Rockford High School - Indian Rocket Yearbook (Rockford, WA)

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FACULTY Mr. Eugene W. Bowman has been the superintendent of our school for the past three years. He attended higher schools of education in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Mr. Leon Hibbs graduated from Cheney Normal and has spent the last four years wasting his hard earned knowledge on Rockford's seventh and eighth grades and atheletic teams. Mr. Laurence McCauley who has taught here the past two years has been an enthusiastic Smith-Hughes instructor and enabled the boys to win high honors in judging contests. He has also been a swell class adviser. Mrs. Rosalie Adams has spent the past year at Rockford trying to make good housekeepers out of the girls in the home economics classes. She also teaches girls physical ed- ucation, and is adviser of the Girls' League. Miss winnifred Shepperd has proven in her first year at Rockford to be a great friend of the students outside of school as well asiln. Miss Viola Noonan, who is a newcomer this year is the commercial and Engllsh teacher. She put a great deal of ex- tra time out in directing the senior playa Mr. Virgil Butler, instructor of social sciences and geometry, has proved himself an interesting companion to the students. Mr. J.J. Fitzpatrick, also a newcomer at Rockford, suf- fered the hardship and knocks of R.H.S. for a semester of one year and then retired to the quiet and peace of the air corps where he can study his music in an open tent. Mrs. Golda Carter, our first and second grade teacher, has the honor of having served Rockford Schools longer than any other teacher on the faculty, a total of twenty-one years. Miss Josephine Milton, the fifth and sixth grade teach- er, was a graduate of :airfield High School, but in her years at Rockford has become loyal to Rockfordls ideals. Miss Frances verheyen, a former graduate of Rockford High School, has been third and fourth grade teacher for several years. Mr. William Gerlach is the school custodian. SCHOOL BOARD The members of the school board are Bert Mills, chair- man, Claude Flower, Frank Fonder, Cameron Pratt, Louis Mith- oug, and Nathan Oliver, clerk. They hold meetings in the schoolhouse whenever meetings are necessary. Their offices rotate and two are elected every year.