Alton High School - Tatler Yearbook (Alton, IL)

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-N- Marilyn Kolesa serves her fellow students at the Snack Bar which is in charge of Mrs. Cartwright. Miss Sidwell is busy at one of her cafeteria tasks - presiding at the cash register. Heavy, heavy, hangs over the head of Mr. Willis, popular science teacher. Need- less to say, the tray was not dropped! ,L ,v V fi ,f I , 1 1j,'j W0 X .ff if f Al' ff L f JV' v ,y ' 'I lifV.11 , f.ff7g if I ffliw-4fll'il' . 'l M r Zfyfl J 3' W ' l 11,47 .

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To Eat and To Be Gay In the Ca eterza Lunch time finds the high school cafeteria a beehive of activity. Lines of students to the serving tables and groups of students at the tables - all engaged in the very im- portant function of gratifying keen appe- tites - provide plenty of action. But with the well organized kitchen staff and the aid of cafeteria assistants the large group of students are served smoothly and efficiently. The cafeteria likewise becomes a pleasant center for conversation and chatter between bites. is Wx

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ohn Wright points out a defective motor part in his AC'id1llac to Ronnie Bracht. Both boys are students in the class in automobile mechanics To Work In the Shops The most popular courses among the boys in Alton High are those dealing with the vocational and industrial arts, The tedium of an academic class room devoted almost entirely to subject matter is relieved in the industrial education classes. by the opportunity for the boy to do something with his hands. To take an automobile apart and to see what makes it Htickn, to work on metal and Wood projects, and to draw a house plan are interesting phases of the class work. With the opening of the new F. W. Qlin Vocational School next September a more comprehensive course of study will be offered in this field. This program should make Alton outstanding in subject offerings among the schools of lllinois.