Gage Park High School - Icarian Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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s The Gage Park community has an excellent shopping center very close to our school. Naturally our students who live in this community use this shopping district to a great extent. For instance, pupils very frequently shop there during after school hours and on Saturdays. Proprietors of drug stores, hamburger shops, soda fountains, super-markets, and shows are well aware of the many Gage Park students who trade with them. Our school also reflects the thriving community life and co-operative spirit, by community proiects growing out of Sales, and Business Organization, and Clerical Practice classes.

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A successful community is evident from the character and interest of the people who live in it. Gage Park High School is fortunate inasmuch as it is located in an excellent residential district with many community activities. In the years our High School has been functioning, a spirit of co-operation and a bond of appreciation has grown between our students and the community. More and more each year the parents and public realize the important part the students play in molding the communities of tomorrow. Through greater facilities and a better educa- tional program, there has come a closer relationship between our school and the community, as was evident in the unusual attendance at our Open House. Although one of the younger schools in the city, Gage has done much in achieving a high standard scholastically. During the war years we collected newspapers in paper drives, we did our best in striving to cut down on materials vitally needed for war use. More recently our students have been occupying their time in making collections for the Community Fund, Red Cross, and other worthy organizations, as well as publishing the school newspaper, which gives the community a means of becoming interested in the various activities and achievements of our students. Our R.O.T.C. and Band have participated in community parades, such as at the widening and repaving of 51st Street. We have taken part in Youth Week, Clean-Up Week, American Education Week, and Brotherhood Week, as well as Open House. Let us continue to stand as a living monument for a better education and a richer and finer community.

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jnandpofdativn The Gage Park High School community is well served by transportation systems. For instance, on 55th our community is served by the number 6 bus which connects the Chicago Loop to Trumbull Avenue. Many Gage Park students use this bus in going and coming from school. The Chicago Transit Authority serves us with busses on 59th street and California Avenue. Also new streetcars provide frequent and rapid service on Western Avenue. In using this service our students always board in a mannerly fashion and conduct themselves well on these vehicles.