East High School - Speculum Yearbook (Aurora, IL)

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Soon otter entering Eost's holls we ore drown into the classroom where we tind the toundof tion of our blueprintgthe routine octivities ot our doily closses, lt is here thot mony ot our plons ore begun, where they ore devel' oped from preliminory sketches to tinol drow- ings, ond where mony ore tultilled. Beginning os freshmen, we ore counselled by our porents ond teochers, ond the tirst rough drowings ot our future plons ore tronstormed into detoiled outlines or tour-yecir progroms, From these outlines, os upperclossmen we drow the toint lines of new potterns, our vocotionol plons. Through our closses we ore prepored tor the future, educoted to toce the Public ond meet the demonds ot society, ond troined tor o vo- cotion, whether it is industriol, protessionol, or domestic, By toking o cross-section view ot our clossroom octivities, we tind these gools ot preporotion ond plonning ore the very foun- dotion ot our educotion, ond on this tirm toun- dotion we drow o pottern ond entitle it o blueprint tor tomorrow.

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Dr. John W. Gotes7Superintendent of East side schools forthe past four years, Dr. Gates finds time in his busy lite to participate in many high school activities as well as manage the ten grade schools and the junior and senior high school. Z l 14 . . Aided by Dr, Gates, superintendent of the East side schools, and Mr. Matthews, principal of East l-ligh, the Board of Education continued the four-year building program which was be- gun last year. As the basic plans for the new East High School were completed, the board revealed them to the P.'l'.A. and then to the student body. During the year, the department heads and members of the faculty worked with architects to plan the details ofthe various de- Harold W. Matthews--Principal of East High since l95O, Mr. Matthews supervises the activities of l,5l8 students and 66 faculty members. Despite the extra burden ofthe new school plans, he still has time to add a bit of humor to student activities. 'an partments of the school curriculum. Construc- tion of this building which is to be erected south and east of the Roy E. Davis athletic field on Fifth Avenue is to begin in the spring of l955, and the building is expected to be ready for occupancy by l957. Besides work' ing on the high school plans, the board also completed plans and directed construction of several grade school additions. Dr. Gates, al- though very busy supervising the nine grade Board of Educal'ion7Discussing plans for the new building program and ways to better the school system are Clifton J. Simmons, president, Nicholas A. l-lerrnes, J. A. Furnas, Edna M. Rollins, secretary, Floyd D. Keck, Clifford l. Johnson, l-larry R. Sheagren. Not in picture: Albert K. James, Fred Klebe. 22