Glenbrook South High School - Etruscan Yearbook (Glenview, IL)

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Health Department maintains curriculum' Physical Education continues electives ost people think health ll is not necessary, be- cause they know every- thing about it already. However, when they take the state-re- quired course, they are sur- prised to find out that they don't know everything about their own personal health, according to Mrs. Janet Rothwell, instruc- tional supervisor of the Health Department. I can think of no more valu- able information that than which concerns how to improve and maintain your own personal health. Without good health, nothing else in life will be as en- joyable, says Rothwell. g The Health Department must maintain a state-mandated cur- riculum, vvhich includes nine units. As a result of this, the Health Department has not found any room for new activi- ties or changes in the curriculum this year, besides obtaining new textbooks. Miss Michelle Harvey is the newest health teacher at Glen- brook South. Before teaching at GBS, Miss Harvey had graduat- ed from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, with a bachelor of arts in community health education and a minor in general science. Afterwards, she became a student teacher at Ev- anston Township High School and then came here. l'm enjoy- ing it here, says Harvey. Being a health teacher, Har- vey knows how very important health is. However, she feels that kids aren't concerned 136fDlwsical Education gl Health enough about their health. We're only aware of health when we're sick. I want to make kids realize health is with them every single day, concluded Harvey. The Physical Education De- partment tries to offer sports that will carry over into the rest of the students' lifetimes. Part of their program is the electives of- fered to sophomores, juniors and seniors. They seem to be working well, says Mr. Don Ra- beor, head of the department. The PE Department has not made any significant changes this year, or in the last three years, for that matter. They're aren't too many changes you can make, said Rabeor. Cross- country skiing, started only last year, had to be cancelled this year due to the lack of snow, which made skiing impossible. A new unit, aerobic conditioning, which mainly involves modern dancing to music, was added to PE offerings. SENIOR MARGARET MELNIS aims at her target during archery class. HEALTH TEACHER NICK Harkovich rewinds a human reproduction filmstrip while he checks his lecture notes. rw.. M V7

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Classes give students background for future ypewriters clicking N computers humming and adding machines to taling. This may sound like an important city office ibut, in actu- ality, it describes, Glenbrook South's business education hall. Y The memory typewriter, the new addition to the department, is more of a computer-typewrit- er than anything else, according to Mrs. Gail Alter, instructional supervisor of Business Educa- tion. The machine is for copying large amount of the same item. The operator types all the cor- rections in the -original draft, then he pushes a button and the process is repeated. Courses in typing, accounting, shorthand, computer program- rm. ALLEN BuLow rides along as s student practices her behind-the-wheel techniques. ming, and consumer education are among those offered to a student at GBS. I feel that the courses we offer and the equip- ment we use to train students on are very up-to-date, and we are doing a very effective job for training entry-level careers, she concluded. Driver Education One of the things a modern American teenager looks for- ward to is getting his driver's li- cense. Before that day arrives, however, he usually takes both classroom tmandatoryl and be- hind the wheel training. In addition to teaching driv- ing, the department, this year, has emphasized other things. Due to rapid increase of gas prices, fuel conservation has tak- en a front seat in the curricu- lum. Also, because of inflation, Glenbrook South found itself with a driver's ed. car shortage in October. A lot of dealers had to drop out of the free-loan pro- gram because the banks that were financing the cars were charging very high interest rates. Eventually, the school found other dealers to supply the cars for them. Mr. Ed Baker, instructional su- pervisor of Driver's Ed., feels that the department is accom- plishing its goal. I think we're doing a good job and turning out students who have good driving techniques. MR. LARRY FAULKNER explains something to junior Mike Lillig during Consumer Ed. class. Business Ed, And Drivers Ed fl

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