Durant High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Durant, IA)

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VQIX 50,5 EPRQUO QQ . QQ X buds! 17? L-X, -rf' Education Shaped Under the leadership of President Roland Paulsen, the school board worked together with Superintendent Deputy and Principal Stevens to govern the actions of the school, With their guidance five new programs for The members of the school board were FROM LEFT: Alvin Broders, Roland Paulsen, Bill Paulsen, Mr, Rex Deputy, and Lorin Rox, Members who are not on the Mr, Rex R, Deputy QABOVEj com leted his third year at Durant as Superintendent of schools, High School Principal Clark A, Stevens QLEFTJ also finished his third year at DHS, B Administration the educationally deprived were started. These federally aided programs were: industrial arts, business education, reading, instrumental music, and visiting nurse, picture were Delmar Klahn, Ray Meinert, and Harlan Finck,

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The constantly changing stream of Durant Surges about the steadying force of the faculty and administration- Common People with uncommon dedication, They are more than teachersg They are sculptors who shape the emerging form With the tools of education, Then pass a beginning creation to the future, The future of the world and that of mankind Depends upon the transmittance of Previously developed ideas and philosophies, Of learned facts and principles, This ability to pass on what is learned Is what separates man from lesser animals, The steadying guidance of the ad- ministration, The uncommon dedication of the faculty, The indefatigable service of the Student Council- All are directed toward the nobel ideal Of the transmittance of stored know- ledge And the beginning of new ideas, The Administration Is Dedicated To A Nobel Ideal 11

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FIRST ROW: Mr, Clark Stevens, Diane lihrecke, Les Paulsen, Karen Schuett, lxlary lXlclXllister,,loyt-eRiessen, Thede, Bill West, and Dick Reimers, SILCOND ROW: and Ron Hopphan, I OL'R'l'H ROW: Jerry lklays, Herb Pat Kummerfeldt, Judy Toft, Patsy Best, Phillip Young, Wilson, Ron Deihl, larry Ouyer, Gerald Siebke, and and Robert Fischer, THIRD ROW: Renae Best, Barb Tom Schlapkohl. Council Sponsors Numerous Activities Faculty cheerleaders for thc Goodguy game nero FIRST ROW: Virginia Pollock, Kay Kerr, Sandy Trede, and .ludy MacDonald.SliCOND ROW:Cloria Hart, Lois Overbaugh, Alice Scott, Sandy McCarty, and Marcia Dreher, An organization which helped rule DHS was the Student Council. The group of twenty- one students represented classes and organ- izations, Among their many projects this year were the support of a Korean orphan, the Kolmerer Scholarship fund and insti- tuting a foreign exchange student at Durant, They again had a KSTT Goodguys basketball game in which the Durant faculty served as opponents and cheerleaders, The spring found them sponsoring a Sadie Hawkins Day and a Dress-Up Day, A Student Council Exchange Day was held in May, inviting several area schools to visit Durant. Other activities completed during the year were the Sno-Ball, taking the school district cen- sus, and keeping the activity board up -to -date. Student Council officers were FROM BOTTOM: Bill West, presidentg Dick Reimers, vice- presidentg Les Thede, treasurer and district vice-presidentg Diane Iihrecke, secretaryg Patsy Best, District secretaryg and Mr, Clark Stevens, sponsor, I- Q, ii Y K my 3 , Y' ' .K , I A 'I U Fl M' un 1