Rock Port High School - Bluejay Yearbook (Rock Port, MO)

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p.e., health, and r driver's ed. ' Mr. Denny Kurtz was the privileged soul who taught health and driver's ed. His duties took him from the class- room to the roads. Miss Janet Deck supervised girl's P, E, She taught the girls some new games such as Speed-Away and tried to keep them physically fit. Mr. Richard Whitford also shares in this job by teaching boys physical education. Every other day, Miss Deck and Mr. Whitford take turns going to the elementary building to teach elementary physical educa- tion in the hopes of someday building fine athletes. Shown above is Phillip Buttercase practicing a leg splint on David Phelps. Upper right is one of Mr. Whitford's P.E. classes clowning around during tumbling class. The middle picture shows Miss Deck deep in concentration on a free throw. ln the bottom picture, Tina Spurlin doesn't seem to be enjoying changing a tire. 3 V Q 'D if

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-,x business ed gets us prepared The business classes were taught by Mrs. Phyllis Fay and Mr. Dennis Gates. Mrs. Fay taught Book- keepingl and II and Shorthand. Mrs. Gates taught Clerical Office Practice, Business English, Business Law, Typing, and Basic Business. This year Mrs.Fay was aided in her work by two student teachers, Mrs. Kathy Runkles and Mrs. Judy Clark. Mr. Gates also had some assistance from Mrs. Jane Bennington. By the end of the year, all of the business students were quite prepared to step out into the world with a good knowledge of how to manage business transactions of various kinds.

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non-teaching personnel lends o hound School teachers are not the only people who are busy with student life. Janet Conboy, lower right, was full time counselor as well as a senior english teacher. She worked on scholarships for students and tested for both elementary and high school. Below is Mary Kay Meintel, who was speech therapist and worked with students who had speech problems as well as con- ducted hearing tests. Below left is Mrs. Sharon Welsch who had charge of both elementary and high school libraries. She allocated all Visual aid equipment as shown in the picture and M sponsored the Librarians Club. Mrs. Pauline LaHue, top left, registered school nurse, endured all the physical emergencies that arose during the year and measured, weighed, and checked eyes and ears of all students. 'wn or 5 X as sf fx df LX awwwwwvm at 2' if ,. 5 ss .