Westerville High School - Searchlight Yearbook (Westerville, OH)

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FACULTY MR. ROBBIE MILLER MR, ROBBIE MILLER has the rough job of trying to point out the importance of studying government to the senior students. He is well known for the advice he gives the seniors when they arc able to pull him away from the facts in the text book. He teaches such revolutionary morals as; Join the army and become a man; don ' t run away and get married — you can get too much loot at a wedding; and just be- cause a Volkswagen is small and meek doesn ' t mean the driver is the same way. Mr. Miller is advisor to the Key Club, National Honor So- city, and the senior class. MRS. NANCY MORGAN has been a senior English teacher at ' W.H.S. for the past three years and this year is also a senior class advisor. Her leisure pastimes include reading, swimming, painting, and eating. She likes animals, especially her cat Herb. Her present goal is to eatn her Masters ' degree and then to teach at the college level. Known to all before this year as Miss Staats, Mrs. Morgan is famous for her interesting, sometimes hilarious, class discussions and for her ability to keep the seniors under control when the discussions get heated. MRS. NANCY MORGAN MRS. NANCY NEAR, fondly known as la profesora , indoctrinates interested smdents in Spanish II, III, and I ' V. A graduate of Hanover College in Indiana, she has also attended Mexico City College, and University of Valencia in Spain, and she often uses her own experiences and colored slides to better acquaint students with the Spanish way of life. Mrs. Near enjoys working with students in extra-curricular activi- ties and serves as advisor to the cheerleaders. She also enjoys knitting, reading, golf, and los Burger Muchachos . MRS. NANCY NEAR MR. ROBERT NEVEL MR. RONALD NOCKS MR. ROBERT NEVEL is concerned principally with passing on knowledge of the business world to Westerville High School ' s future entrepreneurs. He has taught as Westerville for three years, and this year has taken on part of the responsibility of accounting for the funds of various schcKil organizations. Most treasurers of school organiza- tions, who have learned that it isn ' t easy to keep books balanced, have enlisted the aid of Mr. Nevel at some time during the school year. MR. RONALD NOCKS signs the attendance slips presented him with a flourished REN. His students agree that the £ must stand for Exhaust- ing and Enthusiastic. He works his students in speech and dramatics to their full capacirs , but they never notice it because Mr. Nocks himself is so caught up in the subjeas; it is rather like osmosis. Osmosis isn ' t a strange work to Mr. Nocks, either, because in addition to majors in speech and drama at Ohio State, he also majored in biological sciences. His outside interests include advising the Thespians, water skiing, music, sports, and directing the school plays. 29

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FACULTY MRS. NANCY E. LOWREY Judge Short was hailed by all for his decision in Cowpunchers vs. Sadler MRS. NANCY E. LOWREY served as a full-time substitute iti Mrs. Bunce ' s shorthand and typing classes for inost of the year. Coming here from Gahanna Lincoln where she taught home econom- ics the previous year, Mrs. Lowrey was somewhat familiar with teaching shorthand because she had taught that subject during her stint as a student teacher. Mrs. Lowrey, who graduated cum laude from Muskingum College, prefers sub- stitute teaching to full-time instructing because she does not like to be away from her two young daughters, Kristen and Beth Ann. MRS. MARTHA MacKENZIE has taught Eng- lish at WHS for three years. A graduate of Ohio State University, this is the first school in which she has taught. She believes she is lucky to be teaching in Westerville and that this year ' s classes have been better prepared in their homework than those in years past. Her after-school activities include advising the Y-Teens, playing bridge, playing the piano, and reading. MR. DONALD McMEEKIN can be found be- hind a sculpture, under a mobile, or advising one of his students on his most recent masterpiece. Mr. Gomer McMeekin enjoys working with three dimensional designs and painting which give him the chance to express himself in something other than words. He is most interested in helping his high school students in art, but also enjoys teaching the adults in evening classes. He wants his students to think for themselves, though, since creating one ' s own ideas plays an important role in being a successful artist. MR. CARL MILLER, another new face in the revamped social studies department, guides stu- dents through the mazes of American history and government. Although he specializes in events of the past, not-so-ancient history for him is his attendance at Milligan College and Uni- versity of Tennessee, and the two degrees he earned at Ohio State. During the summer Mr. Miller finds himself in the role of the student, as he is working toward his Ph.D. His head isn ' t always buried in books, however, since he enjoys going to the movies and is learning to like smoked sandwiches, possibly because he keeps his lunch in the men ' s faculty lounge. MR. DONALD McMEEKIN MRS. MARTHA MACKENZIE MR. CARL MILLER 28

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FACULTY I MRS. SARAH OTT is well-liked by all her world history and government classes. Unfortunately for Westerville, Mrs. Ott will leave Ohio next year to teach in Wilmington, Delaware. Here at WHS, Mrs. Ott is the head of the social studies depart- ment, advisor for the Future Teachers Club, and is also known for her attempts to make Robert E. Lee ' s birthday a school holiday. When she isn ' t talking about her two trips to Europe, she enjoys knitting, her evening school course in painting, and admiring new Bonnevilles. MR. JOSEPH RALSTON is one of the jovial but hard-driving chemistry teachers. He is also advisor to the Bi-Phy-Chem Club. He leads junior and senior students with experience and dedication through the rigors of hydrocarbon structures and weird concoctions of bromine. Mr. Ralston is celebrating his fifteenth year at Westerville High School, and no matter how hard he tries, he just can ' t keep the chalk dust off his coat sleeves. MRS. SARAH OTT MR. JOSEPH RALSTON MRS. LUCY RAVER MRS BERNICE RUCKER MRS. SHARON REDICK MRS. LUCY RAVER enjoys teaching world his- tory because she believes that it helps the sopho- mores to become aware of the rest of the world, to recognize patterns in history, and to be better citizens of their generation. One of the greatest rewards Mrs. Raver has found in her teaching of tenth graders is seeing them later as seniors and graduates and noting how much they have matured in the two years since she taught them. MRS. SHARON REDICK, in her sixth year of teaching, is the family living instructor in the home economics department. During the school year Mrs. Redick and her husband are very busy, but their two-month trip to Florida proved to be an enjoyable summer vacation. In class Mrs. Redick ' s students practice being young adults, as she stresses that the family is still the most important institution. Mrs. Redick has found Westerville ' s girls to be nice, enthusiastic, and well-dressed. MRS. BERNICE RUCKER, a three-year veteran of WHS, instructs seniors in the intricacies of office practice and business law and English. A graduate of Ohio State University, Mrs. Rucker has four children, two of whom were seniors here this year. In addition, to advising the Future Business Leaders, she enjoys bowling, boating, and pink coats. I guess it all started when the South lost the war . 30