Edward Drummond Libbey High School - Edelian Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Completing her fortieth year as a teacher at Libbey, Miss Virginia May has earned a place of honor in the 1963 Edeliaaz on this fortieth anniversary of Libbey High School. She began as a teacher of English but transferred later to the Orientation Department. Her interests and study have been wide. While com- pleting her studies for the M.A. degree in English at Colum- bia University, Miss May's attention was attracted to the counselling and guidance courses this university was pioneer- ing. Later on, she enrolled in the Guidance Department and was the first Toledo teacher to receive a Master of Arts Degree in Counselling and Guidance at Columbia Uni- versity. Miss May next attended the Graduate School of the Uni- versity of Michigan, specializing in Speech and Radio. She represented Libbey High School on The English Series of the Toledo School of the Air, speaking on the topic, Com- mon Stumbling Blocks in English. As an extra-curricular activity, Miss May conducted, after school, educational tours, in order to train her stu- dents for better citizenship, by giving them first-hand information about some of our local institutions that are assisted by The United Appeal Fund. Among the many places the pupils visited were: homes for the aged, chil- dren's homes, Toledo Day Nursery, and the Toledo So- ciety for the Blind. For the past twenty years, Miss May has directed the junior Red Cross Society. The students annually made thousands of holiday tray favors for the Toledo Homes for the Aged, all the hospitals in Toledo, as Well as for Veterans Hospitals throughout the country. All departments at Libbey cooperated in the projects. Libbey High School art was sent to countries throughout the world. Recreational chests were made and filled for our soldiers overseas, hun- dreds of articles of costume jewelry were collected to cheer patients at Toledo State Hospital, and thousands of hand- made flowers were made for the patients' annual spring dance. In the course of the years, Miss May and Libbey students filled over two thousand junior Red Cross gift boxes for the needy children of the world. Having traveled throughout the United States and Cana- da, Miss May hopes, in the future, to visit many other countries. She thin 's that since God made such a marvelous world, we really ought to see it. Miss May epitomizes the following motto of the junior Red Cross: llVe serve. NHL. Miss Virginia May eibeobcafion Miss May supervises the filling of Red Cross boxes . . . and they are started on their way. .. L wi.:

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aes WM.. . .552 att MET? 'Maw '- Q -- QQ asm - egglifzmaa -am, Ajax- : ,ar 7 . -NNE WM . ..,2efea-1'w Semi? imm- Mrs. Hazel D. Flatz .ibecbcafion Mrs. Hazel Flatz, a member of Libbey's faculty for thirty-eight years and chairman of the Business Education Department for twenty years, will be sadly missed by both the members of the faculty and the students of Libbey. Possessing exceptional organizational ability, Mrs. Flatz has helped her department to become one of the strongest in the city. Students from this department have been eagerly sought by industry in Toledo and surrounding areas, and many have been encouraged to further their education in this Held. A Libbey service club, the Future Business Leaders of America, has had a remarkable growth and has received many honors, both locally and nationally, under her leader- ship. Members of her department have had many reasons to feel her warmth and loyalty, and they have, in turn, freely given her their cooperation and respect. Always will- ing to take on extra responsibilities, she served for many years as chairman of the committee to plan the annual teachers' Christmas dinner, and she also handled the H' nances for the senior banquet. In addition to her duties here, Mrs. Flatz has taught in Toledo night school for ten years, in Toledo summer school for thirteen years, and has been a cooperating teacher for the University of Toledo for almost twenty years. Many successful teachers, some of whom have returned to Libbey for full-time teaching, received their training in her classes. Her travels have included points of interest in all states east of the Mississippi and in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec in Canada. She is a member of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Triune Chapter of Order of Eastern Star, Alpha Delta Pi Alumni Club, Ohio Business Teachers, Ohio Education Association, the Schoolwomen's Club, and she is currently chairman of the auditing committee of the Toledo Teachers Association. Her plans after retirement are indefinite at present, but they include the building of a new summer home in Le- land, Michigan. Whatever her future holds, Mrs. Flatz's life, we feel sure, will continue to be active and productive. N0 bubble i.r ro iriderrevzf 01' flonff longer than fha! blown by Ilae Jllffdlfflll l6!1Cl961'.U -Sir liyillifwz Oilei Mrs. Flatz talks with administrators . . . and with F.B.L.A. officers. Y ,rm A ,vw-v-if - W a ,, 1 . xg in - EH.. 2 is mira mcgyana isa is sf Y 1 n ,, s ra is if ai , . 2 Q- H Sk H H yr. 'Ein . in-1 - l 1

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Mt. Clinton F. Houser rmecbcafion Chip Houser, as he is affectionately known, will not soon be forgotten by the many students who have been taught science and mathematics in his classes during the thirty-eight years he has been at Libbey. In no less degree will he be remembered as an unusually successful basket- ball and football coach. Last year he was honored for his contribution to sports in Toledo by a Chip Houser Day. After receiving the B.S. degree at Heidelberg Univer- sity, Mr. Houser did graduate work at Ohio State University and the University of Illinois. Beginning his teaching career at Chillicothe High School, he not only taught chemistry and physics but also coached basketball and football. His basketball teams at Chillicothe reached state tournament play at Columbus twice in the four years he was there. In Toledo his accomplishments have been many. He started golf and boxing in the Toledo high schoolsg he coached many highly successful football teams for Libbey, even champion teams-it was under his leadership that Libbey had their golden yearsg he officiated at football and basketball games for twelve years, he has served as chair- man of the Mathematics Department at Libbey for seven years. In his private life, Mr. Houser has had numerous in- terests. After retiring from active coaching, he operated an Evergreen Nursery for ten yearsg in later years he trained Springer Spaniel dogs for field trial events. As a member of the Men's Garden Club, he raised daffodils and competed in flower shows. More recent hobbies are playing the Hammond organ and competing in trap and Skeet events. His travels have included most of the United States, parts of Mexico and Canada. After retirement, among other things, Mr. Houser plans to take a trip up the Amazon and hopes to bring back live anacondas to his grandchildren. Hflflflll if .ro 77llIlf6 ffm! he can mify had relaxa- tion from one kim! of labor by faking up azz- oliver. -AIIdf0fU FI'c1l7L'0 Houser gives individual help . . . and checks the answers. .cw XF ! f sg CA x ,