Taylorville High School - Drift Yearbook (Taylorville, IL)

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THE DRIFT 193 P. T. WALTEBS, Prim-ipul My greatest hope, boys and girls of T. T. H. S.. is that you have ohtained more than an academic training in this school. Your school has heen Worth while to you if it has assisted you in huilding high ideals. amhitions of the right kind, enthusiasm. a sense of fair play. and that something which says. You have shown the way. Now we are ready to go. IIAA Lt T 'l. Im

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1935 THE DRIF J. J. CONNERLY Prvsident BOYD DAPPERT Svvrptary W. J. TACKETT ENNIS ESTES DR. G. L. ARMSTRONG BOARD GF EDUCATION i

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1935 THE DRIFT FACULTY FACTS The administration and faculty of T. T. H. S. deserve much credit tor the success of the school in achieving its aims. Mr. Walters, his secretaries, the school librarian, Mrs. Hill, and the twenty-four capable instructors work to- gether for the advancement of the school in its various activities. They may well receive the gratitude of the student body. A brief history of each of the instructors under the classification of their respective departments has been compiled. Only after overcoming various obstacles due to biographical modesty have wc become able to gather this in- formation for the benefit of the reader. ENGLISH Mrs. Lucy Ellen Johnson DeHart, to whom this book is dedicated, is from Pana. She, the head of the English Department, is one of the two instructors in this department who are not graduates of T. T. H. S. Mrs. DeHart holds a B. S. degree from the University of Illinois. She had practice teaching under the supervision of Dr. Harry G. Paul, widely known as a literary critic. She studied Shakespeare under the famous Stuart Sherman, whose many interpretations of Shakespeare we have probably had to cope with. Before coming to Taylor- ville Mrs. DeHart taught for one semester at Paris, Illinois. She has been here ten and one-half years and is very fond of reading and gardening. Of course teaching is her vocation, but perhaps housekeeping is her avocation-or trying to fatten a six foot tournament playerf' Miss Mary Lou Holderead of Litchfield was born at Divernon and attended the Litchfield Community High School. She was a student of DePauw Univer- sity for one year and then wcnt on to receive her A. B. from the University of Illinois. During the first five of her eight years here she taught Spanish. While not at her home in Litchfield or at her local residence, the ufacultyw apartments. she pursues the hobby of traveling. Mrs. Aileen Ashbrook Clawson was born in Wayne City, and her high school alma mater we hope to he ours. While a student she was for two years joke editor of the Drift, but she insists that she became sick of jokes. She earned the A. B. degree by attending Christian Collcgc and the Universities of Illinois and Wisconsin. Mrs. Clawson taught one year in Owaneco and has been here five. This year in addition to her duties as an instructor of English she has instituted a new course in public speaking and dramatics. Inasmuch as the planning of the course required much reading it is only natural that Mrs. Clawson accept this as a hobby. Miss Marjorie Henry is another alunma of T. T. H. S. who has made good. Her early life was spent here. She then went to Knox College and Missouri Uni- versity, being given her B. A. degree and taking four summers of graduate work. Miss Henry has had interesting teaching experiences, having taught for a total of eleven years at Coshocton, Uhioz, Houston, Tcxasg Lakeland, Florida, Brevard, North Carolina, and Los Angeles. California. Beading is her favorite hobby. This is Miss Henry's first year at T. T. H. S. since she left us twelve years ago after one year on the faculty. Twenty-1