Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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i. pacioMS HJingr J Couses Page twenty-eight One thousand and ninety-six students crowded into our Hub when it opened last September. Many new things had been added, but the biggest and most noticeable was the seven-room wing added to the west hall upstairs. Construction of the wing, which cost about $100,000, began in March, 195$. It was hard to keep your mind on clas s when you could hear — and sometimes see — such fascinat¬ ing things going on just around the corner. The work continued all summer and finally ended just the week before school opened last fall with the installation of 144 shiny new lockers.

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Page twenty-seven Miss Sue Claussen joined the staff this year as the school’s first nurse. Hearing tests and tuber¬ culosis patch tests, services which had previously been the responsibility of the county public health nurses, were given in her office. It was to her office that any student who became ill during school hours was sent . . . about 465 such persons came to her with one kind of pain or another. Miss Claussen also started health charts which some day will contain each student’s complete health record from first grade through his senior year. A new assembly system, too, went into effect this year. The policy of assigning seats for assemblies, routine in most large high schools, was initiated here this year. And we noticed an improvement in the programs when junior and senior high school stu¬ dents went to separate programs. Congratulating Pruth McFarland on His wonderful singing program he presented to the student body are Carolyn Irvin and Barbara Marsh.

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The new wing meant more room for both jun¬ ior and senior high. It meant that part of an over¬ crowded sixth grade class could be moved into Room 106 downstairs. During each of the last five years something new has been built in the Crown Point school system. If C.P.H.S. continues to grow in the next ten years as it has been growing, this year-by-year building will continue to accommodate the 2S00 students who will be here in 1966. That could mean a new junior high school for grades seven through nine ... or it could mean a new wing (or several) on the west of the building ... or it could mean that the present building will stretch to join the industrial building. Like Lake County’s Hub our Hub is looking into the future and growing . . . bigger . . . Last spring the second floor addition was a sight of steel beams, piping, con¬ crete blocks, and busy workmen. Page twenty-nine