Austin High School - Austinian Yearbook (Austin, MN)

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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 .

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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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LIS IN ALI. OLII2 ACTIVITIES FIRST Row-HILDEGARDE E. HEIN, Girls' Physical Education: MARI LU HETHERINGTON, Artg ALTON D. HILL, Coordinatorg MATIE J. HILLIER, Mathematics: PETER HOLAND, Vocational Agriculture. SECOND Row-PAULINE H. ISAACSON, Civics, Historyx EVELYN KENTTA, Latin: JACK KENTTA, Manual Arts: WALTER R. LATONDRESSE, Manual Arts: WINIFRED LEONARD, Science. THIRD Row-HENRIETTE LIBOZ, English, French, Spanishg ELEANORE LIFPMAN, Speech Correction, EDNA MARTINI, Mathematics, LILAH A. MARVIN, Social Science, SEDORIS MCCARTNEY, Science. S an annual custom in the high school, every year each homeroom usually gives a Thanksgiving basket of food to families in the community. Miss Lyma Geiger, school nurse, furnished the list of families, and Mrs. Evelyn Kentta was in charge of the baskets. At the November Teachers' Tea, Miss Elsabeth Grey was general chairman, On December 15, the annual Christmas faculty tea was held. Sedoris McCartney was chairman. Impersonating Santa Claus, Ray Wescott presented each of the faculty with a gift with appropriate messages for each. Guests of honor at the party were Miss Evelyn Thore- son, Latin instructor, and J. A. Kentta, di- rector of printing, whose engagement had been announced previously. They were married De- cember 28. At the January teachers' tea, Miss Marjorie Bell was in charge. The February tea was held in the form of a Valentine party On February 3, the faculty was saddened by the death of Mrs, Mary Davison, junior high instructor in social science and mathe- matics. She had resigned shortly before Christ- mas because of illness. With the second semester, two new teachers were added to the faculty. They were Miss Beulah Buswell, teacher of social science and mathematics, and Francis M. Russell, civics and English teacher. At the faculty meeting on January l9, Dr. McConnell from the Univer- sity of Minnesota spoke on What Is A Modern High School? He addressed the P.T.A. in the evening. A committee of teachers was ap- pointed on January 25, to score the Iowa Basic Skills Test.