Westerville High School - Searchlight Yearbook (Westerville, OH)

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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

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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 MRS. RUTH KEMPSHALL MR. HARRY LACY MRS. RUTH KEMPSHALL instructs Latin stu- dents through their first amo, amas, amat to their final readings of Ovid and VirgiL She graduated from Illinois State University with a major in Latin and a minor in mathematics and can sometimes be seen helping a student with a math problem hist to keep in practice. While away from her verb conjugations, Mrs. Kempshall attends classes at Otterbein, knits, and plays bridge. MR. HARRY LACY is a true blue WesterviUe High School instructor, having never taught any- where else in the six years he has been teaching. Over the years as he teaches geometry and algebra, he has witnessed the continual growth of the WesterviUe school system. By maintaining a re- laxed atmosphere in his classes, Mr. Lacy helps college bound students to realize early that some- one isn ' t always going to be standing over them to make certain they are doing the work. When he isn ' t proving to students the practicality of the Pythagorean theorem, he enjoys photography, fishing, and hunting. MR. JAMES LANIER greets his Spanish I and II classes each day with a cheery, Buenos dias, senores! and sometimes greets his French I class the same way. Mr. Lanier was graduated from the Ohio State University with a B.S. in Educa- tion, and he is presently working hard on his Masters ' there. His English speaking time away from guarding the doors in the cafeteria is spent with his family and devoted to work in his church. MRS. PENELOPE LAUGHLIN is one of Wes- terviUe High ' s algebra teachers and a Y-Teen advisor. In the classroom, Mrs. Laughlin stresses the importance of doing homework — especially those terrible word problems. She enjoys teaching here and finds much more to work with within our student body than she had at other schools. The homecoming courts have appreciated her helpful advice, and her toy poodle, Phillippe, rendered his beautiful velvet pillow for the queens ' crown. Mrs. Laughlin also enjoyed her participation in the WHS skiing program. MR. JAMES LANIER MRS. PENELOPE LAUGHLIN MR. HOWARD LONGMIRE MR. DALTON LOTZ MR. HOWARD LONGMIRE has the duty of conducting all the choral groups at WesterviUe High School and preparing them for concerts and contests. In his second year at WHS, Mr. Longmire was the anchor man for last year ' s musical Bye Bye Birdie and this year ' s The King and I. In addition to those momentous tasks, Mr. Longmire led his groups successfully through the ordeal of spring contests. In the summer, Mr. Longmire is an avid baseball fan. MR. DALTON LOTZ. Wcstenille ' s French teacher, is thought by most of his students to be one of the most interesting teachers in the world. Mr. Lotz enjoys nature at its best, hiking rough style in the Great Smoky Mounrains. watching the sun rise at sea, or observing the vast .Sahara Desert. He likes to listen to good symphonic or ballet music or the scores from musical comedies. Fads generally don ' t disturb him, but Mr. Lotz commented that some of the girls ' hair-do ' s look like mohair out of a sofa pillow. He finds some of the crazes attraaive. though, and thinks each student should decide what is best for him. 27