Mechanicsburg High School - Artisan Yearbook (Mechanicsburg, PA)

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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

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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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FACULTY M. VANNAVKER, graduate of Blooms- burg State Teachers College, with a B. S. degree, and currently studying for an M..-X. degree at Columbia Uni- versity, who brings it to life by hav- ing some of her classes construct ancient Roman battle weapons and farm implements, while other groups translate Cicerodes and Virgilit- erature. Oaais, Bi-:Aa Ge0g'rf1plz,v and Books Known as one of the best-dressed women teachers, Miss Vannauker has a passion for costume jewelry and sets great faith in the crossed fingers of that little brass hand pin. As the former adviser of the Arch- ery Club, she enjoys outdoor life, but has a great hatred for those morons who pronounce her name with a V as in Wirgil. Mitten Maestro lt' an infallible method for pre- venting tardiness is ever developed, Miss lNlARoARE'l' li. S'1'AL1Fi'ER,.-XB., Dean of Girls, will probably be the inventor. A graduate of Gettysburg College and staunch supporter of all its activities, Miss Stauffer, is now working for her Master's degree at Columbia University. 14 Noted especially for her aversion to late-comers, she has more likes than dislikesf' among them travel, sauerkraut, parsnips, turnips, and knitting. As sponsor of the knitting club, she has taught over fifty girls to knit, and was the instigator of the current fad ofknitting everything from mittens to sweaters in every available corner from home-rooms to assembly. Foreign Doll Fancier Traveler, collector of foreign dolls 'of which she takes exquisite care and which she loves to show to others-'geography enthusiast, and an all-round competent teacher is the Senicr Class Dean and adviser, Mas. ADAM L. ORRIS, graduate of Irving College. She also calls Leb- anon Valley and Shippensburg State Teachers College Alma Mater. to keep us well informed of the topographical changes as well as those that are economic and social. That Mrs. Orris really enjoys teaching is manifest by her con- tagious enthusiasm and ceaseless effort with the affairs of the Senior classes. Authors and Adolescents A firm evictionary when it comes to dealing with those who haven't learned that Silence is Golden,', Miss Bizssiiz M. BEAR attended Millersville State Teachers College, Drexel Institute, and Pennsylvania State College. She likes young people, and says she learns while helping them seek information for reports. Not inter- ested in public library work, since it would not involve the young book- squirms she meets in M. H. S., she LONGANECKER, YYILLIAMS, FREDERICK, FORNEY, KELLEY, BR.-ickniri, Hi5t0fQv, Civics, and some Qvm, too Une of those rare persons who looks for stability in this unstable world, Mrs. Orris is ready touscap- box for geography whenever the occasion presents itself. She feels that geography is iinore important than ever in the light of the swift- moving events of the present time acts as adviser for the Library Club, and as teacher of student librarians. Spreader of volumination, direct- ing dramatics is her hobby, plus the worthy one of keeping scrap books of Mechanicsburg lore. She seldom forgets a pupil, no matter the date of his graduation. TIME, M.H.S. 19-I2