Red Bank High School - Log Yearbook (Red Bank, NJ)

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Thomas Phipps Concern With Physical Fitness The President’s Committee on Physical Fitness has been at work for only a few years, but Mr. Thomas Phipps has been concerned with the physical fitness of teenagers for nearly three decades. His life has been dedicated to physical develop- ment as other teachers have been devoted to in- tellectual development. A good deal of Mr. Phipp’s time has been taken up with sports. In the early days of his career he coached football, basketball, and baseball at Kevport and Long Branch High Schools. Since he came to Red Bank in 1943, he has continued his coaching roles at various times, adding that of soccer coach for the booters’ first season. With all of this, he still has found time for a “quasi-hobby”—officiating. Mr. Phipps has filled nearly all the officers posi- tions in the Shore Conference Association. He has been extremely active in the work of many of the association’s committees. But his primary aim has always been to give every student the opportunity to develop his phys- ical capabilities. I % 7

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r' r Burnet Henyon To Begin With in the First Place . . . “To begin with in the first place,” Mr. Burnet Hey non is a history instructor. But to leave it at that would be to miss the significant point. For discussions on any topic—from Vietnam to the Kwakiutl Indians’ social structure — make his class a testing ground for all ranges of the social sciences and a battleground for all points of view. To Mr. Henyon, history is the means of under- standing man’s achievements and of considering choices for the future. History is a method of find- ing unity of purpose in the broad reaches of knowl- edge. History helps man analyze problems and solve them after careful weighing of all factors. Approaching this subject with the pragmatism of his “hero” John Dewey, Mr. Henyon still manages to treat it lightly at times. His stern facade is likely to melt away as he observes, “That’s a joke, but don’t let it bother you.” Red Bank students have had the benefits of Mr. Henyon’s insights for 21 years. He hopes retirement is in the far distant future. “If I had it to do over again,” he notes, “I’d do it all over again.” 6

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Mary Margaret Rice Happiness is a Roman Bluejay Securely seated in the Latin Quarter, surrounded by her beloved bluejays and a bust of Caesar, Miss Mary Margaret Rice has imparted the wisdom and beauty of the Latin language to her students. Now that she is retiring after many years of teaching, the students will miss her influence. Miss Rice makes Latin both meaningful and en- joyable. It is no small tribute to her teaching ability that generations of students have claimed that they learned more English in her class than they did in their English classes. But most of all, she is gay. Her beaming smile, magnificent puns, and jaunty flick of her finger can lighten the roughest load of “hic, haec, hoc” or Cicero. Never do her classes drag, because never are they predictable. As adviser to the Latineers, Miss Rice has spon- sored activities ranging from a real Roman slave sale to a solemn funeral for Caesar on the Ides of March, or a Latin pizza picnic. “I love Latin ’ Miss Rice exclaims, “I love teach- ing, and I love the students of Red Bank who are the best in the world.” These students will never forget her. « 8