Duncan High School - Wildkat Yearbook (Duncan, AZ)

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Darrell Fruth, elementary school principal; Stan Smith, super- BOARD OF EDUCATION: Alan Day; Wilbur Lunt, clerk; intendent; Floyd Chapman, high school principal to Jan. 15. Roy Dozier; Grant Howard, president; Elvin Lunt. Recently coach of Amphitheater's championship football team, Mr. Rowden becomes Duncan High School principal. Year's first PFA meeting helps introduce new teachers. Board member Roy Dozier, Principal Chapman enjoy refreshments. 5

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New people, new buildings Concern administration, board of trustees Mr. Rowden talks up school pride at assembly and. Middle, checks daily on Tucson news. Top: Mr. Smith out- lines policies at first teachers' meeting. More changes than in many former years made 1975-1976 one to remember. These in- cluded changes in adminis- tration and on the board of education, and a historic move for the middle and up- per elementary grades. Stan Smith, formerly of Pima High School, became Duncan's new school super- intendent. In January, Floyd Chapman resigned after 11 Vi years as high school principal; and Jake Rowden, who had lived in Duncan and had graduated with the Class of 1947, succeeded him. In December, Mr. Smith moved his office into one of the library rooms; now two administrators worked in the high school building. In September, fourth through eighth graders and the portable classrooms that had stood near the high school since spring, 1973, moved to their new location across the Gila River, three miles from downtown Duncan. On the new 40-acre campus the gym-auditorium became a center for high school and community events, such as dances, concerts, banquets. Leaky roofs and other problems with the multi-pur- pose and classroom buildings in the new school provided extra business at school board meetings. Even in the high school, rain dripped into the science lab and on down into the library. Exciting hopes, however, cheered the administration as it accepted architects' plans for renovating the high school building. By fall, 1976, were scheduled a new science lab, new prin- cipal's and counselor's of- fices, and, possibly, com- pletely rebuilt rest rooms. Never a dull moment could describe school board meetings in 1975-1976. Repairs, replacements are probably discussion topic with Mr. Smith, F. Johnson. 4

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Top to Bottom: Girls help pack for trailers to be moved; men look at freshly poured steps; boys sweep as trailers move off; Room 4 gets new ceiling. Top to Bottom, Right: j.B. Lunt, R.Rapier, at Opening Dance; Coach Burnside, registration; Cuth- bertson, Lunt learning to use camera. All summer People clean, repair school; One year was hardly over when a new one began. The elementary school trailers prepared to move. Improve- ments on the high school cam- pus included a refinished gym floor; new steps to the upper parking lot and in front of the cafeteria; a new ceiling to replace an old, ornate metal one. As teachers met with students to complete regis- tration, the student coun- cil sponsored an Opening Dance. Football and volley- ball were under way; and with the county fair came the year's first holiday. 6