Sumner High School - Sumnerian Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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STAFF AT WORK--These staff members work hard and diligently to get the yearbook to press on time. SECTION EDITORS NAOMI BAKER--- ---Senior Editor BETTY MICKS--- --- Junior Editor JESSIE KIRKSEY--- --- Sophomore Editor GLADYS GOSSETT ---- ------ I BM Operator CARL CARLOCK--- -- Advertising Manager DONNA MITCHELL--- ----------------------- Circulation Manager FACULTY ADVISERS MR. E. ALLEN CHARLTON ................... ---Journalism MR. ALEXANDER T. EDWARDS ---- ---Printing MR. JOSEPH REDDEN--- ------ -Art MR. PAUL BROWN--- Photography

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' 1 ' X xxx, I' x... l ic ? wi af M 4. SUM ERIAN STAFF I I GWENDOLYN DAVIS Business Manager SI-IERYLL GREENE Managing Editor CAROLYN OFFICER Chief Copy Editor JOHN RICE Sports Editor ELAINE TAYLOR Artist WILLIE ETHEL HARRIS Editor-in-Chief WORK if 3 1 Mx' If I V' l it, A - I 4 -N ' ..., , H , , L 1' fy, li ff I' - I5ti35:'-:' , v-- exif: 4 , I , ':EL:3 ',.- - Q L' ' REST FROM THEIR LABOR--Members ofthe staff pause from their ted ious labor to pose for the photographer.

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E. A. Taylor, teacher extraordin- ary, shaped the lives of countless boys and girls who passed through his classes. He came to Sumner in 1923 from Louisville, Kentucky, and retired to his one-tree pecan ranch in Houston, Texas, after the 1958-59 school year. Mr. Tay- lor reports that he thoroughly en- joys his leisure but misses the bee- like activity of school life. A NEWS E. A. Taylor Is Veteran of 34 Years in School and Communityg Behind Record, Many Achievements rMr. E. A. taylor is convalcsclng in the Douglass Hospital from an injury sustained while at school. This article, however, was ln preparation prior to his accident and hospitalization.-Ed.l By Aquila Crawford Mr. E. A. Taylor of our excellent faculty is a man of many accom- plishments and experiences. He was born in Houston, Texas, some years ago to Mr. and Mrs. John Daniel Taylor. The elder Taylor was a supervisor of private railroad cars. He died in 1897 at the age of forty-nine. Since his father's death, Earl has come a long way. He attended grade and high school in his home town. He grad- uated from Houston Colored Higl School in 1911, entered Wilber force University in Ohio and frorr there graduated in 1915 with : B.A. degree. fMr. Taylor, how- ever, had a small financial prob- lem, so his degree was withheld until his payments were conc1uded.l Two years later he began teach- ing at Edward Waters College, a' A.M.E. school in Jacksonville Florida. He taught French and Latin, happily commencing his long career. It was one year later in April of 1918 that he was called to the service of his country via the U.S. Army. He was there eight months and five days, six weeks as a pri- vate and three and a half month' in Officers Training School. Thr remainder of the time was spent as a second lieutenant. tHe was discharged with that rank, incident- ally.j The year 1918 was a big year fol Earl, for he also received his M'.A degree from Columbia University having majors in Latin and Ancient History. He then accepted the principal- ship of a Mound City, Illinois, high school where he doubled' as a teacher of physics and Latin. He faithfully endured for five years, going one complete term without Pay- After Mound City, he went to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1922 and taught five classes 'of Latin for sn, E. A. TAYLOR STORY one year. In 1923 Mr. Taylor embarked on his long career at Sumner High and has been here since. When he began teaching at Sumner, he taught American history, physiol- ogy, biology and zoology. He is chairman of the Honor Society chapter and Scholarship commit- tees and sponsor of school plays. Mr. Taylor is well known for his excellent directorship of plays. He has directed as many as three olays in one year. His interest in drama was not developed at Sum- ner, but back at Houston during childhood. He and his friends liked plays so much that they converted an old barn into a crude and awk- ward but prrforlnab'e stage. :After childhood he still main- tained hi: interest in plays by go- ing to New York to perfo-m in the f'rst all-Negro cast in history to play a serious drama on Broadway The play was called Simon the Cyrenianf' In this, he played the part of a Roman soldier. It was presented in the Garden Theater in April, 1917. His major hobby now is reading plays. Others include swimming and photography, outgrowth of a brief course he took at Minnesota University. Mr. Taylor's career at Sumner has been one of lonjr and extend' d service to the school, the faculty. hundreds and hundreds of students and parents of this communi'ny. To list here outstanding graduates and former students who came to him would be impractical for there are too many. Mr. S. H, Thompson, our princi- pal, says of him: Mr. Taylor is probably one of the most highly respected teachers as well as a person in both the school and community. He is recog- nized as an authority in his field, which is biology, and a complete enthusiast in any activity connected with Sumner high school. Over the years that he has been here, he has served as director of many plays, a type which soon became known as the 'Taylor-made' plays. His attention to the most minute details was possibly the key to a part of his successes. Since his absence during his ill- ness, his importance to the total school program has been forcibly brought to our attention.