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

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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 ,

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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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Although Mrs. Mary E. Houser has been with us only seven years, the students and faculty have come to love and respect her. Under her influence, junior and senior students have widened their acquaintance with great authors and have gained a new insight into the intricacies of the English language. Mrs. Houser received the B.A. degree from Dennison University and began her teaching career at Frankfort, and later taught at Chillicothe, Ohio. After her marriage to Chip , she substituted in Toledo area schools while her children were young, when they were school age, she took them with her while she taught at clones Franklin, a private school, now Maumee Valley Country Day School. Her chil- dren grown, Mrs. I-louser returned to full-time teaching in Toledo schools, teaching ten years in the English Depart- ment at Macomber and seven years at Libbey. Teaching, housekeeping, and rearing three children did not prevent her participation in other activities. She is a member of Zion Methodist Church, Phi Beta Kappa, the American Association of University Woinen, and the Den- nison XWomen's Club. She has traveled in most of the United States, and parts of Mexico and Canada. Following her retirement, Mrs. Houser expects to keep an active interest in the schools by substitute teaching, she plans to resume some of the club activities which have been somewhat curtailed during recent years, and she hopes to travel-perhaps she may even help Mr. Houser with those anacondas. The izflvale arf of fenrlaizzg if only Ibe arf of aizzfnkefzilzg the llcllilfzlf rzzriorify of ymnzg mimlr for fha ,D7lI'fI0.f6 of rafirfyizzg il fiflerwar:lJ. -Armlole France Mrs. Mary E. Houser tmechcafion Mrs. Houser with one of her English classes . . . and with Mrs. Schering.