Seven New Teachers Assigned To Shafter High For 1955
Dr. Grant Jensen announces the Shafter High staff for the coming year includes seven new teachers. Tom B. Bushey from Los Angeles will teach boys physical education. Marlene Rita Hoffman from St. Paul will teach English social studies and drama. Rose Marie Katz from Wentworth Missouri will teach English and Spanish. Selma E. March from Wasco will teach physical education. Tom C. from Bisbee will teach art and metal shop mechanical drawing and math. Carl D. Richards from Berkeley will teach English and public speaking.
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Shafter High School
Grant Jensen
Bushey
Tom B
Los Angeles
Glendale Junior College
Occidental College
Hoffman
Marlene Rita Miss
St. Paul
Minn
University of Minnesota
Katz
Rose Marie Miss
Wentworth
Missouri
Southwest Missouri State College
University of Wisconsin
Bonne Terre
West Junior High
Alton
Tinois
March
Selma E
Wasco
P. E. Occidental College
Tom C
New Mexico
New Custodian At Maple School
Jake Kliewer, a Shafter resident, is hired by the Maple school board to fill the vacancy after Henry Penner resignation. He will serve as bus driver and assistant custodian, move into the school caretakers home with his wife and three daughters, and rent his Orange Avenue residence. The Penner family departs for Glendora where Henry joins the high school custodian staff. Mr and Mrs Sandy Sanderson took a 10 day fishing trip to Fort Bragg.
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Jake Kliewer
Shafter
Maple School Board of Trustees
Henry Penner
Orange Avenue Hom
Penner
Glendora
Sandy Sanderson
Jack Avenue
Fort Bragg
John Brown Wins Naval Reserve Scholarship at Stanford
John H. Brown, 1955 Shafter High School graduate, earned a Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps scholarship at Stanford University. He was among 30,000 students who took the Navy College Aptitude Test last December and was chosen by the State Selection Committee for a NROTC appointment. Brown will be commissioned as either a naval ensign or Marine Corps second lieutenant after college. He is son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Brown and is currently in Europe on a trip through Spain and southern France before starting Stanford in September.
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Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Stanford University
John H. Brown
Shafter High School
Grant W. Jensen
Brown
NROTC
Regular Navy
Marine Corps
Ed Brown
Europe
Spain
France
Stanford
SHS Adds Three Courses In Music And Industrial Arts
Shafter High School announces three new courses for the year. The music department will offer a music appreciation class and convert the a cappella chorus into a course taught by Evelyn Micheletti. Industrial arts adds a general auto course under Ed Schacht.
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Shafter High School
Kenneth Fansbender
Evelyn Micheletti
Industrial Arts
Ed Schacht
Mrs Hale Visits Will Rogers Shrine Colorado
A first person reflection from Mrs Hale atop the Will Rogers Shrine tower in Colorado describes awe at the views and the living dead message from the breeze. The narrative blends natural beauty, photographs of the era’s performers, and mourning for Will Rogers with scenes of the tower, the surrounding landscape, and the distant Arctic reference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Hale
Will Rogers
Columbine
Wil Rogers
Pvt. Steelman At German Base With Fourth Infantry Division
Private Thad H. Steelman and wife Dottie reside on Route 1 Shafter with his parents Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Steelman. He has arrived in Germany and serves as a rifleman in Company L of the 12th Regiment, part of the Ivy division under the U S Seventh Army. He entered the Army in October 1954 and trained at Fort Ord California.
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Thad H. Steelman
Dottie
T. D. Steelman
Route
Shafter
Germany
Fourth Infantry Division
Ivy” Division
U. S. Seventh Army
Steelman
Army
Fort Ord
Calif
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Jeanette Wheeler
Robert Gates
Miss Wheeler
Augsburg
U. S. Army
Gates
Africa
Near East
Ford Foundation
Shafter High
Maple School
John Brown
Naval Reserve
SHS
Church of Christ Shafter, Calif
John E. Crosslin
Colorado
America
Jabor
Sambles
Arctic Girele
Capeways Sele
Safeway
Wilson’s
RATH
Somerset
Bologna
Cap LA Oe
Metroselicious
Ackers
Is' Me
Lake County Pearl
BEE “Best” Beer
Eastside Beer
Cragmont Beverages
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