A B Davis High School - Maroon and White Yearbook (Mount Vernon, NY)

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ENGLISH TEACHERS lTopl Row l: Mrs, Mac Donald, Miss Young, Mr. johnson, Mrs. Taylor, Mr. Copp, Row 2: Miss Brower, Mrs. Santen, Mrs. Bailey, Miss Cahalan, Mr. Kurtz, Mrs, Stiles, Row 3: Mr. Smith LANGUAGE TEACHERS lAbovel Mr. Phillips, Miss Quinlan, Mrs. Red- ka, Mr. Collins, Miss Cheney, Miss Leighton, Mr, Gentilesco. SOClAL STUDIES TEACHERS lRightl Mr, Elder, Mrs, Covell, Mr. Searle, Mrs. Addis, Mrs, Hiller Page twelve tmufers 0 the gl'lC!!QSS Olll'S Without exaggerating, four years of English could drive a person berserk. Re- member the list of rules regarding shall and will ? lt was enough to make you stop, wonder, and probably do a little ex- claiming under your breath. Still the Eng- lish department under the direction of Miss Brower went on. Someday, who could tell, the millennium might come when all the aspects of English would not be a deep dark secret to any Davis student. Did you know that the gender of flowers is feminine? What you didn't learn in Mrs. Redka's Spanish class! El Espanol wasn't the only language full of stumbling blocks, though. lf you wanted to bring the wrath of Miss Macdougall down on your head, you forgot to place the Latin verbs at the end of sentences, that's all. Despite everything, it was a wonderful feeling when you Hcomprenclio El Espanol. lWhom are we kidding?l Why was it that some people, not men- tioning names, persisted in saying Colum- bus discovered America in i942 or that Benjamin Franklin wrote the Monroe Doc- trine? Come to think of it, who did? All joking aside, it was enough to make poor Chris or the Pilgrims wonder if it was worth the effort. Evidently Mrs. Hiller and other members of the History Depart- ment thought so as they struggled to pen- etrate our thick scalps.

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Cgfze Wzlsest Gounsefffors of Did you ever try to get an interview with Mr. Childs? Small chance you had. You probably found at least twelve impatient people waiting, but he was in conference with someone else. iHis poor receptionistll No wonder he was so busy. Look- ing at the list of his activities, one might think we had six Mr. Childs. Besides heading the cheer- leaders Irahl rahll and supervising lunch rooms, Mr. Childs took care of what would otherwise be 750 lost Davis boys. It was hard to believe that he got all those things done in a twenty-four hour day, yet, with all his rushing, he never lost his sense of humor. Were you wondering why people were stand- ing outside that tiny room? It looked like a Brit- ish queue, didn't it? Well, it wasn't. It was merely a line of Davisites outside Mr. Addis' office, trying to get their programs changed. Did Mr. Addis change them? If it was possible, for he aims to MR. CHILDS MISS please, and 99 times out of IOO he does. Imagine yourself with ISOO programs to be figured out. What a nightmare! Picture yourself after you had filled them out and drop-take slips began pour- ing in. I-lorrorsl Somehow, Mr. Addis managed to satisfy almost all of us, so we said Thanks . There is no need to identify Miss Lewis for she is well-known. The girls knew her as Dean, lwhat a job that isll , but that wasn't her only claim to fame at Davis. Many a boy and girl has been helped through college by the Davis Fund, one of Miss Lewis' pet projects. Remember when you were a Sophomore I and felt lost? The Home Room Advisers, headed by Miss Lewis, helped you get into the swing of things, All the little things that were so important, but escaped your notice, were taken care of by the woman of the hour, Miss Lewis, LEWIS MR. ADDIS ?WV3'w-4-' Page eleven

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After you finally mastered two times twof' you thought you were through with Math. But nooool Then you had to draw pentagons, solve equations with the factor theorem and do other mathematical proc- esses, obviously taught to help you fill out your future income tax return. However you looked at it, math could be and us- ually was puzzling. Ask some students of Miss Brown, Miss Cleveland, or the dis- ciples of Einstein. That ticking sound that you heard as you walked down the hall didn't mean that school had finally gotten the best of you. lt was just the pupils of Miss Williams trying to type ninety words a minute. Try- ing, that is! That was also a joke, sonl Far be it from us, however, to have discour- aged the future private secretaries of the future business tycoons. How could they have missed with such teachers as Miss Creekpaum and Mr. Sundermann? The odors that drifted from the science laboratories weren't exactly Chanel No. 5 to people in the halls. The young scien- tists who stirred up the concoctions cer- tainly had strong constitutions. They must have been oblivious to everything but dreams of emulating Pasteur or Koch. Mr. Bunker, recently retired, contributed im- measurably in helping to fulfill those dreams. The students were fortunate in having Mr. Russell to take Mr. Bunker's place as head of the Science Department. All levity aside, Davis teachers are a wonderful group of people. To them we should like to express a sincere thank you for their guidance through the past. MATH TEACHERS lTop,i Miss Breining, Miss Watson, Miss Wal- ther, Miss Brown, Miss Cleveland, Miss Okerstrom, Miss Padou BUSINESS TEACHERS lAbovel Row l: Mr. Caville, Miss Lucchese, Miss Chase, Miss Creekpaum, Miss Wat- song Row Z: Mr. Sundermann, Miss Will- iams, Mrs. Kroner, Miss Kevlin, Mrs. Stan- itis SCIENCE TEACHERS lLefti Row l 1 Mr. Leone, Mr. Spielman, Miss Chase, Mr. Bunker, Mr. Lepp, Row 2: Mr. lewell, Mr. Avery, Mr. Stokes, Miss Landis, Mr, Russell Page tlzzffeeii