Duncan High School - Wildkat Yearbook (Duncan, AZ)

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DOUGLAS BRUBAKER Superintendent 1959 marks the completion of thirty years of service to the schools of Greenlee County for this well-known citizen, Mr. Douglas Brubaker. Coming to Duncan in 1929 as a classroom teacher, Mr. Brubaker became county superintendent in 1935 and held that position till the fall of 1943, when he returned to Duncan as elementary school principal. In 1952, when Duncan schools consolidated, he became superintendent and now oversees the work of twenty-eight teachers and more than 600 pupils. BRUCE MILLER High School Principal ADMINISTRATION Immediate shepherd of the high school, Mr. Bruce E. Miller has been teacher for six years and principal for three. Though finding an enrollment of about 125 under his care in 1956, Mr. Miller this past year has seen the school population swell to almost 175, and nearly 200 are expected to enroll in the fall of 1959. This page Sponsored by PIPER'S CAMERA SHOP Safford, Arizona 610 Main St.

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BOARD OF EDUCATION Veteran member of the board of education is Mr. W. M. Clark, who has now completed seventeen years of service to Duncan schools. Mr. Alfred Attaway be- came a board member in January, 1958, and during that year he served as clerk Mr. L. Levier Gardner was a member of the board from 1952 through 1958. In 1958 he served as presi- dent. After his resignation Mr. Frank Willis was elect- ed and began his term of service on January 1, 1959. This page sponsored by LEHMAN'S SHOES and CLOTHING Duncan Tel. 2571

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Mr. Floyd Chapman, who graduated in 1949 from DHS, received the B. Ed . degree at Arizona State College. He teaches Ameri- can history and American government, geography, and physical education, and is head football-coach and assistant basketball coach. He came to Dun- can in 1957. Mrs. Vera Power Dull came to Duncan last September to teach Spanish and English. A graduate of Mesa High School and of the University of Arizona, Mrs. Dull returned to Arizona after living for twenty-five years in the state of Michigan. Mr. H. T. Clothier, a graduate of Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, and holder of the M. Ed. degree from Colorado State Col- lege, Greeley, has been in Duncan since 1931 He teaches art and all commercial subjects and coaches the tennis and volleyball teams. FACULTY Duncan High School now has a staff of eleven teachers, the eleventh having been added this year. Mr. Don Nilsen came to relieve Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Levinson in the fields of mathematics and science. Duncan teachers manage to keep them- selves and their students busy six periods a day, five days a week and sometimes after school and on week-ends too. Mr. Fred Hawkins, a graduate of Grand Canyon College, teaches mathematics and assists with football. He is also head base- ball coach. Mr. Hawkins has completed his third year at Duncan High. Mr. Geoffrey Levinson presides over a busy lab, teaching biology and chemis- try. He received his B.S. and M.Ed. degree at the University of Arizona, and has studied there and at Baylor University on grants from the National Science Foundation and the Atomic Energy Commission.