Phoenix College - Sandprints Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

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MR. JACK LEDWON, Golf, says, Strange as it seems I make my work a hobby, so golfing is my hobby. His fondest hope: to make a trip to Scotland and play the St. Andrews course. He has been a member of the Professional Golfers Association for 20 years and has devoted most of his time to teaching. MR. JIM MONTGOMERY, Physical Education and football coach, was a star at Phoenix College in 1942. A platoon sergeant in World War II in four major battles, he earned two purple hearts and was a prisoner of war. He earned varsity honors in 1946-1947 and played pro football in 1948 with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Hobbies: hunting, fishing and boxers fdogsj. . A. .Q , : F I I . A T 'X ,, ' 35-61.5 -A ' - -1 DR. KENNETH DALE, Chairman, Business, quarterbacked in college, was a singles tennis champ and a football coach. He was a principal and superintendent of schools in North Dakota and a lobbyist for appropria- tions for the University of North Dakota. He loves hobbying in PC's Pro- Con club and finding jobs for PC business department graduates. His son will be at PC next year. MISS JEAN G. HANNA, Business, names traveling as a favorite hobby. She was stationed at Treasure Island in the armed forces. This' year she published an article she co-authored with Dr. Ray Emery. Titled, Frills at Public Demand, the piece appeared in Clearing House, professional teaching magazine. She belongs to several honorary societies and has been at Phoenix College since 1948. MISS ORPHA OCHSE, Music, spends her spare time in practicing, study- ing and in roaming around the great southwest. Music functions for her both as a vocation and an avocation. She is one of the newest additions to the Phoenix College faculty, having joined it this year. Listen to her frequent practicing in the faculty club room on the organ. MR. VICTOR BAUMANN, Music, has played under musical greats like Sousa, Damrosch, Goldman and Hanson. He is a busy man as President of Arizona State Music Teachers Association and Chairman of the Cali- fornia-Western Division of the National Interscholastic Music Activities Commission. He serves as President of the Greater Phoenix Tuberculosis and Health Association when he isn't hobbying in music and reading. DR. ABRAHAM S. MARGOLIN, Biology, likes to stuff bird skins and sau- sagesl He has an equally strong predilection for limburger, onions and beer. He wants most of all a new car, a Prolliflex and an electronic flash unit. Once upon a time, he wanted to be a big city fireman. He also loves to sleep. He could be a second Audobon. MISS HELEN HUBBARD, Chairman, Biology, counts oceanography and travel as her two main interests. Deep sea dredging off the New England coast appeals to her. She has seen much of Europe, the United States, Central America and Canada. She has biked on the coasts of Brittany and Italy, visited Yugoslavia, Budapest and Salzburg, and heard the Salzburg and Bayreuth festivals. MISS IMOGENE FARRIS, Home Economics, considers this, her first year in the west, a fascinating, exciting experience. She loves the beautiful sunsets and the view of Phoenix, particularly from a rodeo grandstand. She is curious about the homemaking experiences of the old cliff dwellers. Main hobbies are Indian jewelry, squaw dresses, rodeos and ranches. She -is, as they say there, a Maine-ac. MISS EDITH C. STEVENS, Home Economics, majored in textiles, clothing and design. She is especially interested in social, political and economic forces that control and develop the world around us and reach into our lives, customs, clothing and eating habits. Her interest in people extends to being an oflicer in many civic and professional clubs She loves music, drama and art. . MRS. JOSEPHINE L. LAWRENCE, Home Economics, has had many inter- esting experiences: doing social work during the depression years, teach- ing science in a japanese relocation center and teaching in the boarding school of a cattle ranch in Arizona. Her most unexpected honor was being made a cover girl with some nursery children on a national education magazine. Her avocation is trying to keep up with my son. MR. LOUIS LEITHOLD recently tied the nuptial knot. A native of San Francisco, he has taught at the University of California and Arizona State I -- - ..,

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MISS VIRGINIA BOTSFORD, Chairman, English, has written radio scripts, advertising copy, movie scenarios, newspaper features-almost all kinds of fiction. An avid traveler, her year and a half in a remote part of Mexico produced a novel, Ashes of Gold, that was bought by Hollywood. Book re- viewing is another of her activities. She has helped students sell their creative writing. , MR. LYMAN BUMP, English, is a meticulous collector of themes written in his English classes He has successfully directed more than 50 school plays and has worked in the diilicult art of stage makeup for the Little Theatre, the Phoe- nix Opera Association and College Masque and Dagger pro- ductiojis. He has also helped publish college newspapers and annua s. MR. RAY S. RAUSCH, Social Science, shoots a game of golf in the high l00's but enjoys it very much. He loves bull sessions, no matter what the subject. He hopes this summer to work toward a doctor's degree. The newest member of the PC faculty, he received his degrees from Riverside Col- lege, the University of Redlands and the University of Michi- gan. MR. MARIO ZITO, Social Science, is a firebrand on the tennis court and in the classroom. He is incurably addicted to the music of Brahms. He is also an amateur horticulturist. He co-authored C with Mr. Ed Andresl a winning essay this year for the Freedoms Foundations at Valley Forge. He remem- bers vividly a scotch and soda this year with Major George Fielding Eliot. MR. LOYAL H. JONES, Biology, is an ardent horticulture hobbyist. His special field has evinced strong interests in hunting and fishing-all varieties and all locales. The out- doors are not his only happy hunting ground: he is just as much at home indoors. in the very fine art of woodworking, specimens of which adorn his house. He also loves traveling and hopes to do more. l u l l l MR. CHRIS M. SCHERER, Chairman, Agriculture, believes in living each day as if it were his last. He loves life and fun. Of the M in his name, he says, It stands for 'Marion' the swamp-foxer of the Revolution. Like all antiques, I am now growing more valuable with age. His avocations are too numerous to list. MR. GEORGE D. HOY, Chairman of Athletics and Physical Education for men, is a hardy, twenty-year perennial of the faculty. He was a football star at the University of Nebraska. There followed six years of high school football coaching, three years of head coaching at Centenary College and then Phoenix College where he has become a tradition among students and faculty. MISS LAURA E. HERRON, Health Coordinator and Chairman, Physical Education for women, likes to pioneer as a hobby, particularly in civic activities. Reading and crafts are addi- tional hobbies. She teaches all women's athletics as well as men's archery and bowling. She was the first head of the Public Recreation Department in Phoenix. The co-recreational Athletic and Recreation Association is sponsored by her. MR. DONALD A. GOLDEN, Physics and Engineering, partici- pated in major sports in college, later coaching in high school and college. Additional hobbies are hunting and fishing. As an avocation, he sells books to teachers in summer schools, in a five state area in the middle west. He has had many interesting experiences doing this. This year he has been president of the PC Classroom Teachers Association. MR. JOE BRUNDAGE, Engineering and Drafting, loves to play golf and to work around the house. He has built his own home and much of its furniture. He likes teaching Sun- day school. He has frequently coached in athletics and now is a golf coach at Phoenix College. He is another rare speci- men: native Arizonan. l l

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College at Tempe. He is currently making an outstanding contribution to Phoenix' cultural life by managing' and directing the Sombrero Art Theater which brings to Phoenix outstanding domestic and foreign films. MR. HAL F. HOLT, Business, likes tennis fand was a star in collegej. He is building a garage and a spring porch this year and enjoys gardening, too. He served in the Navy in World War II and worked in hay fields and road freight trains during undergraduate days. He is a graduate member of Delta Pi Epsilon, having helped install various chapters. MR. IRWIN SPECTOR, Physics, was a hard, slugging combat infantryman in World War II, traveling extensively through England, France, Belgium and parts of Germany. He likes solving puzzling math problems. A mem- ber of Phi Delta Kappa, he is an all round sportsman and likes particu- larly a hard game of tennis. He coached the Phoenix College tennis team t is year. MR. AMOS HOFF, Chairman, Engineering, is a versatile hobbyist: astron- omy and telescope construction, building homes Cone he built was writ- ten up in February, 1948, Better Homes and Cardensl, photography, radio communication and nature study. He directed the first experiments in artificial rainmaking in Arizona. His 24 telescope will be the largest on any junior college campus in this country. MR. ROBERT FRANK, English, likes writing, book collecting and listen- ing to classical music. He also likes shooting a game of pool or billiards. One of his pet ambitions is to publish a controversial article in a national magazine. He has four high school textbooks and numerous professional articles to his credit. Ile wants to write a text on comparative religion. MR. WAYNE EDLAND, English, says he likes the scientific method guided by the Christian spirit. He dislikes those who have power without social conscience. He swears he is not infallible and that most students can be as good as the outside world allows. He hopes to see a society in which people are most interested in human personality. MR. PAUL L. MERRILL, Psychology, likes vacationing with a house trailer f when time permitsj. He was an industrial psychologist in an aircraft engine plant in World War II and received a United States naval commis- sion to serve as a clinical psychologist with the medical department. Mr. Merrill formerly taught psychology at New York University and The University of Miami. He has also done vocational counseling for the YMCA. MRS. LILLIAN WHITNEY, Psychology, loves fishing, dogs and pastel paint- ing. She has during past summers broadened her teaching horizons by instructing at various other universities. She has also published several articles in her field and hopes to write more. She also sponsors Phi Lambda Zeta, a PC sorority which has distinguished itself. DR. EMANUEL GONICK, Chemistry, is a devotee of sailing, once having owned his own boat, a gaff-rigged, 25 foot sloop which he sailed in San Francisco bay. He also likes oil painting and has sold three of his ori- ginals. He was once active in anthropological work, taking Held trips among the Okanagon Indians in the state of Washington. MR. JOSEPH N. SMELSER, Chairman, Philosophy, has had a rich 24 year career at PC in drama and speech work, as menis counselor and phil- osophy mentor. Versatile Mr. Smelser has been a school superintendent, winning poet, president of the Greater Phoenix Council for Civic Unity, and an elective officer of innumerable professional groups. He is chairman of the editorial board of The Arizona Teacher. -Mr fa- f -2- V '-1: .ix fe .t, - rg'- 2 ., ,, f...,,... . E W -ffm. .. . -., - ,,g,'.q,3,'. - ' -. ii JN: J' .-at-21-L.. . . ' , .. ,, , My-.V -N ., . .wi-.L ng: V.,-5 E .1 ti-1, 3 , ,ff -, -.1-.i rt fi. . ...v..,'.4-...YM ,p - ii...--'fgzilg' , ' .l Pl if l ,i .1 'J