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Four Culver Students Take Over State Of California Legislature How's this for old? A Culver City High School newspaper article featuring 4 delegates from Culver attending the 13th Model Legislature in 1961. (Acticle courtesy of Debbie Brau, CPY 1987-1989) Centaurian – Culver City High School Delegates representing Culver City at the Model Legislature at Sacramento on February 3-5 included Centaurs – Froda Hahn, Gaylyn Dunlap, Jean Dassanee and Gay Bjornstad. These four seniors were included in a filming by CBS which will be shown on a special youth documentary hour within the next month on television. The motto of the session was “Democracy Must Be Learned By Each Generation.” Governor Pat Brown stated to the delegation in the opening ceremony, “These bills may have more influence than even you think.” Gay Bjornstadwent as an assemblyman; Froda Hahn and Gaylyn Dunlap as lobbyists; and Jean Dassanee was political reporter for the Evening Star News and the CENTAURIAN. It is a citizenship training program for boys and girls who are members of Hi-Y (boys') and Tri-Hi (girls') clubs in which the students learn about representative government by actually making it work for themselves. Three hundred and sixty high school boys and girls throughout the state took over the reins of state government as officers, senators, assemblymen, lobbyists, newspaper reporters and delegates-in-training. Eighteen bills were passed and signed out of the sixty-two bills that the delegates wrote, introduced and debated. This was the first Model Legislature to actually consider all of the bills presented. The procedure was exactly the same as the regular legislature except for a few minor parliamentary changes designed to speed up the process of making law. Bjornstad Protects Sierras Assemblyman Gay Bjornstad spoke against a bill that would change the State Loyalty Oath, and he argued for a bill that would preserve the High Sierras and for a bill that would protect the identity of informers in narcotics cases. The most heated debate arose over a bill that required public and private schools to provide regular courses of instruction in the objectives and dangers of communism. It passed both houses by a close vote in the Assembly, and a vote of twenty-seven “ayes” and twenty-six “nays” in the Senate.
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