Downers Grove North High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Downers Grove, IL)

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Swimming at one of the Downers pools is a favorite pastime. Football is not only glamor and excitement under lights; it is also hard, hot practices. 7

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Students Among the many summer jobs available to students is that ot check-out girl. During the summer, D.G.H.S. students were engaged in many activities . . . working out on the swim team, roasting in the sun, laboring at summer jobs, doing odd tasks around home, or just plain loafing. Thus lim- bered up by such healthy activities, vacationers were ready to face the beginning of school and its many problems and rewards. Well, besides tennis there are always badminton, swimming, bowling, boating, fishing, and ping-pong. An entire season of practice brings perfection. 6

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The band, majorettes, cheerleaders and pompon girls help make the football weekend much more than just the game. An essential part of Homecoming is the inspirational glow of the traditional bonfire. Fall excites Freshman registration had its typical aura of mass confusion as the new students battled with locker com- binations and tried to find their classrooms. For the upperclassmen, however, registration was mere repeti- tion, and everyone had fun locating friends whom they had not seen all summer. school spirit So the autumn season set in with piles and piles of renewed homework, exciting football games under lights, the fabulous Homecoming Weekend, and nu- merous club activities. For the freshmen this was an initial period of adjustment, but soon the class of 1965 was an active addition to the student body. Assembly line techniques allow registration to function smoothly.