Baker High School - Buff Yearbook (Baker, LA)

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LEFT: Aside from such jobs as supervising the senior class sponsors. signing orders for tests, and keeping the school keys. Dr. Landry orders supplies and books. BELOW: Much of Mrs. Bond’s time is taken up by the supervision of standardized tests. Mrs. Bond gives the direction for taking the NEDT test to tenth graders. •ifflHIUfflUMW The public address system is a handy way of talking to all the students at the same time. Mr. Simmons announces that Mr. MacKey’s and Mrs. Randall’s homerooms have won the candy sale. An important part of the administrator’s job is conferences with students and teachers. Dr. Landry discusses with Mrs. Hunt and Mrs. Cardwell (not shown) improvements for the foreign language labs. 13

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Administration is the nerve center of BHS. - ABOVE: Coordinatinjr sixty-six teachers and 1500 students, Mrs. Bond and Mr. Simmons spend much time with conferences in scheduling. BEI.OW: Each morning Mr. Simmons checks the campus to make certain the school is ready for another day. Supervision of instruction—the administration’s primary role at Baker High. Because of the administrators’ expert manipulating, each day runs smoothly. But have you “ever really” looked at what administrators do during each “work” day? Their various behind the scenes chores run from ordering supplies and approving work orders to handling discipline problems and supervising athletic programs, from planning assemblies to meeting with the faculty. Aside from these daily jobs, they supervise an in-service training program for teachers, which holds bi-monthly meetings. As the originators of the National Honor Society Breakfast and the school calendar, they add the sparkle which makes BHS different from other schools in this area. As part of the citizenship program, which all the principals in the parish are supporting, the Key Clubbers went to a board meeting in Jackson, Mississippi, and Student Council officers attended a meeting in Lafayette. Mr. Simmons, a hunting and fishing enthusiast, works with the family court. Dr. Landry, the father of four boys, received his Doctorate of Education from the University of Georgia last August. Mrs. Bond, who enjoys raising cattle and riding horses, has been guidance counselor at Baker High for nine years, to top off many earlier years of teaching at BHS. 12

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Faculty renders valuable services. Teachers — like people everywhere — come in all shapes, in all sizes — and in all flavors. A teacher is known by what he teaches — but also by what he does, what he likes, and what he loathes. “Tell me his d’ruthers,” says the amateur psychologist, “And I’ll tell you the man.” (And then there’s that school of psychologists who need only a favorite flower as key — and they’ll unravel the whole personality.) Be this as it may. It’s debatable that the “essence” of a person can be extrapolated from any one facet of personality — but a bit of flavor might come through. We include a hobby, or a happenstance, or a bit of hoo-ray by each teacher’s name, like a novelist rounding-out a character by showing his other side. Mr. Faucette is obviously indulging in the teacher’s main job — to teach, but this is by far not the only one. Charles Abbott — Speech I, II ... Speech Club Sponsor ... visited the Astrodome last summer. Alfred Allday — Typing. School Business Manager ... hobbies are stockcar racing and reading. Jack Andre — Boys Physical Education ... head Cior varsity basketball coach ... assistant foot-coach. Miss Mary Allison — Bookkeeping, Office Practice, Rusiness English ... spends spare time drawing and painting. Nelson Bacot — General Science 7 ... worked on his farm last summer ... a fishing enthusiast. Joseph Bezet, Jr. — Physics, General Science ... completed work on a Master’s Degree ... attended World’s Fair. Mrs. Marjorie Blocker — Vocal Music ... vocal coach for spring play ... enjoys attending lectures, symphonies. Gary Blocker — American Government, Sociology ... paper staff sponsor ... chaperoned a trip to New York. Jerry Boudreaux — Driver’s Education, Guidance Counselor ... Key Club sponsor ... whips his farm into shape, summers. Mrs. Margaret Boudreaux — Home Economics ... F H A sponsor ... joins in activities with her children. Miss Pat Bovard — Girls Physical Education ... Pepster sponsor ... it goes without saying: “loves sports.” Willie Bowman — Industrial Arts ... prints school paper ... interested in graphic arts. M