Edina High School - Whigrean Yearbook (Edina, MN)

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FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATION Hand and mind can use the tools they get.” Page 8

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P. T. A. Strengthens School Since the parents, the students, and the faculty make up the complex framework of our school's operation, it is imperative that there is a favorable co-ordination of their individual interests. Our high school Parent-Teachers Association has made great strides toward this goal since our school was first opened in 1948. At their four yearly meetings, the P. T. A. presents various programs with the intent of not only stresing the importance of a good student-teacher relationship but also showing the individual accomplishments that the students had made up to that time. Participants at each of these programs are students from the high school. Parents had an opportunity to visit the students' classrooms and meet the students' teachers at the open house held last fall. This open house gave parents a chance to confidentially discuss problems concerning their children with the teachers and to see the results of the daily work produced by the students. At the second meeting, the Music Department of the high school presented their annual Christmas program. As a result of many hours of work, the junior and senior high school bands and choruses exhibited the progress that the Music Department had made during the first half of the year. The Art, Dramatic, and Speech Departments presented the February meeting of the Parent-Teacher Association. Art students from grades seven through twelve, under the direction of Miss Beryle Christesen, head of the Art Department, displayed their best work. After the cast of the mid-winter play presented excerpts from Our Town, Mr. Delmar Fredrickson, drama coach, gave a short talk on the importance of high school dramatics. Because it emphasized the importance of making a class interesting as well as productive, this meeting was especially beneficial. Various new projects were suggested at the last meeting of the year, which was devoted mainly to the transaction of business. Following the business meeting, parents and teachers were served refreshments in the high school lunchroom. At this time they discussed the possibilities of these new ideas and projects. Mr. Charles Webster, Mrs. Ray Beim, Mr. E. Lawrence Swandby, president; Miss Ingrid Miller, Mr. Harold Berglund Page 10