Parkview High School - Spirit Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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Margie Homard. guidance Working with students and providing information that will be helpful to them as they plan for their entire futures and as they meet their day to day decision making problems and situations makes my job rewarding. -Mrs. counselor. The most rewarding thing while working with students is watching them develop into worthwhile citizens. -Jethro Hill. vice-principal. His no S to job For lo not mon -..........,,., QW. ,NK ft- f It's very gratifying when I am able to help youngsters work through their problems. - Lucious Powell, guidance counselor. 144! Faculty Iwaif dpi FP I love the students. -Mrs. Nannette Williamson, Reading.

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arkview teachers liked teaching Forrest Cherry, who taught ICT I and felt g00d about their j0bS. and II and sponsored VICA and the Chess Dr. Doyle Dilahunty, who taught Club, had one complaint. distributive education and sponsored 'I enjoy teaching my students, teaching but also liked their students. Business teacher Mrs. Helen Turner said, I love them, and they love me tmost of the timej. DECA, liked learning new things and in he said, butI do 't l'k turn teaching them to his students. Miss Ella Walker, home economics teacher, agreed, saying that she liked to help students to get new ideas that would let them help themselves. n 1 e grading their papers. Irving Seager, biology teacher and Chapel Club sponsor, liked teaching because he knew that his students would appreciate it later on. It seemed that teachers, no matter what they taught, enjoyed theirjobs. Whether teaching new things, sponsoring clubs, or just making understanding easier, teachers felt good about what they were doing. Mrs. Betty McBride, math teacher and sponsor of Beta Club, echoed his ' sentiments. Nothing makes me feel better than for a student who is totally lost to say, 'You make it sound so easy'. Most teachers not only enjoyed My mother was a teacher, and this made me want to teach ever since l was young. -Mrs. Bettye McBride, Intermediate Algebra, Algebra II, Calculus, Interclub Council. I was Influenced by a family of teachers. - Miss Ella Walker, Home Economics I, Foods, Housing, Human Development, Future Homemakers of America. MW It's a family tradition to become a teacher. - Forrest Cherry, ITC I and II, VICA ICT, Chess Club. Hearing about 1,1 ggi: f 'Q everyone else's kids Wfifbiig being brains, 1 decided ,,L,,i gf ',i, jf 421 to teach and see what I' ' 3 1 was wrong with mine. as I've found they come in 1 I i i all sizes, shapes, talent and personalities. I've Ieamed from and enjoyed every student I've ever taught. After I dabbiiiig on two newspapers, an advertising agency and radio station, I retired to raise four kids. Sixteen years later I decided to try my hand at teaching. -Mrs. Ardella Lamb, Journalism I, Mass Media, Constitution, Spirit of 80. 'yah-1 , l 421 1 . ' az : 3 .1 i f 11- -c , mga Teaching has been my life-long goal. -Ms. Susanna Smith, Spanish, I, II, III and IV, Spanish Club. School hours! 143

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hy not a nurse, secretary or just a housewife? Why the teaching profession? A love for children, compassion, sharing, seeing minds develop seemed the dominant reasons for choosing teaching as a career. Mrs. Nannette Williamson, reading teacher, said that she liked working with high school students because she preferred that age group. She spent her spare time directing the choir at her church. Wasted talent among the students was the thing that Jethro Hill disliked most. He liked to spend his spare time gardening and with his grandchildren. I have a real love of children, was the reason he enjoyed his position as vice-principal. I like to spend time hunting and fishing, said Moses Smith, building trades teacher. I also like working with people. Smith worked part time as a carpenter in addition to his full time teaching job. I like working with the students and the library. It seems to be the center of the school. -Mrs. Naomi Hooks, librarian. I enjoy prnvldlng the necessary materials for effective teaching and learning. -Mrs. Wilma Hanner, librarian. I like helping students work through their problems, said Lucious Powell, who agreed that he had plenty of opportunities to do just that in his position as head counselor. He agreed with other teachers that he enjoyed teaching because he loved people, but he also loved fishing and golfing with his son and enjoyed football, basketball and track. Mrs. Margie I-Iomard, like the others, liked working with individuals. She found that the one-on-one contact was possible in her job as a counselor. Sociology and psychology teacher, Mrs. Ruth Hrishikesan, enjoyed the subjects she taught and the class discussions. She said that the only drawback to teaching was getting up so early in the morning. Loving teachers and understanding students was the reason that both kept coming back year after year. It seemed to most that the love teachers had for children would never die, and many times it was returned. -the The thlng I like best about teaching is working with the young adults and listening to their opinions. -Mrs. Ruth Hrishikesan, Psychology, Sociology. I like teachlng the students and helping them learn and develop new ideas. -Moses Smith, Building Trades, VICA-WT. School hours! 145