Westerville High School - Searchlight Yearbook (Westerville, OH)

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ADMINISTRATION MR. THOMAS BANCROFT is one of Wester- viUe High School ' s most familiar faces. He was principal here for 24 years, and he now handles the numerous duties of the junior and senior high school curriculum director. He is in charge of summer school, recommends teachers for hir- ing, and aides teachers by obtaining films and other needed classroom materials. With these responsibilities, he still finds time to collect stamps, to golf, and to go boating. MR. JON WILDERMUTH, one of the three new guidance counselors, counsels all freshman, sophomore, and junior boys. Before coming to Westerville he had received degrees from Miami and Xavier Universities. While not in conference or administering aptitude tests, Mr. Wildermuth coaches the reserve basketball team and is an assistant football coach. Under his leadership, the reserve basketball cagers took the Mid-Eight Championship. A great sports enthusiast, he be- lieves that sports relate to life in that one gets out of it what he puts in to it. MR. T. V. BANCROFT I MR. JON WILDERMUTH MR. RAY EIBE.N 20 MRS. MARTHA GRANT MRS. MARTHA GRANT, with her friendly personaliry and sincere concern, has won many friends this year in her first year as counselor to all freshman, sophomore and jtinior girls. She is happy to share in the personal, as well as academic, problems of students and she has an opportunity to help the students through prob- lems they encounter during their teeenage years. Sewing is her favorite hobby, and she makes many of her own clothes; she also enjoys listen- ing to classical music, swimming, and traveling. MR, RAY ElBEN has the frightening task of getting to know all the seniors, as he is the guidance director for all seniors boys and girls. In his conferences with students, he interprets tc-st scores, aids in completing applications of all kinds, and tries to guide the students into mak- ing the right decisions concerning their present and future. Mr. Eiben feels that schools today are too policed and that the only way that students will act like adults is to let them work together for their own good. Among other things, he would lik? to see unsupervised pep rallies: Let them relieve their feelings if they have any; and true honor srudy halls: It ' s not really an honor this year. The kids are just shoved in.

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ADMINISTRATION MR. DANA W. AUKERMAN MR. DANA W. AUKERMAN has just com- pleted his first year as principal of WHS. He came to Westerville, via the principalship of Lima Senior High, a school of over 1800 students in the top three grades, because he felt he would like to work in such a growing community as this. Mr. Aukerman was born in Olifornia, but has spent the rest of his life in Ohio. He at- tended Lima schools, obtained his bachelor ' s de- gree from Ohio Northern, and earned hi s Masters in Administration from Ohio State Universit) ' . In his first year as principal, he has initiated many changes within the school and plans for a few more in the future. No marter what happens, he strongly believes in the worth of an individual and will go beyond normal measures to earn and maintain the respect of a student. MR. HERBERT GARY 24 MR. HERBERT GARY, vice-principal, has always been respected and admired by the students as one who challenges them to set high standards pnd live up to them. He has few specific duties delegated to him, but he does carry out business from Mr. Aukerman ' s office as well as taking care of the attendance procedures. In the near future he will be the leader of a WHS orien- tation program for student teachers. Mr. Gary enjoys jotting down philosophic quotations which he likes to pass on to others. One of his favorites, attributed to the Duke of Wellington, can be applied to many situations: Don ' t shoot cannon at sparrows. 19

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ADMINISTRATION MISS ELIZABETH PASSMORE really keeps her mind on the books for a good reason. As the WHS hbrarian, she takes care of the approx- imately 9000 volumes housed in the library. Al- though this year ' s reduction of the number of study halls has cut down library use for some students, Miss Passmore hopes that in the future more students will want to use the library as a good place to work. Through gifts to two memor- ial funds and appropriated moneys. Miss Pass- more is assured that her no gum chewing, no conversations, get-down-to-business domain will continue its expansion as a much needed part of student school life. MRS. MARION FULLER MISS ELIZABETH PASSMORE MRS. MARIAN FULLER, R.N., has the privilege of caring for all the .11 and injured students of WHS. She works at the high school three days a week and is on call when she works at the junior high the other two days. Before coming to WHS last fall, she worked part time in a hospital. When she isn ' t catering to the needs of students or her four sons, Mrs. Fuller enjoys bowling, swimming, and playing bridge. MISS ZORA YOUMANS has spent 31 years at WHS as secretary. She was graduated from Otterbein College and attended Bliss Business College. She is the first to admit that working in the main office of a busy school and being close to students all day is an education in itself. In her position as secretary, she performs a variety of duties including typing teachers ' tests, running the mimeograph machine, writing checks, and straightening up the messy bookkeeping of various organizational treasurers. Home from the office Miss Youmans delights in teaching new words to her parakeet Pete. MISS ZORA YOUMANS MRS. BETTY HALL MRS. RUTH ZIMMERMAN MRS. BETTY HALL, s ecretary- of WHS, came here after working at the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company. She is kept busy by the normal sec- retarial duties, but once in a while she has to break up the social gatherings the office girls like to hold in the main office. Says Mrs. Hall, Who has time for hobbies with housework and three children? True, enjoying — and picking up after — Jill, Rick, and Mark do keep her more than occupied in her hours at home, but she does find time to participate in the activities of the Eastern Star. — -- .i . J MRS. RUTH ZIMMERMAN, or as she is more often called, the lady in the little office, is chiefly occupied as the secretary to the guidance counselors. On a regular day, she writes two dozen passes, types up an untold number of transcripts and recommendations, and, if the nurse is not in, she places ice bags on bruised heads and bandages chemistry accident victims. A Girl Scout leader for ten years, Mrs. Zimmer- man now spends her spare time caring for her family and pet dog and cat Booker and Homer. 21