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

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5 s. Robbins Mester is lab a science teacher lbj a square dancer lcj a bicycling champ ldj a quick- sewer Cel an ex-AFS student ffl a Peace Corps trainee lgl a farmer fhj all of the above. Give up? H is Mester takes a break to take pictures after a ke ride along the Oregon Coast during the sum- er of '77. Lynn Field, Special Education Janet Fuller, Physical Education Ralph Ganzer, Mathematics Clement Germanier, Industrial Education Jacqueline Gerth, Mathematics Jody Gitelis, Physical Education :N Jean Coerth, Social Studies K, Richard Coodspeed, IXS Science g if 5 Yolanda Graham, Foreign Language . Gail Gregory, Home Economics 'xxx ' N ' 've Traveled Around The World' the correct answer. Teaching biology m'ay be more excit- ing than it seems to be. I enjoy it. I really do, said Ms. Mester. Some days are bad, but . . . She seeks relief on those 'bad' days by performing in a square dancing group called Fascinatin' Singles in Wilmette. She has been square dancing for two years and finds it extremely enjoyable. She also likes bicycling, riding 1,600 miles from Montana to Kansas over the summer. I like sewing, she added. I've sewed ever since I've been in high school. I sew all my clothes and Christmas presents. When she was in high school, she went to Finland over the summer as an AFS student. It was great. I lived with the mayor and his family in a town called Kemi. In the summer, we went sailing and sightseeing. We went on a I I -all JJ , f' nf' -f.- ,Z .-ll, .- X ass. , two-week camping trip through Norway and Sweden and southern Finland. The neat thing was that it was light out all the time. In addition, Ms. Mester was in the Peace Corps for two years. She taught science at a teacher training college. She then traveled among the world by train, boat and foot. When she came back to the states, she went to graduate school. I've always liked animals. When I was young, I lived on a farm. We went hiking in the woods and rode horses and did a lot of work, said Ms. Mester. Ms. Mester is in charge of the 153 Bi- ology course and is the sponsor of AFS club. Ms. Mester's interest in animals started at an early age. Here, at age 10, she sits on a family pony with her brother and sister, fTopJ Ms. Mester was in Western Samoa in 1971. 22 9

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jeff Aaron, Mathematics Russell Ackerman, Social Studies Judith Adams, English Robert Adams, IXS Social Studies Donald Allen, Physical Education Miriam Alpert, Mathematics Ed Baker, lfS Driver Education Leonard Barker, English john Balgenorth, Social Studies Phyllis Beilgard, Business Education Beverly Berzinski, English William Bishoff, Science John Boley, IXS Industrial Education Anita Bullington, Guidance Allen Bulow, Driver Education Dan Burgess, Music Marilyn Busa, Business Education Steven Bushnick, Social Worker Anthony Calabrese, Physical Education Mary Cannon, English Deborah Caras, Foreign Language Gloria Charles, Special Education Rita Chase, English Gail Corbeil, IIS Business Education Mary Frances Crabtree, Foreign Language Hans Dahl, English john Davis, Physical Education Catherine Deans-Barrett, Social Studies Carmen DelGuidice, Business Education john Dietzler, Social Studies Sandra Dumalski, English Nicholas DuPont, English Max Farley, Driver Education Larry Faulkner, Business Education Ron Fearn, Physical Education

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Richard Gregory, Driver Education Lawrence Hammerbacker, Mathematics Ianis Hamel, Home Ec. Kathryn Hansen, IMC Ronald Harris, Science Ted Heiser, English Mary Ann Hills, Foreign Language James Hoagland, History Robert Holmes, Inustrial Education Don Hunter, Industrial Ed. 'No Two People Have The Same Comment About Me' n writing any essay for school, a student must find an angle to capture the reader and keep him interested. Teaching works along the Mr. Allan Ruter has been known by his students to employ unusual, but effective, attention-getting techniques. 230! Faculty same basis. I think teaching is an intimate pro- fession because learning thrives when two people respect and have affection for each other, said Mr. Allan Ruter, an English teacher. I don't just respect my students, I like them. This was the second year at GBS for Mr. Ruter. He teaches three sophomore and two junior English courses. Before that, he was an assistant dean for a year at Lake Forest College. He graduated from Cornell flowal College and got his masters at Northwestern University. He was editor of his college newspaper. In ten years l'll be 34 and l'll prob- ably have a wife and a couple of kids. My affection for students may have peaked, said Ruter. When that happens l'll leave teaching and buy a small town newspa- per. Ruter does not only enjoy teaching but also enjoys basketball, playing pipe or- gans, reading F. Scott Fitzgerald and Charles Dickens' books, cooking big meals and England-watching. He plans a trip to there this summer. Describing oneself is often difficult, but Ruter finds no trouble with it. I have a razor-sharp wit that keeps getting sharper, and I'm not dull, said Ruter. I pride myself on the fact that no two peo- ple have the same comment about me. Mr. Ruter also describes himself as a transplanted farm boy. I think the lives are cleaner there lIowaj, said Rute but to be a full person, I must deal wi conflicts, and living in the city tests n ideas. Looking back at his two years at GE Ruter finds advantages and disadva tages to school. I like the students mo than anything else cause they have v and grit, said Ruter. I dislike the trac tion of a distance between students ai teachers. Things I do I'm looked askance from many of my colleages. It's tough being the new kid in a fa ulty of experienced and very knowledg able educators, concludes Ruter. I cal hope to compete with them for expertis but I have something that they dox have - youth. 'i it Mr. Ruter assists two of his sophomore studen with a grammar assignment.