Mechanicsburg High School - Artisan Yearbook (Mechanicsburg, PA)

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ADMINISTRATION-FACULTY Faculty Play Fashioner As M. H. S. Dean of Boys, JAMES G. HAGGERTY holds a position un- equalled perhaps by any in the school for requirements of tact, patience, sympathy, and wisdom. Beyond his duties of vocational, educational and counseling of the boys, he takes care of the absentees and tardiness, a task which demands patience. livery morning he is kept busy giving all the boys blue cards. Not all of them get blue cards-if they can prove they were sick he gladly presents them with a white card. The white card, by the way, represents legal absence. Re- main after school an hour if you can't give a valid excuse, is one of his daily remarks to the boys who are tardy. He efficiently supervises the School Crier, which you hear every Friday morning. VVith complete charge of the handbook and as business ad- viser of The Torch he is kept busy. .Association with the students is his favorite pastime. He likes to be a friend ofeveryone. To discriminate against other people because of social or financial status is one of his bitter dislikes. According to his philosophy everyone is equal. VVhen prominent employers call the oliice and want a good, trust- worthy, capable boy for a position, they take it for granted that Mr. Haggerty will find some such person. With his good judgment he usually pleases the employer. In Uncle Sam's large Army and Navy there are many boys at the different camps who write to him regularly, and he never lets anything interfere with answering them. A Handy Boyd VVell lfortneyfied by Coach BOYD l70R'rNEY are the junior varsity teams. Under his expert leadership the battling baseball batters tallied top totals last year to take the championship. 12 DEAN STAUFFER Knitting, Turnips, Travel Coach of the Wildkittens for nine years, Mr. Fortney gained his B.S. and M.I9ld. degrees afterat- tending Shippensburg State Teachers College, and Temple University. Rated as one of the best coaches on the VVest Shore, he has been Jay Vee gridiron coach for eight years, having assisted Ccach George Vorbach in 1936. DEAN HAGGERTY Bfue mmf: .... While czzrdx To him dirt-daubing on the greens and hunting are of prime importance. Super Statistician Congenial, good-natured, bustling J. MACLAY KELLEY, B.S., M.I-id. graduate of Shippensburg State Teachers College, student at Penn State, and Lebanon Valley College, and now demagogue in Social Stud- ies, is a statistician-extraordinary. Known to his friends as Mac he completed countless pages of sta- tistics concerning Mechanicsburg athletics, not the least of which is a systematic compilation of all football scores since the first game in 1919 up to the present. As business manager ofall M. H. S sports and also representative to the Southern Pennsylvania Inter- scholastic Athletic Association, he is kept continually on the jump, attending meetings, scheduling games, selling tickets, having ofiicials ready and performing countless other tasks. Indeed Mr. Kelley is the man behind the man behind the teams at Mechanicsburg. Dickens Disciple Into Mechanicsburg High School came CARI, M. HAMSHER A.B., M.A., in 1934, to accept a substitute teach- ei-'s position. In 1935 he was made a full-time pedagogue of pronouns, two years following his graduation from Gettysburg College. Always rated highly in M. H. Stimation, this Hamsherudite, who also studied at the Universities of Virginia and Duke, has a full schedule which brings him into contact with many of the school's extra-curricular activities. Assistant football coach, he aided the players to one of their high- est athleticlimaxes this year, as they slashed opposition to become co-champions of the Southern Penn- sylvania Conference. Adviser ofthe Debating Club, he is prompter be- TIME, M.H.S. 19-I2

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ADMINISTRATION Allen, Monroe, and Hampden Town- ships attending. These students were shown several different activities and features of the school, including an assembly program. Gentlemen from Town Newly painted, cream-colored li- brary walls, defense classes organized, Spanish added to the high school curriculum, an Atlas milling machine purchased for the shop, are the various things the Board of Directors of the Mechanicsburg High School have done to improve M. H. S. Mechanicsburg's citizen school administrators are the following: Howard H. Heinaman, President, Parker H. Kuhns, Vice-President, Mrs. Margaret Iii. Simpson, Secre- tary, George If. Hurst, Treasurerg Guy H. Lucas, VV. Fisher, Heiks Paul. Acting upon the suggestion made by If. F. Thomas, Shop Instructor, the school board purchased an Atlas milling machine. The purpose of the machine is to give the boys taking shop a training on machinery from which they may benefit in later life. The milling machine is used for working on metal with a rotary cut- ter which the shop students used for cutting plain surfaces, gears, and key ways. The machine was set up by one of the boys who take shop. The school board revised the High School curriculum by changing Alge- bra I and Latin I to tenth grade, thus TIME, M.H.S. 1942 MECHANICSBURG,S SCHOOL BOARD Projectors making ninth grade a part ofjunior high school work. Spanish was also added to the High School course for the 1941-42 term. In keeping with the national emergency the directors have organ- ized various useful defense courses for the benefit of people in the com- munity and its surroundings. They have granted a meeting-place for the first-aid classes, conducted by the local Red Cross chapter. A defense course is being given to teach farmers how to repair and keep in good order their present farm machinery. This certainly is some- thing useful with the present war going on, due to the fact that prob- ably some parts of the machinery will be hard to get or unavailable. Besides adding new equipment to the shop, and sponsoring defense classes, the directors saw that the library walls were painted this last summer. Very often the students forget that the members of the school board do a lot ofgood for both the students and the school. But this year as well as other years the faculty and students can be proud of their up-to- the-minute ideas and their willing- ness to make Mechanicsburg High School a better place in which to learn. Tarcliness Terror Guidance-Principal duty of M. H. S.'s girlguider, Miss MAR- GARET Ii. STAUFFER, A.B.-graduate of Pennsylvania State College and Gettysburg College. She is very helpful to those who desire her services. Many senior girls depend largely upon the counsel which she gives them in helping to make decisions for their futures. This is also true of freshmen when they must decide upon the course which they wish to follow. One of the dislikes in her line of duty, she says, is that of the pep talk with those who have failures. Tardiness is one thing in particular which she tries to prevent, and in the past year her efforts have been well worth while. When asked for an incident which she will always remember during her services she had to concentrate quite a bit. So many things happen, she said, that it is really hard to remember anything in particular. However, I do recall this: In one of my classes there was a boy who wrote so poorly that he could not even read his own writing. One day while speaking to the boy about this handicap, I said to him, 'Don't you pity me?' In all serious- ness the boy replied, 'I don't know, I never tried to read your writing.' When looking back over the good places of high school life, among the many things to remember will be the services of Miss Stauffer. 11

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FACULTY hind the scenes for those who believe that arguments are academic accom- plishment. Yhv .ffffillll and The Torch are spirited due to this ironic adviser's work with the news-ferreting publica- tionists. Remembrancer Publicity wizard, Miss Bnssiii I. B.-xsieuoiue, who studied at Hood College and Pennsylvania State Col- lege obtaining her .-LB. degree, is best known by her lovable trait of re- membering when f Bizzy Dean Always prepared to aid the boys of M. H. S. as their dean, MR. j.-uuias G. HAGGI-:R'1'Y also occupies a place in the school's Chamber of Commas. Dean Haggerty has attended Dickinson College, Ohio Northern University, Pennsylvania State Col- lege, University of Michigan, and New York University, having gained his .-LB. degree at Dickinson, his , Y Nl..-X. at N. H . ll. Coke drinker extraordinaire, Mr. Haggerty acts as business adviser Miss Ikxxx ZIMMHRNIAN, .-LB., was graduated from Dickinson College, and studied at McGill llniversity and l.a Sorbonne. Blonde, blue-eyed Miss Zimmer- man, who this year began teaching Spanish, has a primary interest in lfrench, what with lfrench songs and games played in class, translation of several French novels, and the pro- duction of the annual lfrench assem- bly program. Miss Zimmerman, whose Y-for- Victory hairdo has won her the acclaim of her classes, has many out- HAMsHER, BASEHORE, HAGGERTY ZuvnviERMAN, VANNAUKER, STAUFFER English .... fl Bmutyul Language .... But .ro are Wltlll-3' others English teacher, many pupils owe to her their first, but firm, acquaint- ance with livangeline and their Gabrielucidation. Remembering, she'll tell of the days before the school expanded, when everyone knew everyone else. Miss Basehore, when not found in her junior homeroom, will, in all proba- bility, be located in the halls chatting with rhe pupils. Sister ofSamuel Basehore, founder of the Basehore Essay Contest, her place is one of esteem among the pupils. 'l'IME, lVI.H.S. 19-12 of The Torch, and as sagacious super- visor ofthe sound system. Resident of Lemoyne, he's a Fordemon as he spans the distance daily. He enjoys travel, believes in a free press, dislikes unions, keeps up regular correspondence with the boys in the service, and remains a perennial bacheloriand Faculty drama designer. Lady from La Sorbonne A-1 property committee-woman, the only French and Spanish teacher in NI. H. S., and lover of France, side interests, including football games and all that. Although not a radical in opinion and speech, there is one thing that to her is almost intolerable-and surely everyone has heard her ask, Who is that knocking at my door in the middle ofa class?l Latin Lore Lecturer I.atin's a dead, dead language '- but M. H. S. pupils have found the bugaboo to be much more bearable when it's taught by Miss KA'I'HRi'N 13