Freeport High School - Polaris Yearbook (Freeport, IL)

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MCPHAII. CDMPLETES THIRD YEAR superinfendenf of schools As superinTendenT oT schools Tormerly Trom Ames, Iowa, Mr. Harry Mcphail has compleTed his Third year oT service To our schools. Being a Tormer class- room Teacher, elemenTary school principal, and a coach, Mr. McPhaiI is baclced by 27 years oT ex- perience. GvraduaTing as presidenT OT class Trom Balmer Uni- versiTy in l932, he received his B.S. degree in busi- ness adminisTraTion and a minor in educaTion. Always willing and never Too busy To meeT a sTudenT is our SuperinTendenT OT Schools. SuperinTendenT oT Schools Harry Mclnhail. BOARD PLANS IMPROVEMENTS, ADDITIONS FOR '58-'59 The Board OT EducaTion, under The direcTion oT Lloyd Giessel, presidenT, has planned To Talce on improvemenTs and addiTions To The schools oT The I45Th disTricT. This year's plans included a big curriculum survey direcTed by The UniversiTy oT Illinois' Field Service Division, which involves ioinT sTudy by ciTizen and TaculTy members oT our educaTion program. The purpose is To deTermine goals and obiecTives and how To plan sTudy programs To reach These goals. This survey is To be compleTed by June oT I958. school board To ease a criTical shorTage oT.elemenTary class- rooms, The school board proposed a 5700.000 bond issue To Tinance The consTrucTion oT a new elemenTary school in NorThwesT FreeporT and To pay Tor The renovaTion oT The FirsT Ward school. Also on This lisT which was puT TorTh and passed by ciTy voTers, was The necessiTy To avoid double sessions in classes and To provide improved TaciliTies Tor rural children of The disTricT. lvlosl' OT These improvernenTs and building pro- grams will go inTo eTTecT This summer. Members of The School Board: RoberT RemingTon, John WhiTon, Ted CarpenTer, Harry McPhaiI, Lloyd Giessel, Dan HirTle, Charles FursT, Don Jepsen, Earl Boyer. Y' f

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Mr. MeTTelka goes rve' a Tew iTerns w?Th his secreTary, Mrs. Paf Conler. Eleven sTudenT workers assisTed Miss KaTe Bicanich and her secreTary, Mrs. Laura EnsTrom, in The library. Their eligi- biliTy Tor This work is based on scholar- ship, ciTizenship and general characTer. Under The supervision oT Miss Bicanich, They perTorm such Tasks as desk work, processing new books, circulaTion, Tiling caTaIog cards, obTaining magazines, and checking in library mail. They help To keep The library running smooThIy. Back among The magazines in The library annex we Tcund Miss Kafe Bicanich working long hows wiTh her secreTary Mrs. Laura EnsTrcm. SERVICES PROVIDE LEARNING AdulT EducaTion is noT a new program To FreeporT. For many years, adulTs Trom This area have had The opporTuniTy To enjoy This inviTaTion To learning. During The I957-58 school year abouT ISOO people enrolled in The nighT school. There were 59 varied courses dealing wiTh everyThing Trom geTTing college crediT To using your leisure Time creaTively. Classes, which were held in The Junior High School, and in The IndusTriaI ArTs building aT Senior T-Iigh School, ran Tor periods OT Tour To Ten weeks. NorberT J. MeTTelka, direcTor, and Mrs, James ConTer, regisTrar, worked all year keeping Things running smooThIy. 1 Iflllll ,. 4 STudenT library workers are, Trorn I. To r.: Sally NorTon, Karen Jones, Corrine Ryan, Carolyn Cramer, Darlene Kasch, Carol Donnely Rcsernarie Sb eiT IT Mary BeTh Wilson, Sandra I-Iayner, Janice Ascher, and Judy Snyder. Helping sTudenTs use The library To iTs TullesT exTenT is whaT Miss KaTe Bicanich likes mosT abouT her job as librarian. She also seIecTs and orders books and seTs up The inTeresTing displays. She seIecTs beTween 750 and 800 books To be added each year To The book sTacks and The subscripTion lisT numbers near 70. This year Miss Bicanich had an assisTanT, Mrs. Laura EnsTrom, who served as her secreTary. Mrs. EnsTrom did a greaT deal OT Typing and Tiling. I 5