Austin High School - Comet Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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b'..P'XeiNX5 Ja .. A W 1 1 . -IQ-. ul. Miss Stanfield . . . her luminous smile, spar- kling personality, and enthusiasm for Latin American culture I long remembered after the Spanish grammar was forgotten . . . she played no favorites in class, believing that was the only way. 2. Mrs. Nitschke . . . serene carrot-top of A. H. S. . . . her room indicated her love for vases . . . 'Let's get out our notebooks, would start another stretch of copying about the greats in history. 3. Mr. Beaty . . . reserved at first, but a swell person when you got to know him . . . 'Enjoy your- self-It's later than you think' . . . Put a different twist to it . . '. 'Get your Comet appointments - It's later than you thinkf 4. Miss Buchanan . . . we all called her 'Dulcei and thought she was just that-sweet . . . through her girlish spirit she made the orchestra one of the best in the state. 5. Mrs. Wofford . . . 'The dollar mark is on every war' . . . this she propounded dogmatically to her history classes . . . another proof of the theory that monev is the root of all evil. sy ' , lv , . xr U,, IQ. X' NM :mis ....1..... . ...W V l . .. ,, . .....g.ss.,..

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1. Mr. Winfrey . . . an expert in eloquent debate work . . . 'Coachf loved and respected by debators, produced numerous winning teams during his many years at A. H. S .... not only taught debate but, also, how to live to the fullest. 2. Miss Trenckmann . . . 'Donit take yourself so seriously' . . . a favorite saying . . . those unbear- ably hard tests were offset by interesting classes and sound advice . . . laborously figured out a moral to each story read in class. 3. Miss Porter . . . vibrant red-head . . . really rolled the Spanish off her tongue into our heads . . . close friends Latin-Americans became after she vivid- ly related her travels in the Spanish countries. 4. Mr. Davis . . . 'All right, boys, letis get going' . . . and so' the ever-thoughtful and good-natured Mr. Davis began another period in machine shop. 5. Mrs. Moehr . . . 'Get your zero honestlyl' con- fronted us at each quiz . . . how her biology classes hated to bisect Archie the Cockroach . . . one of her favorite forms of showing off her spiced humorf, fm.. asf.. A.. 1 ,Q-ff1.,:n,1 1

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,-Q! ,fr ff av ix. Ak.. 1. Mr. Willingham . . . with his lively sense of humor and sayings, he set off a spark that enliv- ened our usually dull agriculture classes, making them lots of fun! 2. Miss Harrison . . . devoted herself 'to make happy, intelligent users of books, and, with the poor material we furnished her, succeeded quite well . . . wholeheartedly declared that High School activities and antics furnished the most entertainment of any age group. 3. Mrs. Mclnis . . . expected us to behave like little angels in gym and we did-when she was looking . . . her informal classes, with her clever sayings thrown in, helped develop our minds and bodies with healthy, vigorous training and exercise. 4. Miss Goff . . . 'Radius of what? . . . the moon? that master mathematician would say as she showed us we did not have the number sense we thought . . . avid lover of flowers, always had a rose somewhere about her person or desk. 5. Mr. Barnette . . . co-ordinator of the science department . . . chemistry students were espe- cially grateful to this jovial man for introducing qualitative analysis to the course of study.