Westerville High School - Searchlight Yearbook (Westerville, OH)

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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

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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. JOHN EVANS successfully fulfills the duties of teaching general science and physical educa- tion, coaching the cross-country and track teams, and chasing wandering students off the parking lot at lunch time. This busy man does find time, however, to keep in shape by golfing, bowling and gardening. He stresses the importance of an education and believes that participation in sports is just as important to students as academic classes. He would like to see more pep rallies at WHS, as long as the studen ts want to support the team, and he wishes more students wanted to back his hard working track boys. MRS. DORIS GANTZ is enjoying her second time around as a physical education teacher at Westerville High. She taught here for one sem- ester four years ago until her husband was transferred; nevertheless she accomplished a lot in the short time she was here: she formed the Girls ' Athletic Association, which is now the biggest organization in the school and which she now advises. All totaled, Mrs. Gantz has taught for six years, including three semesters in San Diego, California, and a year at the Ohio State School for the Blind. MR. JOHN EVANS MRS. DORIS GANTZ MRS. LILLIAN GOSSETT has been on the faculty of Westerville High for twenty-two years, teaching everything from English to drama and advising the Blendon Township Junior Historical Society. This year, she teaches Ohio history and serves as Dean of Girls. In this multi-colored world of blue, yellow, white, and pink passes, Mrs. Gossett also keeps the attendance records in order and hands down final verdicts on deten- tion victims. In past years she has taken students on trips to such places as Nassau and New York City. MR. GLENN GRIFFITH, who has been a mem- ber of the WHS faculty for sixteen years, in- structs vocational agriculture. In addition to his, regular classes, in the evening he teaches an adult education course called the Young Farmers As- sociation. He is also the advisor to the Future Farmers of America, which has taken on a new dimension this year with the addition of five girls to the organization. His leisure time is occupied with his family and his small farm on the outskirts of Westerville. MRS. LILLIAN GOSSETT MR. GLENN GRIFFITH MR. GEORGE HYRMER has been with Wes- terville High as an Algebra I teacher for the past three years. He not only attends many of Wes- tervilles sporting events, but sells tickets to everyone else who wants to attend. Commenting on whether or not relationships between teachers and students have changed since he was in high school, Mr. Hyrmcr feels that his teachers demanded more in the way of discipline. He does believe that students and teachers should discuss differences of opinion using facts rather than emotions and that they should stay within the bounds of respect for each other. MRS. LOUISE JEFFERS began her teaching at WHS just this year. She received her Bachelor ' s Degree in education from Ohio University and, after graduation, returned to her home town of Wakefield, Ohio, to teach at the high school there. Though her Algebra II and general busi- ness classes keep her pretty busy, she finds time to enjoy mi sic. Before her marriage early last spring, she also kept fairly busy insisting that she was not trying to hide her last name, that Jayne was her last name and not her first. But now that she is Mrs. Jeffcrs all her name problems are solved. MR. GEORGE HYRMER MRS. LOUISE JEFFERS 26 -J