Normal Community High School - Echoes Yearbook (Normal, IL)

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SEATED: H. Detweiler, H. Frifzen, L. Suffer, L. E. Starke. L. Van Gundy, B. Ambrose, H. J. Stoltz. STANDING: C. Ropp, R. Dunn, B. Gildersleeve. Board of Education UNIT DISTRICT NUMBER FIVE The year I949 brought many new changes to the world. Normal Community High School was no exception. This year marked the formation of a new unit school system. Following the practice of many other towns and cities in lllinois, the schools of Carlock, Hudson, Towanda, and Normal were consolidated to form the present district, officially called McLean County Unit District Number Five. Our district is only one of 350 such districts in the state and has a total enrollment of l,85O. District Five operates twelve busses which transport 500 students daily. The first curricular study to be made by the teachers of the new :strict is e imp curriculum. This course of study will serve as the basis of science instruction in our schools during the coming years. Next year another maior subject will be chosen for study until all have been improved. It is hoped that the new experiment in elementary and secondary education will prove to be a beneficial one to students, enabling them to receive more and better training in their particular interests, which will, in time, make them d' ' ' th ' rovement of the science more useful citizens. The students from other high schools who are now attending classes at Normal feel that they are a regular part of the student body and take an active interest in school affairs. L. E. Starke, superintendent of our school system, very clearly expresses the opinion of all concerned with the unit consolidation in these words: I feel that much has been accomplished in such a short time. However, there are many things remaining to be done. lt has been thought best to move rather slowly, to be sure that when changes are made they are for the best. ...saw-V.. 1, . ..

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Principa OPC' C15-z, B. S., M. A., lllinois Wesleyan University, lllinois State Normal University, University ol lllinois. Seniors, as you turn the pages of this Reverie, let us hope it will bring back to you many memories. You have won a place in the hearts of all of us by your high standards of character, personality, and cheerfulness. May your future be filled with continued happiness and success. I also hope that you will not forget us, but come back often. My heartiest congratulations to each and everyone of you. uperinienalenf A. B., M. A., Culver-Stockton, University of Missouri, University ol Chicago. My favorite bit of literature is Bessie Stan- ley's definition of success. This is the kind ol life l wish for each of you. He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has won the respect of intelligent men, the trust of pure women and the love of little children, who has filled his niche and accomplished his task, who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul, who has never lacked appreciation of earths beauty or failed to express it, who always looked for the best in others and gave them the best he had, whose life was an inspiration, whose memory a benedictionf'

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