Wapella High School - Retro Yearbook (Wapella, IL)

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 lhe faculty of W. C. H. S. seems to have come from all points of the map to settle in the Center of Illinois. Mrs. fmogene Blue was graduated from Nixon Township High School in 1942 and received her bachelor's degree from Illinois State Normal University in 1948. She did secretarial work before she came to teach at Wapella last year. She and her husband reside in Clinton. • Mr. Scott A. Funkhouser was graduated from Eastern Illinois Teachers 0)1lege with a bachelor’s degree and from the University of Colorado with a master's degree in 1941. He also attended the University of Illinois and was in the Navy for three years with the rank of lieutenant. He has taught at Nokomis and Dalton. This is his fifth year at Wapella. Mr. George Kidd was graduated from the University of Des Moines, Iowa, n 1923. He also has attended summer school at Illinois State Normal University. This is Mr. Kidd’s fifth year with us. Mr. G D. Kinsman received his bachelor’s degree in 1937 and his master’s degree in 1938 from Illinois Wesleyan. He has been head of the music department, Humboldt State College, in Areata, California; director of bands, Gross-ment High School, in San Diego, California; and director of vocal music, Lincoln Jr. and Sr. High Schools, in Los Angeles, California. He has also made performances and arranged music for the radio. Mr. Kinsman was a first lieutenant in the Army. At present he is director of the Bloomington Municipal Band, the Illinois Championship Moose Lodge Band, and the Bloomington Consistory Band. Mr. Warren Mara is from Chicago, Illinois, where he attended Austin Evening Junior College. He was in the Navy from 1942-45. In 1949 he was graduated from the University of Illinois with a bachelor’s degree. Mr. Mara is currently attending the University of Illinois, while teaching his second year at Wapella.