Washington High School - Hatchet Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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Fine Arts Working with the stage light filters is a minor detail tr M Billey Conan dramatics instructor. As director of the plays, this drama coach has given long hours of his time in channeling ,the talents ot budding young tctors and actresses Culture With a Capital A dream came true for Mr, James Ralston, fine arts department head, when two grand pianos and a stereophonic tape recorder were given to his department last October. Listening to another band is a change for Mr. Edwin Hosking, Jr., W.H.S. band di- rector. Not only do W.H.S.'s two art instructors teach, but Mr. James Lauver has entered his own work in art shows and Mr. Harold Willits was a sponsor for the '59 Hatchet. 'N 'I 1154

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American History instructors, Mr. Carl Hermance and Mr. Robert Wilson, use a well-chosen bulletin board display as a medium of interest for their students, Trying to combine the facts of psychology and Amer' ican History are Mr. Edgar Eikermann and Mr. Loren Anderson. Social Science The Ways of the World New maps, which show the growth of America, have been useful to American History teachers, Mr. Clayton Wolfe, Mr. Thomas North- rop, Mr. Donald Toevs, and Mr. John Wise. 2I Mr, John Starbuck, head of the social science department, smiles as if he knows something we don't know. Xix I X L: , N 'v-- :Ls-, X , Ling'-AE-

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Mr. Richard Lee, driver's education instructor, if -.- J, .J I V A., .,, ., 1: r 5,,e I .,i4'f'? h0 V I K1 l i .eq ': , , i - j N, ' Y' ,215 i,-211, l 1 N23 Hfifft. f' f' Xe' 'Q . 4 . . . . L'-'ff-'V , +5 Mr. Karl Cunningham, electricity instructor, and Mr. Ronald Hall, head 'f'A X I of the industrial arts department, get a charge from a new oscilloscope. ' fl 'JQMIN in A circular saw helps Mr. C. W. Ridgway in his iob as woodworking instruc- tOr. 51' sp N-X 'Tv' Mr. W. A. Cun- ningham, mechanical drawing instructor, demonstrates one of the department's new drafting machines. Industrial Arts Skills for Use in Later Life fx, 4-fx -- I tion. L N.--A-A 23 Mr. Arden Schoenig, super- vises all printshop produc- Auto mechanics instructors Mr. James Toepfer and Mr Donald Sheets work with machinery like this valve grinder. , 6, .