Austin High School - Austinian Yearbook (Austin, MN)

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OUR TEACHERS ARE OUR GUIDES AND LEADERS VIRST Row-MARVIN C. KNUDSON, Assistant Principal: H. RACHEL ANDERSON, English: GENEVIEVE ARNOLD, Speech Correction: MARJORIE J, BELL, History: CHARLES H. BENNETT. Football Coach, Di- rector of Boys' Physical Education. SECQND RowAIRENE A. BENTLEY. English: BLANCHE BLACK. Mathef matics: HELEN L. BODDY, English: EARL C. BROOKS. Commercial: BEULAH BUSXNELL, Social Science, Mathematics. THIRD ROW4JOHN A. BUTORAC, Science, Assistant l7ootball Coach: GLADYS M. CHALBERG, Assistant School Nurse: ELIZABETH CHRISTOPHERSON, Home Economics, VUILLA CHURCH, English: MARY S. COTTER. Mathematics, S we glance backward on the year's activi- ties, we ind our teachers busily engaged not only in regular class room activity but also in extra curricular activity. They have been alert to bring what has been best and most needed practically and culturally to each learn- ing situation. They have also occupied import- ant positions in community, professional, and service clubs, in religious activity, in local civic welfare movements, and social life. During the school year our teachers have met together frequently for discussion of com- mon problems at faculty meetings and aftera noon teas. The members on the Teachers' So- cial Affairs Committee were: Mrs. Blanche Black, chairman, Miss Lura Lynn Straub, L. A. Cioick. On September 29, the first tea of the year was given, the September Tea. Mrs. Black was at the head of this Hrst social gather- ing. Miss Margaret Wood was in charge of the October tea. At the homecoming assembly on October 7, a hilarious, old fashioned melodrama with the villain pursuing the heroine and threatening to have her committed to an asylum unless she re- nounced the manly hero, was gallantly pro- duced and presented by a group of teachers. The play was called, 'ABertha, the Sewing Ma- chine Ciirlf' All the womens parts were taken by men, and the men's parts, by the women, The pep assembly was also led by the teachers -the way yells were led years ago, On October 14 several of the faculty made a trip to Vifaterloo, Iowa, for the purpose of observing the homeroom plan and organiza- tion in the high school of that city. 15

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PRINCIPAL L. J. GUSTAFSON QLLI2 PRINCIPAL SLIPERVISIES AND GUIDES LIS L. J. GUSTAFSON WE are all associated in a common task, that of preparing ourselves to live adequate lives as citizens and Workers in society. As We pass through the public school system, We take from it just as much as We are Willing to absorb. In return We leave a part of our own personalities behind. The character of a high school is a composite of its indi- vidual members. Fortunate indeed is that school which counts among its students and teachers a larger proportion of We- thinkers than I-thinkers. As you peruse the pages of this beautiful Austinian of 1939, what are your reactions? Do you experience a thrill that this book represents Our School, that it is packed with memories of the Worthwhile things we contributed to the growth of the institution, and that it is an account of the many projects in which We all cooperated? On theI other hand, is our only thrill in seeing pictures of ourselves and our friends and in glorying in the first person singular? The I-feeling results in a lifeless photograph album While the We-feeling creates a beau- tiful living memento of high school days. -L. J. GUSTAFSON, Principal

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OUR TEACHERS COUNSEL AND ADVISE l:lRS'1' Row--ALICE l-. DAHL, Commercial: JEAN DAUGHERTY4 Englighg NIABEL Nl, EVERSOLE, English: SYl,VlA K. FLAGSTAD. Junior High Nlusic and String Instruments: STANLEY R. GABRTELSEN. Science, Physical Education, Swimming Coach. SECOND Row- RACHEL D. GARDNER, English. Journalism: LYMA GEIGER. Assistant School Nurse: LEONARD A. GOICK. Commercial: JOHNEL E. GOLBERG, Social Science, Business Training: VIOLA GORDON. Secretary to Superinrqndgm, EIEIIIRD ROW'2KATE GREER, Director of Special Classes: ELSABETH E. GREY, Science, Mathematics: BLAIR HAINER, History: THEODORE H. HAL- VORSEN, Science, Mathematics: XVILLARD A. HARDY, Manual Arts, N order to organize and formulate a program for the year's Work, the new Parent-Teach- ers Association met for organization on Octo- ber 20. The organization was formed to estab- lish a closer bond between the teachers and par- ents of the students who attend the high school, The following were chosen by the nominat- ing committee to serve as officers for the year: president, Mrs. Oscar Dahlgren: first vice presi- dent, L, J. Gustafson: second vice president, Mrs. Roy Tedrow: third vice president, Mrs. W. Eullen: secretary, Alton D. Hill: treasurer, Mrs. Kleo Gildner: program chairman, Mrs, Paul Kimball. Erom October 27 and extending through October 29, faculty members of the public schools attended the Minnesota Education As- sociation Convention in Minneapolis. 16 A special invitation was extended to parents and school patrons to visit the public schools during the week of November 7-11, which was American Education Week. Each day of the week was represented by a theme. Miss Rachel D. Gardner and four students represented the journalism department of the school at the Na- tional Scholastic Press Association held in In- dianapolis, lndiana, November 10-12. On February 25 through March 2, Super- intendent S, T. Neveln attended the sixty-ninth annual convention of the Department of Super- intendence in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Neveln has now served sixteen years as secretary of the Schoolmaster's Rotary Club. The general theme of the convention was The Eoundation of American Education .