Neoga High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Neoga, IL)

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Ruth Darnell is the person responsible for developing the many talents of tomorrow's home- makers. In addition to teaching home-ec and general science, Miss Darnell is co-sponsor of the juniors. Is it straight, is it plumb, have you done enough sanding? Rex Lind ley, teacher of industrial arts and co- sponsor of the seniors, makes sure his craftsmen can answer to the affirmative before he'll say O. K. All the fac- attention of Brae Students say that Mrs. Shanholtzer, upper picture, can explain any math problem so that they can understand it. She teaches math and algebra. In her sixth year at Neoga, Mary Lou Strain, lower picture, has made girls' P. E. a class with more than just sports. The girls learn both rule and theory behind the athletic activities. GAA, spon- sored by Mrs. Strain, has become a top-notch chapter in its competitive district. Upperclassmen in business get a daily work- out in Stan Albin's business classes. Mr. Albin, who is the guidance counselor, teaches bookkeeping, shorthand, and vocational business.

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Highlight the Year for Neoga High Faculty Neoga's deep-tanned faculty began that first hot day of school year 65-66 last August with quite a few novel situa- tions. We had a Scot biology teacher whose place back in Edinburgh had been taken by Mr. Louthan, a new agriculture teacher most recently from Colorado, and - new in the curriculum - speech correction, bringing a teacher shared by the Neoga and Stewardson - Strasburg districts. Shirley Wright, pictured upper left, couples copi- ous grammar work in Spanish and Latin. The more ex- posure to the language, the better. This idea, Miss Wright, sophomore co-sponsor, carries out in her English II class. In her first year at Neoga, Carol Fuller, speech correctionist, has made both students and parents more aware of the best methods to counter speech problems. Miss Fuller is pictured upper right. Lower lefr amid the fury of a timed writing is Joan Morton, promoter of the quick and accurate in typing and the canny and tactful in general business. As high school librarian Mrs. Morton has forwarded a more efficient and better balanced reference area. It is often that J. Lee McTeer, lower right, has his American history students relating such contemporary topics as the draft or racial problems to their past his- torical links. Mr. McTeer, in addition to teaching geography and history is the ail-sports assistant coach. 17

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ets of vocational agriculture garner the Lacey, who is also co-sponsor of the juniors. With band and choral director Ray Springs is accompanist Judy Wilson. Under Mr. Springs' direction the band's concerts come up always with the original and the well done. Head coach in all sports, driver training in- structor, and boys' P. E. instructor, Tom Alexander works for excellence on court and road alike. Instruction on English with its thorny participles and direction of the newspaper with its inverted pyra- mids occupy the able hands of Agnes Voris. A man with the wry sense of humor, the co-spon- sorship of the sophomores, and an amazing knowledge of math, geometry, and physics problems, Phil Zimmer frequently poses some questions in his classes that still have students wondering--to wit: How can you prove that the earth is moving around the sun? 19