Shawnee Mission North High School - Indian Yearbook (Overland Park, KS)

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SCHOOL BOARD. Richard V. Garrett, Howard D. McEachen, Kenneth P. Rankin, Henry M. Turrell, Charles A. Long, Roy E. Welch. SOUNDING BOARD OF KNOWLEDGE A penny saved is a penny earned mighf well have been flue moHo of Jrhe Board of Educafion. Wifh a genHe Jrug on +he purse sfrings. +he Big Five held a monetary monopoly aJr S-M. Besides approving requisi'rions for money and signing all Checks. Hue Board doubled as planners and policy- makers. Anonymous +0 mosf sludenfs and merely a name on a check +0 many feachers. +he influence of H1ese men. neverfheless, reached even +he mosf remofe corner of Shawnee-Mission. Allhough Huey held +he power of flue purse. Hwe Board members were +he servanfs of Hie people, sfriving +0 do all +hings in an efficient orderly manner. These far- sigh+ecl five included Henry M. Furrell. Richard V. GarreH. Charles A. Long. Kennefh P. Rankin. and Roy E. Welch. Elecfed by +he vofers of flue high school disfricl', +he Board members were, poli- Jricians wifh a purpose. ThawL purpose was +0 pro- vide +0 all H16 you+h of high school age in fhis area a useful and enriching educafion. Across fhe minufes of +heir meefings +his year, +hey mighf well have sfamped: PURPOSE FULFILLED. ,..:,-4 X n ' rap - etiutxcl , , , ., -m.- 4- ma.gl Dr. McEachen is enrapf in educafion as he scans defails and checks H13 floor plans of +he new senior high.

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'CENTER OF ATTRACTIONS Pick up your fickefs by Wednesday in +he of- fice: sign your name on a Jisf in fine office; John. Ted wanfs you In +he office! Sending messages by infer-com ra+her Jrhan wifh smoke signals. S-M's busiesf area was frading posf for hundreds of bargains in '57. An excuse was'exchanged for a whife slip. an alibi for a pink one: and larger business +ransac+ions were underfaken. +he school budgef was efficienfly managed. valuable records kept and keys +0 every corner guarded. As eighf workers and fwener-one sfudenf assisfanfs pre- sided. a business paid off more in service Hwan Was +ha+ five dollars on Nashua +0 place in yhe fourfh af Belmonf foday? in Wampum. queries Mrs. Nina Woods as informafion is fransformed info black and white. OFFICE STAFF. Bettye Hall, Ella Mae Grady, Alberta Gallagher, Thelma Hughes, Nina Woods, Ted Kimpel, Ellen Hays. 18

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PROBLEMSf TRIALS, ANSWERS We' keep Jrhem foge+her in all kinds of weafher could have been Jrhe Jrheme song of +he Shawnee- Mission Parenf-Teacher Associafion. Heading +he chorus was Mrs. John Neill. president who direcfed bofh +he regular program and +he parenf educafion classes. A secondary +heme of Jrhe program empha- sized +he posiHve acfions in high school sfudenfs. A +hird panL was added +0 Jrhe P.-T.A chorisfers: +he sfudent From +he firsf performance. Back +0 School Night +0 +he last a baskef supper and ex- hibifion night Jrhey sang an increasingly larger part Sfudenf Congress helped in many ways, such as revising +he social code and +aking par+ in various panel discussions. The number of rehearsals for Jrhe regular program was only four. bmL +he parenf edu- cafion group held a full program of six meefings in Jrhe 'mornings. Bofh +hemes were sung wH'h gus+o by +he whole chorus. which included Jrwe'mLy-Jrhree commiHee chairmen and eighf officers. Parenfs found +ha+ +hough +he song of dependence charac- +eris+ic of elemenfary grades was ended, +he melody of cooperaHon lingered on. Lhd .. t -h San NC! This is nof a depression soup line. bu+ paren+s refueling for fhe long 'l'rek fo +heir offsprings' classes af P.T.A. Back f0 School Night 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