Maine East High School - Lens Yearbook (Park Ridge, IL)

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Roy Howarth Department Chairman Rollin Aleshire Carolyn Calhoun Patricia Collins Richard DeRoo Lynn Dieter Student Council Robert Dixon Helen Dobbins Robert Dollaske Ouroboros Varsity Soccer Clark Duncan James Farrell Ski Club Gail Golman Lens . . Paul Healy Heidi Hutson Pioneer, Quill and Scroll Charles Kessler Sophomore Soccer Leona Laouras Although still in its experimental stages, the elective program will be continued next year. According to enrollment, the most popular courses of the program were Horror and Suspense, Teen-Ager in Literature and Film Study. New Courses added for next year are: Faces of Evil and Read,'Think and Write. ln addition to courses dealing with contem- porary literature, courses on the classics are still available. Changes were seen in the faculty this year. Leona Laouras and Gail Golman joined the departmentg Carolyn Calhoun and Laurie Merel replaced teachers on leave of absence. Left: Mr. DeRoo works with freshman students in English IL. S -NS N15 X65 ,GX sewnni' in

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V I xi? it 7 Joseph Pawlowski lfll ff - H Department Chazrman Terry Beckwith I 1 ' aj fflgj 4 , Fresh-Soph Gymnastics ' In V Air A gg Circus Club I -L Bruce Brothers Gerald Fischer Frosh-Soph Baseball John Sebastian James Witmer rivers' Ed. Conserves Energ In keeping with the present energy-saving measures, the Drivers' Ed, department used automobiles this year which gained three to four more miles per gallon than last year's model. Students were again prepared for the road by the Phase 3 program. In the Drivers' Ed. program, which is broken into a six-day cycle, students get valuable experience and variety by spending time in class, simulator and car. Left: Drivers' Ed. students have simulator once every six days to get the feeling of driving without actually moving a vehicle. Above: Six hours of behind-the-wheel experience is required before a student can acquire his blue slip. Instructor Mr. Fischer supervises in a duel-controlled car.

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ew English Courses Added Royal Small 1927-1974 Richard LeFort NHS Richard Luckritz Dolores McCabe Laurie Merel Betty Press Ronald Self Frosh Cross Country Varsity Track Kenneth Stanley Frederick Swinnerton y Y l l 2 James Valenti Barbara Witkiewicz 'W' Martin Woerter wa: '-' ' 4 Soph Soccer A Question, Mr. Small Did the flow of verse And the harmony of rhyme Come to your mind As Death clamped His steel grip upon your heart? Was the subtle beauty of a drift of apple blossoms Upon your thoughts As your brain pleaded For a rush of Life-Blood? Had you time to ponder The philosophies of dying As your life slid quickly Through your hands? After all the thought, Learning and emotion, Were you any closer To realizing The exquisite link between The simplicity of Life And the simplicity of Death? Is that link all That we consider it to be? Or is it not? Louis Pissios