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

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.,1.v-- , ,,.-.........,.. ---- f----rs-' - ' OFFICE STAFF Back Lola Atherton Ted Kimpel Bettye Hall Margaret Phillips, Ella Louise Walter, Alberta Gallagher, Ellen Hays. Front Nina Woods Merle Sealey Lorraine Parsons, Thelma Hughes. I record collectors - business managers You're wanted in the office. This message usually sent terror into the mind of its hearer. While this was a common phobia, there was seldom any reason for it. Usually it was lust a check to see if a locker partner ever found the combination to the communal cubby hole, or the identification -of a misnamed absentee. lnnumerable assignments confronted the office staff, and the increased enrollment multiplied its work. Compiling huge absence lists of over 600 students during the flu epidemic was a unique experience, while passing out the white absence permits and the dreaded pink excuses was a habitual duty. Behind a high counter setting off the office staff's domain, files housed transcripts and permanent records, all kept intact through the efficiency of the staff. Typewriters tapped con- tinually as S-M'si correspondence was carried on, and the business ofoperating the six district schools was completed. Training a junior staff to synchronize activities at the new high school provided an additional task. Calmly and cheer- fully these ladies handled the work that flowed through the office, even to aiding the desperate individuals attempting to get the time stamped on absence permits. Whatever the cause for a trip to the office, results were seldom fatal. The larger crime deserves the larger slip-the pink one! Ted decides the plight of B. J. Lewis and Susan Gillette. T9

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....,..,.,... .--, ,.--.---1-i-- 'i ' -Y 7 YYY Y P.T.A. OFFICERS. Back: Mrs. Paul Fifield, Mrs. Earl Ward, Mrs. Graham Kreamer, Mrs. E. B. Bryan. Front: Mr. Murlin Welch, Mrs. D. B. Runnels, Mrs. G. E. Moeller, Mrs. E. A. Travis, Mrs. J. Johntz. V s-m triumvirate: parent, pupil,iprof Wondering how their teen-agers ever located classes in room XX or OO in the scant five minutes allowed were numerous confused parents attending the annual autumn Back-To-School Nite sponsored by Shawnee-Mission's Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation. This meeting, and the remaining three, initiated a fresh concept in P.T.A. programming: more student participa- tion in the organization's activities to encourage better under- standing between students, their teachers, and parents. For the first time, all S-Mites were invited to accompany Mom and Dad to Back To School Nite. Parents and teachers were to see more of these familiar faces in future P.T.A. meetings. Yuletide carolers serenaded in December, and the last meeting of the year featured a demonstration of many other forms of S-Mite talent. Achieve- ment of the Parent-Teacher Association's goal of bringing about closer family-school relationships was also aided by the parent education classes. Held at night for the first time, the four meetings on Our Teen-agers-How Better to Under- stand and Guide Them drew crowds of interested parents. Thus, the two thousand adult members of the Parent-Teacher Association combined efforts with Shawnee-Mission students toward a fuller understanding of the problems and effects of today's high school education system. Mrs. George E. Moeller, the P.T.A.'s chief executive, her nine efficient officers, and the twenty-two hard working committee chairmen synchronized this program to assure its success. Mrs. Duer, presiding member of what might be called S-Nl's Draft Board for gPTA, flushes a welcoming smile on three incoming members. A