Prescott High School - Hassayamper Yearbook (Prescott, AZ)

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Principal Demonstrates Excellent Leadership With leadership comes responsibility ... a responsibility to all those who look up to you and seek your guidance. A principal’s job is one of leading a school to high ideals and goals. A principal must be involved In and aware of everything that is happening in a school. His job involves the interests and affairs of those students and teachers who are around him and with whom he deals every day. This is Mr. Joseph Russo's third year as principal of Prescott High Schgol. Mr. Russo takes an active interest in the students and their classroom work and extra-curricular activities. His goal is to help students to obtain a we rounded education, one that will be beneficial in future years. Mr. Russo can often be seen at the back of a classroom, listening in and seeking to find out how ’■he situation can be improved. In this way Mr. Russo shows that he has an interest in what is happening around PHS. Mr. Russo has been with Prescott High School since 1953. Before becoming principal he served as a base- ball coach, civics teacher, counselor, and assistant principal. He enjoys reading, music, and golf, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Prescott Boy's Club and the Prescott Sunrise Lions. —15—

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Board Guides School Policies, Aids Faculty MR. ABIA JUDD Superintendent of Schools The function of the school board is stated in the Prescott Schools Handbook, and reads as follows: The school board serves society by providing adequate edu- cational facilities and an educational program designed to prepare the pupils in the school to perform to their fullest capabilities. Serving as a legislative and judiciary body, authority of the school board rests not on the indi- vidual, but on its members working together in session. The school board members meet twice each month in regular session. This year, among other things, they have worked on finalizing contracts for the school. The members of the school board for this year are Mr. Herschel McMullen, Mr. James Armour. Mr. Stan Powers, Mr. Gifford Franks, and Mr. Harold Wolfinger. Mr. Armour was president for the 1967 year and Mr. McMullen is president for the 1968 year.

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Assistant Principals Take On Responsibilities Mr. Doug Williams assists the principal in various ways. The assistant principals, Mr. Doug Williams and Mr. Jim Topp, are an important part of the faculty at Pres- cott High School. They have various responsibilities towards the organiza- tion and coordination of school activ- ities and business. Mr. Williams is the director of student activities. He is also the ad- visor for the student council and he assists the principal. Included in Mr. Topp's responsibil- ities is the director of athletic activ- ities. He, too, is an assistant to the principal in his job of supervising the school. Mr. Doug Williams also directs student activities. Mr. Jim Topp is also disciplinarian and athletic director. Mr. Jim Topp works hard as assistant principal.