Duncan High School - Wildkat Yearbook (Duncan, AZ)

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new, young teachers - - Bullard, Hill, Payne BERNICE V. MILLER, home economics teacher at Duncan High, has a B.S. degree from Iowa State College and has been at Duncan High since 1957. For the past few summers Mrs. Miller and son Keith, a junior, have spent their time between Flagstaff, where she attended school, and Grand Canyon, where Keith, Mr. Miller, and son Norman have been employed. TOM PACE received theB.S. degree in agricultural education at New Mexico State University. After teaching in Tolleson one year and in Florence two, hear rived in Duncan eight years ago to teach vocational agriculture. For the past two years he has taught general science also. Mr. Pace is a native of Virden. LLOYD VEARLE PAYNE is new to teaching and newtoDun- can, although he was born in Lordsburg and has relatives in Duncan. He received the B.A. degree at Western New Mexico University, and this year at DHS taught senior and freshman English and practical English. He is Senior Class sponsor. Photography is his hobby. Mr. Payne has a wife, Carolyn, and two small children, Vearle and Alice Jo. J. W. SANTEE shares with Mr. Clothier the record of longest service at Duncan. He arrived here in 1930. He received the B.M. degree at Bethany College and taught three years in Okla- homa. Mr. Santee teaches all music at Duncan High, directing the choral groups and the band, and training the elementary school band. He is Freshman Class sponsor this year. NATHALIE VAN GUNDY, librarian, and teacher of English and journalism, came to Duncan in 1946. Previous experience included two years teaching in Illinois. She received the B.A. degree at Monmouth College, and the M.A. degree at the Uni- versity of Illinois. She is Junior Class sponsor this year. Social activities for the faculty this year included a hamburger fry at the home ofPrincipal and Mrs. Dill as well as the tradi- tional get-together picnic for teachers of both grammar and high school. LEFT: Picnic committee mem- bers Clothier and Santee wait while Hubert Bowman tests broiling steaks for doneness. 13

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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

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Indispensable, capable, Mrs. McEuen can answer questions, give aid Quiet-voiced, cheerful, patient--Mrs. Loma McEuen, Duncan High School’s sec- retary, has worked nine years for Super- intendent Brubaker and the high school principals and all the Wildkats. She answers millions of questions, makes out the payroll voucher for faculty and staff, keeps records of attendance, and prepares both schools’ expense vouchers. In training with Mrs. McEuen, the office girls help type stencils, type tests and other material for teachers, make an- nouncements, collect absentee slips, and sell supplies in the bookstore. Office girls this year have been Lora Faye Lee, first period; Betty Highwood, second; Cheryl Stephens, fifth; Sheila Wood, float. Jeane Nelson, as Mr. Clothier’s only office girl in the com- merce department, times speed tests, grades papers, and types correspondence. Mrs. Loma McEuen Librarians meet SEATED: Mary Rodriguez, Barbara Harrington. STANDING: Gene Gardner, Bonnie Hartley. students’ needs, keep books neat The librarians helped Mrs. Nathalie Van Gundy in several different wavs; by checking over due books and collecting fines; processing books for stu- dents’ use; mending the books, which were “always” wearing out; and checking and recheck- ing books for loan. Bonnie’s job usually was to replace cards and shelve re- turned books as she met the before-school borrowers and finished the work of the after- noon before. Gene made and revised overdue lists; and Mary and Barbara, working with Mrs. Van Gundy, lettered and stamped new books and men- ded old ones. 14