Camelback High School - Shield Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

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oung adult minds hindled by FACULTY

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MAISY Egyptian texts, especially the Book of the Dead relate a certain bird called ' bennu with the worship in the temple of Heliopolis (the city of the sun). The hennu was a symbol of the rising sun, whence it is represented as ' self ' generating and called the soul of Ra (the sun). All the mystic symbolism of the morning sun, especially in connection with the doctrine of the future life, could thus be transferred to the bennu. The hierogliphic figure of the bennu is that of a heron, but others say that an eagle, with feathers painted to look like a PHOEISIX was burned alive in the pyre of spices and branches of palm trees. Sparks of hnouiledge and understanding in Consumed in a thousand flames, there remained only the still, constant glow of the sparks. The sparks of knowledge, motivation and understanding in the minds of students must be renewed and kindled so that they might assume the shape of new awareness. Wise teachers blend together these sparks into the new mature adult, just as the desert breeze blended the irridescent plumage of the PHOENIX. The newly formed young minds move out into the world and toward new horizons just as the PHOENIX left its sacred remains and flew to the Valley of the Sun. The magical bird deposited the ashes upon the Grand Pyre. Teachers visualize their pupils going out into the world to share and increase their knowledge. 14

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JOHN H. ARMER. derk REVEREND WILLIAM D. BOSTROM, member ... DR. TREVOR G. BROWNE, pres ident 196.5 ... FR.4NK HAZE BURCH, pre. ident 1964... CAMELBACK High School is a member of the Plioenix Union High School System which includes ten other high schools with a combined enrollment of 26,000 stu- dents. The five-member Board of Education is the legal authority operating the schools under the provisions of state law. It serves as a legislative and judiciary body and does not execute the adopted policies. This is the job of the administration. Apart from its legal powers, there is a basic concept of responsibility attached to service as a member of the MRS. C. A. LAKIN, member . MOUR, superintendent. DR. HOWARD C. SEY- governing board of an Arizona school district. The board members, individually and collectively, are trustees in fact as well as in name. The authority of the board, however, rests not in the individual but in its members working to- gether in session. Members of the board are elected from among the qual- ified electors of the high school district. Each member is elected for a five-year term, with elections taking place annually on the first Tuesday in October. Board sets policies for 26,000 students Board meetings, held fortnightly in the Central High Lib- rary, (ire open to the genera! public. Dr. Trevor Browne, elected president by popular choice of the board members, is completing his 20th year on the board. 16 ADMINISTRATION