Rolla High School - Growler Yearbook (Rolla, MO)

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Mr. Thomas Clay Carr, principal, and Mr. Robert Ballenger, assistant, are the team that handles the administration of AAA Rolla Senior High School. Administrators Meet First Year Problems In Running 2-Campus School Mr. James Smith, director of the Area Vocational-Technical School. The business of administrating the Senior High School and Vocational training of the Rolla District presented a new daily problem of keeping the bus-oriented transportation system rolling smoothly. Students may take their three years at Senior High, or, if their interests dictate, may combine it with vocational training at the new Area Vocational-Technical School a mile away. Buses transport students to and from classes. 15

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Dr. John E. Roam, superin- tendent, and Mrs. Isabelle Estes, president of the Rolla Board of Education. Student Increase Creates Problem For Rolla Board Of Education Although two new elementary schools have been built in the past several years, high school crowding remains. The Citi- zens Advisory Commission listed it as the most urgent problem of the system. Board members Mr. Ray Pendergrass, Dr. Robert Russell (above left); Mr. Bosco Eudaly (lower left); Mr. Aaron Hailey, (above). 14

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In the office, nucleus of the school, Mrs. Jeon McFarland and Mrs. Marion Record accept or reject tardy excuses, keep tab on absentees as well as handle dozens of other minutiae relative to the operation of the 6-hour school doy. Nurse Gives Checks For Student Health Shot cards arrived on schedule all year. Students groaned, but stoically accepted health as a part of school care. Mrs. June Harper was on hand each afternoon to care for cuts, headaches and other symptoms or illness. Hearing, vision tests were scheduled regularly. There were no major crises dur- ing 1972-73. Mrs. June Harper, school nurse, prepares shots for immunization. 16