St Matthews High School - Saints Scroll / Stinger Yearbook (St Matthews, SC)

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Cope With Problems of School MRS. DORIS OTT Typing, paying bills, keeping books, depositing money, and running errands are only a few of the things Mrs. Doris Ott does each day. As full-time secretary for S. M.H. S. , Mrs. Ott is kept busy. She is a graduate of St. Matthews High School and Draughon’s Business College. Mrs. Doris Ott sharpens her pencil before taking a letter. MRS. VIRGINIA OTT Coming in three days a week, Mrs. Virginia Ott helps with the secretarial work of S. M. H. S. She is a graduate of St. Matthews High School. Mrs. Virginia Ott picks up the tape recorder to take it to one of the teachers.

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Administration and Staff MR. HOWARD F. GARRIS Making his twentieth year as superintendent of St. Matthews Schools is Mr. Howard F. Garris. However, the job has not slowed him down because you can find him working at a steady pace at any time. Prior to coming to St. Mat- thews, Mr. Garris served as Prin- cipal of St. George High School and Superintendent of both Black- ville and Bethune Schools. He holds a B. S. degree from the Citadel and Master's degrees in Engineering, and School Admin- istration from the University of South Carolina. At various times, it has been necessary for Mr. Garris to fill in as teacher for Mr. Ott's math classes. He did so this year, when Mr. Ott coached the Shrine Bowl game. Mr. Garris is at home in many positions at S. M. H. S. Mr. Garris talks to some of the students outside the school building. MR. H. THAD OTT Advising seniors about plans after graduation and helping students choose their courses are only two of the many jobs which Mr. Thad Ott must do as principal of St. Matthews High School. Added to his list of responsibilities are his two math classes; geometry and college algebra and trigonometry. He also coaches the girls' basketball team. Mr. Ott is a graduate of Newberry College and holds a Master's degree in Education from the Uni- versity of South Carolina. Mr. Ott watches the progress of a basket- ball game. 26

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Mathematics — the Mr. Ott re-emphasizes to his geometry class that they must learn the theorems before they can prove a pro- blem. MRS. WILLIE BRANDENBURG Mrs. Willie Brandenburg is kept busy teaching sci- ence and math to the eighth grade. She assigns projects and posters to her classes, which she displays in her room. Through these posters and projects she teaches such things as rock formations, volcanoes, constella- tions, the rotation and revolution of the earth, and eclipses of the sun and moon. She also teaches algebra to the tenth grade. Mrs. Brandenburg is a graduate of Winthrop College and has attended the Science Institutes at Columbia College and Clemson University. Mrs. Brandenburg explains to Karen Robinson and Judy Geiger the rotation of the earth on its axis and its revolution around the sun.