Marathon High School - Shoreline Yearbook (Marathon, FL)

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Faculty Focus: Mr. Paul Arena Mr. Paul Arena has taught English at Marathon High School for fourteen years, and was the head of the Language Arts Department for the 86-87 school year. Mr. Arena enjoys teaching because he continues to learn about English through his subject matter and from his students. He hopes that through his classes students develop a better opinion of themselves and the world. Mr. Arena is a graduate of St. Edward's and Barry Universities and has taught in Washington, D.C.; Houston, Texas; and West Palm Beach, Florida. In his spare time you can find Mr. Arena with his wife Barbara. He enjoys reading and writing. He continues to teach in the Keys because of the warm weather and the friendly at- mosphere of Marathon. Page 12: Top Left — Jessie Hobbs: Assis- tant Principal. Right — Edward Deane: Principal. Bottom Left — Bess Lowe: Registrar; Joy Hanshaw: Secretary; Rose Diezel: Office Manager. Page 13: Top — Language Arts Department: Row 1: An- nie Welch, Patricia Lowe, Linda Hale, Katherine McLane. Row 2: Maria Lowe, Paul Arena, Mary Dillon, Vivian Chisolm, Alberto Saenz. Not pictured: Barbara Arena, Eunice Stout. Bottom Left — Barbara Shell: Teacher Aide. Bottom Right — Paul Arena: English Department Head. Faculty 13

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In charge: Dr. Edward Deane Mrs. Jessie Hobbs At Marathon High School, the beginning of the 1986-87 school year was a break with the past. Katharine Gradick, Principal of the high school for twenty years retired in June and was succeed- ed by Dr. Edward Deane. Dr. Deane “would like to see a school in which everyone works together, to obtain a sense of pride in that school. I hope that we can be sensitive to the dif- ficulties that are faced, by young people during an important part of their lives, he concluded. Mrs. Jessie Hobbs has been the Vice Principal at Marathon High School for nine years. A very hard-working woman, Mrs. Hobbs sponsored the Nike Club, as well as the senior class, and is responsible throughout the year for organizing events like Homecoming and Graduation. Mrs.Hobbs would like to see the high school offer a better voca- tional program and more pro- grams tnat fulfill the needs of in- dividual students. 12 Faculty

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Faculty Focus: Dr. Edward Gates Top Left — Donald Smith: Mathematics. Top Right — Edward Gates: Math and Science Department Head. Bottom — Math and Science Department: George Reynolds, Donald Smith, Laura Causey, Dee Williams, Edward Gates, Glen Lillibridge, Dennis Doll, Alex Terpos. Dr. Edward Gates, who heads the Science and Math Depart- ment, retired to Marathon ten years ago to relax and enjoy the climate. After his long and suc- cessful career as a neurosurgeon, however. Dr. Gates found retire- ment too tame and turned to teaching, not only because he enjoyed, but also as a way to keep in contact with people and to relieve the tedium of retire- ment. Dr. Gates was bom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and received degrees as a Bachelor of Science in chemistry, a Master in neurosurgery, and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Michigan. He gets satisfaction from watching young people learn, go on to college and pur- sue successful careers as adults, but he wishes Marathon had a more sophisticated technical program to better equip students to deal with the real world. When he is not teaching Dr. Gates enjoys reading, watching Murder, She Wrote (his favorite TV program), and sailing. 14 Faculty