Sumner High School - Spartan Yearbook (Sumner, WA)

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Foreword Immediately to the east of the high school is rising a new building. The long-awaited gymnasium-music building is the result of years of plan- ning and preparation by the citizens of Sumner. The new building will open new vistas for the people of Sumner and their children. It will allow the expansion of Sumner's music department and will allow a more compre- hensive physical education program. The release of the old gym to the grade schools will make physical education available to all students of the Sumner schools. The building will also enable the Spartans to take ad- vantage of a fine basketball court, and the whole community to have a large meeting place for the area's many functions. The gym is only a part of the expansion of the Sumner schools. This expansion was insti- tuted by the erection of the beautiful new Maplelawn Grade School and the new shops opened last year. Future plans call for a new Spartan Field and long range plans forecast a new high school building and further beautification of the campus. The planning whi.ch has gone into the new building, its erection, and future plans may be paralleled by our own education, Much work, plan- ning, and research goes into our education. As with the erection of a building, the work of many trained artisans goes into our schooling. Dur- ing the course of this schooling each of us is, in truth, built-our know- ledge, experience, character, and personality. Because of the close parallel that does exist in the building of Sumner's new gym and in our own, we, the staff of the 1954 Spartan have chosen as our theme, BUILDING. l Three

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Table of Contents Foreword ..... Dedication . . Administration Faculty . . . CLASSES Seniors . . Juniors . . Sophomores . Freshmen . . ACTIVITIES Student Council Honor Society . Music ..... Future Homemakers Annual .... Spartan News . Debate .... Girls' Club . . Daffodil Festival . Yell Leaders . . . Language Clubs . Service Organizations Future Farmers . Pep Culb . . . ATHLETICS Football . Basketball . . Spring Sports . . Junior High Sports Girls' Athletics . . S Clubs . . Sta Roy Caviezel ..... Susan Taylor ..,. Jan Wiley . . Norman Forness . Betty Vaughan . . . Dorothy Boekhoff . . Rita Zehnder . . . Business Manager i Edit Assoc ate 01 , Senior Editor . . Senior Editor . . Junior Editor . Junior Editor Sophomore Editor

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Four Dedication This year, after thirty years of service, Sumner High School and this community lose an outstanding teacher, a wise and understanding coun- sellor, and a beloved friend. Our Miss Poole has been all these things, and more, to over 2,000 Sumner High School students. First, she is a fine teacher. Rather than being satisfied with just teaching the rules of English, she made the subject interesting and vivid. She has introduced us to new magazines, helped improve our vocabularies, taught us to better express our thoughts on paper, and has opened new vistas to us in our heritage of English literature. But besides these scholastic benefits and the work she has done as Senior class advisor she has symbolized for us other invaluable teachings. She has taught us to get the most out of life, to understand ourselves and each other. She has helped mold our per- sonalities and characters and has showed us the worth of honesty and integrity. But she does not forget a student once he graduates. En- dearing her even more to those who know her are many of her other selfless activities, such as knitting bibs and bootees for graduates' babies, her correspondence with former students, especially those in the service: the personal letter she writes each graduating senior, and her sincere in- terest in any and all of her many friends. For all these reasons, because she is a truly fine woman and a model for each one of us, for just being her own wonderful self, we of the staff dedicate the 1954 Spartan with loving best wishes to Florence Poole Dollery.