McKinley Technical High School - Techite Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Knox Pursell Milsapps Dunn Foxley WHITENER, Teacher oT Geography and HisTory, came up Trom The SouTh only a Tew semesTers back. She as one oT The advisers oT The G O MISS V 6 WILLIS assusTs Mass STewarT In audnTung record books when she IS noT Teaching Englnsh MR G W WILLIAMS Teaches CabmeT Shop He lukes To reproduce anhque TurnnTure MRS G WOODIN came To Tech Trom EasTem Thus SepTember She Teaches Physncal Educahon and dlrecTs such gurls BCTIVIIIGS as Swnmmsng Riding and OOIT MRS E P DUNN Teacher OT Modern European HusTory wandered away Trom Tech To Woodrow Wnlson lasT Tall buT reTurned To us IH February REAL TECHITES THERE ARE nnneTy members an Techs EaculTy ThnrTy seven came To Tech Trom The old bunldung aT SevenTh STreeT and Rhode Island Avenue R MATTERN oT The ChemlsTry DeparTmenT ns The only one who was an The orngunal Tech FaculTy under CenTrals rooT MR ADAMS MR BIRCH MR DANIEL MR MANY and MR MATTERN TaughT an The old bunldnng aT :Ts openung an l902 MR HENRY THOMPSON The engmeer has been wlTT The school Trom :Ts earlnesT days Some are Tech graduaTes MR HARDELL MR WONDRACK MR KREHBIEL MISS STEWART MRS OVERDORFF book clerk MISS DUNLAP MR MIDDLETON ano MRS GUMMER All are True TechuTes IU spnr4T and loyalTy G4Zie1izmm MR. JONES CONGRATULATIONS are In order Tor Mr. Jones, The man who makes you glad To geT inside Tho building on a I9O below morning, Tor his 40 years services In WashrngTons publrc schools He has been aT Tech Tor mo e Than 20 years and has become a oarT oT The school aTmosphere STarTung ouT In l896 aT Brookland School as cusTodaan h was aT Henry Emory and EasTern unTnl I9I2 when he came To Thus school ln order To qualnfy Tor has work he had To possess a sTeam heahng engineers Ilcense The sTaTT and school body acknowledge and Thank ham To has loyalTy and devohon To Tech fl egwrgfm. xi 'fi 5 -'ZF ilffi 1,2 f E? 23 . . , WU: . :iff 'mfr I . M . . A ' ' I 6i 6 , . , f-ei' fa--as fren rg' s h :Mi A KX , . y 1 2551 ,521 ' ' ' W T - Q - are - - -' fr I ' 'is alf a Q I , I I S, S S S

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WaITz Selah Smifh STauTTer Richardson STewarT Sfrauss Thompson Thrasher Turner VIieT Walfen WaITz Wafkins Wesf WhiTener 5.516741 bring order To The chaos of lockers while Teaching Me- chanical Drawing. MISS N. J. OVERHULSER likes To Travel when noT Teaching Typing, ShorThand or Bookkeeping. She can become enThusiasTic over Geography. MR. A. B. PIG- GOTT Teaches Mold Shop. He grows prize waTer-lilies and gold fish aT his Virginia home. MISS M. S. POOLE direcTs Tech's relief work and Teaches HisTory. She would like To buy a farm and raise pigs. MR. S. W. PURSELL came To Tech via Nebraska and Oklahoma a year ago. I-Ie Teaches Salesmanship and Bookkeeping. MR. F. W. RICHARDSON of The Machine Shop, reTirecl March I, I936. MR. C. W. RIPPEY, Teaches Mechanical Drawing, advises The Circle T and manages The Cheer Leaders. MISS CLYDE ROBERTS Teaches English and direcTs assem- bly enTerTainmenTs such as movies and song slides. MISS BERTHA RODGERS reTired January I, I936, from her place on The English faculTy. MR. F. ROLSTON, wiTh a longing for The Physics LaboraTory, Teaches Biology This year. He helped unTangle programs on The Program CommiTTee and guided The Sigma Tau Lambda as faculTy adviser. MRS. O. D. RUSH, head of The Home Economics DeparTmenT, planned and organized The Home Economics Club which she direcTs. MRS. E. D. SAUGSTAD Teaches ArT and ad- 22 vises The Pals and PaleTTes. WiTh her hus- band, MR. O. SAUGSTAD, Teacher of ArT MeTal, she makes of Their Virginia home a cenTer for arf. Each winTer she holds an exhibifion aT The WashingTon ArTs Club. Mr. SaugsTacl is The facuITy adviser of The Boys' Golf Club and of DelTa Sigma Nu. MR. F. A. SCHUTTE is new aT Tech This year, Teaching Machine Shop. He was aT CaThoIic UniversiTy lasT year. MRS. SHU- MAN, mafron, mends Tech's broken crown's and sfubbed Toes in The hospiTal near The fronT door. She amuses herself reading. MISS M. H. SELAH Teaches Eng- lish and is Chairman of The Program Com- miTTee. MISS L. J. SMITH resigned from The TECHITE and Took up work on The College CommiTTee.This year. She Teaches English. MISS R. M. STAUEEER, head oT Tech's English DeparTmenT, was promoTed To head of The DeparTmenT ThroughouT The ciTy This winTer. Tech's gain and loss aT The same Time. MISS L. E. STEWART audiTs The record books, seeing ThaT no senior graduaTes wiThouT The required 32 . WiTh This exacTing work she also Teaches English. MR. S. STRAUSS came To Tech a year ago from Akron, Ohio. On Dr. Hay's reTire- menT he became head of The Biology De- parTmenT. His chief inTeresTs radiaTe from his work-gardening, hiking, bird-sTudy. MR. H. E. RICHARDSON was head oT The HisTory DeparTmenT of The PerTh Amboy, N. J., high school unTil This Tall when he came To Tech To Teach HisTory. He is fond of gardening and chess. MRS. B. B. THOMPSON direcTs The Boys' Glee Club and Teaches singing. The Opera season finds her among The busiesT aT Tech. MRS. A. N. THRASHER of The Business DeparT- menT leTT Tech for Woodrow Wilson in February. MRS. L. C. TURNER gives The business sTudenTs pracTical experience in office work and keeps The wheels of The school going 'round from her desk beside The fronT door. MR. A. M. VLIET Teaches HisTory and heads The deparTmenT. He is anoTher Virginia gardener. MR. D. WAL- TEN puTs Tech on The musical map orches- Trally and opera+icaIly speaking. He Teaches ArchiTecTural Drawing. MR. G. E. WALTZ heads The Commercial DeparT- menT, The Bank, and The McKinley NighT School. MISS R. WATKINS Took Miss STauffer's place as deparTmenT head in English. She has long been direcTor of The DramaTic Club. MRS. C. A. WEST, edi- Torial adviser of The TECHITE, Teaches Spanish and Geography. MISS A. E.

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