Duncan High School - Wildkat Yearbook (Duncan, AZ)

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Board of Education ELVIN LUNT, Member FRANK WILLIS, Member ALFRED ATTAWAY, President Three-year terms rotate; members serve without pay; budget is hardest problem. Serving on Duncan schools’ Board of Education are three graduates of Dun- can High School. Mr. Elvin Lunt, who has completed half of his first term, is the son of Broughton Lunt, who came to the Duncan Valley in 1916 to farm, and whose sons Elno, Elvin, Irl, Kenneth, and Rudd still farm in the area. In 1898 a young lady came to teach school in Duncan--Miss Nanny Wilshire. In 1900 she married Mr. W. Frank Wil- lis, who later served on the school board, and whose son Frank now is nearing the end of his second term with the board. Mr. Alfred Attaway, now beginning his third term, came to Duncan in 1928, graduated from Duncan schools, and was, in the words of one teacher, ‘‘Best bookkeeping student I ever had.” As owner of Al’s Barber Shop, Mr. Atta- way represents the town merchants, as Mr. Lunt speaks for the farmers and Mr. Willis for the ranchers of Duncan District Number 2. The Board meets on the first Monday of each month and deals with many prob- lems, of which, says Superintendent Brubaker, ‘‘The budget is the hardest. We never know from one year to the next exactly how much our expenses will be, or how much state and county aid we can expect.” An equalization law for county funds makes the latter especially uncertain. Also, aid from both sources is based on average daily attendance. Other items of business for the Board include dealing with problems of disci- pline and policy, and hiring personnel. 10

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Seniors test for jobs; juniors choose rings. Senior Lora Faye Lee concentrates hard to fit pegs in holes in vocational aptitude test given by the State Employment Service. Marie Richardson and Sheila Wood look carefully at samples ol rings before the Junior Class makes its choice of style. Dances, assemblies the same, but different. Ellen Estes, journalism student, interviews Roy Lindsey, a folk singer, after a National School As- semblies Program. “Corrido Rock” was a dance enjoyed by everyone in spite of some bumps and bruises. Here Anna Stinson and Robert Wright lead the fun at the Junior dance Feb. 8. 9

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Administration DOUGLAS BRUBAKER, Superintendent New principal assumes responsibilities for discipline, scholastic achievement. As Duncan High School’s new principal, William Dill keeps a careful eye on the Wildkats’ behavior, scholarship, and ex- tra-curricular activities. At his sugges- tion, the school has this year had junior and senior class plays and class-spon- sored assemblies. Mr. Dill came to Duncan last fall from Morenci High School. Before going to Morenci, he served for ten years as nigh school principal in Erick, Okla. Mrs. Dill is a fourth grade teacher in Duncan. Mr. Douglas Brubaker’s years of service in Duncan date back to 1929, when he came from Arizona State College, Flag- staff, with his diploma still new and his love for farming carried over from his youth in the San Joaquin Valley of Cali- fornia. For a few years, Mr. Brubaker left Dun- can to serve as Greenlee County Super- intendent of Schools, but soon returned, and this year completed his 26th year in Duncan. Mrs. Brubaker teaches eighth grade in Clifton. Mr. Brubaker and Mr. Dill work closely with the Board of Education, pjanning budgets, presenting payroll and expense vouchers for signing, deciding school policies, and in general seeing to it that Duncan Schools meet the needs of 500 grammar school children and 200 high school students, with a staff of more than 50 teachers and other personnel. At opening faculty meeting Sept. 2, Principal Dill and Superintendent Brubaker use calendar to plan dates for vacations and closing dates. 11