JUNE 8, 1972
Top Seniors Get Department Awards at Honors Assmebly
Departmental awards are given to seniors by various departments on the basis of scholastic averages and all around school citizenship. Each department may give two awards if they desire to do so.
The students who receive such awards must have completed a minimum of three years' work in the department. Scholastic averages are then computed by averaging all the grades for the work taken in the department during the entire four years of high school.
No student is eligible to receive more than one departmental award.
The traditional method of choosing speakers for graduation, known as valedictorian and salutatorian, has been altered this year. Rather than just selecting the top two students academically in their class, the top one percent of the students will meet and select two speakers from this group.
This selection will take place immediately following the Honors Assembly; as a result of this, the Westerner was not able to obtain the names of the speakers in time for this edition.