Duncan High School - Wildkat Yearbook (Duncan, AZ)

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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

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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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Duncan High welcomes Principal Dill, and three JAMES DUDLEY BULLARD, is a graduate of Arkansas State College, with a B.S.E. degree. New to teaching as well as to Duncan, he teaches algebra, geometry, and general math. He is Freshman Class sponsor. His wife Marjane attends Western New Mexico University this year as a junior. One of Mr. Bullard’s hobbies is snakes. He keeps an anaconda and a boa constrictor in his home. F. D. CHAPMAN, a graduate of Arizona State Col lege, has completed seven years at Duncan. He is high school athletic director and football coach and teaches physical education, American government, and driver training. He is Senior Class sponsor. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman are now the parents of a son, Douglas James, born last October 13. H. T. CLOTHIER, who arrived in Duncan in 1931, has taught Wildkats ever since. He is a graduate, with the B.A. degree, of Bethany College, and with the M.A. degree, of Colorado State College. At Duncan he teaches art, typing, shorthand, and bookkeeping, and coaches tennis and volley- ball. Hobbies include hunting and “dr eamingof new cars.” ROY C. COURS, basketball coach, and teacher of world history, American history, and economics, has completed two years at Duncan High. Previous experience included teaching at Casa Grande, Tombstone, and the Arizona State Industrial School at Fort Grant. Mr. Cours received the B.S. degree at Morningside College in Iowa. VERA POWER DULL is the most recently honored of Dun- can’s teachers with the M.A. degree, which she received last summer at the University of Arizona. Teacher of Spanish and English, Mrs. Dull has completed six years at Duncan. Her first and only other teaching was six years in Tucson High, before her marriage. She is Sophomore Class sponsor. CHARLES B. HICKS holds the B.A. degree in education from Ball State Teachers College. Guidance counselor and teacher of physical education, he has completed four years at Duncan--one in the grammar school and three in the high school. Farming is Mr. Hicks’ pastime, and photography is also one of his skills. The Hicks family welcomed their fifth child, Michael Charles, last August 17. LEONARD B. HILL, new at Duncan this year, taught two years at Eureka High School in Baker, Okla., and two years at Turpin High in Turpin, Okla., where he met his wife Virginia (Ginger). He holds a B.S. degree from Panhandle Agriculture and Mechanics College, and at Duncan teaches industrial arts and physical education. He served this year as assistant football coach and head baseball coach. DEAN HONSINGER, who has now completed three years at Duncan High School, received the M.S. in education degree at Southwestern State College in Oklahoma. He taught one year in O’Keene, Okla., before coming to Duncan. Mr. Honsinger teaches chemistry, biology and general science; assists in football and basketball; and is head track coach. He is Junior Class sponsor. 12