Anacortes High School - Rhododendron Yearbook (Anacortes, WA)

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Board of Education Efficiency has been the key-note to the successful management of the Anacortes schools by the board of directors this year. With a depression to buck, the school board plowed its way through, assur- ing an education for the 1,189 Anacortes students. Taking charge at the beginning of the school year, the board found conditions poor. Facing them was a warrant indebtedness of $45,000 in district 18. Warrants were difficult to dispense with. The revenue collected was 18'' lower than the previous year. Another problem to contend with was the fact that prices were steadily mounting. To run the school, $65,071.61 was issued, the amount apportioned ihe year before having been $79,552.89. Miraculously, the board managed to budget this allowance, cutting down solely on overhead, with no decrease in teachers’ salaries or scrimping on text books. To the superintendent and principals, the board gives most of the credit for the fine management. Taking charge of repairs and economy in overhead, Mr. Dexter, head janitor, has been of great assistance in balancing the budget. Plans are being considered by the board for next year, which will include a gym project, whereby improvements will be rendered to further accomodations for students taking active part in physical education. This subject will be required next year by state law. Outstanding in the characterization of the board of directors is its capability to deal with such difficult (Turn to page 50) Six

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ADMINISTRATION 5 ELMER S. DABNEY, Principal When for the premier time Superintendent Cramblitt introduced Elmer S. Dabney, new principal of Anacortes high school, to the student body, he said. “When it’s time to play —he plays; when it's time to laugh—he laughs; and,” pausing still longer, “when it's time to work —he works. One hundred and eighty days of Elmer S. Dabney have served to accentuate the truths in this statement. When it’s time to play, he can gambol about as gaily as anyone; when it's time to laugh he has been known to start in the remotest corner of the study hall and infect the entire room with his chuckle. He can take a joke, too. Witness the many times that passengers in his sumptuous Buick sedan have caustically cautioned him about exceeding the speed limit. Or the time when, obliging his wife by bringing home a bottle of vinegar and some pedestrians by giving them a lift, he was heckled by ironic doubters. (Turn to page 48) Five

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ADMINISTRATION i Senior High School Faculty Elmer S. Dabney, Principal Margaret Burpee......... Mary F. Carter.......... TH EODORE Ce.DERBERG.... G. K. Chamberlain......... Ray Cowell.............. Evelyn Forbes......... Margery Foster.......... Allen O. Hammond........ Alene Morrison.......... Cornelia Newton......... William Wagner.......... ..............Sociology . . .Commercial Subjects ................Science ............English ........industrial Arts ................History .............Mathematics . Home Economics ... Foreign Languages ................English ....Library, Assembly ...Commercial Subjects EXEUNT . Four veteran members of the faculty, Miss Newton, library and study hall; Miss Forbes, mathematics; Miss Foster, home economics; and Mr. Wagner, commercial department, are bidding Anacortes adieu along with the senior class on June T. The entire school regrets seeing them leave, and A. H. S. only hopes that they will remember the school as long as the school will remember them—forever. Seven