Middletown High School - Optimist Yearbook (Middletown, OH)

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MRS. RHODA SI-IULL B.A.. Ashury College Dean of Girls MARION DIXON Counseling. English MILLER AB.. lvlount Holyoke College and the deans offered emotional aid. DEAN OF' GIRLS, Mrs. Rhoda SI1uII, is one of the husiest people at IVLHS. Mrs. Shull exe- cutes her many and various duties in her new office on the first floor. Her services range from filing tardy permits and honor cards, and ad- ministering iirst aid, to the more serious social prohlems concerning truancy and police and juve- nile courts. She always has a sympathetic ear for all girls at lvliddletown. Nlrs. Eula Barnette is secretary for hoth deans and finds her first year at lVI.H.S. quite interesting. Mrs. MHTIOII Nliller, senior counselor, and Mrs. Ruth Flanagan, counselor of the sophomores, hoth teach classes daily in addition to their coun- seling duties. Their johs involve arranging the students' schedules for future years and lceeping in mind hoth a Well-halanced schedule and ade- quate credits lor graduation. 27 RUTH FLANAGAN BS., East Carolina College IVLA.. Ensi Carolina College Cogmseling, Physiology

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. . I MARTIN EGELSTON BS., M. Niiami University Dean of Boys JAMES W. DIANA BS., M. Ed.. ivli8llli University Guidance Counselor The counselors advised scholastically HARRY C. ANDREVVS BS., Niorris Harvey Coiiege MA., Xvest Virginia University Counseling DEAN OF BOYS, Mr. Martin Egeiston, is an ever present help in the emotional and physi- cal problems of the boys in our high schooi. Noxn' in his fifth year at Middietown High School and fourth as Dean of Boys, Mr. Egeiston's many other duties include checking attendance and truancy. He is also responsihie for disciplinary action taken in conjunction with parents and truancy courts. In addition to his duties as Dean, Mr. Egeiston is director of the Adult Evening School and the Mianii Academic Center. Mr. James Diana's time is devoted to counsel- ing junior students. He assists them in planning their schedules so that they wiii he prepared to enter the profession or trade of their choice. Mr. Harry Andrews helps M.H.S. students prepare a well ioaianced schedule. He checks to he certain that the students course of study will give him a sufficient number of credits for grad- uation.

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VV. C. NEEL BS. in Eel.. University ol Cincinnati NLE.. lVliaini University Business English. Counseling, Co-operative Office Education lvlr. Neel instructs his co-op class Liuring morning hours in Business English. First-hand experiences proved useful C0-OP GIRLS- have a great experience in high school. The girls in this unique plan attend classes in the morning and then in the afternoon work to receive on-the-job training in community husiness offices. Wir. Neel, the administrator of the program, in- terviews each prospective stuclent who fills out an application during the second semester of her junior year. He also contacts husiness establish- ments in the community for positions for his co- op stuclents. The students who participate are selecteol from these applications hy the adminis- tration ancl business eclucation faculty. The girls in co-op must maintain an over all average of HBH ancl he in the upper third of their class. These students must also show a high cle- gree of efficiency in performing their school suh- jects. The chosen stuolents must talce Business English, economics and government, Shorthand ll, office practice ancifor Accounting ll. Nlary Hensley checlis tabulation as Sheryle Greenwell prepares the first step lor clata in the City Building computer.