Taylorville High School - Drift Yearbook (Taylorville, IL)

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l THE DRIFT 1935 Miss Helen Broverman was born in Springfield, but she is still another alumna of the institution of learning for which this is written fthe high school English department must have been almost as good in those days as it is now to produce three such gifted instructors of the English languagel. Miss Brover- man was a student at Christian College, one course at McKendree College, the Universities of Illinois and Wisconsin, Western Reserve, and Northwestern University. She was given the B. A. degree and has had three summers of grad- uate work. She had taught five years at the local West School and the Uwaneco High School before coming here this year. Miss Broverman is interested in interpretive readings and drama. At one time she was occupied in clerical work. SCIENCE Mr. Roy L. Webb, Dean of Boys, was born in Cass County, Missouri, and went to school at Raymore. He received his B. S. in Education from the Central Missouri State Teachers' College. Mr. Webb has had one summer of graduate work and nine years previous teaching experience: two years in rural Missouri, one in a grade school, and six years in high school. He has taught chemistry, biology, physics and general science at T. T. H. S. during the last fifteen years. The physics class this year has proved to be quite a family affair through his daughteris membership. Mr. Webb's hobbies come under the classification of Htinkeringf' The game in which he takes an active part in all seasons is croquet which he plays with all the skill of a physicist. Mr. Webb is probably the cham- pion tennis player among both teachers and students. Mr. Joe L. McAdan1 was reared in Pana. He has proved loyal, however, by serving as our coach for seven years, and after leaving us a year he returned from the University of Illinois a full fledged Bachelor of Science and biology teacher which he has been for three years. He also taught two years in Pawnee before coming here. Mr. McAdan1 is working toward a Master's degree and spends his summers and many week ends in Champaign. He has had three sum- mers of graduate work. Mr. McAdan1 is active in athletics as a football coach and basketball official, being football coach of the Midland Athletic Club. He is also a good tennis player when he has the time to practice. This year Mr. McAdan1 has aided Mr. Wlebb by dealing out yellow slips to the boys after the noon hour. The peppicst man in schooli' both at Taylorville and other times in his ca- reer is Mr. Chesleigh L. Garard of Quincy. Mr. Garard was born at Burnside, Illinois, and attended the Mendon Township High School. He holds the A. B. degree, having attended Carthage College and the Universities of Illinois and Wisconsin. At Wisconsin he took one summer of work. Mr. Garard made very high grades while in school and was interested in debate, dramatics, glee club work, and managing athletics while in the University. He is a founder of the Boosters, organization at Carthage College. Because of his activities he was elected to a number of honorary organizations at Illinois. His chief interest out- side of his vocation is athletics. He is interested in wrestling and is a basketball official besides furthering T. T. H. S. athletics by selling tickets and furnishing transportation-even driving with one arm. Mr. Garard may have been employed in an ice cream store at one time. He also lived in Missouri and taught three years at Carthage before coming to Taylorville High School. He teaches general science and has been here six years. Taren Iv Iwo S I - - ,.i...i.:-- 1. k

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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

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1935 THE DRIFT MRS. VERNA R1 DZANSKI :Issisfunf Svvrvlary to Prinripal Q,,,Le?fI' RUVEHMAN. B. A. EllgliSIl B Q.,-A NIARGERY TEHRIERE, A. B. N'l8Ih9lllZitiCF NIARJURIE HENRY, B. A. English RALPH E. THORNTON, A. B. 3 Xlntlwnlzltivs ' y' r' Lf' ,f 1 RI'SSl'lLL W. ULIVEH. l'l1.l3.f if History, Civic-s ' X fx dj MAX E. 'I'l-IUMPSUN. B. Ed. St'i0lIl'l' -1 F . Il ,. V, N MJ w 1.-'Wil Q .Jr f IQ 'KJ'-4 I f 45, ELLEN URR. B. S. Home El'Oll0lIlil'4 ROY I.. WEBB. B. S. Science, Dvan of Boys 2 T lh IAAAKK