Mandan High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Mandan, ND)

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3-e yi. X Josephine Nordick whose sunny disposi- tion would brighten any kitchen has the job of teaching aspiring young home- mokers the fine arts of cooking and sewing. ln her second year as Home Economics teacher at M.H.S. is adviser of both the Junior class and F.H.A. St. Benedict's College and Colorado Agricultural and Mechanical College have her on their list of alumnae. He believes that We only live once, so we ought to live right the first time. A graduate of the Stout Institute is the Industrial Arts and General Science teacher John Krance, His Shop rooms are always as neat and well equipped as a smoothly run kitchen an out- door fan in his seventh year of teaching in Mandan. The Sophomores claim him for their class adviser and soy he is one swell guy we echo the refrain. Handy with a first aid kit is Johnny Mach and for a good reason. As teacher of Physical Education, Football, and Track coach, his boys are forever coming to him with unending strains, spruins, and bruises. An alumnus of North Dakota State College and the University of California ... enioys working with his boys and is advisor of M Club. sf 3 Slow learners and those with speech impediments receive extra help from Elsie Loherg a most agreeable person, her phi- losophy is Keep on learning in tenth year of teaching since graduation from Minot State Teachers College. Fishing and sight-seeing provide her with outside relaxation.

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The Senior class couldn't get along without A. R. Shaw, adviser as well as Problems of Democracy teacher relieves some of the tedious tasks af Mr. A. L. Spiss as assistant principal. At the expense of the government he was able to see the world during the last war . . . attended Minot State Teachers College for B.S., Columbia University, and has done post-graduate work at the University of Minnesota. Long list of likes include his family, sports, ice-cream, fair-play, North Dakota History, and Geology. me E. Boyd Gregor, vocal music director, keeps the air at M.H.S. well sweetened with music. His quartets, sextets, operettas, ps and most important work, the Amahl and the Night Visitors Christmas Opera are proof of his all out efforts to make us more music conscious. A graduate of the Univer- Z sity of North Dakota and Mayville State i Teachers College in his fourth year of teaching, Newly wed last fall makes people see the ioy in singing. Q7 . , f' pid 'C' far The library boasts a new and efficient manager this past year in the person of Edna Reimche . , . well qualified for the job . . . has had experience in rural schools in McClusky, Denhoff, Martin, and Carrington . . . spent four years as County Superintendent of Sheridan County. Graduate of Minot State Teachers College and Tabor Col- lege in Kansas likes most of all, books. -X J ,X X 0, kt . A good friend, as well as teacher, to many, especially his band, is Arnold Larson plays band rrusic the way we like to hear it in his eighteenth year of teaching. The belief, My rights end where the rights of others begin,' has followed him through his career attended Concordia College, Dakotah Wesleyan, and Sorbonne in Paris, Adviser of the peppy cheer- leaders . . . a man of remarkable patience . . . goes out at his way to make our band the best.

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Although this is her first ye of teaching Rita Ann B u- mann s Biology clas are dissecting like pro was helped long th bad to her career the ollege of St. Catheri Af University of Min a . . . advises Science b with a fresh new inlere and also advises the n class outside in- t' sts include music and dogs. Physics, Chemistry, and General Science are worth taking iust to be under the mastery of the Junior class adviser George Fors. His ever present sense of humor has been with him through all the l3 years he has taught here called Daddy by two little boys he is one teacher we could not do without . .. has B.A. degree from St. Olaf's College and finished his M.A. at the University of North Dakota last summer. The Chieftain staff has a debt of gratitude to him for his wonderful co-operativeness in taking the yearbook pictures. -1.- -us iw: 11 ig Commercial teacher Marcella Wagner teaches future secre- taries the ways of the wise in the business world. Taught three years since graduating from the University of North Dakota Sophomore class runs smoothly with her help. Music, reading, steak, and sports appeal to her after a teaching day. Relaxing after a busy day of tousling with Saventh and Eighth graders is Ronald Harsh, Math and History teacher ,. . a graduate of St. Cloud State Teachers College worked in Army Finance Department for 18 months. Believes a planned future is the key to success. Fourth year at Mandan advises Seventh grade class. Admires neatness, briefness, and sincerity in people . . . an outdoor man, likes to hunt, fish, and travel. To live, let live, and help live' is the philosophy which History teacher Mabel Planer has carried through life . . . her outlook on life has been broadened by extensive travel at home and abroad, from which she gathered some first hand information for the world history book on which she collaborated with Dr. W. L. Neff. Helps many girls with their problems as Dean of Girls and through G.C.C.R. highly educated, has attended the Universities of Minnesota, Washington, and Iowa also Fordham University. . W or Xe N