Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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Mr. Royce Kurtz, principal of Martinsville High School, has efficiently set up the curricu- lar schedule for all high school students ac- cording to their wants and needs and has helped to arrange for the handling of the extra large enrollment in MHS this year. Mr. Kurtz has his Master's degree from Claremont Graduate. School in California. Setting the policy for our city schools is this board of distinguished citizens. Faced with crowded buildings, they have been Working this past year for a consolidation pro- gram that will merge the re- sources of the city and sur- rounding townships into one school unit. They are Eugene Barnard, president, Warren Schnaiter, treasurer, and Mer- rill Wilson, secretary. Policyflvlakers Three grade schools, a junior high school and a senior high school look to Mr. Glenn M. Curtis, superintendent of schools, for guid- ance and assistance in their many curricular problems. Mr. Curtis has given much time this year toward effecting a metropolitan district school consolidation program. 12

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ADMINISTRATIO f f f An Apple For the Teacher An apple for the teacher Will always do the trick, When you donlt know your lesson In arithmetic. An apple for the teacher Will meet with great success, If you forgot to memorize The Gettysburg Address. A little bit of glamour, A charm that's cute and quaintg And he'll excuse your grammar And believe you're what you ain't. You may be just a lemon, But he'll think you're a peach, Just bring an apple for the teacher When he starts to teach. At the faculty picnic the cameraman catcnes Mr. Hochstetler and Mr. Schnaiter enjoying the food, while Mr. Kurtz and family fill their plates . . . Mr. Caress, with appropriate ges- tures, relates a perplexing problem to Mr. Hazelett . . . Mr. Curtis, engaged in his favor- ite daily pastime . . . The deans are caught 1n typical activities: Mr. Brown at his desk and Mrs. Davis using the phone , . . Ruth Long pours coffee for Mrs. Jarrett at the F. H. A. Christmas tea . . . Mr. Gill prepares for a dif- ficult return at the Letterrnen's faculty feed, and Mr. Elmore mulls over a problem while at work on the gymnasium bleachers .... The last four teachers to get grades on cards for the second six weeks were Miss Stalcup, Mrs. McKrill, J. B. Moore and Miss Shufflebarger. 3' i g V gegsfae f 5-H' N' 'ill 3' B 5 gg W . L Q , - ' Q' ff r E - -jf bf 11

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Mrs. Helen Davis, dean of girls, takes care of the schools. He has attended Central Normal College attendance for the girls in high school and listens and Indiana University. to their deep, dark secrets. She has an A.B. from Mr. Ward Brown, junior high principal and dean the University of Illinois. of boys, has charge of the boys' attendance in high Mr. Kenneth Taylor, attendance teacher, takes school. Mr. Brown has a B.S. and M.S. from Indiana care of all the attendance problems of the city State Teachers College. And RecordfKeepers at Work Mamie Messmer and Maxine Cohen are two of the busiest people in the high school. Gen- U erally, you will find Maxine hurrying around cutting stencils for the faculty, taking dicta- tion, or typing for the principal, Mamie does the bookkeeping, acts as financial agent, pur- chasing agent, and many other things. Maxine has been with us for three years as secretary and office clerk to Mr. Kurtz, She is also in charge of all high school records. Mamie has been with MHS for eleven years, as secretary to the principal for five years and secretary to the superintendent and school board of the city schools for six years. These two secretaries are both graduates of ....,,-, Martinsville High School. Maxine, buzzing around giving out helpful information, is loved especially by the servers of detention periods, over whom she so tenderly watches. Mamie is now boss in her own right, having June Thacker as her assistant. 13