Glenbrook South High School - Etruscan Yearbook (Glenview, IL)

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Todd Borst helps a friend check out a book. The library provides adequate resources to research necessary school facts. Juniors Nicole Suerth and Jody Stetson, arms loaded with homework and books, patiently await the 4:15 bus. Mr. Kenneth Kartz instructs his science class in air pressure and the reading of barometers from a hall- way display case. 8fOpenmg Progs Do ot Make Doctors , emember that funny part of the ' frog that the teacher dissected in biology class? Or the date that President McKinley took the oath of of- fice? Most students don't remember these and other facts that once were memorized in order to pass a test. And when it comes down to the absolute truth, knowing the author of A Farewell to Arms doesn't make a student better qualified to be a doctor. Why do students put up with learning the excess information? To be honest, they put up with it part- ly because they have to but also because it too, is a way of growing. The realiza- tion comes to most students at the end of four years of high school that all those notes taken in history and all those math tests contributed to a discipline that was important to develop. When a senior's name is called at graduation and he walks up to Dr. Schreiner and is handed his ticket to fi- nally live life the way he wants to, the student realizes that maybe he won't need to know the author of A Farewell to Arms to be a doctor, but his four years of high school with the necessary and excessive facts he learned will make him his own person.

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Although homework is a regular part of a high schooler's routine, keeping up with assignments takes quite a bit of spirit. Lisa Nordgren finishes up a part of last night's homework. ' 9 Ends Decade Cf Spirit ociologists are always fitting dec ades into categories. Roaring twenties, depression thirties, war year forties, rock and roll fifties and re- bellious sixties are eachisynonymouswith a decade that distinguishes it from the others. As the seventies fade away and the eighties come into view, what will the decade that we grew up in be called? The sixties ended with a man landing on the moon. Neil Armstrong, after his historic flight, said The Apollo fspacej program demonstrated how really dedi- cated the American can be after he has accepted a challenge. The entire project team would absolutely not stop working. Everywhere you looked, people were working late at night and across the weekends, usually without pay, as if their life-or, more importantly, the life of their country-depended on it. They be- lieved in their goal, and they knew every man had to give more than his share to make that goal a reality. Hopefully, we can agree as well on other goals and see that kind of American spirit more of- ten. That American Spirit characterized the seventies and those at Glenbrook South felt it. The ability to laugh at our- selves, spur on winning teams and take top honors academically, all character- ized the last year of the seventies. It was our year in the decade of spirit. Yolanda Curry and freshman cheerleader Lisa Watson show their spirit by attending a GBS pep rally and participating in the disco dancing. Open1ngf7

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