Phoenix Union High School - Phoenician Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

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JMB-W -1. MORE PROBLEMS' But patient Mr Gates qlves each perplexed student a lull hearing and chances are excellent that everything turns out yust the way the student and hrs parents would want it At some trme or other every student rn school has lined up at this counter in the Registrars Othce In 10 years that would be about 40000 students each wrth a problem' If You Have a uestlon, Ask the Reglstrar SCHEDULE change? Absence? Gripes or questions? Whatever the perplexities students might have they always turn to the Registrars Office for answers advice and information And it seems incredible ONE AT A TIME students enter the Reqrstrars Office to strcnqhten out schedules Keepmg them ln hne tat rrqhtl IS Mr I. N Butler that the office is always willing to tackle student problems however serious The duties of the Registrars Office are to handle the class organization ot the school And what a Job that is' Keeping a record of students grades and attendance is not enough The office has to confer with students advise them about subiects and help them adapt themselves to school life Skilled counse lors talk to new students show them how Phoenix Union operates and see that they are properly regis tered as students Besides the present student body the office has graduates ot past years to concern themselves with Many a Veteran has asked that a transcription oi his record in this school be sent to some university And employers ot graduates are constantly con tacting the Registrars Office to secure information about their employees. The Registrars Office always gives its personnel rough work to do. The energetic staff otten works in the Office until the wee hours and tor weeks be- tore school begins and long hours after the last freshman enrolls in the tall. The summer school ses- sion presents more headaches for the Registrars Otftice. Allow us to mop our brows atter seeing the huge amount ot work which is accomplished Over in Building No. l each year! 1147

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First uality Leadership arked Our 1946-47 PHOENIX UNION High School, proud of its standing among the nation's educational institutions, lost no time in meeting the postwar challenge l946-47 brought. For the first time since l925 our school was headed by a principal, with Supt. E. W. Montbomery re- linquishing those duties to give his attention to administration oi the city's five secondary schools. Principal Iames S. Carter, who served as an instruc- tor at Phoenix Union and North Phoenix high schools for many years, understands the teachers' problems as well as the students' and is bringing about many changes to improve our school. Our Classroom Teachers Association, in co-operation with like organizations in the system, also worked diligently to improve the status of our teachers both financially and educationally. Under a plan worked out between the Board of Education and the teachers, a satisfactory salary schedule and high standards of 540 9 A PRINCIPAL Iames S. Carter. in his first year as head of the Phoenix Union faculty. has won the highest praise from teachers. parents, and students. faculty membership were decided. Under the new plan, new teachers must have attained the rnaster's degree before joining the faculty . . . a standard as high as most colleges hold to. A majority of our instructors are prepared, educationally, to teach college-grade work, most of them holding the master's degree and a large number the doctor's degree. CPASSROOM TFACHER officers this year were tseatedl Miss Aida Sherman, Mr. Clifford Prather. Miss Doris DeI.ap. Mr. Iohn Prince. Miss Gladys Neil. Miss Dale Iordcm, Mr. D. G. Mullins. Mr. Harry Phillips: tstandinqi Messrs. Ralph Dixon. Verne lones, and Charles Cox. - l 1 l i 1153