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

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Our Big School Is Big Business Q-I N OPPORTUNITY for improvement is always waiting over in Room 8-205. where Mr. L. N. Butler welcomes students who must make up absences. The Opportunity Room system is a boon to serious scholars who are absent from classes because of illness or other legitimate reasons, for they are allowed to make up every hour they have missed in class time. This 'Factory' Hums BIG BUSINESS has no more problems than do those who manage the business affairs of a school system serving a population in excess of lOU,OOO persons. Our own school, with its near-4,000 students, must hold double assemblies and double lunch periods to accommodate the crowds. We are finding, too, that a third lunch period and another assembly would still fill the halls! Efficiency is the keyword that keeps our school op- erating so smoothly. Of course we must make ad- justments as circumstances change, and our admin- istrators are ready to accept innovations that promise further streamlining of our methods. But the fact that our scholarship rating remains high and our extra-curricular program functions so well is a tri- bute to those in charge. Another year or two will find even more changes on the campus than have been effected in the last several school terms. BUSY PEOPLE: Student Rose Marie Rust gets courteous and prompt service from Secretary Glenna Wilson of the Superi.ntendent's Office, while Office Assistant lean Shumate handles the telephone switchboard. At right, Business Manager H. M. Bargman enioys a laugh with Arthur Gorman of the Business Office. But their iob is m0re Work lhdll fun. with hi-ll'ldl'9dS of l-71113 to be checked and Pflid- and accounts of our 4.000 students and the dozens of organizations to keep straight. ,,4y, 'iii fl8l

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i . , 1 :grit 'Qfy4'j4a: M' t ., V4.4 A '+L if , HOME ROOM MOTHERS were honored at this Parent-Teacher affair. Mrs. E. W. Montgomery flower leitj receives a corsage from Mrs. Brown, program chairman, who also gave corsages to the past presidents oi the association. Upper group: Standing at the refreshment table are Mesdames Cross, Montgomery. Shannon, I-lobe. Nielson, Dunham, Brown, W. Davis, Forman, Davis, Peabody, North, and Yost. Seated are Mesdames Engstrom, McDonald, Twitchell. Addington, Rosenberry, and Shoob. Mr. Edward Herzberg, lower right, talks to the parents about our school's safety driving program. ur Very Best Friends in the Communit ORGANIZED to establish a practical, smooth-worlo ing relationship on problems common to parents and the school, our PTA serves as a medium of Contact between the home and the school-between parents and teachers-in promoting such worthy projects as individual and group study of youth and its prob- lems, and to serve as a planning agency tor school and community activities, influences, facilities, and programs. Cooperating with other organizations and agencies in the community and with other parent-teacher groups, local, state, and national, to ltring about needed changes in policies relating to secondary education, our PTA this year has ginen whole- hearted support to such projects as our student 4171 driving course, public health services, and the many related subjects which go toward making a better school and a better community. l wanna go Sorry ! ! NO VACANCYH to school ! ! cz:-' 29 living? '1 ', S' xg t N 1.-14 .4-1111

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GATHER AROUND: Food and fun drew the attention of teachers on the occasion here pictured. The plcnlc, held at the Coyote Den, served to bring the teachers together ior a Howd'y chat last fall and to meet the new principal and incoming faculty members. Messrs. Ogle and Waters wave gaily to the cameraman ln the upper picture. Lower leit: Children of Mr. Willson and Mr. Gates are ready for that dinner bell tool Teachers Enjo vf-:ning of Fun, Frolic ALL WORK AND NO PLAY used to be the label fastened on the schoolmaster of yore. But if you can find a member of the Phoenix Union faculty who would accept that classification without an argu- ment, you're a better detective than we are! One of the interesting aspects of our work at Phoenix Union High School is the very human quality of OLII teachers. The reason is obvious: our teachers haven't forgotten how to play . . . to relax and enjoy a good joke or a picnic or a social evening. The faculty was the first group to initiate the new Coyote Den. They gathered for a picnic ond program early last fall, to renew acquaintances and to meet the new principal and new teachers. The evening was one of complete enjoyment, with everybody taking an active part in the proceedings. The school year is punctuated, too, by frequent U99 gatherings of the department groups. For example, the English Department teachers held a potluck dinner at the Coyote Den, followed by a program in the Fifth Building. That group also held monthly tea parties for the dual purpose of exchanging ideas and enjoying a break in school routine. Many teachers took an -!'.l R active part in the All- ay A School Tournament, pro- 750 'D moted by the Physical 5.2 Cty Education Department. 41 X ' xii, Participants let down their 0' A hair and enjoyed them- selves to the extent that S the tourney has been de- clared a must for next i i year. -'-1 i, 7 .l ., ,1 Q-, , L1-- i .l ,