Duncan High School - Wildkat Yearbook (Duncan, AZ)

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Mr. Sam Gardner has been the woods teacher at Duncan for the past six years. He enjoys teaching woods because it is not a required course and the students get into his class because they want to. Mr. Gardner said he enjoys the kids who really take interest in woods and work hard on their projects. This year as in previous years Mr. Gardner had a exhibition in which students showed the work they had done during the year. Mr. Gardner feels that woods is a class that will help students later in life, when they add on to their home or when they are picking out their home and furniture. It will enable them to be better consumers. Mrs. Susan Cordova has been the librarian here at Duncan for two years now. When asked what she thought of Duncan she said, It's a nice hometown. She moved here from Flagstaff where she took her library science training. Mrs. Cordova enjoys writing and has established a collection of herbs which she plans to landscape into gardens around her home. She added that she learns something new everyday from both books and people. Mr. John Payne is the math and free enterprise teacher here at Duncan High School. Mr. Payne enjoys teaching and working with students. He also enjoys working math problems because, he said, They create a challenge. Mr. Payne has taught at Duncan High for four years and has also taught at the Junior High. Mr. Payne is married and has five girls. The New Mexico native coaches volleyball, basketball, and track. He said he likes to coach track because, All I have to do is give the workout and then they are on their own. 11

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Mr. Frank Florence, the new math teacher this year, has lived off and on in Duncan for three years. He lived in Tucson before moving here. Mr. Florence enjoys bicycling, mountain and rock climbing, and cross-country and downhill skiing. He also enjoys playing chess and likes puzzles. In his first year teaching at Duncan Mr. Florence has enjoyed getting to know his students. In the future he sees himself working in the geology field. He presented a geology paper at the GSA national meeting in San Antonio. After teaching for a total of twelve years, Mrs. Freddie Gage has a lot of experience to add to her job here in Duncan. She has been teaching special ed. and has been the T.A.G. instructor for the past two years. Mrs. Gage likes the variety her job offers her. Her classes spent some time this year working on composition drawings and oil paintings. Mrs. Gage loves art, and often paints. One of her favorite past-times is camping and she also enjoys riding bicycles. 10 Mrs. Pat Johnson's favorite part of her job is working with students. She has taught at Duncan High School seven years, and before that she taught preschool. This year, the housing students built model homes, and the clothing students modeled the garments they made in class at a fashion show for their parents. Mrs. Johnson is married, has three children, and enjoys doing needlework and going camping. She is also looking forward to the remodeling of the home-ec rooms for next year. Mr. John Smith is a former Californian who is a teacher of freshman English and Spanish at D.H.S. He enjoys having small classes, so that he can do more with them. Outside the classroom he enjoys reading spy novels, drawing, and playing the piano. Mr. Smith said the most exciting thing he did this year was go on his roof-top to turn the T.V. antenna.

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Mrs. Joyce Downs has lived in Duncan for nine years and has taught at D.H.S. for seven years. The most exciting thing my classes have done is work with the new computer equipment, she said. Taking FBLA students to the regional conference in Anaheim was fun, she added. Mrs. Downs said that what she likes most about teaching is students who are willing to learn and excel. Mr. Rex Arnett, who spent his first sixteen years in Duncan, returned in 1984 to teach English and music. He said the most exciting thing that happened this year was with the choir at the Christmas Concert. The students enjoyed when he dressed as Beethoven and led the choir in pumpkin carols at halloween. He also enjoyed the programs with the primary and elementary children. It is always a great experience taking kids to honor choirs in Tucson and at EAC, Mr. Arnett said. Ms. Julie Hudson, D.H.S. outgoing social studies teacher, enjoys skiing, cooking, cycling, and reading. Cross- country skiing on the football field this winter was fun ' she said. She enjoys small classes so I can get to know my students better and discuss politics more thoroughly. Her Senior classes this year had the opportunity to meet Representative Jim Kolbe when he came to Duncan. even though, he said, Mrs. Downs can shoot better than I can. He also enjoys spending time with his children. Mrs. Lucia Lunt teaches English and accounting at Duncan High. She has lived in Duncan two years, having moved here from Thatcher. She said that Getting to know the different students is what I most enjoy about teaching in Duncan. She added that having her second child, Erin, was the most exciting thing she has done this year. I enjoy teaching more than anything else, said Mr. Frank Downs. He added that one of the year's highlights was when Darrell Zumwalt won at the University of Arizona Cotton Judging. Mr. Downs, a ten-year D.H.S. veteran, likes to hunt and fish when he has time. Mr. Mitch Lindemann was new to the teaching staff this year. He and his wife, Karen, moved here from Bismark, N. Dakota. Mr. Lindemann has been teaching for five years. At one time he had his own band, The Little Big Band . He credits Duncan students with having a lot of potential, and has had real fun working with students who are interested, talented, and motivated.