Mount Diablo High School - Diablo Yearbook (Concord, CA)

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Sphmq , ihsL admmhdhjaiiML f Coordinating and directing the activities of the Board of Trustees it Mr. James W Dent, superintendent of tchoolt for the Mt. Diablo Unified District. who hat been responsible for guiding the development of the matter pion for altering the Diablo camput. As the years roil on, Mt. Diabio High School continues to estab'ish new records in many ways. Long the argest school :n the area, the enrolment surpassed all previous highs by exceeoing 2400 students this year. Next year the student body will again be divided when several hundred students will oe -Transferred to Clayton Vaiey High Schoo1. The process of establishing new high schools in this district is something ike the reproduction of some one-celled or- ganism . new organisms being formed by the division of the protoplasm of the old. The nuclei of Pleasant Hi'1 High School and Pacifica High School came from Mt. Diablo High School. In spite of these continued divisions. Mt. Diablo has maintained its vigor with continued progress in leadership, sportsmanship, and scholarship. Pictured below «st one of it; monthly meeting; i; the Board of Trustee;—private citizens elected to their post; to be responsible for the operation of all the schools within the Mt. Diablo D (.From ieft to right they are. SEATED: Mr. John Lavinder. vice-president of the Boa-d cf Education. Mr;. Deri; Loveridqe member of the Board: and Mr Oscar Larson, president of the Board of Education. STANDING: Mr. Harold P. Hill, assistant superintendent ir, charge of instruction; end Mr Owen J. Coo'», assistant superintendent n charge of business. NOT PICTURED: Mr. John Moiso, director of personnel. MR. HARMON E. WELSH member of the Board MR. ARNOLD C BJORK member of the Bo.rd

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£onuL Jolt, UJinhA. andI c DR FERO DIEL principal The first half of the twentieth century has marked the increasing importance of education. This has resulted in knowledge and know how in numerous fields. Few members of the first graduation class from Mt. Diablo High could have imag- ined the age of jets, rockets, missiles and satellites into which we have entered a half century later. Many people feel that the most important event of 1958 in this country has nothing to do with rockets, politics or other seemingly important subjects, but that it is in the awakening of a greater appreciation of the intellectual. If this is so. the accomplishments of the past will diminish in stature in comparison with the marvels to be revealed in the future. Every member of the class of 1958 should feel the challenge to play an important part in revealing the bright new world of tomorrow, and graduation from high school should be just the first step toward obtaining knowledge making it possible for him to play his part. F DIEL. principal IRMGARD COX dean of girlj PETE KRAMER NORMAN KESTNER PAUL STONER dean of boys aiiijfant dean of boy head countelor MILAN WIGHT MRS. WINNIE RUPPRECHT work coordinator guardian of attendance

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and (acuity aha. conhianik ml ihsL job Mr. John Allen Art Department Mr. George Armstrong A't Deportment Cross Country Coach Mr. George Barber Commercial Department Director of Christmas Sales Program Mr. Harvey Berman Director of Drama Mr. Orville Beutel Industrial Arts Depart ment Chairman Mr Eldo Bianchi Art Department Miss Leora Bishop Commercial Department Active in A.A.U.V . Mr. Maurice Bohne P. E. Deportment Varsity Backfield Football Coach Miss Ethel Brubaker Librarian Miss Margaret Cartwright Music Department Director of Girls' Glee Mr. Ernest Cecaci P.E. Deportment J.V. Football Coach Mrs. Marilyn Costello Social Studies Depart- ment Miss Alma Couchman English Department Hobby: Englisn IV AX Miss Helen Courtright Commercial Department Senior Class Adviser Counselor Mrs. Elvera Curless Head of Homemaking Department Miss Helen Cxrnawski Girls' P.E. Deportment Mr. Fury Dalla Social Studies Department Chairman of Frosh Ad- visers Miss Dorothy Dodge Commercial Department Chairman 8u$incss Club Aaviser Mrs. Jeanne Duerksen Girls' P.E. Department Sooal Affairs Director Miss Elyse Dukatx Girls' P.E. Department Head of Modern Dance Mr. Leslie Dunnells Social Studies Depart ment Head of the Senior Class Advisers Mrs. Marion Early Engl sh Department Senior Class Adviser Mrs. Nathalie Edwards Faculty Fellowship Com- mittee Mr. Duaine Eggleston Industrial Arts Depart- ment Faculty Fellowship Com mittee Mr. Morton Ely Social Studies Deportment Counselor Mrs. Eleanor Etherton Homemaking Deportment Faculty Fellowship Com- mittee Mr Hart Fairclouqh Math Department Head Varsity Football Coach Miss Jessie Falconer Girls' P.E. Department Chairman Mr. Jack Ferrari English Department Chairman Miss Adel French English Department