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

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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.

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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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