Hilmar High School - Waukeen Yearbook (Hilmar, CA)

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,..F,!,, . Q--rv Dedication To you, Miss Marion Youngborg, for your unceasing efforts in making every issue ol the school paper a more enjoyable one, tor your Willingness and ever present de- sire to aid your students, and because you hold the interest of the students truly at heart, We, the annual staff, dedicate Volume XIX of the l94U Waukeen, v rn. -,i.7ii.M,L 1 fi . , ,Q 5 .I ,Q W

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Mm, xg,-qgwgwwlrvrvr tl ltitit lllflfllllllllfl Board members, left to right. William Ahlem, Axel Youngborg, clerkg O. C, Anderson, president, C. G, McLaughlin and A. E. Larson, Left to right: A. C, Stevens, Ir principal, and Miss Doris Bettencourt office secretary Improvements Are Made By Board Carrying on a schoolwide maintenance program in summer is the continued policy of the Board of Trustees which meets on the first Tuesday of every month. Some of the more outstanding undertakings of the Board this year are the pur- chases of a bus, an elite typewriter and new furniture, rebuilding of the commercial department and the Art building, and the levelling off of IUUUUU square feet of land for athletic purposes, STEVENS WORKS EOR BETTER FACILITIES Eleven years ago, when only the Main and a few temporary buildings existed and the enrollment numbered about 130, A. C, Stevens, Ir., became principal. Among the many improvements made during that period are the construction of the gym, shop and agriculture buildings and changes in the Art, I-Iome Economics and Main buildings. At present Mr, Stevens is the deputy coroner of Merced County, district superf intendent of schools and secretary of the Board of Trustees. Miss Doris Bettencourt, graduate of IQ37, has been office ,secretary for two years,