Atchison High School - Trailblazer Yearbook (Atchison, KS)

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I you want to build something B.S. and M S. in Industrial Educa- Missouri Western State College, and need advice. GARY A. tion at Emporia. In his spare time, where she earned a B.S. in edu- MCGREGOR. who teaches Auto- Mr. McGregor enjoys wood work- cation and a B.A. in accounting motives and Woodshop. might ing and motorcycling. He is also She has been teaching for two ’ help you. He has been teaching very active in the Wednesday years, both at AHS Mrs Ninemire for 28 years at AHS. Mr. McGregor Evening Discussion Group. -MA teaches Accounting I and II. and ' attended college at Pittsburg Typing I and II. Her hobbies include State University and earned his PAMELA C. NINEMIRE attended reading and sewing -LH CHRISTOPHER POWERS has bies include snow skiing, surfing, and The University of Kansas, been teaching his entire career camping, sailing, and in general, where he majored in physical of three years at AHS. Mr. Powers any activity done outdoors.-JD education, minored in math, and teaches French I and II and Span- earned his B.S. and M.A. Degree L ish I, II, and III and is assistant STANLEY D. PURDY, who teach- Before teaching at AHS. Mr Purdy coach for football and wrestling, es geometry, algebra and pre- taught at Overbrooke Middle 1 Mr. Powers attended East algebra, also coaches football School, Mclouth. and ACCHS. Mr. Rockaway High School in New and basketball. He has been Purdy enjoys softball, fishing, and York and attended Emporia teaching for 12 years, including hunting in his spare time.-RF State where he studied Ian- three years at AHS. Mr. Purdy at- guages as well as history. His hob- tended Emporia State University, 24

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MAX KING attended Pittsburg State Univeristy and earned a B S m art and a minor in psycholo- gy At Fort Hays State University he earned his M A He also re- ceived further education at K- State He has taught for twenty- five years and now teaches at AHS, AJHS. and HJHS in Highland At AHS he teaches 2-D art. 3-D art. Commerical Art. Jewelry Making. Individual Exploration in Art. Sculpture-Ceramics, and Printing Mr King's hobbies include swimming and painting.-JP LINDA M KIRKENDOLL became our new library-secretarial aide this year. She attended Sterling College and Highland Jr College She hopes to finish her education in the future Mrs Kirkendoll has been working in Atchison schools for four years, including AHS. AJHS. Washington Grade School, and Trinity Lutheran She enjoys reading, volleyball, cooking and jogging in her spare time JOE KOHLER has been teaching Industrial Arts and Metals for twenty-eight years at AHS. He earned a B.S and M S. at Pitts- burg State University. Mr Kohler is a former AHS track coach and football coach Mr Kohler enjoys reading and working with wood and metal when he isn't watch- ing sporting events.-WS HOMER T McCOOLF has been a principal for four years and as- sistant principal for ten years, all at AHS. He earned his B.S. in 1957 from Arkansas State Teachers College, and he earned his M S in 1967 from K-State His mam inter- est is a 120 acre farm where he raises polled hereford cattle -CP 23

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If you've ever considered tak- ing Algebra II, Trigonometry. Col- lege Algebra. Vocational Math. Pre-Algebra. Computer Literacy, or Calculus, you had better get to know KEITH L. RAWSON. He has taught math and algebra classes for 18 years, 14 of those years have been at AHS. He has at- tended Peru State College in Peru. Nebraska. Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. and the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Kansas. He earned a B.S. at Peru and a M S. at North- ern Arizona. In his spare time he enjoys running, working on com- puters, working on automobiles and bicycling even as far as Kan- sas City.-MB DONNA K. ROE. a math teacher at AHS. earned a B.S. in math from Fort Hayes State University in 1969 She also earned her educa- tion degree at the University of Western Australia in 1970, and her master's degree in counseling from Kansas University in 1976 She enjoys reading, golf, and needlework. She teaches Pre-Al- gebra. Algebra II. and Geometry. She has been teaching for 14 years, including two years at AHS.-CP PEGGY J. SHAVERDI attended Pittsburg State University. She has been teaching for seven years at ► AHS. She teaches English. Ameri- can History. American Studies, all I in the resource room. Her hobbies include needlework and watch- ing movies.-LH area He has taught three years at the old Jr.-Sr, High School, seven years at Maur Hill, six years at the Atchison Youth Center, and four years at AHS. The re- maining two years were spent at Chase County Community High School at Cottonwood Falls. Kan- sas Mr. Smith attended Kansas State University and Emporia State University, where he ma- jored in biology and minored in chemistry and earned a B.S. and M S degrees in science Mr Smith teaches Introduction to Biology and Biology 1A and IB Besides teaching all day, he also assists in coaching football In his spare time he enjoys golf, softball, hunt- ing. gardening and officiating at area basketball and volleyball games.-MB LARRY L. SMITH has been teach- ing for 22 years. Twenty of those years have been in the Atchison ft 2S