VOL. I, NO. 15
JUNE 8, 1960

Bev, Dave Lead Senior Class Through First Year at West

The time is now 2 p.m. Saturday, June 4, the day after the Senior prom. The place is Maine West's swimming pool. As we enter the pool, our eyes are immediately drawn toward the shallow end of the shallow pool. Here we find Beverly Foss and her next door neighbor floating around in their plastic pool. It looks, like Bev, as usual, trying to attract the attentions of a senior boy by standing on the edge of her plastic pool and yelling her favorite expression, "Foo Pah!!!" in inverted Russian or backwards Rumanian. Suddenly, Bev is no longer standing on the. edge of her pool She's gone! Yes, Fossy did it again! She still has the reputation for being the cloddiest, fastest-talking senior girl on the Maine West campus. A few people seem to think Bev was a born con-man because she can talk anybody into anything.

Bev has participated in many school activities besides being very active in her church youth group. She has been secretary of this year's senior class, a Girl's club representative, on Student Council 1, 4, Pep club, GAA, a senior gym leader, and a member of Theater club.

Among Rev's favorite pas­times are "eating, sleeping, and getting out of work." Also, she enjoys shopping on Thursdays, taking three hours to do the dishes, sleeping through Student Council, and leaving her ironing in the freezer for over a year.

As for memorable moments, the hectic Election week last year and the time Mr. Foss boarded up their trailer by mistake for the second time, are two that Bev will never forget.

Looking toward the future, this Maine West senior plans to attend Northern Illinois university where she will major in education.

Both confidence and friendliness are especially useful characteristics of the president of Maine West's Senior class, Dave Stenmark. The confidence, incidently, has been acquired; Dave remembers being "really scared" at the first of the ten assemblies he presided over this year. Presiding over class council meetings was much easier. Dave, who has been on Student Council for three years was perfectly at ease from the first. Though a great proponent of the use of parlimentary procedure in Student Council meeting, Dave has employed more informal procedure in conducting class council meetings, where the size is much smaller.

Dave, who loves to speak in public, moderated for the meeting that formed the Interim Conference of Student Councils. He flirted outrageously as "Banjo" in the Senior class play and sang "Foggy Dew" while Margie Koehler danced in this year's Variety show. He also announced basketball games for W.M.T.H. There is an embarrassing incident concerned with this: our boy never once let a naughty word escape his lips; but once, in the heat of the contest, he announced what seemed a bit of unsportsmanlike conduct. It had looked like "someone had belted Chuck Reid." Of course he immediately corrected himself.

Dave has also served as chairman of the Honor Study. "A real full time job" he calls it. He has submitted a plan to Mr. Ralph Frost for proving our Honor Study system, a plan that would provide for a separate Honor Study and Student Lounge. The past few weeks, Dave has been trying to recruit seniors to help make decorations for the Prom and lamenting our losing the baseball game with Maine.

Dave will attend William Jewel college near Kansas City, Missouri, next year where he will be rooming with Bruce Ullock, and where he will be studying two years in Liberal Arts, branching off to Business Administration or Law.