Champaign High School - Maroon Yearbook (Champaign, IL)

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FACULTY REEDOM is a heritage that forms the cornerstone of the American way of life. It is a priceless gift from a band of patriots who never Wavered in their search of an ideal. They found it in America. We of the present can accept that her- itage only if we understand and search for it. It becomes an inherited treasure if and when we know how to open the various doors behind which it is hidden. fWithout that knowledge, we are as im- prisoned as if the doors did not exist.j Each member of our faculty stands beside a door, ready to open it for those who desire the freedom which true knowledge brings. We know them as friends-they have proved it times without number. At the door which leads to knowl- edge over the avenue of English may be found Miss Nina Gresham, Miss Amy Beach, Miss Leola Harding. Miss Nelle Zehner, Miss Frances Weed, Miss Vera Kaden and Miss Marion Stuart. 28 EHAFFEE IRST to extend a helping hand to the in- coming student-and the invariable friend to one and all when knotty problems must be untwisted-Miss Eleanor Chaffee wears the undisputed crown of popularity when boys and girls express their innermost hearts. As vice-principal. she fills a difficult role. adjusting the individual class schedules. keeping the records. and serving as the sec- ond in command in maintaining school discipline. But with it all she never fails to counsel wisely and with understanding sympathy. She can never reckon in numbers the loads she has lightened or the inspiration she has so unstintedly given. SEERETARIES ECRETARIES and oflice summons slips are inti- mately connected, and for that reason. both Mr. Dillman and Miss Attebury are rather well known to many senior high students. Blessed with a sense of humor, they blend well with high school life. The Maroon

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ALLISUN OPMOST rating for the Champaign senior high school is due, in no small measure, to the efforts and foresight of Principal Carl W. Allison. Upon his shoulders rests the responsibility of weighing the natural tendencies of youth against the instru- ments of education to forge the outlook for the future. Quick to realize the need for special training for war serv- ice, the CHS principal was among the first administrators to adopt new courses in aeronautics and to start revamping the curriculum for more intensive training in mathematics. . Kindly and highly sensitive to the welfare of both students and faculty, he insists that there is no place for the intellectual slacker, and that each must make the best of benefits and privi- leges that are offered.

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Miss Gresham who serves as chairman of the department, has been a member of the teaching staff since 1920. She teaches English literature and advanced rhetoric. and is now engaged in working out an en- tirely new program based upon the litera- ture of the world. She attended the Uni- versity of Illinois Where she received A.B. and A.M. degrees. Miss Kaden is a graduate of the Univer- sity of Michigan, holding both an A.B. and an A.M. degree. In addition to teach- ing advanced rhetoric, and sophomore English, she is in charge of all student test- ing, and is regarded as an authority in pre- paring charts and graphs. She came to Miss Clelia Harland and Mrs. .Iessica Clark senior high in 1929. I-Ier principal hobby and recreation is riding. Miss Weed, teacher of rhetoric, gram- mar, American literature, and English N, is a graduate of Knox college with a B.S. degree. She received a master's degree at the University of Illinois after coming to CHS in 1927. Also arriving that year was Miss Harding who teaches sophomore English, and English literature. Miss Hard- ing, one of the -perennial chaperones and assistants at all school parties, is likewise a stalwart of the Business and Professional Women's club. She received a B.A. degree from Greenville college, doing advanced work at the University of Illinois to com- plete a master's. Miss Amy Beach not only teaches American Literature and grammar, but she is also active in school affairs, sponsoring , 1 Mr. Mendel Riley The Maroon Miss Vera Kaden. Miss Nell Zehner, Miss Frances Weed, Miss Leola Harding, Mrs. Amy Turrell Cretiredj and Miss Nina Gresham the National Honor Society, but is an elected junior class sponsor. She, too, holds an M.A. degree and a record of 27 years' service at CHS. Miss Nell Zehner, who teaches English N, is a graduate of the Eastern Illinois State Teachers' College, and the University of Illinois, holding both B. of Ed. and M.A. degrees. Although Miss Zehner has been with the senior high staff only since 1941, she has capably managed the Student Council during that time. Speech, dramatics, and English N courses are under the direction of Miss Stuart who, an alumna of senior high. received the degrees of Miss Bonnie Lewis and Miss Marion Stuart B.S. and M.S. at the University of Illinois. She came to CHS in 1934. In addition to sponsor- ing Wig and Paint, and the National Thespians troupe, she is a member of Zeta Phi Eta-na- tional women's speech organization, and Phi Epsilon Delta-honorary dramatics fraternity. The door to mathematics is unlocked by a quartet of teachers made up of Miss Opal Cun- ningham, Mr. William Clark, Mr. Clarence Fuqua, and Mr. Ralph McBride. Miss Cunningham became a member of the faculty in 1926 with plane geometry as a spe- cialty. She holds an A.B. degree earned at Colo- rado University, and a master's degree from the 29