Withrow High School - Withrow Annual Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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'1 E i OUR PRINCIPAL, A COMBINATION OF DIGNITY AND HUMOR - - - MR. AYER ER: u S .7 ' . N'In'lu'lr$'I'I$IyIIu'I$I

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Perspective comes not only from within. Every person, every experience in our lives changes and colors our interpre tation of life. Though truth is always with us, we could spend a lifetime on the wrong track without the example and advice of those more experienced than we to show us the way. In a high school, this function is performed by the faculty. In school, if nowhere else, the student sees adults after whose lives he can wisely pattern his own-mthe adminis- tration, counselors, librarians, and secre- taries fulfilling their duties as responsible adults, doing their part to keep order in a highly complex world. The faculty member having the greatest personal contact with the students and therefore the greatest responsibility for their de- velopment is the teacher. Rewarded with notoriously low salaries, but immeasur- able satisfaction, these human dynamos have a basic task in our society-thot of preparing young people to assume their roles as useful citizens. This they oc- complish by providing their students with a background of factual information to equip them for specific competence in their chosen work or area oi- study in college, supplemented with the intel- lectual and moral insight so necessary for true perspective. ERSPECTIVE 25 ON FACULTY

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HIS MR. WILLIAM MCELHANEY BUSY ASSISTANTS MISS VIOLET BALASTRA MR. HAROLD BUXTON Our administrators are capable leaders and people of diverse interests as well. First, let us meet Mr. Ayer, our principal. Having lived near Long Island Sound most of his life, Mrt Ayer hos Cl natural en- thusiasm for swimming, which helps to fill his leisure time along with his interest in relics and bottle sites of the Civil War. Miss Bofostra, our new assistant principal, is a country girl at heart. Commuting to Withrow from her four-acre form in Kentucky, she also manages to watercolor, con vegetables, and collect and sell antiques in her limited spare time. An important factor in the life of Mr. Buxton, assistant junior high principal, is his family of four little Buxtons, A Withrow graduate himself, he has an intense interest in scholastic and athletic activi- ties of the school. The hobbies of Mr. McElhcmey, Junior Tigertown's other assistant principal, are centered in sports, mainly around number nine irons and holeS-in-one. His roots firmly planted in Cin- cinnati, Mr. Mac was graduated from Walnut Hills High Schooi and later served his country as a navy pilot for three years. Knowledge of the lives, backgrounds and out-of-school activities of our ad- ministrators helps us to be more appreciative of the admirable job they are doing here at Withrow. 27