Argentine High School - Mustang Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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to give extensive information regarding each of the fields, but the parents also have a cordial welcome at all times to share in these counseling experiences. In fact, the vocational program of the school is related definitely to the business and the industrial needs of the community through advisory committees of adults. These committees meet from time to time to keep in touch with the program and to share their experi- ences to the end that the school work is kept tuned to present needs. By sponsoring a large number of activities, the school challenges the interest of the various types of boys and girls. Plays, musical programs, speech events, typewriting contests, athletic events of all kinds, miscellaneous programs, and work on the school's publica- tions, keep the morale of the students high and offer the finest opportunities for the development of good sportsmanship and fair play and for the exploration of latent talents.

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F. L. SCHLAGLE Superintendent The Argentine Junior-Senior High School is a comprehensive secondary school serving a large industrial area of a great city. It is one unit of the Kansas City, Kansas, school system. As the title indicates, it includes six grades—seven to twelve inclusive. Although the junior high grades are open only to children who live south of the Kansas River, the senior high grades serve the boys and the girls of the entire school district who are especially interested in the offer- ings of this particular school. Since this is a comprehensive high school, the offerings include the college preparatory subjects, the fine arts, the household arts, the industrial arts, a complete office training course, and numerous other vocational courses for both boys and girls. The guidance activities of the school are geared to meet the demands of the comprehensive school. Not only do the students have the opportunity of counseling with staff members who are qualified

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• GUIDANCE • Argentine is proud of its instructors, o faculty com- posed of thirty-five educators, chosen with care and discre- tion as best fitted to train mind and body. • INSTRUCTORS • MR. EDMUN A. ASH History MISS EDNA BARNES English MR. C. C. BRINK Shorthand, Typing MR. GLENN F. BROWN Building Trades, Carpentry MISS STELLA M. COLE Clothing, Homemaking MISS GLADYS CONCDON History, English MISS GRACE DALE Shorthand, General Busi- ness, Bookkeeping, Office Machines MISS EDITH DELANEY Algebra MISS MAUD E. HEWITT English, Art MR. F. S. HOOVER Physics, Aeronautics, Biology MISS LILLIAN JESSUP Geography MRS. FAYE BETTY LEVY Mathematics MR. JOHN C. LONBORG General Science, Applied Mathematics, Health MISS MYRTLE McCORMICK English, Latin, Library MR. EARL A. MOODY Mechanical Drawing MRS. ETHELYN MORGAN Mathematics MR. HAROLD J. MOULD Band, Orchestra MR. IRA E. NOBLE Electricity, Electrical Assembly MR. C. J. OLANDER Physical Training, First Aid, Civics, Health MISS BERTHA L. PLUMB Foods, Cafeteria MR. C. L. RICHARDS Woodwork MISS PATTI SANKEE English, Spanish MR. D. F. SCHULTZ Machine Shop MR. NEIL F. SHELL Plane Geometry, Advanced Algebra, Chemistry MR. WARREN A. SWARTZ Airplane Mechanics MR. CLYDE E. SWENDER Vocations, Salesmanship, Business Organization, History MISS FRANCES E. TAYLOR Journalism, English MR. V. E. TIMMINS American History MISS SUE UNRUH Physical Training, First Aid, Civics, Health MISS MONA R. WALTER Chorus, Glee Clubs MISS BESS WILHITE English MR. J. C. SHANKLAND Vice Principal MISS JANET A. CLARK MISS MARGARET F. PENNY Office Secretaries MISS MARY F. SCHUERER Librarian MISS EVELYN KOESTER School Nurse