Thunderbird High School - Warrior Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

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'C e i 'f 'Q 1: I 'r Q f l Mrs. Maxine Daly Mr. Dave Doerrer , Q '56, V Qt.. .W g Mr. Larry Henderson Ms. Sharon Legge 5 .Q V, .- . Jam fx Qual, Mr. Tod Prouty Mr. Al Wolfe Career Center adds to counsellng This year the counselor's offices have been moved to a new room and they have added a Career Center where students can look through files, folders, pamphlets, and even films to find the career that best suits them. After the career has been chosen, there are files iden- tifying the requirements for entering that particular career. Mr. Prouty, who previously taught Anthropolo- gy, took over the duties of Mrs. Maria Hoffman, after she acquired a job at Tumbleweed, a half-way house for runaways. 1. Mrs. Lois Hussey, Career Center coordinator, talks to Steve Ledwon about job opportunities. 2. Mr. Tod Prouty raps with Guy Downer about different colleges and careers. efflclency 2 l7 '9.1?l'1

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Administrators confer with students Mr. Stan Edelman Mr. Ron Sipus Mr. Dennis Welsh dministrators confer with students Mr. Ron Sipus, the Assistant Principal for Student Activities, has been a member of the Thunderbird staff for two years. He had previously taught English, Biology, and Health. He has a Masters Degree in Health. Mr. Sipus is married and has two childreng Kimberly, age 7, and Heather, age 5. Dr. Dennis Welsh, Dean of Students, recently received his doc- torate in higher and adult educa- tion, which gives him the education needed to become an administrator at the University level. This is Dr. Welsh's second year at Thunderbird High School. He taught mathema- tics at Moon Valley before coming to Thunderbird. He is married and has three children, Greg, age 11, Scott, age 7, and Julie, age 6. As Dean of Students, Dr. Welsh is in- volved in the dropout recovery program and Night School. He is also the sponsor of Key Club. Mr. Stan Edelman, assistant principal for student services, has been at THS since it first opened. He received both his degrees at Arizona State University. Before he came to THS he taught at Prescott for 14 years. He is married and has 4 children. Dr. Dennis Welsh encourages a stu- dent to apply himself in class.

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Language Arts Mrs. Mabel Anderson English 1-2 Mrs. Jean Bremser Mrs. Irene Clegg Mrs. Chryss Ms. Susan Elkins Journalism Speech Danielek English 1-2 English 3-4 Mr. John Geames Mr. Mike Gessner Mr. James Jeffries English 3-4 Mrs. Phyllis Lambeth English 3-4 Mrs. Jan Korte Miss Ellen Ladenburg English 5-6 English 1-2 English 1-2 Comm. and Career , L5 ' V Q. .-' i QQ j A . I . . Q Y SSW. K my any X 4. .af rg, . . - -.,,.- . . N . 1, sg 14 me A MR .Q . Mrs. Jan Rowe Mr. Ray Sargent Mrs. Jackie Mrs. Sarah Talich English 5-6 Drama Schonaerts Rem. Reading English 3-4 Mrs. Julia Willis Mrs. Noreen Mr. Eli Wucinich English 5-6 Wingham Dev. Reading Comm. And Careers This year all freshman and sophomore English students took a criterion reference grammar test required by the district. The test results helped teachers know what to concentrate on during the year. The freshmen read several novels and explored the various course offerings at THS. The sophomores enjoyed various guest speakers dur- ing their unit on careers. The junior English classes again celebrated Greek Weekn in which they ended a mythology unit by portraying Greek gods. Mrs. Julie Willis replaced Ms. Debbie Johnson when she left the staff just before Christ- mas this year. The newest course, Communications and Careers, focused on communicating ideas to others verbally and through other methods, such as body language. 1 Mrs. Jean Bremser helps Tammy Cooper with one of her newspaper layouts in beginning Journalism class. 2 Mrs. Julia Willis helps some of her junior students while study- ing Shakespeare. 3 Foreign ex- change student Horst Klammer talks about his country, Germany to l Mrs. Clegg's advanced speech class. 1