Shawnee Mission High School - Indian Yearbook (Shawnee Mission, KS)

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STUDENT TEACHERS. BACK: Montie Sanders, Jan Fultz. FRONT: Marcia Droegemueiler, Nancy Squires, Beverly Goodbrake. OuTrageous price, buf iT's The school's money. Mr. Woo'TTon exam- ines The new file Tor The FaculTy Associafion. UNITED THEY STAND As birds Torm Tloclcs Tor proTecTion, as Lonely HearT Clubs uniTe paTheTic souls Tor undersTanding, as musical insTrumenTs combine To produce one loeauTiTul sound. so did Teachers Trom S-M and The Tour iunior highs or- ganize inTo The Shawnee-Mission High School Teachers' AssociaTion. ProTecTion Trom The evils OT ignorance was insured wiTh Teachers being quickly inTormed OT devel- opmenTs and advancemenTs in Their Tield. The under- sTanding oT all problems was well appreciaTed wheTher iT concerned impassable halls as a resulT oT peTTicoaTs. or insurance policies wiTh provisions Tor cars demol- ished by Trains. lnsTead oT Two hundred and TiTTy sep- araTe voices, The AssociaTion provided one sTrong voice which enThusiasTically spolce The opinion oT The group on any maTTer. Leading voices i.n The group were iTS oTTicers, Mr. Bob WooTTon, presidenT, Mr. Paul Gooch, vice-presidenT, Mrs. Mildred SlaTon, secreTary, and Mr. Wagner Fox, Treasurer. The goal, To elevaTe The sTand- ards of Teaching and provide Tor The welTare oT The Teachers, was realized, securing Tor sTudenTs an eTTi- cienT and inTormed TaculTy in T956-57. FACULTY ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. BACK: Mr. Wagner Fox, treasurery Mr. Paul Gqoch, vice-president. FRONT: Mrs. Mildred Slaton, secretary: Mr. Bob Wootton, president. Zi

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PROBLEMS, TRIALS, ANSWERS NO! This is noi' a depression soup line, hui parenls refueling for lhe long 'lrek 'lo 'lheir offsprings' classes af P.T.A. Back lo School Nighl. We'll keep 'rhem logelher in all kinds of wealher could have been rhe lheme song of lhe Shawnee- Mission Parenl-Teacher Associalion. Heading lhe chorus was Mrs. John Neill, president who direcled bolh 'rhe regular program and lhe parenl educalion classes. A secondary lheme of lhe program empha- sized 'rhe posilive aclions in high school sludenls. A 'lhird parl was added To lhe P.-T.A chorislers: 'rhe sludenlz From lhe lirsl performance. Back 'fo School Night +0 'lhe lasl, a baskel supper and ex- hibilion nighl, 'lhey sang an increasingly larger parf. Sludenl Congress helped in many ways, such as revising lhe social code and 'raking par? in various panel discussions. The number of rehearsals for 'rhe regular program was only four, buf The parenl edu- caiion group held a full program of six meelings in The mornings. Bolh 'lhemes were sung wilh gusfo by lhe whole chorus, which included lwenfy-lhree commi'Hee chairmen and eighl officers. Parenls found lhal lhough The song of dependence charac- lerislic of elemenlary grades was ended, The melody of cooperalion lingered on. PTA OFFICERS. SEATED: Mrs. John L. Neill, Mrs. Karl Youngstrom. STANDING: Mrs. Graham Kreamer, Mrs. Paul Fifield, Mr. Murlin Welch, Mrs. Robert Kroenert, Mrs. Eli Wheat, Mrs. Harry D. Wilson. 20

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Birfh of a pop fesf! Mrs.-Rieger and Miss Rundell prepare for ine big surprise. '22 If looks like a gripping siiuaiion, buf Mr. Clemenis wili soon Have everyfhing going smoofhly.