Westmont Hilltop Senior High School - Phoenician Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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MISS CANAN MR. HORNER MR. SIEGEL MR. ENGH MISS KANTNER MR. TOMB MISS ESENWEIN MISS LANDIS MISS J. WILLIAMS MISS E. GREER MISS McGANN MISS R. WILLIAMS MISS M. GREER MR. McILNAY MISS WITT MISS GOODWIN MR. OTT MISS WYMAN

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THE FACULTY MR. OSCAR BELLES—jovial—humorous. Brilliant mathematician. Clever photographer. Well liked principal and math instructor. Graduate of Harvard. MISS ANNA MARY RAAB—right hand man to Mr. Belles. Performs her many duties with the smoothness of Houdini. All around good sport. MISS MAE FINKELSON—very quiet and very efficient. Mr. Ackley's shadow. Helps to make our office run like clockwork. CAN WE REALIZE? Can we realize that education is not an automatic, spraying-on process? With a good building and excellent teachers, the battle is only begun. Here is youth, not contacting industry in the home as in olden days, but tapped off from the community and pooled here. Can we teachers leaven the mass, or will they conspire to stagnate? Our greatest help is the fervent belief of the community in education. In these sober times only the more responsible are hired and returns are so modest that home-made fun a cultivation of our own intellectual resources—is necessary. Youth is active. The school is not a factory with teachers as workmen, but a community workshop with teachers as foremen. If parents weaken in the least—if they insinuate doubts, or allow dawdling—the morals of the chief educator—the pupil himself—are broken. We must convince ourselves first, and apply the gentle but unyieldingly persistent pressure that is alone effective with growing things. —OSCAR BELLES

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FACULTY MISS ELSIE CANAN—spends many of her own hours furthering her knowledge. Guides students through scientific mysteries. Must be given credit for one of the most complete laboratories in the state. Phi Beta Kappa from University of Chicago. MR. CARL ENGH—perpetually good-humored. Teaches bookkeeping. Expert coach. Guides teams to famed heights annually. Gains profound respect of all who come in contact with him. Graduate of Ohio Northern University. MISS CATHRYNE ESENWEIN—a regular cut-up when it comes to Yodler articles. Interprets Shakespeare with a zest. An education major at Ohio Wesleyan. Accomplished English instructo?. MISS SARA GOODWIN—gifted with unusual artistry. Willing to share her knowledge. Gives helpful staging suggestions in a delightful way. Graduate of Carnegie Tech. MISS ELIZABETH GREER—Divides her time between the gym. library study-halls, and history classes. Drives a snappy green Ford. Basket ball enthusiast. Alumna of Arnold. MISS MARGARET GREER—the most nearly perfect example of complete intelligence. Talented directoress. Obliging librarian. Charming Lehrerin—(and, we are rather inclined to think, a couturiere extraordinary.) MR. EDMUND HORNER—waves his baton with a distinguished flourish. Usually heard singing above the orchestra. Successfully guided our school to victory in Forensic League. Graduate of Ithaca Conservatory of Music. MISS MARGARET KANTNER—teaches French with an abundance of gestures. Adds that certain something to Freshman English. Spends summers with a tennis racket and the press. Graduate of Oberlin. MISS LYDIA LANDIS—with a pencil as a baton she directs the rapid rhythm of her typists. Supplies each teacher with a competent secretary and personally supervises the work of each. Graduate of Elizabethtown College. MISS LAURA McGANN—her opinion is unanimously accepted. Ready Irish wit. Respects student problems. Enthusiastically guides each individual. Pays due respects to her Alma Mater, Bucknell. MR. VAUGN McILNAY—largely responsible for senior successes. One of the great stars of the faculty teams. Remains blissfully composed while the rain drips through the top of his Buick. Has artistic tendencies in a small way. Graduate of Beckley College. MR. MINTER OTT—never known to lose his temper. First rate chemistry instructor. Knows the art of injecting humor into his subjects. Receives stacks of fan mail daily from loving parents explaining certain mysterious absences. Graduate of Gettysburg College. MR. FRANCIS SIEGEL—assistant coach. Former college grid star. Stresses fair play and sports, manship. Usually wears a blue tie with a green shirt. Alumnus of several schools most recently Pitt. MR. JAMES TOMB—thorough, full of incidents. Broadminded fairness a specialty. His super- vision is the ambition of all student-teachers. An alumnus of Muskingum. MISS JOSEPHINE WILLIAMS—product of Randolph-Macon. Shows her history and math students problems from the right angle. A favorite of students. MISS ROBERTA WILLIAMS—carries the smartest of kerchiefs. One man cheering squad during basket ball season. Performs a sister act to and from school. Latin major at P. C. W. MISS FRANCES WITT—clever costumer. Successfully maintains cafeteria. Taltented dietician. Prepares housewives of tomorrow. Veritable Emily Post. Graduate of Hood. MISS MARY WYMAN—entirely individual. Incessant activity. Musical, helped to produce operetta. Teaches Latin and English and artistically mixes the two. Graduate of the Uni- versity of Vermont.