Washington Park High School - Kipikawi Yearbook (Racine, WI)

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Our administration . . . planning and correlatinc Our popular principal, Mr. John Prasch, with his more than full schedule of duties is without a doubt the most industrious person at Washington Park High School. Mr. Prasch, who received his education at Coe College, University of Iowa, University of Chica- go and University of Colorado, has been at Park for the past seven years. He served as a physical education instructor and varsity coach of football and basketball in his first three years and, for the remain- ing four years, as our principal, ever advising, guid- g 2 f 1 ing and helping us. Although administering a high school of sixteen hundred students is a truly enormous task, here is a man certainly able to perform the iob, as he has already proven by his successful years. Mr. Prasch, proud father of a little boy born last year, always wears a friendly smile no matter how rushed and complicated activities become. Well-earned are his few moments of rest and relaxation at home.

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ADMINISTRATICN ve, for behind these ever-welcoming sy grasp lies the key of knowledge - to :ement, cultural development and social le even more desirable by the insecurity our world. Park . . . not a hollow shell r, but a place of warm friendliness and t short years ago we entered eagerly s - now as we prepare to leave, we realize how the time and energy unstintingly put forth by a devoted faculty has benefitted us . . . Thy light shall guide us . 9

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helping to insure success . . . Miss Merilee Crozier, seen here in a familiar pose in the stockroom window, believes work as a Park office girl is very interesting. Friendly Miss Crozier's hobbies are roller skating, horses and sewing. Before coming to Park, she was employed by the Modine Manufacturing Company. Seen as she sends the morning lunch count down to the office is Mrs. Joyce Akin, member of our efficient office staff. Mrs. Akin, who works at Park the year round, enioys refinishing furniture and braiding rugs in her spare time. .41 'i ,av -J' Mrs. Pxlswt School P.A. announcements are given by these two, Mr. A. B. Close, vice principal, and Mrs. Ruth Ann Miller. Mr. Close, a sincere, friendly person who has been at Park for twenty-one of his thirty-five teaching years, is the father of three Park graduates. His summers until recently were spent as a Y.M.C.A. camp counselor, now he is building a new home west of Racine. Advisor and member of many organizations, Mr. Close is a true friend of all. Mrs. Miller, who began work immediately after graduation, has worked at Park for four and one-half years and enioys painting figurines and sewing in her extra minutes. She likes Park, its students and its faculty as much as they like her.