Duncan High School - Wildkat Yearbook (Duncan, AZ)

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Board of Education ALFRED ATTAWAY ROY DOZIER WYLIE BOYD ELVIN LUNT FRANK WILLIS School board governs Duncan’s Duncan High School District Number Two includes approxi - mately 400 square miles of the southern half of Greenlee County. Three-Way and Guthrie touch its northern bound- ary, with the Arizona part of the LazyB Ranch lying along its southern boundary. LEGAL HEAD of this district is the board of education, whose five members are responsible for school policies, personnel, and financial management. BEGINNING January 1, 1966, two new members joined the board----Wylie Boyd and Roy Dozier. Now that the board has five members the term of service in future will be five years. Mr. Elvin Lunt was reelected last fall for five years; Mr. Dozier will serve for four; Mr. Boyd, for three. Already on the board were Mr. Frank Willis, whose present term runs till December, 1967; and Mr. Alfred Attaway, whose term expires on Dec. 31, 1966. MR. BOYD, a graduate of Duncan High School, has four children attending Duncan schools. His wife, Helen, is also a DHS graduate. A veteran of World War II, Mr. Boyd has been employed for more than 20 years with the Duncan Mercantile Company. MR. DOZIER has three children attending Duncan schools. The Doziers are residents of York community. Mr. Dozier, who came to Greenlee County from Oklahoma, is employed by the Phelps Dodge Corporation in Morenci. His wife, Betty, is a native of southeastern Arizona. 12

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Tomorrow begins today with CURRICULUM Students of Duncan learn languages in order to understand better the world around. Math helps in the practical arts--shop, home econom- ics, agriculture --everything from well-drilling to rocketry. Social studies tells how other people have lived, and how in the future their mistakes can be avoided. Com- merce teaches how to make a liv- ing with a shorthand notebook, a typewriter, or a bookkeeping led- ger. Music and art lead to pleasure and a better appreciation of beauty in the world of men and nature.

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Administration Well, Sir, how does it feel to be on the opposite side of the desk? asks Mr. Brubaker of Mr. Stephens, a former graduate of Duncan High School. district 2; works with Mr. Superintendent of Duncan schools, Douglas Brubaker is also a principal, with about 560 elementary school pupils and their seventeen teachers under his careful eye. Presiding over the high school students and teachers is Floyd Chapman, now completing his second year as principal. Mr. Chapman and the thirteen teachers working with Chapman, Mr. Brubaker him put special emphasis this year on formulating their ideas of the purposes and aims of instruction at Duncan High, as they prepared for the visitation in the fall of 1966 of an evaluating team representing the North Central Association. Under a new policy, each high school wishing accreditation with the NCA will be evalu- ated every seven years. The association sets standards for high schools and colleges throughout the central part of the United States. FLOYD CHAPMAN, Principal DOUGLAS BRUBAKER, Superintendent