Ballard High School - Shingle Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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Administration... Guilding our ventures, our progress, Behind each attempt, each activity, Making right puzzles and problems, Our faculty-helping us live.

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ll v 9 4 ' ' . -1. .4.p' -ln -l lil - ADMIN- ISTRATIUN CHANGE! This appeared to be the watchword of the year just passed. For change was apparent in almost every phase of the method in which Ballard's nineteen hundred and fifty- To these four faculty members goes much credit for the smooth fucntioning of the school, Upper: Miss Ann Chamberlain, girls' adviser: Mr. J. E .McComb, boys' adviser. Lower: Mr. Ira Pease and Miss Madelyn Ryder, study hall supervisors. I6 Principal Heber D. Johnson takes time out from his adminis- trative work to help adjust a student's program. This year. Mr. Johnson largely replaced the old-style faculty meetings by conferences with small groups of teachers who met during their free periods to discuss problems. four students lived their school lives. Things were set in motion when a new administration headed by Mr. Heber D. johnson, previously princi- pal of Cleveland High School, and Mr. Aaron T. VanDevanter, former Ballard chemistry teacher, took office. Mr. Bryan came from Queen Anne to succeed Mr. VanDevanter, while Miss Bell filled the vacancy created when Miss Barrett retired. Also, Miss Coul- ter and Mr. Almquist left school, and Miss Alsaker and Miss Kipperburg were added to the faculty. Later, Miss Sifton, temporarily withdrew to help prepare a course of study in mathematics and was replaced by Mr. Mitchell. After these shifts in personnel, changes in administrative procedure and policy soon developed. The honor system of checking attendance was retained, and the advisory system was