Moline High School - M Yearbook (Moline, IL)

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Over Four Decades of Dedicated Service Since beginning her MHS career in 1924, Miss Barbara Garst has become a symbol of the active, well rounded career teacher. For twenty-five years she headed the speech and drama department, during which time she coached the forensics and debate teams and established the Shake- spearean tradition at MHS. Each year Miss Garst resumes her favorite role as di- rector of the senior class production. Since 1950 Miss Garst has been head of the English department. In 1951-52 Miss Garst was an exchange teacher in Edinburgh, Scotland. As a world traveler, Miss Garst fascinates her students with a wealth of experiences. Her viv id descriptions of the towns, places, and people make the literature she teaches come to life. Each year parent visitation in Miss Garst’s room seems to be a class reunion. These former students continue to show her their deep respect and admiration, as stu- dents do today. All Moline has benefited from Miss Garst’s outlook that people ought to know things: she was an original part-time teacher at Moline Community College; for many years she taught Sunday school in her church; she has taken active part in the King ' s Daughters organization; and she is well-known as an excellent book- reviewer. At home, Miss Garst reads extensively, especially history and biography. She also maintains a colorful garden for her own enjoyment of growth and beauty. Miss Garst’s love of all things English is reflected in her home. The furnishings and decora- tions indicate her wide travels and nu- merous friends. All these experiences have made Miss Garst a fascinating and invaluable teacher as well as a wonderful person. Through college teaching, departmental work, high school teaching, and counseling Miss Garst has come to know the composite picture of a student. She has spent her life, her ca- reer planting seeds of ideas in her students’ minds, nurturing and coaxing them into bloom like her flowers. For these reasons, the 1966 “M” staff and student body humbly and gratefully dedicate this 54th volume of the “M” to Miss Barbara Garst.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Faculty 8 Seniors 26 Underclassmen 88 Student Life 118 Awards 120 Homecoming 126 Organizations 130 Publications 168 Fine Arts 174 Athletics 192 Advertising 224 Index 258 6