Altoona High School - Horseshoe Yearbook (Altoona, PA)

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GuARDlANs OF :DEALS . . . FACULTY The scholastic program of the Altoona High School may be compared with the wheel of a wagon. The hub is the student body, the spokes represent a Wide variety of interests, the iron-bound rim symbolizes the unity of the school as effected by the administrative staff, and last but not least, is the axle, representing the teacher, the power around which the entire system revolves. Most invariably, at some time in their lives, students remember their teachers as builders of a better world and a happier, freer humanity-remem- ber them as individuals who could help youths as they moved into grown-up patterns. lt seemed only natural, when teachers indicated quite freely and openly their interest and concern over our daily problems, that we should turn to them with their good basic intelligence for help. We think of our teachers as friends filled with sympathy, not as dictators. In our large group of instruc- tors in Altoona High, there are individuals with special skills, copious general information, and integrated personalities-and they are willing to share these qualities with us. They also have a faith in a scholarship which is the search for truth, a faith in an education which can be used as an effective tool for solving problems. Hence they labor to broaden our horizons, to fit us to meet life's battles with victory on our side. Due to their great store of knowledge and their interest in our welfare, our faculty has made possible a broad curriculum from which to choose. No matter what the field of interest, some group of teachers is capable of giving guidance and inspiration, some one of them can awaken our latent interest or put to shame our indolence, some who will gladly and willingly share with us the treasures of a cultivated mind. We can gain knowledge from books, but only by personal contact can the love of knowledge be transmitted. Only by a friendly attitude toward the pupils can a teacher instill a feeling of mutual interest, the members of our faculty have this quality, and as students march on, leaving patient, coopera- tive advisers behind, they remember the teachers as they were, and now are- friendly. An anonymous author has expressedlfor the members of the Class of 1940 their hope that they may pass on the flame pure and true.', For those who give their knowledge to you, And help you to think, and more wisely to act, Expect you will pass on a flame pure and true To enlighten the darkness of spirit and fact. '4And if I refuse?', asked the youth bright and bold. MTO freedom of thought you your knowledge now owe, But freedom will stifle and knowledge be cold, Unless through its use you permit it to grow. Page Eighteen

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OUR LEADERS WITH VISION . . . FACULTY Front Row-Miss Truax, Mrs. Lingenfelter, Miss Givin, Miss Lowther, Miss M. Miller, Miss Dunn, Miss H. Krouse, Miss Buck, Miss Swartz, Miss Dun- bar. Second Row-Mr. Williams, Miss Blake, Miss McGinnis, Miss Paul, Miss P u c K e y, Miss Gould, Miss Crist, Miss I. Lewis, Miss Minster, Miss Johns, Miss Gorsuch Miss Sauserman, Mr. Sheetz. Third Row -- Mr. Wear, Miss Eyre, Miss Breidenstein, Miss A. Eberle, Miss Duncan, Mr. Graf, Mr. Dejaiffe, M Zet- ler, Mr. Maddocks. Fourth Row-Mr. Krivsky, Mr. Bashore, Mr. Wood, Mr. Hoo- ver, Mr. Brooks, Mr. Yost, Mr. Lingenfelter, COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT ,Iohn L. Hoover, B. A., M. A., Head Iva G. Batrus, B. S., Edgar I. Brooks, B. S., Ida H. Buck, B. A., Sarah E. Duncan, B. S., Nellie E. Givin, B. A., Carl E. Graf, B. S., Eleanor G. Hare, B. A., Hazel G. Krouse, B. S., Irma B. Lewis, M. Ed., Mrs. Rose- mary Lynch Lingenfelter, B. S., Addison E. Pohle, B. S., M. Ed., ,Iohn G. Yost, B. A. MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT George B. Williams, M. S., Head Ernest Dejaiffe, B. S., C. E., Perilla R. Harner, M. A., William D. Ling- enfelter, M. A., Irene J. Sauserman, B. A., Herbert S. Sheetz, B. S., M. A., Bertha A. Swartz, B. S., M. Ed., Elizabeth E. Taylor, M. S., Wendell W. Wear, B. S. HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT Zitella B. Wertz, B. S., M. S., Head Hazel V. Crist, B. S., Kathryn Gorsuch, B. S., Myrtle Gould, B. S., Alberta Johns, B. S., Mary E. Lowther, B. S., Margaret A. Miller, B. S., Marian R. Puekey, B. A., Mrs. Anna M. Young. LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT Charles M. Grimminger, M. A., Head Mrs. Janice Kauffman Boyer, B. A., Mary E. Dunbar, M. A., Edith R. Fleck, B. A., Una E. Small, B. A., Marian V. Truax, B. A. PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, BOYS Robert H. Wolfe, B. S., M. Ed., Head Kenneth R. Bashore, B. S., Paul E. Morse, M. Ed. PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, GIRLS Elisabeth K. Eyre, B. S., P. E., Head Helen L. Bloomfield, B. S., Frances E. McGinnis, B. S. I

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.1 SENATORS SHARE RESPONSIBILITIES . . . Our student governing body, the Senate, is comprised of twenty-three students of Altoona High School, representing the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior classes, and various other organizations of the school. Some Senate members receive their positions by popular election, while others obtain theirs by appointment. No matter which way a student receives his seat in this body, he must have recommendations from his home room teacher, his subject teachers and other members of the faculty, as to character, leadership, and scholastic achievement. Also a scholastic average of at least eighty per cent must be maintained. To take care of the various duties of this group, committees such as welfare, ticket, 'aSenator,77 legislative, luncheon, auditorium and College Night, are formed within the Senate. This group participates in welfare work by providing families with baskets at Christmas and Easter, and conducts special welfare programs, the benefits of which are received by needy students of Altoona High School. Our successful ticket campaigns, some of which were the sale of activi- ties tickets, P. T. A. tickets, and tickets for special assemblies, were handled by this able body. This year, the Senate originated a new idea-to maintain a special bulletin, called the uSenator,H for the purpose of conveying its activities to the student body, by means of each Home Room. This was done to keep the students informed concerning Senate activities. In addition to this bit of journalism, a column of this same nature was run in the Mountain Echo, also to impress the happenings of the Senate on the student body. Many students were unaware of the doings of the student government, and this column helped to enlighten them on the activities of their representatives. Difficulties arose in previous years, in the misplacing and losing of articles, and the Senate again took this matter into their hands by establishing a lost and found department to aid the students in recovering their lost prop- erty. During the vacation before this school term, some very convenient additions were made to the Senate Office equipment. A compartment was built in which the uLost and Foundi' articles could be placed in very con- veniently catalogued sectionsg also a wardrobe, which was used for the convenience of visitors. All legislative problems, in the form of petitions of the students, were dealt with in the Senate, and were treated with due consideration by the members. Cleanup campaigns and campaigns for better assembly conduct and good Page Nineteen Mr. Pohle Pennock, Scott, Haines