Alhambra High School - Alhambran Yearbook (Alhambra, CA)

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i Superintendent Maurice R, Stokes- bary arrives for that long Monday evening session. lueational System Robert F. Gray, Dr, Elmer Ensz, and Charles Scanlon, affable but determined, are ready to tackle your problem, and any other that their rather large labs pose for them. Experience, skill, and interest . . . necessities tor smooth supervision ot the eleven schools at the Alhambra City School System . . . qualities ot the superintendent ot schools and his three assis- tants . . . Interpreter ot the meaning ot education . . . co-ordinator ot the activities ot the schools and their personnel . . . the roles performed by MR. MAURICE STOKESBARY, superintendent ot schools. Contracts . . . purchases . . . all business deal- ings . . . the responsibility ot MR. CHARLES SCAN- LON . . .in charge ot business . .. School curriculum . . . methods ot education . . . the duties ot DR. ELMER ENSZ . . . in charge at instruction . . . The indispensable teacher, maintenance worker, or bus driver . . . hiring at the Alhambra school personnel . . . duty at MR. ROBERT F. GRAY . . . in charge ot special services . . .

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Despite a jam-packed agenda, Board members pause and pose for a few minutes on the first Monday lor maybe the third! in the month at the main entrance of the beautiful Administration Building. From the left, Dr. Elmer Ensz, Robert F. Gray, Charles C. Scanlon, Mrs Osa McAllister, Margaret Bishop lsecl, Willard H. Clarke, Laurence N. Wolfe, Dr. Samuel Broadwell, John H, Clay, Maurice R. Stakesbary Their Goal-Improved Facilities and a Beit Safety . . . adequate room . . . key thoughts of the Board ot Education and superintendents ot the Alhambra City Schools... The important role ofthe Alhambra City School System in the development ot the city . . . the reputation ot the schools drawing families to the community and making it expand . . . theretore the school must tit the needs ot both accommoda- tion and satety . .. Cooperation ot Board members . . . city teachers . . . Citizens' Advisory Committee . . . and even students, in promoting the school bond election . . . informing the public about school conditions . . . 85Ofo ot the AHS building space does not meet satety standards ot the state lavv . . . The February bond election failed . . . but the administration without hesitation made plans tor another bond election . . . less money . . . but still enough to satisty the needs ot the city's schools . . . The bond proposal included the relocation ot AHS at Moor Field tor financial savings . . . avoid- ing construction and education clashes . . . enough room for a modern high school . . . The tuture ot AHS decided in the June bond election . . .

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MR. GILBERT STROTHER Principal of A.l-l.S. XX MRS. MILDRED CROSSWHITE Girls' Vicefprincipal MR. CLAUDE MILLER Boys' Vice-Principal IO Efficiency, Supervision, Guidance ani Above and behind every school activity, MR. GILBERT STROTHER is a firm leader, administrator, adviser, and friend to teachers and students alike. Reddy to pitch in wherever and whenever he is needed . . . the backbone of all school projects . . . able to do anything he sets his tall mind and body to . . . Our principal is a normal human being who shares and under- stands our problems and is a living symbol for Alhambra High . . . Carefully smoothing relationships between school board and school administration . . . school administration and teachers . . . teachers and students . . . supervising and coordinating school affairs . . . resolute in actions and ideals . . . with a friendly smile at all times . . . Mr. Strother is a man we look up to not iust physically, but for inspiration in every part of our school experience. To insure the proper conduct of girls on the campus . . . to help girls with their problems, social and scholastic . . . MRS. MILDRED CROSSWHITE'S iob requires good taste and iudgment to guide and assist the girls at Alhambra High. Unselfish service to the Girl's League . . . Much-needed advice and supervision in club affairs . . . work in preparing the foreign exchange student program . . . always on the go, yet always ready and happy to help and advise . . . Mrs. Crosswhite is capable in all aspects of her work and deeply interested in the welfare of all AHS girls. UGO to MR. lCLAUDEl MlLLER'S office! Drastic words, spoken by anguished teachers resorting to their last means of defense against the mental torture caused by male members of the student body . . . this the wrong impression of the most mis- understood member of the faculty. . . not only for discipline. . . not only for punishment . . . but for guidance and help . . . for solving many school problems . . . for advising the Boys' Federa- tion . . . These are his duties, not strictly disciplinary yet not for- getful of one important facet of his job: enforcing the rules which make our school society a more pleasant place for everybody. Life has its lighter moments for our administrative trio, there are even times for laughs.