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

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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

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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 Expansion Cont. a new wing containing a modern cafeteria and equipment for wood shop, metal shop, and drawing. These new developments caine as a fulfillment of a necessity for more skilled workers and trained mechanics in the outside world. Leyden is now better prepared to serve and lead its students into an honest workers path of endeavor. There are. beside those already mentioned, other new branches added to the curriculum: Speech and Consumer Science. A new Club Program has also been initiated to afford a diversion in amusements for every student. In this you will find clubs of dramatics, cooking for boys, shop for girls, jitterbug dancing, radio, and even chess. We Leydenites still have the same spirit of loyalty that was imbedded in 1921. With all our powers we strive to understand more fully the sportsmanship needed in athletics; the judgment needed in student government: and the receptiveness necessary to broaden education. We look forward and upward for the future of Leyden, for its natural trend must ever be outlying. Our enlivened desires reach farther to see our school bigger and better than ever. We want to see, along with this growth in material environment, an increase in universal appreciation of true co-operation, companionship, and education. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING OF LEYDEN APPROVED RY NOTE APRIL 19. 1911 Present Huilwlin«r New Classroom Section New Gymnasium