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The Guide
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THE GUIDE
Thursday, November 16, 1961 THE GUIDE
4 SW Students to Lead 1,500 Sophs
By JOY CHERRY Correspondent A big job has been placed on the shoulders of the four selected to lead the sophomore class at Southwest High School, Robert Kelley is president; Betty Perry, vice president; Susan Nash, secretary; and Howard [?i?ger], treasurer. They have the responsibility of leading 1,500 sophomores, the largest number ever at Southwest. The head man, Robert Kelley, was president of his home-room and civics class at South Miami Junior High. A Student Council representative, Bob was editor of the school news-paper for two years. He also received the outstanding chor-al award and the journalism award there. Vice president Betty Perry, recipient of the superlative for the wittiest at West Miami Junior High School, is a sports enthusiast, Captain of the deck tennis team in ninth grade, Betty also was awarded a letter for Thespians. This year her interests are turned toward swimming and the progress of the sophomore class. As secretary, Susan Nash is an old hand at the job. Last year she was secretary of the steering committee at Riviera Junior High helping with the planning of the prom and other activities. She was award-ed the American Legion Award and was active in school plays. Susan is an honor stu-dent at Southwest taking both honors English and honors Bio-logy. Money is right at home in the hands of treasurer Howard Groger. A member of the Jun-ior Nationar Honor Society at West Miami Junior High, he has a great interest in the stock market, having earned profits amounting to $50. Howard also collects coins and proves he's a whiz at num-bers, having taken honors al-gebra last year and honors plane and solid geometry this year. DEBATERS The combined efforts of four determined speakers won Southwest its second debate trophy at the Miami Beach de-bate tournament Nov. 4. Chip Mirman and Alan Wein-man who took the affirmative point of view, and Robert Kap-lan and Richard Seigel, nega-tive were second in their divi-sion. Robert and Richard were undefeated in all their rounds. BEST SPEAKERS Two Southwest speakers, Richard Seigel and Robert Kaplan were nominated for "best speaker" in the Senate at the State Student Congress Oct. 27-28 in Tallahassee. Southwest debaters won a challenge debate of two rounds at Coral Gables High School Oct. 23, competing with Ga-bles and Christopher Columbus High School. The school won four out of eight debates and finished with the best over-all record. Mr. French sponsors the group. HOMECOMING As homecoming draws near, excitement fills the Southwest halls. Homecoming, under the direction of Juliette Heisser and Russell Brizette, will be kicked off Nov. 22 with the parade routed through Coral Gables and South Miami. The Queen, to be announced earlier that day in the Lancer, will make her first public ap-pearance on a special float de-signed by Chip Mirman in the parade. Also riding on the Queen's float will be her attendants, four elected from the senior class, junior class, and sopho-more class. The five girls from which the queen will be selected by the entire school are Maryann Luther, Juliette Heisser, San-dra Marchinsky, Sheryl Stod-dard and Frances Opitz. Featured floats in the pa-rade are the Southwest Band, two twirling units, the queen and attendants, numerous oth-er floats and cars. Terry Guthrie, Bill Este, and Luke Crawford are directing the parade activities. Winston Jones, who is in charge Home-coming says over 80 units are expected in the parade. Following the parade, a bon-fire traditional of Southwest Homecoming will be held on the school grounds at 7 p.m. Don-na Fouch is making arrange-ments for this section of the festivities. Southwest Eagles will meet the Coral Gables Cavaliers in the Coral Gables stadium for the annual turkey day game. At that time, the court and its queen will be officially present-ed to a Thanksgiving Day crowd. A halftime program will be produced by the band and majorettes. The Everglades Hotel ball-room will have an air of au-tumn, November 23 where the Homecoming dance will be staged, under the supervision of Sally Kitchen. Live music will be furnished by Don Vicent while vocalist Peggy Lee sings. The dance, where the Queen will be crown-ed is opened to all Southwest students and alumni. The closing of this gala affair will end Homecoming, however the sub-ject will remain on the lips of Southwest students for some time.
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