The White Falcon - 26.08.1966, Blaðsíða 3

WHITE FALCON
Friday, August 26, 1966
Friday, August 26, 1966
WHITE FALCON
470 Students Ouen A.T. Mahan

BACK TO SCHOOL AGAIN was the thought in the minds
of these students as they enter through the doors of a
new Alfred T. Mahan school, which was completed just be-
fore the new semester began on Monday, Aug. 22. (NAVY
PHOTO)

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Mew School ^

Old School |

STANDING EMPTY, this quonset hut will no longer hear
the drop of chalk or the sounds of students learning mu-
sic. This classroom has been made obsolete by the con-
struction of a million dollar Alfred T. Mahan school
which provides more comfortable sourroundings which is
more suitable for study. (NAVY PHOTO)
Alfred T. Mahan School has just finished a complete remodeling job. Before, in the old Quonset Huts, students
were cramped for room. But now with the larger dining hall and rooms, teachers and students alike are able to
go about their duties and studies more comfortably. With the school term beginning, A. T. Mahan finds itself
with 21 teachers and 470 students crowding the halls. The school is a combination elementary and high school.
(NAVY PHOTO)
Summer Vacation Over, Back to School
GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS was a little difficult
after a summer vacation, and both students and teacher
take time to eye the camera prior to getting into the daily
routine of study. (NAVY PHOTO)
It seemed just like yesterday
to approximately 470 station de-
pendents, that the bells rang for
the last time and the summer
activities lay ahead; however the
reality of that flashback disap-
peared as the bells in the Alfred
T. Mahan school rang at 9 a.m.
Monday.

NO SCHOOL COULD FUNCTION without teachers, and
here at the New Alfred T. Mahan school is a collection of
the best qualified and most experienced staff that could
be found anywhere — especially at Keflavik. The staff
includes: First row (left to right) Miss Margret Erickson,
Miss Emily Patch, Miss Virginia Bibinger, Miss Elvis
Odom, Miss Leanna Elder, Miss Dorothy Ladd, Miss
Margaret Ellen Nelson, Mrs. Ruth McDaniel, and School
Principal Miss Gladys Zabilka. Second row (left to right)
Mr. A. E. Reid, Mr. Conrad Hagstrom, Miss Sara Nesta-
val, Miss Susan Schoeneman, Miss Jane Fegely, Miss
Edith Diller, Miss Sue Worley, Mrs. Nancy Fenton, Mr.
James Rail and Mr. Richard Dieterle. (NAVY PHOTO)
Many students had looked for-
ward to the day when they would
be faced with the new academic
challenges of another school year.
Yet others were remembering the
wonderful summer vacation they
had had and dread the thought of
school. But they too followed
their friends into the scholastic
threshold.
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New students attending their
first classes here were greeted by
surroundings somewhat like their
last school. But for the students
who had to attend classes in the
quonset huts with their cold, damp
and drab atmosphere, they were
looking forward to viewing the
new classrooms with pastel colored
walls in hues of green, blues and
yellow greens.
Students were not the only new
additions to the newly filled hall-
ways, 17 teachers walk new paths
through the corridors of A. T.
Mahan.
Among the newcomers is School
Principal, Miss Gladys Zabilka.
Coming from her last assignment
in Bermuda where she spent two
years, Miss Zabilka has been both
principal and teacher. She earned
her BSM from Mt. Vernon Col-
lege and her MSE from Drake
University, both in Iowa. Miss
Zabilka has spent her 17 year ca-
reer in Okinawa, Germany, Phi-
lippines, Bermuda, Cuba and the
Azores.
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Miss Zabilka stated that she
preferred the military schools to
the civilian ones because “The
military children are more dicip-
lined and are more polite. They
know their place in society and
have a more polite environment.”
The rest of the staff includes
in the elementary school: Miss
Virginia Bibinger, Miss Marga-
ret Cornelius, Miss Edith Diller,
Miss Margaret Erickson, Miss
Jane Fagely Miss Elvis Odom,
Miss Emily Patch, Miss Susan
Schoeneman, Miss Margaret Nel-
son, Mrs. Ruth McDaniels, Mrs.
Nancy Fenton and Mr. James
Rail. To the high school goes Miss
Sue Ann Worley, Mr. Richard
Dieterle, Miss Leanna Jo Elder,
Mr. Conrad Hagstrom, Miss Do-
rothy Ladd, Miss Sara Ann Nesta-
val, Mr. Albert Reid, and Miss
Lulu Goode.
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RIGHT THIS WAY says School Principal Miss Gladys
Zabilka, as she leads two students into the new Alfred T.
Mahan school which was completed just before the new
term began. (NAVY PHOTO)
This years curriculum in the
high school includes a schedule of
mainly college preparatory courses
of 28 subjects; however for those
not continuing in school business
and commercial subjects are of-
fered. They include: typing, ac-
counting, and short hand.
The grade school curriculum
consists of the Basic “reading,
writing and arithmetic.”
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This year the staff of the sta-
tion school will be establishing an
educational program to provide
for a wide range of academic in-
terests and skills, and master the
fundamental learning skills for
complete mental development.
With these goals in mind, the
leaders of tomorrow will have a
basis for today.
A WELCOMING ADDRESS was delivered to students at
the new Alfred T. Mahan school by School Principal, Miss
Gladys Zabilka. The school replaces those quonset huts
which were used in past years. (NAVY PHOTO)