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

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LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT Mr. Green entertained his world lit, and advanced comp, classes with scads of movies, records, and filmstrips this year. When lie’s not walking the halls in a daze, you might find him standing outside enjoying the spring weather or running errands for the annual staff in his black Bug. Mr. Green’s warm smile and the friendly atmosphere of his room are a welcome lift to all students, especially the de- pressed seniors last quarter. Mrs. Hendrickson manages to keep herself busy with her American Lit. and Novels classes. We all know how the Sophomores love those filmstrips and records, and the ju- niors and novels students love reading those paperbacks on the night before the papers are due. If there are wierd sounds coming from the northeast corner of the building and they aren’t beeps and buzzes from the radio shack, they’re probably coming from the German room where Miss Sacks tries to make bilinguals out of her students. The second-year class gets to go to the Amana Colonies in the spring. Lucky second year class! and Lucky Miss Sacks! Mr. Betts’ first year at STA was kept jam-packed with his drama and speech classes, the two plays, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” and “My Fair Lady,” and playing basketball and handball in the gym in his spare time. Mr. Betts used a new method to get the cast to mem- orize lines—fines for all missed lines were deposited in Piggeth”, a plastic bank, and the funds were used for a cast party after the plays. The fuzzy-lipped, smiling, English teacher has a new room this year. He’s moved his freshman English small groups and his creative writing class out to the trailer, located back of the school. As for the moustache, I guess no one has any real objections at least at last count it was still there. 9

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NEW ADMINISTRATION UNDERWAY James L. Mitchell Keeping a large school district, both in population and area, functioning is a complex and challenging business. Along with our school board in planning the direction of our district, are the talents of three men, all experiencing their first year at St. Ansgar: Mr. Mitchell, superintendent; Mr. Wemette, high school principal; and Mr. Pyburn, junior high principal. These men must all work together to meet the needs of the students by giving each one a useful and constructive education—one that is applicable in our changing, progressive society. Thomas G. Wemette Roger Pyburn SCHOOL BOARD Harley Walk, Darrold Bless, Millard McNutt, Lynn Gordon, Ronald Priem, Secretary; Newlin Jensen, President; Daryl Mc- Cready, Gene Wagner, James Mitchell.

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Richard Johnson C. Richard Sherman MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT Whether it be algebra, geometry, general math, or advanced math, the busy math students manage to “blow their cool” on bewildering numerical problems. Led by the fearless (??) mathematicians-Mr. Johnson, Mr. Shaw, Mr. Sherrpan-the stu- dents have tolerated the formulas, theorems, equations, and postulates for another dreary year. The math teachers should be commended. It's quite an undertaking to keep 300 kids interested in such a dull subject!?!?! Mrs. Carlene Luense PHYSICAL EDUCATION James McGrillis DEPARTMENT A new name (Mrs. Luense) and a new face (Mr. McCrillis) are the feature attractions of the physical education department. The “squatty body” kept the boys out of trouble by drawing them to an occasional class with wrestling, basketball, and the opportunity for ringing the fire alarm. Mrs. Luense and her athletic girls played badminton, basketball, swam, worked with gymnastics, bowled, and had outdoor sports in the spring. Richard Barta John Sether MUSIC DEPARTMENT Mr. Barta enjoyed a successful first year at STA. As a member of the Music Department, he also had a busy year, especially around April 4 and 5, the dates of small group contests. He directed the marching and concert bands, and he had a large undertaking in the direction of the orchestra for the spring musical, “My Fair Lady.” Thanks to Mr. Sether, the choir de- partment had a new branch added, a cappella which was finally worked into the schedule the second semester. Those hour practices will come in handy as the a cappella goes on tour to Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. The choir, small groups, and solos made an impressive showing in Cresco at small group contest.