Casa Grande Union High School - Cougar Yearbook (Casa Grande, AZ)

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Dr. Stevens outlines challenges Dr. Clark Stevens, Superintendent Dr. Clark Stevens, our new superintendent, is the succes- sor to Dr. John Patzwald, who returned to Illinois after his short stay here. Dr. Stevens is a native of Iowa. After he graduated from high school, he served in the U.S. Army. While he was stationed in Ansbach, Germany, he had the opportunity to visit almost every country in Western Europe. After the Army, Dr. Stevens attended Western lllinois University, where he earned a four-year teaching degree in three years. He went on to become a high school social studies teacher in Bloomfield, Iowa, and he coached football and wrestling during his four years there. During the next ten years, he was a principal for three different Iowa school districts with enrollments ranging from 160 to 975 students. In 1970, Dr. Stevens became the superintendent in Ne- vada, Iowa. After serving as superintendent in Nevada, he 26 Superintendent moved to Marion, Iowa, whose size is comparable to that of Casa Grande. The main difference there was that he was dealing with a K-12 school district with nearly 3200 students. Three years later, in 1977, Dr. Stevens moved to Daven- port, Iowa, where he was regional school superintendent and presided over a six-county area. When asked why he decided to come to Casa Grande, Dr. Stevens said, Its location and the positive attitude demonstrated by the Governing Board and citizens about the future of the high school district and the community, convinced him. Dr. Stevens has no major changes for the school, but he does intend to continue to improve the district's educational program while still focusing on the needs of all of its students. Dr. Stevens helped establish a student eligibility policy that emphasizes academic excellence and has the support of the students and teachers.

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orth Central evaluates CGUH .l' Citing a small-town, friendly atmosphere, and a caring, dedicated faculty, the North Central evaluative team weighed the plusses and minuses of Casa Grande Union High School in February. They presented their informal conclusions during the exit report and promised to submit the follow-up written version during the spring. The 28 evaluators were led by Dr. Bill Fitzgerald, chairman of the committee and principal of Marcos de Niza High School. North Central is an accrediting association that sets the stan- dards for the schools in 19 states across the country. Each year Mr. Evers turns in a report, but every seven years a team of 30 to 36 professionals come and view our school to make suggestions on how to improve it, or tell us that things are working well. Everything and everyone was evaluated. Teachers, students, administration, techniques, library and audio-visual facilities, student services, curriculum, student activities, and sports were evaluated. To prepare for their visit, several half-days were scheduled for the students, but the teachers had to stay and work on reports. The North Central Evaluation team arrived on February 4, 1985. While they were here that day, they toured the campus and went to meetings. During the afternoon, they visited differ- ent classrooms to evaluate the teachers and the students. That evening a banquet was held in the cafeteria. North Central was here for three days. On the last day the students were given a half-day, so the evaluation team could give their reports to the faculty. All of their reports were combined to create a book which will serve as a guideline for the school. This book is about an inch thick, and there are a lot of standards to keep up, and a lot of goals to reach during the upcoming seven years. North Central Evaluation 25

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1984-85 Board of Governors Dick Powell Scott UCB!!! ln-Coming President Out-Going President 9 ' 9 I , N Stewart Anderson ' CUC.. 'UIUC' Ethelyn Pettlloln Deanna Mclianey James Shedd Board Of Governors 27