Louisiana High School - Alamo Yearbook (Louisiana, MO)

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FACULTY The days are unusually long, the halls are warm and clammy, the rooms empty, but the faces alive with smiles and greetings. It is the beginning of a new school year. For some the introduction to the teachers is a new experience. They see new faculty members; some dreaded due to long and oft times exaggerated stories. For others old faculty members are seen again, and the new faces are studied for signs of character. The school year is indeed beginning... A school day finds the air clear, crisp, with a dew on the tendrils of the grass and the sun languidly bending through the panes of glass. The Science Department catches those first rays of the sun that seemingly stimulate the students under the guidance of instructors Coxsey, Moravec, and Hunter into activity for the awakening day. The smell of a newly baked apple strudel envelopes the pungent odor of formaldehyde as the Home Economics Department is entered. Mrs. Reynolds also instructs tailoring, interior design, and other economic arts. Where the halls converge so do minds discussing people. The discussion finds the teachers Giltner, Griffith, Henry, Sisson, Dustin, and Haley in the thick of their intellectual joust; shaping, molding the minds of their pupils. The parallel courses of history and literature are quite interesting in that they offer no final or real solution. Facts presented only serve to invite further speculation; the answers are always different and new conclusions reached. The infernal rhythm of the typewriter, the stylus scratching across a pad, and the hum of adding machines announce your arrival in the Business Education area. Taught by Miss Hastings, the department has and will continue to produce the business inclined student who is eager for gain and profit in the ever expanding world. The understanding of a language not only gives insight into the art of communication but also in the ideas and guiding principals of other nations. If the knowledge gained of others could be fully used, the world would be a much better place. Mrs. Fortney and Mrs. Stolte aptly fill this drive for understanding. Math, the absolute, the quest of the unobtainable, occupies the remaining rooms of the academic wing. Many problems have been written and many have been solved, but Mrs. Morrow and Mr. Moravec have offered the challenges to the mind, and strive for completion has indeed been strenuous. A host to many courses, Mr. Hemphill works with creativity through the hands. The trade wing is the branch of the school where students are taught skills that will aid them in finding a vocational place in todays world. Music in man brings out ideas, reflects the soul, and acts as a stimulus to the genius of man himself. Guided by Mr. Christy and Mrs. Brown, the individual is able to commute thoughts to expression. Dirt, sweat and tears produce a controlled body, with determination, spirit and drive. Sports bring out the individual and build character. Coaches Cunningham Sthul-man, and Linn have directed the life flow of many young aspiring people and have channeled them into the proper development of man. ... The character of the faculty reflects human thought; the ideas and drives are as the tide ebbing and gaining. The teacher inspires and provokes a constant learning which flows and will always flow. | ah. t 12