Richard Montgomery High School - Rocket Yearbook (Rockville, MD)

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Miss Will, assistant principal, studies the 3 page absence list during the flu epidemic. familiar behind all bulletins. The school year of 1968-69 found the familiar faces of Miss Will, Mr. Vargo, and Mr. Reiff once again dealing with the numerous tasks that confronted the administration of R.M. Disciplining uncooperative students, making last minute announcements over the P.A., and supervising various student activities were only some of the administrative problems which were readily solved by the assistant principals. Mr. Reiff, assistant principal, discovers that 430 sophomores had dental appointments yesterday. Assistant principal. Mr. Vargo visits the detention hall banquet. FACULTY 21

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. . . releases them from the day's anxieties. In a high school like R.M., where a year is a matter of hours, faces are as fleeting as time itself. When the flow of students through secondary school is like sand falling through a sieve, a principal may only briefly touch the lives of students before they disappear beyond his reach. But however short his contact with them he helps to shape their destinies. For five years, William Miles has spearheaded thousands of R.M. students in the right direction. He has aided them in their various endeavors to reach whatever goals they strive to achieve, and under his leadership, R.M. has become a 1 school in almost every way. His image will stay in the hearts of all R.M. students and faculty alike, even when the faces fade with the years and R.M. becomes a part of the treasured past. 20 FACULTY

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Chaos:a school Mrs. Henderson is caught drinking the mercury out of the thermometers so they won't register higher than 98.6. Mrs. Roush prepares a college transcript for an anxious senior. Mrs. Gursky accepts a form-letter absence excuse. Mrs. Nicewarner directs a desperate visitor to the first floor men's room. The bustling secretarial staff of Richard Montgomery helped to keep our school of two thousand students running smoothly. The office secretaries were busy typing bulletins and other information for teachers and students. Mrs. Nicewarner had the special job of secretary to Mr. Miles, while Registrar, Mrs. Roush, handled hundreds of college transcripts. Mrs. Henderson, school nurse, and Mrs. Joyce, her aide, were always ready to calm the continual flow of ailing students that came through the doors of the nurse's office during the year. Mrs. Joyce admits to the Health Room a student afflicted by terminal hangnails.