Hyde Park High School - Aitchpe Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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va- MRS. DONNA SEIEER Teaches Rus- sian: Sponsors Russian Club: Has BA Trom The UniversiTy oT Michigan: Worlced as caseworlcer in Woodlawn during The summer. MRS. EVA SHULL Chairman oT The MaThemaTics DeparTmenTg Has MS Trom The UniversiTy oT Chicago: Sponsors Senior MaTh Honor. Mrs. ArTa Marshall, Miss Mary Henderson, Mrs. Cornelia CoTTon, Mrs. Wilhelmina Craig, Library STaTT. Ease The Load on Regularly Assigned Teachers T27 wk MR. HENRY SIMMONS Teaches General Shop, DraTT- ing: Has BS Trom Purdue lJniversiTy, MS Trom ll' linois Teachers Collegeg TaughT Driver EducaTion dur- ing The summer. MR. THOMAS STANTSZEWSTU Teaches Geography: Has degrees Trom SouThern lllirois UniversiTy and Chicago Teachers College: Traveled in Trinidad and Tobago during The summer. SGT. MATTHEW STRONG ROTC lnsTrucTor' Sper- sors The Drum and Bugle Corps. MRS. DOROTHY SWARTZ Chairman oT The Home Economics DeparTmenTg Chairman oT Hyde Parlcs social commiTTeeg Has BS Trom llT. MRS. JERRYNE TAYLOR Teaches Special Educa- Tion classes: Supervises Hyde Parlc's VolunTeer Serv- ice Corps: Has ME Trom DePaul UnivorsiTy and BE Trom Chicago Teachers College: Worked in The curriculum deparTmenT during The summer. MRS. ENID TURNER Chairman oT The Foreign Lan- guage DeparTmenT7 Teaches German: Supervises The Language LaboraTory and The Gorman Chibg Has MA Trom Wellesley College. MR. ROBERT WEITZEL Teaches Englishg Has degrees Trom The UniversiTy oT Chicago and RoosevelT Uni- versiTy. MRS. IRENE WORRELL Teaches Biology: Has BS Trom Texas SouThern UniversiTy: ATTendod Wiley Col- lege and RoosevelT UniversiTyq VisiTed CaliTornia during The summer. MRS. EASTER WRIGHT Teaches MaThemaTicsg Has MA Trom lllinois Teachers College plus 36 hours Trom IlTg Worlced Toward docTors degree during The summer.

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Twelve Teacher Aids worked aT Hyde Parlc This year under a new program designed To relieve Teachers oT non-Teaching duTies so ThaT They mighT have more Time Tor insTrucTion and proTessional preparaTion. Throughoul The Chicago Public School sysTem T200 such aids were employed This year. They had To be beTween Zl and 55 years oT age and high school graduaTes. Previous ex- perience in worlcing wiTh children and Two years oT college were desirable gualiTicaTions. The TirsT aid To be hired aT Hyde Park was Mrs. Julia Brundage in early November. ShorTly aTTerward, Mrs. Dora Harris, Miss Ada LoclcharT, Mrs. ETTie Newman and Mrs. Evelyn SmoTherman appeared on The scene. The nexT wave, a weelc laTer, conTained Mrs. BeTTy BaTTles, Mrs. Lorine Spencer, Mrs. Uarda STone and Mrs. CelesTine Veneble. Two more aids, Mrs. Charlena Green and Mrs. Jean ScoTT, were employed in laTe November, and Mr. Wayne Johnson abouT mid-December. Mrs. Green worlced in The library and Mrs. Brundage and Mrs. Newman in The ATTendance OTTice. Mrs. Harris did Tiling Tor The oTTice. Mr. Johnson spenT Three periods a day aT lunch- room duTy and Tour periods as corridor supervisor in The main lobby. The oTher eighl were corridor supervisors sTaTioned aT various posTs abouT The building. T 2- ffff f.'f:.f: f fs' Pass is shown Teacher Aid, Mrs. Evelyn SmoTherrnan by June Turner Library Staff and Newly Appointed Teacher Aids MRS. FRANCES PECK Teaches Girls Physical Educa- Tion: Has MA Trom RoosevelT UniversiTy, BS Trom George Williams College: Supervised playground dur- ing The summer. MR. ANDREW PEREZ Teaches MaThemaTics: Has BS Trom RoosevelT UniversiTy: Traveled To Oregon and Ouebec during The summer. MR. JOSEPH PILAT Chairman OT lnsTrumenTal Music: Teaches sTrings and general music: Supervises The Or- chesTra: Has MM Trom NorThwesTern UniversiTy: TaughT summer school lasT summer. MRS. JUNE PRITCHETT Teaches Girls Physical Edu- caTion: Coaches The Cheerleaders: Has BS Trom De Paul UniversiTy. MR. MARTlN PURVINAS Teaches Physics: Has MS Trom Kaunas UniversiTy in l.iThuania. MR. JEROME RAMSFIELD Teaches Music: DirecTs The A Cappella Choirs and The Boys Chorus: Has an MA Trom NorThwesTern UniversiTy and a BA Trom The American ConservaTory oT Music: Worked aT Hyde Park during The summer. MR. JOSEPH RATHNAU Teaches Woodshop: Has MA Trom The UniversiTy oT Chicago and is working on his PhD There. Did research on The hisTory oT manual Training during The summer. MRS. NlNA ROBINSON Teaches English: Advises The Hydeparker sTaTT: Has MA degree in communica- Tionsi During The summer, visiTed Expo '67 and TaughT summer school. MRS. BARBARA ROGERS Teaches MaThemaTics: As- sisTs in The Program OTTice: l-las degree Trom Chicago STaTe College: Traveled To Miami Beach, Nassau, Iowa and Wisconsin during The summer.

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The mainTenance sTaTT's duTies are diTTiculT enough any year aT a high school The size oT Hyde Park, buT This year The prob- lems were compounded. While classes meT as usual Tor regular school and Tor nighT school, The main building was being guTTed and rebuilT. The audiTorium and iTs adiacenT areas were being Torn aparT and sTrucTurally alTered. OTTen There were gaping spaces in The walls or in The rooT, and such openings made The Taslc oT heaTing The bui'ding much more diTTiculT. STeel worl4, masonry, Tiling, sheeT meTal worli and painTing were going on oTTen simullaneously. ParTicles OT plasTer, cemenT or painT added To The usual amounT oT dirT and debris. Many Times ianiTors had To reclean areas ThaT had been cleaned an hour earlier. The size OT The mainTenance crew remained The same as The year beTore, ThirTy-one men and Three women. Mr. Jess Ginge- rich, engineer-cusTodian, was in over-all charge oT operaTing The building. His righT hand man was Mr. Joseph Derbas, assisTanT engineer, MainTenance men were on duTy, in overlapping shiTTs, Tor TwenTy-Tour hours a day, seven days a weelc. The largesT group worlced Trom 3:30 unTil midnighT wiTh smaller crews on oTher shiTTs. AlThouah ouTside conTracTors were rebuilding The school, Mr. Gingerich had To pay close aTTenTion To The daily acTiviTies oT all The men. iiiciccicc is T' We Engineer-CusTodian, Mr. Jess Gingerich sTudies remodeling plans. Much Extra Work Necessary for Maintenance and Hole in The wall reveals elevaTor which carries concreTe aloTT. AssisTanT engineer, Joseph Derbas and Edward O'Brien check sTeam .M Briclclayer Tosses shovel To companion across Treshly builT wall.