BHS Prefects 1934

Success as a Prefect does not lie in a bullying nature, or in the ability to be able to show to the masters and mistresses, that one is doing his or her duty. No! It lies in the fact of having a friendly and humorous disposition, and being able to co-operate in school affairs with the other students. We, the Prefects, this year, realising this fact, and knowing how many of the past Prefects were unsuccessful and not liked, by showing too much authority, have overlooked many minor things, and have tried to make students happy rather than to control them.

We will modestly say that we have done our best, and even if we are not the best Prefects the school has had, we have the satisfaction of knowing that we have made the school days of the lower school students much more agreeable than that period of our school life was made for us. And we hope as, the years pass by and new students are continually coming to the school, that the upper school will endeavour to show to the younger students the characteristics of sportsmanship and sociability that have helped to raise the name of the Bunbury High School to the high level which it has attained during the past year. We hope also to impress upon them that which should be on the mind and lips of every faithful school students, our motto: “En avant.”

We conclude our notes by wishing the Leaving and Junior classes the best of luck in the coming exams., and by congratulating the new Prefects on their appointment to office.

'Prefect Notes' from the December 1934 edition of the Kingia magazine.