis Chapel. has heen able to establish scholarships at Blue Ridge lndustrial School for two local boys, to supply Christmas and Thanksgiving boxes for underprivileged families, and to send several Boy Scouts from Orange to summer camps. Mr. Covell THE CHAPEL EIIUNIIII. Seated: Rankin, Boyd, Stephenson, Hunter. Standing: Courtenm Bussew Emmert. 23