East Leyden High School - Eagle Yearbook (Franklin Park, IL)

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Leyden Shops Wood Shops art much enlarged . . better work prevalent . . . four new lat lies . . . variable speed with finger-tip operation . . . sur- facer . . . mortiser . . . roomy, efficient floor plan . . . storage space where wood's clean and accessible . . . new tool and paint rooms and larger shop library. Size? 75 by 100 feet! . . . three glass walls . . . Handy? Definitely. Mechanical Drawing—larger quarters . . . boys humming with enthusiasm . . . the rattle of ffT” squares and drawing boards . . . real training for our future draftsmen! Metal Shop—is brand new” and expanding rapidly to help prepare skilled workers for national defense . . . new tools and more coming . . . metal shaper . . . grinders . . . wierd martian men . flying sparks welders and welding masks all going to training metal workers and mechanics. Industry and Chemistry—an ever closer tie-up. The Future the Buick aircraft engine plant bringing increased enrollment . . . further expansion . . . moving metal shop to wood shop wood going to machine and drawing room . . . drawing in library . . . junior-senior vocational academic courses . . . fresh-soph general shop . . . night school for 100 outsiders . . . will teach machine trades to 50 boys and outsiders probably 24 hour operation. Top—Mr. Hackktt‘s Wood Shop. Left—Mr. Rerucha- Drawing, W oo(l shop close up. Chemistry—Mr. Stark. Right- Welding. I Anver Metals Mr. Tamblingson. 9

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History of Expansion As time seems to pull us on anrl on we struggle to gain a more ideal position in life anil make dreams into realities along the way. The Hoard of Kducation of Leyden High School was born of the times. It rose as the seed of improving education was developed. Those first few who put together their lime and effort to construct a building of learning for this community are the foundation of this high shook In the earlv year of 1924 the era of expansion started. No longer were those two portables behind the grammar school adequate. The Board, active to their responsibilities, aroused public sentiment in favor of a real high school building and, after overcoming many difficulties, they finally succeeded in producing the main branch which was erected in 1926. The Leyden was one of the first Community” high schools in Illinois. It held seventy-eight students and six teachers. The spirit of loyalty in young Leyden was fast growing and the bonds of friendship between magistrate and pupil were tier! around an eager stir for concentrated education. Again, as time pressed on, the Hoard visualized another need for expansion. They realized, then, that a college preparatory course alone was not sufficient. As a result, physical education, industrial arts, home economics and music were added. It was then, too. that they moved the portables along side the building and prefixed the hand room addition, set up a track, baseball diamonds, tennis courts, ami a hockey field. All these gave evidence of a Hoard alive to its obligations for a diversified educational program. We owe much to that first bodv who dedicated their time to Leiden High. • m C Two of those members, Mrs. Ada .1. Dodge and Mr. W. F. C. Mueller have served the Hoard of Education for a term of seventeen years (without monetary compensation) and are this year retiring. It is with a feeling of appreciation and of gratitude for their long, faithful years of service that we watch these pioneers recede. May their earnest work and faith remain with us and guide us on this path of expansion. Today these numerable walls envelop six-hundred and five students and twenty-five teachers. Step h step we climbed! We have just this year added Conti nurd on page ll 8

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li itk m Library i, Irft |, SS, Ihomas. Left Low,; SMMn , K .'l' l’i . u: I . . •■all momlorsoii duly. b ( f f er. Cooking- Miss Lowe. Sewing- MissGi.kw. Latin Miss Heimes. Here you are! You can read anything vou wish; heavy hooks, light hooks, or magazines. You should study, but you can dream the period away, if you don’t get caught! No fooling we have 5500 of even imaginable subject matter and level, and magazines which range from the most technical and scientific to the ver popular ones of pictures and fashion. COOKING ROOM M m-mm-mm. this is where that apple pie odor came from. Here’s where the girls take charge, no boys allowed! Except on (dub days. CLOTHING This may turn out to be a dress, who knows? Careful there don t cut that in too far. LATIN It ma not look like it. but this is supposed to be a Latin class. But. as the saying goes. When in Koine, do as the Konians do. TYPING Ah Ah Ted, you’d better get your wrists up like Katie has hers. MONITORS That's right Millie, show him our blue slip. You can’t get b without it. WE RE NOT As a glim A ONE-SIDED SCHOOL. As a glimpse at ’Classroom Life’ evidenced on these two pages reveals Leyden in the spirit of the better secondary schools of the nation offers wide variation in opportunities in order to train a happy, efficient citizenry. We have an ever increasing number of ’Shop’ courses, broad training in ’Commercial,’ inspirational Home Management, and have maintained and enriched our courses of the ’Cultural and ’College Preparatory’ variety. 1(1