Shawnee Mission East High School - Hauberk Yearbook (Prairie Village, KS)

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XNXW xmmwm P.T.A. OFFICERS. Standing: Mrs. Donald McMorris, Mr. Carl Ison, Mrs. Henry Gould, Mrs. R. R. Axelson. Seated: Mrs. Merle Welch, Mrs. James Bell, Mrs. Lawrence Long, Mrs. C. W. Schumacher, Mrs. Bailey Mourning. Unifying the Parent-Teacher Set On Back-to School Night, parents troop up the ramp to higher learning in the academic wing, enlightened on their children,s world. A bridge between home and school was firmly erected by the Shawnee-Mission East Parent-Teacher Association. Mrs. JamesrL. Bell, her fellow officers, and the numerous committees supervised the construction by enlisting faculty aid and parent membership. A solid foundation for the project was the informative agenda. The first meeting of the P.T.A. was the annual Back-to-School Night at which parents assumed the roles of stu- dents once again and relived their own high school days. Other programs featured panel discussions concerning the students role after high school and the. relationship between youth and parent. To add variety to the sche- dule, a hoagie supper was sponsored by the P.T.A. to introduce the rest of the family to the students school day lunch. Activities, such as selling football concessions, added to the firm foundation by replenishing the funds. After a year of hard work, the P.T.A. was able to boast that they had successfully bridged the gap between the worlds of home and school. '

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Faculty tMrJ William B. Strickler - B.S.; Ed. M. . . . Westminister College, Okla. Univ., Kans. State College. . . Algebra. . . three years in the Shawnee Mission District. tMrJ Maurice E. Swanson - A.B.; M.A. . . . Fort Hays State College, University of Kansas City. . . Debate. . . fifteen years in the Shawnee Mission District. tMrJ Lawrence Tharp - B.A.; M.S ..... Kansas Univer- sity. . . Mathematics. . . four years in the Shawnee Mis- sion District. tMrJ Arch Unruh - B.S., M.S. . . . Kansas University. .. Biology. . . five years in the Shawnee Mission District. tMrJ C. Marlin Welsh - B.S.; M.S. . . . Kansas State Teacherst College. . . Biology. . . one year in the Shaw- nee Mission District. tMrJ Harry E. Westerhaus - B.A.; M.A. . . . Kansas Uni- versity. . . Spanish. . . four years in the Shawnee Mis- sion District. tMrsJ Wilma B. White - A.B.; M.A. . . . Kansas Univer- sity. . . English. tMrJ Jerry L. Wilhm - B.S.; M.S. . . . Kansas State Teach- erst College. . . Biology. . . seven years in the Shawnee Mission District. tMrJ Donald Wilson - B.S.; M.S. . . . Kansas State Col- lege. . . Stenography 8L Shorthand. . . four years in the Shawnee Mission District. tMrJ W. R. Young - A.B.; M.S. . . . Kansas State College, University of New Mexico. . . World History. . . four years in the Shawnee Mission District. NOT PICTURED: tMisst Donna Sue Lamb - B.S. . . . University of Kansas . . . Geometry. . . one year in the Shawnee Mission Dis- tnct. tMisst Carol Thompson - B.A. . . . Oklahoma University . . . German 8: French. . . one year in the Shawnee Mis- sion District. tMrsJ Rosemary Young - B.A. . . . University of Utah. . . English. . . one year in the Shawnee Mission District.

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Secretaries of the Interior A place for everyone and everyone in her place was certainly descriptive of S-M East,s efficient office personnel. By distri- buting the varied clerical duties and dividing the administrative power, the staff maintain- ed smooth operation in the schools center of activity and simplified business on the office assembly line. Running the switchboard, Mrs. Lorraine Parsons handled all communications and dis- patched information to all corners of! the building via messengers and the intercom. Mrs. Ella Louise Walter traded receipts for money and purchase orders for requisitions as all expenses and profits were entered in her records. The hourly presence or absence of over twenty-four hundred students was the concern of Mrs. Elizabeth Parks as she processed the punched attendance cards. The nurse, Mrs. Nedra Boyer, was always on duty to doctor studentsl physical letdowns and ailments. Dictation, typing, and clerical tasks occupied Mrs. Nora Ambrosini, Mrs. Peg Lammers, and Mrs. Sylvia Alex. As secre- taries to the administration, they handled all appointments for individual conferences. Murr- 51-- w u-nuv'n. , en mkvhsmiH-v M . - ' Mmmh. . . Mmmh. . . The bubonic plague?. . . Will he be back tomorrow? asks Mrs. Boyer, school nurse. .II-:.h.. N. wows THE OFFICE STAFF. Standing: Mrs. Peg Lammers, Mrs. Sylvia Alex, Mrs. Elizabeth Parks, Mrs. Ella Louise Walter, Mrs. Nora Ambrosini. Seated: Mrs. Lorraine Parsons.