Decatur High School - Decanois Yearbook (Decatur, IL)

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THE DECANOIS lF A. C U W lL T Y English Miss L. Lucille Barnes. B. Ed. from Illinois State Normal University, M. A. from the Uni- versity of lllinois. Miss Barnes teaches Eng- lish 5. She has done graduate work at Milli- lcin University and the University of Chicago. 1938 Miss Helen I. Stapp, B. S. from the Univer- sity of lllinois. Miss Stapp teaches sophomore English. She is adviser of Aristos. Miss Stapp founded Verse Choir and Poetry Club and advises both. She coached the members of the mid-year senior class day program. UCon- temporary Poets, a biographical dictionary, published Miss Stapp's biography this year. Miss Helen Gorham, A. B. from lames Milli- kin University. She has taught English 7 and English 3 this semester. Miss Gorham is inter- ested in dramatics and assists in dramatic make-up for the school plays. Miss Katherine Stadler. A. B. from lames Millikin University. Miss Stadler teaches Eng- lish 4. She coached the lune class senior play. She is the adviser of the sophomore social committee. Charlotte Wismer, Confession, has a whip which she is about to use on Eugene larvis, Everyman, in this scene from the morality play Everyman, The play is from one of Miss Barnes' English classes and was staged by Elizabeth Lee Pigott and Harriet Bodgers. Toola Karelas, Good Deeds, has her hands out- stretched to protect Everyman. Raymond Brown, heavily bedecked in beads and jewelry, is Goods. Ted Dawson, is Knowledge. The group about Miss Stapp in the lower picture is the sophomore program committee. ln the front row are Dominic Piraino, Glenn Branson, and Erahlman Bridge. Gn Miss Stapp's right are luanita Fraser and Mary Dennis. On her left are Barbara Gauger and Grace Catlin. Allen Chaney is not in the picture.

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THE DECANOIS FACULTY English Miss Ethel Parkinson, A. B. from the Univer- sity of Illinois, M. A. from Teachers College, Columbia University. Miss Parkinson is head of the English department. She teaches sopho- more English cind journalism. ln addition to her department duties and her teaching, she is in charge ot the general arrangements for the Herald-Beview story contest, the Lincoln essay contest, and the lda K. Martin contest. Miss Lois Yoder, A. B. from lames Millikin University, M. A. from Teachers College, Columbia University. Miss Yoder teaches senior English. She is adviser of Agora, the older of the girls' literary societies. Her ser- vices to the school also include special coach- ing of the students on commencement programs and an active participation in pre- paring for the intersociety literary contest. Miss Louise Fike, A. B. from Drake Univer- sity. Miss Eike teaches lunior English. For several years Miss Eike was adviser of Mask and Wig. She is interested in dramatics and has presented many high school plays. 1938 4569 Heston Booker is not a thief but he is playing the part in this scene from Sham , a play written by Frank Cr. Tompkins. The group is from Miss Yoder's class and they are giving a study in interpretative reading. Erma Bosler and Dick Bliler are Clara and Charles, the wife and husband. Paul Cochran is the reporter. The study ot plays is part of the work included in English 8. Even the backs of lohn McKee, Nancy Down- ing, William McDaniel, and Marvin Bowers look interested. Their owners are taking part in the trial of Charles Darnet, enacted by Cole- man Hardin, who is seated in the front of the group. Miss Parkinsons sophomore English classes dramatized this trial when they were studying A Tale of Two Cities. The other witnesses in the scene are Rodney McNalley, standing, and Henry Koshinski. Bobert Edie and Cloyd Kerr are the lawyers, Bichard Shelley is the judge, Walter Shultz and Ralph Dombroski are the attorneys.

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THE DECANOIS i Miss Mary Louise Cameron, B. S. from the University of lllinoisg M. A. from the University of Illinois. Miss Cameron has recently be- come a member of the high school faculty. She teaches junior English. Mr. Wilmer Lamar, A. B. from Iames Millikin University. Besides teaching sophomore Eng- lish and business English, Mr. Lamar coaches the debating teams. l-le is adviser of Botoro and has the head advisership of the sopho- more class. Mrs. Marietta K. Lamar, B. S. from University of lllinoisg M. A. from the University of Illinois. Mrs. Lamar teaches grammar and senior Eng- lish. She is adviser for the sophomore Wel- fare and the junior scholastic committees. Mr. Mayo L. Magill, A. B. from McKendree Collegeg M. A. from the University of Illinois. Mr. Magill teaches sophomore English. l-le is adviser of Hi-Y, the boys' society which is associated with the Y. M. C. A. Miss Dorothy Wilhelmy, A. B. from james Millikin University. Miss Wilhelmy teaches sophomore English and French. Miss Anne Lauterbach, A. B. from North- western Universityg M. A. from the University of lllinois. Miss Lauterbach did not become a member of the high school faculty until the second semester of this year. Margaret Crum and Peggy Duerr, two of her sophomore stu- dents, are standing by her desk as she grades their themes. Miss Lauterbach formerly taught at Malden, Illinois. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternity. Eaintly visible at the back of the left hand table is a dining hall made by Paul Milligan as a project in his study of Ivanhoe, Paul is shown amid the collection of similar projects 21 1938 lF A C U lL TF Y English made by his classmates. The dolls seen are dressed in the costume of lvanhoe's time. There are interior and exterior scenes from castles. This work was done by students from Miss Wilhelmy's English 3 classes to make the study of 'llvanhoe more interesting.