Ruskin High School - Mirage Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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In Loving Memory Of Tom Foraker T»m Foraker was horn on a farm in Lamar, Mo. He graduated from the high school there. He received his B.S. in Ed. from UMC in 1940. His first teaching assignment was at the Hickman Mills School on Grandview Road. After four and a half months there, he became principal at Center High School until 1959. Before becoming principal, he was an off-campus instructor at CMSU for three years. In 1959. he became the superintendent of the Hickman Mills School District. He belonged to the Missouri State Teacher Association of School Administrators. Few people knew that the gentle, happy educator, who led the school district through so many of its most difficult years, was a hero of WW II. Mr. Tom Foraker died on May 29. 1976 after suffering a severe heart attack. His accomplishments and devotion to the education of students will he long remembered. Tom Foraker 1912-1976

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School Board Proposes JSeuv Auditorium The school hoard elected a new superintendent due to the death of Tom Foraker. The new superintendent is Joseph Nesbit. The assistant superintendent is David DeHelms. The school hoard meets the first and third Thursday of each month. The president of the school hoard is Bill Wall, lie is assisted by Vice-President, Bruce Buie. Other assistance is provided by Paul Province, treasurer and Mildred Harness, secretary. Other hoard members are Robert Blaylock. Jeanne Freeman, Paul kamitsuka and Richard Schultz. The beginning of our auditorium may not have happen- ed without the efforts of the school hoard. We owe much appreciation to the school hoard of Hickman Mills. President. Bill Wall and board member, Jeanne Freeman. 12 School Board

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Steck Honored by Friends Mr. Blaine Sleek is one of a kind. If he is not tangling with morning announcements, he is helping with school activities or a troubled stu- dent. After serving as principal for 22 years, Mr. Steck has proved to he a fine colleague, a respected administrator and an involved, proud Ruskinite. Over four hundred friends, relatives and students gathered to honor Mr. Steck on September 25, 1976. Telephone calls, telegrams and words of congratulations came from admirers who w ished to com- mend him for his 21st year of service. Mr. David Cattle, assistant prin- cipal and Mr. Kenneth Burkhart, vice-principal, were on hand in the gymnasium to present Mr. Steck with his newly painted Aolkswagon. appropriately duhhed “Eagle I.” He also received several mementoes, a brightly painted portrait of himself, along with a chandelier which will he hung, in his honor, in the new auditorium. To make “Blaine Steck Night” even more special, friends arranged to place a diamond in the setting of Mr. Steck's Buskin ring. Along with more fcstixc duties. Mr. Cattle and Mr. Burkhart advise Mr. Steck on everything from football predictions to Saturday deten- tions. They, along with our secretaries, help keep the course of a Buskin schoolday, from admit slips to cafeteria conduct, in working order. Mr. Stcrk. overcome with joy, al Blaine Slerk Night. “This is the ery lust time. Mr. Burkhart, warns Kita (Ihun I I dministralion