St Ansgar High School - Highlights Yearbook (St Ansgar, IA)

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ART DEPARTMENT Karen Tritle You will find the budding artists of STA at their regular hang-out in room 18. Here, you will find a conglomeration of clay, shellac, sandboxes and also the more domestic art materials. The zany creations are mixed in with the serious works to provide a general atmosphere of dynamic creativ- ity. The products of these artistic talents were exhibited at ihe first Fine Arts Festival and were valuable proof of the ingenuity of young students. Patricia Hinman: Shorthand, Business English, Office Practice, Per- sonal Typing and Business Law. HIGH SCHOOL GUIDANCE Art Lee Stuck away in a tiny cubicle is a Giant Among Men, Mr. Art Lee, our faithful leader at STA all six foot plus of him. His problems are an accumulation of all the students’ problems at this senior high, whether it be a choice of a college or a date. Struggling to figure out a senior’s gradepoint. he is never too busy to play Dear Abby” and straighten out a deathly serious problem. Larry Kester: Machine Shorthand, Secretarial Typing, Bookkeeping. BUSINESS EDUCATION DEPARTMENT A coded language of scribbles and dashes never ceases to amaze the non-shorthand students and ever frustrate the future secretaries trying to re- member if that odd sign is a significant word or just another doodle. Some of the most skilled machinists at the senior high are those people who work daily with the shorthand machines, typewriters, calculators and adding machines. And some of the most frustrated students are those trying to balance figures in a bookkeeping assignment. Good Luck! You deserve it! DRIVER EDUCATION J. David Runyon Wildly careening around corners and laying rubber is not J. D.’s style of driving as those of you lucky enough to be taking driver ed know. For you really are lucky: we all have to pay at least a dollar to get into a show to see all those bloody bodies and hear all those hilariously funny jokes. So good luck on your driving tests and pray god you don’t have to parallel park! 7

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IN APPRECIATION OF A JOB WELL DONE The duty of education, a complex job with tremendous responsibilities, has been given to our administration. The members of the Board of Lduca- tion and the administration of the learning centers of St. Ansgar Commun- ity Schools have tackled the problems confronting our school, an often thankless job, which includes hours of wrestling with the cold hard facts and endless debate with conflicting opinions. For their consideration and efforts, we thank them and acknowledge their work on a job well done. Wallace E. Burns Superintendent of Schools Walter A. Rixen Vernon Bottorff Marilyn Rapien High School Principal Junior High Principal Elementary Supervisor BOARD OF EDUCATION: Ronald Priem, Newland Jensen. Harley Walk, Darold Bless, Roger Clagget, Wallace Burns, Lynn Gordon, Gene Wagener, Millard McNutt. 6

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LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT Gervin Green: World Literature, Advanced Composition, Practical English Mr. Green has a very interesting senior English class this year. They have been writing haikus, (hi kooz’), which are Japanese poetry forms consisting of 17 syllables. This is a typical haiku written by a student: THE SUN A beam of sunlight Did dance from behind the dark When your smile shined. Mr. Green also enjoys teaching advanced composition and world lit- erature. He comments, “Young people are very enjoyable to teach because they are so creative. Beverly Hendrickson: American Novels, American Literature As the sophisticated literature instructor breezes into the room, glances at the clock (Only 7 minutes this time!), she notes the ju- niors diligently studying their Hawthorne short story? Besides Amer- ican Literature, Mrs. Hendrickson teaches a course in American novels. In the course description book, it says, “The emphasis . . will be on contemporary American authors (i.e. Steinbeck, l aulkner. Hemingway). So where did James and Hawthorne and (Ugh) ( ooper come in? And where did Jacqueline Susann go! Seriously, the students found a great personal experience in literature of our own America. Carolyn Sherman: German Na, sie sieht immer noch ein bisschen blass aus. Now for all of you who didn't even suffer through German I: Eat your hearts out! If you see a freshman hurrying down the hall, his lips moving as fast as his short legs arc pumping, you will know that he is hurrying to Room 18- oder deutsche Klasse as it is more commonly called by the studi- ous bilinguals of STA. And then there are the German Fours all seven of them including one male forgetting their books, losing their Rollers. failing the gender tests and begging Frau Sherman to teach them to swear in Ger- man. We won't forget German names, skits or tapes or pat- tern practices oder die schreckliche deutsche Sprache! Roger Hallum: Advanced Speech, Basic Speech, Drama 1 2 Mr. Hallum has begun a new course this year, drama, which has attracted numbers of students interested in this cre- ative field. Under his direction, the one act play, ANTIGONE, received straight one ratings at the state speech contest. The first major musical he’s ever tried to di- rect was OKLAHOMA and was a success in every way, drawing enthusiastic crowds for each performance. Larry Pleggenkuhle: English 9, Creative Writing That grinning individualist who always lets his classes out three min- utes past passing time (claims he has no clock!), tunes in on lunch- room conversations, and brandishes a three foot club in order to keep his poor freshmen from revolting. is up to his usual tricks. This time, as he opens the door and a 90° heat wave rushes into the cafe- teria, he claims the creative writing classes are driving him nearer the brink. Come on, Mr. Creativity himself! Can’t you find a better ex- cuse?