Duncan High School - Wildkat Yearbook (Duncan, AZ)

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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

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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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Office girls earn credit, give much help Sheila Wood, Cheryl Stephens, Lora Faye Lee, Jeane Nelson. Betty Highwood. Counselor Hicks is guide to seniors for college plans Mr. Charles Hicks, guidance coun- selor for the past three years, helps in planning schedules and placing students in classes. He administers vocational aptitude tests, and ITED tests for determining the educational progress of students. He helps college-bound seniors regi- ster for the ACT program. He notifies students of available schol- arships in different colleges. Mr. Hicks helps each senior choose the best possible college from the information which he keeps on file. Mr. Hicks assists Buddy Jensen.