Coachella Valley Union High School - La Conchilla Yearbook (Coachella, CA)

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Ready for another evening's work in the public interest are school board members ll. to r.J Howard Carr, Leland Yost, Leonhardt Swingle, Raymond Rummonds, and Don Mitchell. Notable among their '52-'53 accom- plishments were a 30-acre alfalfa planting and a 4-acre experimental grape plot on the school farm, extension of the track to the standard 'A mile, laying of black top for outdoor basketball and parking, and construction of a quonset storage hut, a patio dance area and little theatre-in-the-round, and a swimming pool. The faculty seemed engaged in a game of musical chairs, so numerous were changes in personnel and assignments. Allan Burt's counselling duties were assumed by Mrs. Dorothy Wager and the band direction, by Donald Schofield, who also took over Mr. George's driver education classes. Mrs. Shirley Sherwood replaced William White in English, and John Humphreys filled the post vacated by Miss Pinney in math. Miss Hallie Mc- Gaughy and Alexander Marko were added to the commercial and language departments, respectively. Miss Catherine Cornell came as librarian and Mrs. Vera Fisher, as Spanish teacher, filling in for Miss Smith and Miss McCollum, who were on sabbatical leave. At midyear Mr. Humphreys was recalled to the Air Force, Mr. Marko went to Costa Rica on a research pro- ject, and Miss Fisher became a Girl Scout executive. Their replacements were Miss Margaret Christie, Miss Mar- garet Carnighan, and Mrs. Betty Hoff. Other additions 'to the faculty family were a bride for Mr. Winter and a son, David Merrill, for the Pelrces. ROGER HARLOW MISS MARY DOLORES BUCKLEY DONALD P. SCHOFIELD Wootlslzop I French l, II Band Mechanical Drawing l, Il English II Driver Education Junior Varsity Football .lunior Class Head Sponsor Pep Band Lettermenis Club French Club Allied Youth Music Appreciation Club PAGE 71

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Superintendent D. G. Brumwell is a busy man, always working to keep ahead of a growing student body's increasing needs. That's a nice smile the school secretary, Mrs. Robbie Mouriquand, has in spite of a constant stream of requests and ringing phones. PAGE 70 Daniel W. McSwan, C.V.'s kind and helpful principal, has had about 850 stu- dents and teachers to keep at the peak of happiness and successful achieve- ment this year. We can always count on Miss June Childs, our bookkeeper, to be patient when our accounts get out of balance. Ancl she always comes up with the right answers!

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MRS. DOROTHY WAGER English I Counselor ARCHIBALD GRATZ Auto Shop Mechanical Drawing Aeronautics Club PAGE 72 MRS. VERA FISHER Spanish I, II, III World Friendship Club CHARLES GIBBS Driver Education Public Speaking History I Projection Club DELNO GILLOGLY Orchestra Intermediate Strings Band Instruments Boys' Glee Club Beginning Girls' Glee Club Advanced Girls' Glee Club Senior Class Mixed Chorus MISS ELAINE BUTTRUD Drama I, II U. S. History Thespians Footlight Players Junior, Senior Class Play Coach LEE FULMER Boys' Physical Education Junior Varsity Football Varsity Basketball MB Basketball Varsity Baseball Student Council Advisor MISS MARGARET R. BURNS Head of Commercial Dept. Shorthand I, II Typing I, II Usherettes