Dear Editor:
Last year I was in favor of having a foreign exchange student at West. When this plan was voted down by the student body, I thought we had made a mistake.

The idea of an exchange student will be brought up again, and I hope the plan will be passed. An exchange student would give the students great pride in showing their interest in the world around them.

Clyde Rowells '65


Dear Editor:
I am a freshman and for the first time in my life I attended a football game.

It's a cruel game, but very interesting. I never knew we had such masculine looking boys at our school; but those funny looking uniforms don't do them justice.

The part I can't understand is who are the two jailbirds on the field throwing the red handkerchiefs?

Matilda Frosh

P.S. Please tell someone to fix the ball. It must have been deflated because there are points on both ends.


Dear Editor:
I would like to compliment Counselor McKinnis on his talk to all the sophomores last September 6. He knows how to get to the hearts of teenagers.

The humorous jokes softened the students up to realize the serious side of his messagestay in school.

Karl Raack '65


Dear Editor:
Music is appreciated at concerts, but not in study halls!

Right, all you A wingers? Quiet Please

Dear Editor:
I would like to congratulate you and your staff on the way the paper was handled last year, only I think you need a better cartoonist or artist. Some of the cartoons looked as though a two‑year‑old had drawn them. Other than that, I enjoyed the Westerner a great deal. And, thanks to your fine newspaper, I wasn't told by my study hall teachers to get to work.

Dreama Wells '65


Dear Editor:
Coming from an Iowa school which won an award for being one of the top schools in the United States last year, I find it hard to get used to any new school.

Although I like Maine West, my first impression was that the students are not very friendly. I heard several other new students make the same comments. I think that if all of the other students and myself tried to make new students feel welcome, this would solve the problem.

Judy Meyer '65


Dear Editor:
A very alarming situation has arisen in our school. We have been invaded by freshman. Ugh!

Alarmingly Yours,
John C. Gauger '64


Dear Editor:
At last we're getting that long needed and wanted sidewalk along Oakton. Many thanks to our Student Council for helping with the financing by selling tickets for the pancake breakfast last spring.

Carol Manning '65