Jenks High School - Trojan Yearbook (Jenks, OK)

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Besides teaching math and physics at J HS, Bill Fisher is also president of the Jenks Classroom Teachers Association. He is a student as well as an instructor. Twice weekly, he attends classes at Northeastern State College. Mr. Fisher enjoys hunting and spends much of his spare time participating in his favorite sport. 'glieep eyes on copyw has if been said at least once a day by A Mrs. Claudia Gibson, who came here from New Mexico in 1969. She also teaches office practice and shorthand and works with FBLA. English isnlt the only language with which Mrs. Me llama es Senorita Connie Fousel and je m, appelle Madmoiselle Connie Fouself' With these statements she greets her Spanish and French classes. Following directions in Spanish, constructing pinatas, and doing ads in French are among her classes' activities. Maxine Edmiston is well acquainted. She has also taught French, her second languagef, According to Mrs. Edmiston, knowing English so well has helped in her study of French. Students who have Ameri- can History know he was around when history was being made. How else can a carving, Howie loves Martha, be explained. ln addition to school duties and working with the juniors, Mr. Dunn raises cattle.

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Don Decker, DE coordinator, has duties in addition to those of supervising students on their jobs. This year, as president of the Oklahoma Vocational Association he represented approxi- mately 2,000 teachers in the vocational edu- eatoris meeting in Portland, Ore. it 'f ? i ,, Q M . , , rr., , , aw: ,,,, , .4 M ,l, Q . , 3, ,, ,cgi ' K fl.: :- at laik 1 rr, ,f,,.. f , Mr. Nicholas Ditolla, has an outdoor class- room teaching P.E. His classes are distinguished by notebooks and written tests. Mr. Ditolla is the end coach for the high school football team and is the junior high boys basketball coach. T sssr .s1f'i3'5i2f5 'fl T15 aaa' 'fr K' 'S'-ff ' - s 4 T S is 55 t, , doing his bestf, lVlr Churchill, in his twelfth year at Jenks, belongs to the American School Band Directors Associa tion. geography . The most unusual- ly dressed female teach- er at J HS is Mrs. Cindy Collman, girls P.E. teacher. Mrs. Collman instructs her girls in tumbling, volleyball, badminton, tennis, soft- ball, flag football, and other sports. Glam try- ing to give something to challenge them allf' lVlr. Keith Church ill, ,IHS band director feels a good band is made by neveryone doing his own part and lVlr. Dalton Caven- der, credited with being the first coach to take the Trojans to state bas- ketball contests, is cur- rently spending his sev- enth year at IHS. He classifies basketball as a game. of Kpridef, ':Won- derful-just wonder- ful,'7 is his description of the new Frank Her- ald Gymnasium. In ad- dition to coaching bas- ketball, lVlr. Cavender teaches history and

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Mrs. Thera Hengst, JHSRS 'iasgigtant to all assistants teacher, has been teaching in our school for twenty-one years. Com- monly seen running up and down the halls, Mrs. Hengst fulfills duties as annual staff director, senior class sponsor, and FBLA advisor in addition to her position as head of the Business Education Department. 1 - g,if5'i1 i... r I - I lfi bm - veaasm , i Even though she enjoys teaching English and journalism, Mrs. Sue Hoevel- man admits that humanities is her favor- ite course. I wish I had six humanities classes, she laughingly says. U n lik e m 0 s t Texans, Mrs. Betty Harrison, junior and senior English teacher, is not long and tall. In fact, she finds getting through the ,IHS halls difficult, and she is sometimes mistaken for a student. Al- though a loyal Texan she does root for OU. mfhrough wrestling, I hope an individual learns self- sacrifice, self-discipline, and a feeling of accomplishmentf' Coach Harvey Hallum, head wrestling coach and science teacher, came to Jenks three years ago after graduating from Northwest Missouri State Col- lege. He has built the ,IHS wrestling program to more than one hundred participants. Mr. Seibert Haley takes an avid interest in all his students. An ordained minister, his phi- losophy on students, problems has earned him the nickname Pops,' Haley. He teaches read- ing, psychology, and civics, and is seen every day rolling his mobile schoolroomn from class to class.