Oak Park and River Forest High School - Tabula Yearbook (Oak Park, IL)

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Dr. Eugene Youngert lAJork . . . During the last sixteen years, since June 16, 1941, Dr. Eugene Youngert has been our Superintendent. Under his direction our school has grown in accomplishment and standing, and all over the country the achievements here have been recognized. Dr. Youngert has worked to enlarge and enrich the curriculum. He has maintained high standards, and he has introduced varied courses to fill individual needs. In several de¬ partments he has established accelerated courses that make college-level work avail¬ able to high school students capable of mas¬ tering it. Dr. Youngert has also given his attention and support to another sort of building. In his sixteen years here, the school plant has been greatly improved. Seniors will remem¬ ber that within the last four years the field- house has been enlarged and remodeled, and the heating plant brought up-to-date. Before that, the entire main building was rewired and the lighting system was reno¬ vated, the front hall and the corridors were modernized, the auditorium was rebuilt and made fire-safe, and many classrooms were improved. The total building program is not yet complete, but Dr. Youngert has worked on fine plans for the future. A third sort of building in which Dr. Youngert has been successful deals with the [a]

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Mr. Gilman Lane With y i?j?recia lion More than any+hinq else a yearbook is a picture book, and for many years at our school Gilman Lane has super¬ vised the pictures for Tabula. Let ' s ask ' Mr. Lane to take a picture of it. Each year for more than thirty years people all over the school have said this, and for all of that time Mr. Lane, and the photography staffs that he has trained, have responded by puttinq on film a record of the events and the organizations and the scenes that make up school life. Mr. Lane, who is a member of the Industrial Arts Department, is a person whose approval means a great deal. If he says that a picture is good, you know that it is good; if he says that a layout needs to be changed, then you know that it needs to be changed. He works with dis¬ crimination and a sure sense of artistic values, and the people who work with him learn from him. It is with real affection and respect that we on staff dedicate this volume of Tabula to Mr. Lane. a [7]

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Dr. Youngert and Miss Nickelson look over the week ' s calendar. . . . Superintendent of Our ScLot faculty. As Superintendent he has recom¬ mended to the Board of Education those people who have come into this school to help maintain our educational standards and attitudes. Through careful selection of these faculty members, Dr. Youngert has helped to build a teachinq staff capable of leader¬ ship in our various departments. As we all know, Dr. Younqert a year ago announced that this year, I 956-57, would be his final year as Superintendent at Oak Park and River Forest High School. We are sin¬ cerely sorry to see him leave. Faculty mem¬ bers and students alike have gone to his office to discuss all sorts of problems, and always they have found a man with a talent for listening—and for separating the essen¬ tial from the non-essential. His penetrating analysis and forward-looking judgment have won him national recognition, but always Dr. Youngert works with individuals as individ¬ uals. Often he helps discover not so much the answer to a problem as the key to the answer so that the actual solution can belong to the individual. This is administra¬ tion of the highest order. All of us are grateful for the experience of working with Dr. Youngert, and we wish him and Mrs. Youngert well in all of their plans for the future. [9]