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The SENIOR STUDENT COUNCIL is made up of boys representing the four high school classes, with Headmaster Prentice Horne in the capacity of advisor. This year's group under the leadership of its President, Gary Taylor, has surpassed all previous Wardlaw student councils in its record of achievements for the school as well as for the student body.
Most outstanding was the cash donation to the Board of Trustees, amounting to nearly half the cost of painting the interior of the gymnasium, a long deferred, but badly needed project. The purchase of a duplicating machine for the benefit of the school was also of great value and will be of much help for many years to come. The council's usual activities, such as sponsoring the athletic dinners, and arranging for the formal and informal dances were part of its regular agenda for the year. It also spon­ sored the Curtis magazine campaign, which was comparatively successful.
The entire Senior Student Council for 1959-1960 has evidenced steadfastness and devotion to school government and leadership.
The school newspaper, the BEACON, which appears at intervals throughout the year is the third in a series of news publications, beginning with the "Wardlaw News" which appeared during the early 1930's. In 1939 the Wardlaw students published their second news sheet, "The Wardlawsun", which survived until 1948, and the Beacon, the present journal, was begun in 1953.
In June of 1959, the Beacon drastically altered its format changing from a mimeo­ graphed "do-it-yourself" newspaper to one which is professionally printed, and carries advertising. The success of the Beacon is due, in great part, to Mrs. Clelia Saflund, its indefatigable advisor.
The yearbook of the Wardlaw School has had a checkered career, appearing only fourteen times in the seventy-eight years of the school's existence. The first annual, "The Wardlaw Press Board", was published in 1917, but there was no yearbook produced from then until 1948, when it re-appeared at Wardlaw as the MAROON AND GOLD.
The 1960 Maroon and Gold is unique in the fact that its Editor-in-Chief, Gregori Lebedev, along with three members of the yearbook "Board" are from the Junior Class. This year's yearbook is the first to be published under the aegis of the Wardlaw
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EXPLANATORY NOTE: The cover of this yearbook is of imported Italian silk.
The Wardlaw Upper School is a proving ground for various activities—the boy gets a taste of government, he tries his hand at business and achieves satisfaction on a journalistic and artistic plane—all of these pursuits give depth to the ". . . MIRROR OF
ONE'S PERSONALITY . . .".
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