Duncan High School - Wildkat Yearbook (Duncan, AZ)

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ASSISTANTS TO OFFICE SECRETARY: Sue Davis, Irene Barney, Pat Beauford, Ann Richardson. SEATED: Angie Valles. These girls type, record information, operate duplicator, run errands. New machine in the office was a copying machine. MRS. LOMA McEUEN, Secretary, assists both Superintendent Brubaker and Principal Wright in efficient handling of school records, corres- pondence, payrolls. Office secretary, guidance counselor, LIBRARIANS: Steve Lehman, fifth period; Margaret Rodriguez, second period; Blessie Tellez, first period; James Bailey, fourth period; Marilynn Davis, third period; Barbara Harrington, float period. They checked books out and in, watched overdues, found books and other materials for students. New in the library this year were the doors in the cupboard below the dictionaries.

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Faculty MARC LEMIEUX BERNICE V. MILLER T. M. PACE J. W. SANTEE MR. LEMIEUX's duties for the past four years have included teaching industrial arts and general math. His shop students have made many handsome and useful products. Mr. Lemieux obtained the B.A. and M.A. degrees from Arizona State University. MRS. MILLER has been homemaking teacher for six years and this year taught a section in freshman Eng- lish. Practical experience in cooking and serving meals, furnishing model homes, sewing, and con- ducting nursery classes have been her students' proj- ects. MR. PACE, vocational agriculture teacher, teaches in the classrrom, in the fields, and in the farm shop, which this year was given separate quarters from the shop department in the south wing of the gym. Mr. Pace, who taught general science also this year, has the B.S. degree from New Mexico State University. MR. SANTEE, senior teacher at DHS, has been here thirty-three years. Former students now are follow- ing musical careers, and his vocal and instrumental groups and soloists are always sought for programs in Greenlee County. He has a B. M. degree from Beth- any College, Lindsborg, Kansas. marries; Blake teaches speech; Armstrong, German MRS. VAN GUNDY has been advising the school yearbook and newspaper during most of the seven- teen years she has been at Duncan. She is librarian and sophomore English teacher also. She received her B.A. degree at Monmouth College in Illinois, and the M.A. at the University of Illinois. MR. WRIGHT, principal of the high school, assisted in football and coached the track team. His training in mathematics prepared him to plan budgets and keep accounts for the numerous curricular and extra- curricular activities of Duncan High. He received the B.Ed. and M.Ed. at Southwestern State, Wea- therford, Oklahoma. Traditional event for the faculty of both grade and high schools in the fall is an out- door picnic. Last October the teachers met on the lawn beside the cafeteria and broiled steaks to eat with salad, watermelon, and other good foods. Above. Coaches Hicks and Chapman check the progress of the T- bones for themselves and their wives. NATHALIE VAN GUNDY ROBERT E. WRIGHT

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ASSISTANTS TO GUIDANCE COUNSELOR AND TEACHERS - SEATED: Karen Rhodes (Mr. Hicks); Jeane Nelson (Mr. Clothier); Judy Johnson (Lemieux); Duane Francom (Coach Chapman); STANDING: Judy Allred, Cheryl Stephens (Mr. Hicks); Kathy Thygerson, Lucille Lee (Mr. Clothier); Steve Lehman (Mr. Honsinger); Marilynn Davis (Mr. Chapman). In addition to helping busy teachers, they received valuable training. student assistants serve school CHARLES HICKS, guidance counselor. Mr. Hicks kept busy giving mental ability, college entrance, and scholar- ship tests. He also aided students in applying for scholar- ships, and taught Spanish and coached basketball and baseball. Below, he helps Danny Stephens. How many times a day does someone have to go to the office --maybe to make a phone call, report illness, buy a pencil, tablet, or book--or redeem a book carelessly left in a classroom or on a locker—or meet the principal for praise, rebuke, or planning of school events? Mrs. McEuen answered the questions, wrote the excuses, and generally achieved the smooth running of the office machine. For troubles with studies and in scheduling; for puzzlements about after-high school plans and careers; for information on school and job prospects--students were channeled to Mr. Hicks, who kept in his files vocation guidance literature and college information. He also assisted Principal Wright in guiding students when they were dissatisfied or when their work was unsatisfactory. 17