Walnut Creek High School - Anvil Yearbook (Walnut Creek, OH)

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THE HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY ' It is next to impossible to convert flesh and blood into stark facts and statistics. Therefore, since teachers are real people - not just degrees, teaching experience, depots of know ledge, or robots - they cannot be fully known, understood, or appreciated by giving statistics only. The teachers of Walnut Creek High School , being people, show characteristics, individuel differences, personal likes and dislikes just rs the students whom they meet in the class rooms. The teachers ere only four in number, but they present to'the students o wide vfriety of ideas, preferences in social and religious outlooks thot certainly should give the students an opportunity tc broaden their conception of Amer- icon life in its various phases. Within the faculty we find si mixture of creeds ond beliefs. One is c member of the Roman Catholic Church, another c Menn- onite, the third is F member of the Evangelical ond Reformed Church, cnc the lest o minister in the Christian Church. Three of the teachers are married, three live in small towns, one on o form, three live owny from Walnut Creek, one in the town. Their hobbies or diversions run the gnmut from tecchinp and directing Summer Bible Schools, throuph Young People's Institutes, piano ond trombone playing, membership in the omoteur mrgicifn society, fishing, news reporting, borbering, end masculine cookery. ' It is interesting to notice that, along with the differ- ences, the frculty members hrve mcny similrrities. There ere only three yecrs, eight months, ond ten dcys difference in their ages. All four acquired their beccclsureste degrees from colleges maintained Ly Protestant Churches, Those colleges are : Heidelberg, Bluffton, Johnson Bible College, ond Wooster. All teachers also have had further professional training ot one time or another during summer sessions at the following institutions : Ohio University, Ohio State, Oberlin, Wilmington, Washington - Jefferson, Since the terchers fre so nerr the srme nge, they were oll in high school at the some time, end curiously enough, world conditions nt thot time were quite compfrrble to those of the present, Since the tenchers, rs high school students, exper- ienced the First World Wfr ond the resulting uphervrl in soc- ial, morcl, and politicfl life, they con rerlize ond oppreci- ,ate the problems their students fre forced to frce and solve in this dry of the Second World Wfr and its resulting hfvoc throughout the world. The students of the year 1945 - l946 will be able to comprehend the preceding strtement more fully about twenty yecrs from now. -