Champaign High School - Maroon Yearbook (Champaign, IL)

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in the languages. Miss LeSure attended both the Uni- versities of Chicago and Illinois, and Miss Swigart holds the doctor of philosophy degree in Spanish. In Natural Sciences, Miss Nellie Bates, Mr, Glenn Tilbury, and Miss Edna Meadows have charge. Miss Bates, with both an A.B. and M.S. degree. teaches physics. In addition, she served her second year as head of the Champaign Teachers' Association and was active in directing student affairs. Mr. Til- bury is in charge of the chemistry classes, served on the disciplinary committee as well as active on teacher committees. Miss Meadows, a graduate of the Uni- versity of Illinois, presides over the classes in biology. Few know this subject equally as well and none sur- pass her in pupil popularity. At the home economics door, Mrs. Helen Stark and Miss Lucille Stansell direct the student's career in the field of foods, clothing, and homemaking. Mrs. Stark, who joined the CHS staif in 1922, is in charge of the foods classes, and Miss Stansell directs Miss Opal Cunningham, Mr. William Clark, and Mr. Clarence Fuqua the homemaking and clothing program. Miss Dorothy Munger, Miss Edith Hudnut, Mr. McBride, and Mrs. Jessica Clark comprise the commercial depart- ment, guiding the students over the road to a business career. Miss Munger, a graduate of the Uni- versity of Illinois, sponsors the Girl Reserves in addition to teaching typing. Mrs. Clark, a newcomer to CHS, for- merly served as dean of girls at a Los Angeles high school. Miss Hudnut di- rects the distributive occupation courses as well as business law and salesmanship. In the fine arts, Mr. Mendel Riley is director of instrumental music and band and orchestra. Miss Harriet Rose super- vises the vocal music, and Miss Clelia Harland directs the choir and vocal in- struction. Miss Bonnie Lewis, graduate The Maroon Miss Dorothy Munger, Mr. Ralph McBride, and Miss Edith Hudnut of Missouri University, and teacher of art and crafts, joined the faculty in 1943. Physical education instructors include Mr. Roy Swindell, swimming coach: Mr. Fred Major, wrestling coach and as- sistant football coach: Mr. Harry Combes, basketball coach, 'and Miss Marga Hosaeus. I Miss Hosaeus served for a time as lieutenant in the marine corps, rejoining the faculty to take charge of the girls' physical education program. In general charge and supervising the buildings and grounds is Mr. William Schultz with Mr. Ed Davis. engineer, Mrs. Harry Elkins, Mr. Ervin Crews, Mr. Wayne Diillman, Mr. Albert Patter- son, Mr. Kermit Reid, and Mrs. Lucille Smock making up the janitorial staff. Miss Helen Jenista, Mr, E. O. Bottenfield, Miss Iva M. Still, Mr. Foster McCarty Kon leavej , and Mrs. Hulah Smith 31

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Miss Nellie Bates, Mr. Glenn Tilbury. and Miss Edna Meadows University of Illinois. She is intensely interested in sports and is always found at the ticket booth of every home ath- letic event. In addition to teaching, Miss Cunningham presided over the tenth study hall during 1944-45 where stu- dents were obliged to spend make-up time for infraction of school rules. Mr. Clark is a graduate of Bradley college at Peoria, likewise holding a master's degree from the University of Illinois. He returned to senior high this year after a leave of absence to serve in the U. S. army. He teaches all algebra courses offered. as well as solid geom- etry and trigonometry. He came to CHS in 1927. Mr. Fuqua joined the CHS faculty in 1925, attending the University of Illinois to complete work for a master's degree While carrying on his work as a teacher. Intensely interested in flying, Miss Eleanor Cook, Miss Essie LeSure, Miss Beulah Swigart, and Miss Amy Beach 30 he teaches aeronautics as well as math- ematics N, business arithmetic, geom- etry. and trigonometry. Mr. McBride, a graduate of Southern Illinois Normal University, and is a member of the commercial staff as well as mathematics, holds a master's degree from the University of Illinois. He came to CHS in 1942 from Davis, Illi- nois, where he served as superintendent of schools. At the doors to knowledge in history, Miss Iva Still and Mr. E. O. Bottenfield preside. Both are outstanding authorities on United States history, and every student who attends CHS is enrolled in classes taught by one or the other of these two teachers before earning a diploma. Miss Mrs. Helen Stark and Miss Lucille Stansell Still is active in the local D. A. R. and a number of University of Illinois or- ganizations, in addition to the regular school Work. Mr. Bottenlield is a for- mer principal at the Sparta. Illinois, high school, and is active in church work as well as teaching. Two other teachers, Miss Helen Jenista and Mrs. Hulah Smith. make up the social studies department, the former in charge of the classes in sociology and world history. and the latter teaching economics and geography. At the door of languages. Miss El- eanor Cook is in charge of the French classes, Miss Essie LeSure teaching Latin, Miss Swigart, Spanish, and Miss Beach, German. Miss Cook is also a graduate of the senior high school, attending the Uni- versity of Illinois for advanced degrees The Maroon

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Mr. Fred Major. Miss Marga Hosaeus, Mr. Harry Combes, and Mr. Roy Swindell Doubling in brass, the physical edu- cation staff carries on the coaching assign- ments of the Maroon teams as well as directing the health classes. Staff members were Roy Swindell, swimming and wrestling: Harry Combes, basketball: Fred Major, football and wrestling, and Miss Marga Hosaeus. girls' sports. The physical plant and maintenance of the school buildings has been under the direction of W. E. Schultz, known as the best superintendent of buildings and grounds in the state. His capable engi- neering and janitorial staff has kept the buildings warm during the winter, and spic and span clean throughout the term. Mr. William Schultz 32 Mr. Harry Elkins, Mr. Ervin Crews. and Mr. Edward Davis The Maroon