Ypsilanti High School - Ypsi Dixit Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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CLUBS and ORGANIZATIONS Breaking Out Of The Routine Year after year the hallways clear in one mad dash at 2:00 pm, only to be repopulated by those who made Ypsi their sec- ond home: those hundreds of students who spend long hours in Ypsi‘s many clubs and organizations. “I've met a lot of interesting people in after school activities. We've worked hard hours, but it’s worth it because we have a lot of fun,’’ says senior Rhonda Blanton, newspaper, yearbook and student council member. Whether it’s laying out a year- book page, performing in a play, checking out an ancestor, writ- ing a newspaper article or build- ing arace car, you'll find a group of potential friends waiting in one of Ypsi’s twenty activities and clubs. tena | — — a - ———— — ee oe pak ane - 3 a a — ae. $ = eer “ - ane — ® - ° amt ow, - — - ar , ee — Pte —. | - “ — = an « - a

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While the city of Ypsilanti is not well known in India, a lit- tle boy living there is sure glad that Ypsilanti High School knows of him. He is a foster child sponsored by the student council. This characterizes the council's goal to not only help with the school and the commu- nity, but to expand as well. The student council can make these contributions only because they have money raising projects. This year, for instance, they were able to raise $300 for the S.O.S. Crisis Center and the Ronald McDonald House through a benefit dance STUDENT COUNCIL, = ; . Touching the Third World G held in the fall. Most of the work accom- plished by the council is done through different committees. The social committee plans most of the dances, while the pub- licity committee promotes all dances and all other events which the council sponsors. The committee most important to the stu- dent body is the S.W.O-P. committee, or Students Working Out Problems. For- merly called the Grievance Committee, the name was changed in order to do away with the negative connotation associated No sibling rivalry here. Sisters Kristin Zylstra and Kelly Zylstra work to- gether to perfect the decorations for the post exam blues dance with the word “grievance”, “ The main purpose of the student council is to provide a link between the students and the school,’’ said coun- cil member Kristen Joseph. This is exactly what S.W.O.P, is doing. In the future, the student council will be doing more to help the students, the com- munity, and even the world. This includes their four year commitment to sponsor the boy in India so that someday he can visit the school in Yp- silanti which helps him sur- vive. Gayanne Morsfield hopes to find her notes on the cost of lights for the school sign. A great deal of time was spent determining the gift from the ‘87 student council The social committee decorates for all of the school dances. Kristen Joseph, a prominent council mem- ber, likes decorating because she plans to become an interior design- er