Topeka High School - Sunflower Yearbook (Topeka, KS)

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Ojfce Stan' As BUSY AS a page of sixteenth notes played at an ac- cellerated tempo are words to describe the office staff. Yet this description is not complete, for efficiency and co-opera- tion are the keys to their measurement. Their jobs as secretaries, attendance clerk, switch board operators, registrar, bookkeeper, school nurse and cafeteria director were all vital to keeping us in step. Bulletins to be typed, call slips to be sent, attendance to be checked, menus to be approved, and fingers to be band- aged, these jobs and many others were carried out by the staff. They worked busily to the sharp staccato of typewriters, never failing in their duty to THS. CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK. Miss Sibberson and Mrs. Wood- burn take care of the millions of details that come their wav. Mrs. Naomi Woodburn Erna Sibberson Wilma Hopson Dorothy Root Secretary to Principal Attendance Clerk Registrar Bookkeeper EASY NOW! Mrs. Taylor's reassuring words and ' deft fingers have helped many students and fac- ulty members over some pretty rough moments. ' , . it C Betty Greamba Marjorie Hunter 5WifChb0a1'd OPerator Guidance Office Secretary wir Mrs. Lillian Ash Mrs. Fern Taylor Cafeteria Secretary Registered Nurse 23

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Faculty Leo E. Thomas, M.S. Office Practice Grace Van Tries, B.A. James H. Walker, B.S. English Auto Mechanics Machine Shop Mary jean Walterscheid, B.S. Gertrude S. Wheeler, B.A. Physical Education Speech English Patricia Wilkinson, B.S. Vance J. Williams, M.S- Physical Education English Mrs. Fayeben W. Wolfe, M.A. Walter A. Wolfe, M.S. Mrs. Emmett E. Woodward, B.S. Eunice Youngquist, B.S. Art Crafts Typing English Cafeteria Director Bookkeeping IT TAKES all sorts of finely tuned instruments to make a band and all sorts of interesting people to make up a high school faculty. It would take a book to record all the facets and interests of ours. Of our eighty-nine, there are hobbyists galore: artists, gardeners, photographers, decorators, musicians, and trav- clers. Some tool leather and others polish stones, some grow radishes, and others, roses. Several direct church choirs and play in the Civic Symphony. Three live on farms and commute daily. Little children say Mom and Dad to men and women we know in the classroom only. Four Trojans know their teachers as parents, too. Three of the group established homes of their own this year: Mrs. Kresie fWeissbeckj, Mrs. Mclntyre fliastwoodj, and Mrs. Spencer CWilkinsonj. 22 Degrees they all have: A.B.'s, B.S.'s, M.A.'s, and M.S.'s. Eleven have stood the test of time and chalked up twenty- five years on their records at Troy. Summer brought various activities to these interesting people. Twenty-two taught or attended workshops and summer schools, two went to foreign lands to study, one the winner of a nation-wide contest, eight were hail ad- justersg one sold life insurance, and another, real estate. Still others were house painters, grocers, wallpaper sales- men, and swimming instructors. The women teachers cleaned house, sewed, mended, and cooked. Yes, a book could be filled with the activities of our Trojan faculty. It would burst its binding if all were told of the personality and vitality we have come to associate with these, OUR FRIENDS, the ones with the batons.

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Like... the clarion notes of the brasses, our class work is the call to our duty and the noble destiny of our intellects.