Boulder City High School - Aquila Yearbook (Boulder City, NV)

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VOCA TIONAL Come on, now, boys, today's Fri- day . , . let's clean up!! Mr. Gid- dens was a stickler for a clean, tidy shop , . . he insisted on safety meas- ures . . . he taught us auto mechanics . . . and industrial arts . . . sponsored the iunior class . . . the hours he spent in helping make our proms a success . . . made him our favorite sponsor . . A neat hem-line was not the most important thing in the world to Mrs. Harvey, but it was one of the most important . . . any time we wanted to stall for time . . . a slight sug- gestion brought forth stories of her experiences in rearing her family . . . which were timely in family relations class which she taught . . , her clay was a full one with iunior homemak- ing, plus senior high homernaking, family relations and sponsor of iunior high and senior high F.H.A ....

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n the inte- really didn't often . he track x SGIEQ si,g Mr. McManus . . . we tried to give him a bad time in iunior high . . . but he caught on to us early . . . in world history . . . it was learn, learn, learn . . . not always world history, though . . . sometimes . . . the best in current theater production . . . movie land or grand opera . . . he was president of the county teachers' group and occasionally we got in on a few of his professional problems . . . Those surprise quizzes Mr. Foreman faced us with almost every day threw us for a loop often, but we made it through math in iunior high . . . and checked in again as iuniors for American History . . . we'll remember him for his good coaching as assistant football coach, and JV basketball, and as sponsor of sophomore class . . .

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Mrs. McAdams had the patience ot Job. How she stood the click-clack of thirty typewriters for two or three or four hours a day, we never knew . . . she didn't like students ierking paper out of the machine . . . but Pepper forgot. So did many other beginning typists . . . she also taught sophomore English and office machines . . . and advised the Pebbles staff . . we liked her classes . . . ...,., COMMERCIAL 'i science Q!! Bob, if you insist on chewing gum, l'Il have to have enough to take home to each of my grandchildren . . . Mrs. King had little patience with the gum-chewer, but her patience was endless with us when we were slow in getting a correct answer in bookkeeping . . , she l . had a way of looking at you over her glasses that made you know she meant business . . . she taught us so much more than bookkeeping and shorthand . , . and banking . . . real lessons in living . . . we could. always depend that she would be fair . . . we often wondered where she managed to get enough hours in the day and enough energy to do the exacting iob of handling school funds with the help of student book- keepers . . .