Alton High School - Tatler Yearbook (Alton, IL)

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©ur faulty As its name suggests, this part of the Tatler is going to be about our faculty, especially about the new members. Now, be it known, ye editor is going to be in deep water immediately upon beginning this article for the simple but very good reason that he doesn’t know very many of the newer members of the faculty. Mr. Weisert seems to be the “peppiest” member so we guess we will start off with him. As you all know, Mr. Weisert teaches science. Everybody likes him, in fact, ye editor is going to fight to get him again next year. “The Philosopher,” as he sometimes calls himself, is exceedingly interested in the school athletics, which he supports at all times. Among his achievements, Mr. Weisert may number his organizing of the Freshmen Club. Next we come to Mr. Pancok. Mr. Pancok, like Mr. Weisert, teaches science. All the girls like him because he has such a pleasing way and such nice, plump, rosy cheeks. But 0! Now we come to a fellow about whom we know almost enough to fill this book, so we will not say much about him. Bet you can’t guess who he is. He’s short but active, has nice, rosy cheeks of the Pancok tint, is good looking, ’never’ thin’. He doesn’t teach anything over here at High School, but as he is our coach, he gets counted as a member of the faculty family. Oh, gee! I gave it away. Yes, the man on the right guessed right, it’s Johnny MacWherter. Now we come to Mr. Manhart. He’s the fellow who teaches the boys and girls to do arithmetic problems. No. not the little easy ones like we had in the grades, but arithmetic anyway. Mr. Dougan teaches ancient history, but not from experience. Not at all, in fact, he did his bit in the world war, so you can see that he’s not at all ancient, even if you don’t know him. Next on the program we will have a song, “Ave Maria,” sung in Latin by Miss Colgate. Lately we have heard a rumor around High School that she is some relative of the far famed tooth paste manufacturer. Be that as it may, the words of a song flow forth from her throat quite as easily and smoothly as the gritless tooth paste flows from the tube. Oh yes, and we almost forgot Miss Dewing and Miss Yoxall, Miss Dewing is a good cook, all right. That’s natural though, for her subjects are cooking and sewing. She also has charge of the “caf”. All the girls like her. Miss Yoxall is the little lady who keeps the girls in trim and close hauled by teaching them gym. And speaking of gym teachers, we mustn’t fail to mention “Heinie” Harkless. His real name is John, but, as he told us when he first introduced himself to us to call him Heinie, we do. All the fellows like him, for, as they used to say in the days before Mr. Volstead became so popular, “he’s a jolly good fellow.” Now Miss Esch comes to our notice. If we didn’t mention her in this number of the Tatler, after all her work in coaching plays, especially the Junior play, we’d sure be—well, we don’t know what to call ourselves. Say Miss Esch, we hope you’ll be with us again next year and for many years to come. Then there’s Miss Felts. She teaches French, but she’s so quiet that we never hear anything to crack on her. We will say though, that if she’s still teaching French when we get out of High School, we’re sure coming back to take a postgraduate course in that subject. Mr. Wood, we believe, has the honor of being the infant of the faculty. He teaches wood-work. So be it! Now go ahead and look at the remaining of the handsome, and otherwise, maps strewn throughout the rest of the book. Page Ten

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CAROLYN WE1WPEN, A. B. (Shurtleff College), Algebra GEORGE C. R1TCHER (Illinois State Normal), Manual Training BERTHA BISHOP, Ph. B., A. M. (University of Chicago), French VINOT CARTWRIGHT, A. B. (Shurtleff College), Latin NANCY A. LOWRY, A. B. (Shurtleff College), English LAURETTA PAUL, A. B. (Shurtleff College), English Page Twelve