Westerville High School - Searchlight Yearbook (Westerville, OH)

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FACULTY MR. CHARLES BURNER MRS. MARY ALICE BUSICK MR. CHARLES BURNER is seldom seen around school anywhere but in the gymnasium and on the practice field. As teacher of freshman health classes and physical education, he also serves as the head coach for the Wildcat football and wrestling teams. It is no surprise that Mr. Burner places a great deal of emphasis on athletics and feels that sports are a good teacher of life. When he is not concerned with gridders and grapplers, he enjoys traveling. MRS. MARY ALICE BUSICK can be found behind piles of papers and books in her room whenever she is needed. Mrs. Busick is a busy person, teaching journalism and Junior English and advisin.g the Whekat and Searchlight staffs. She was in the first class with over one hundred students to graduate from Westerville High. After she graduated from Otterbein, she taught at Marion-Franklin High School in Columbus. In comparing Marion-Franklin and Westerville, she believes that Westerville students have more de- sire to learn and are much more eager to be educated. MR. JOHN CAMPBELL MRS. MARY COCHRAN MR. WALLACE CONARD MR. JOHN CAMPBELL, a new addition to the physical education department of Westerville High, also serves as assistant football coach. A graduate of Otterbein College, his interests out- side the locker room include all sports, music, and children Lisa and Kyle. This combination of interests might lead one to expect musical football at some future date. Or maybe it could be a football musical. MRS. MARY COCHRAN left Westerville after her graduation from Otterbein but returned to teach freshman English. She enjoys life in general, but is particularly fond of ceramics and needle- work. Mrs. Cochran tries to instill in her stu- dents an appreciation for literature by great authors and poets. Probably all teachers have found humor in something turned in to them during their careers, and Mrs. Cochran has had her share. Only recently someone wrote in his paper that, Pheasants were walking along the road to Camelot. MR. WALLACE CONARD is leading the dis- tributive education department of WHS through its second successful year, and he also teaches two one-semester courses of salesmanship. His big goal as a teacher still remains to build up the D.E. class of Westerville High so it will be one of the best in the state. Mr. Conard ' s schedule also demands that he oversee the work of all his students in their respective jobs in order to see that they are performing to their full capacity. MRS. INEZ CURRY teaches English I and II. She is a friend to many students of all grade levels, having earned their respea by her won- derful capability of being an easy person to talk to and also a gcx)d listener. Although she teaches only English at WHS, she has taught many other subjects, ranging from mathematics to French in other schools. Mrs. Curry is also a published writer, having had several of her poems printed in magazines. Besides reading and writing, she also knits, evidenced by some of her beautiful sweaters. MRS. INEZ CURRY 24

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FACULTY MR. FORREST BECKER MR. FORREST BECKER direas the school or- chestra and red and white concert bands, and also spends a great deal of time preparing the Marching 99 for its performances at football games and parades. In addition to being a fine director, Mr. B is probably one of the greatest cheerleaders that speaators have ever seen. Before a crucial football play, he always initiates a rous- ing go! go! go! with a wave of his hat, or bursts out with his own special cheers at pep rallies. For pastimes, other than promoting Joy to the World as the best Christmas carol, he enjoys golfing, and prides himself in coddling the earliest blooming roses on Walnut Street. MRS. REBECCA BERRY, chairman of the Eng- lish Department, teaches sophomores the correct usage of the English language. She sees WHS as becoming a big city school, rather than the suburban school it once was; but nevertheless, she still believes it is a good school in which to teach. Believe it or not, teen-agers are her favorite age group, and she especially chooses to teach the sophomores since they are at such a chal- lenging age level. In class, she expects students to think for themselves and not to beat around the bush when answering questions. MR. REGIS BIRCKBICHLER is the man to see if you want to know which battle was fought where, which President was elected when, or if you want to leave the cafeteria at noon for any reason. Ask any junior what the hardest job in American history is, and he ' ll tell you it ' s learning to spell Birchbichler. Mr. Birckbichler enjoys keeping up on current events and wishes his students did too; the biggest current event for him this year was his wedding. There are many memories of Westerville in Mr. Birchbichler ' s mind: his own school days, his teaching career, and his chaperoning of the eighth grade trip to Washington D.C. MR. FRANK BLACK, economics and American government teacher, is one instructor, his students generally agree, who really knows his subject. He should since he received his bachelor ' s degree at Princeton and his master ' s at Northwestern, both considered excellent universities. Mr. Black ' s chief CKCupation outside of teaching is managing to stay young. Although he enjoys tennis, chess, and rooting for the Cleveland Browns, his first love is skiing. Last winter he initiated a ski program for WHS students at Clear Fork Ski Resort, of which he was a former manager. MR. WILLIAM BROWN MR. REGIS BIRCKBICHLER MRS. LOUISE BUNCE MRS. REBECCA BERRY MR. FRANK BLACK MR. WILLIAM BROWN, teacher of vocational horticulture, has a new toy to play with this year — the greenhouse. Classwork in the green- house got off to a late start this year, but Mr. Brown hopes that next year honiculture students will be able to start off in September with the aspects of commercial production. He attended Marietta College, graduated from Ohio State, and came to WHS from teaching at Malta- McConnelsville. His favorite pastime, he claims, is trying to make room for leisure time. MRS. LOUISE BUNCE is in her twelfth year of teaching at Westers ' ille High School. A graduate of WHS. she now teaches shorthand I and II and t yping II. She earned her undergraduate degrees from Ohio State Universit ' and has done gradu- ate work at the University of Cincinnati and Columbia University. Unfortunately. Mrs. Bunce was forced to miss almost six months of school this year, but her return in the spring was wel- comed by both students and faculty. 23

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FACULTY MR. JOHN DAVIS keeps his students learning and laughing in his geometry and chemistr ' classes. He likes Westerville and enfoys teaching at WHS, but he believes that the school would improve if more students would take an aaive part in sp)orts. Much of his spare time and his summers at Purdue are spent working on his Masters ' degree. Mr. Davis and his wife like to spend their week-ends taking short trips. If he can find the time, he plans to do a lot of garden- ing since a house without shrubs just isn ' t attrac- tive. MR. D. L. DECENZO is the school ' s mechanical drawing and woodworking teacher, golf coach, and assistant wrestling coach. He is also the line football coach for Otterbein College. Busy as he must be, he also finds time for golfing and gardening. He believes Westerville has a good cross-cut of students and there are other schools that are wilder . Many students have gotten to know Mr. DeCenzo this year when they tried to sneak into school from the parking lot at lunchtime. But no one, absolutely no one, can get past the watchful eye of Mr. DeCenzo. MR. DONALD DELANEY is teaching sociology for the second year at Westerville High. His direct, enthusiastic methods of teaching have made sociology a course that is out of the ordinary realm of lecture classes. This year the Debate Club, under the supervision and guidance of Mr. Delancy, has gained the status of a team, and through his encouragement has participated in several tournaments. Mr. Delaney enjoys the tech- niques of debating because he feels they develop the self-confidence that is lacking in most students. MR. WILLIAM DODSON, the economics teacher, racked his brain at the Searchlight interview but could not think of anything to say except what he said his two previous years here. He did, how- ever, repon that he is no longer looking for a girl and he no longer bowls. MR. JOHN DAVIS MR. NICK DECENZO MR. DONALD DELANEY MR. WILLIAM DODSON MRS. JANE EDWARDS MRS. JANE EDWARDS is the good natured instructor of raping I. She came to Westerville and the world of asdfghjkI;C after teaching in Chautauqua, New York and Miner» ' a, Ohio. She likes teaching here at Westerville High School and has found her classes to be composed of friendly, cooperative, hardworking, normal teen- agers. ' Among her hobbies are knitting, attending sporting events, and taking in the school ' s dra- matic produaions. MISS MARY LEE EIGENSEE is one of the two new girls physical education teachers; she also teaches health to freshman. A recent graduate of Ohio State, Miss Eigensee is a favorite with her students because she doesn ' t forget what it ' s like to be a teen-age girl. With her accomplice Mrs. Gantz. she has helped the physical education department take giant strides forward; late in the wrestling season when the mats were beginning to emit a noticeable odor, she and Mrs. Gann improved the situation by perfuming the mats, causing WHS to have the only sweet-smelling mats in the wrestling league. 25