Grant Community High School - Trumpeter Yearbook (Fox Lake, IL)

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related to certaun tasks of adolescence dururug the peruod of hugh school educatuon cultures but they take partucular culture and un each hugh school envuronment The realuzatuon of these tasks requured the aud of the modern school both durung the school dav and to some extent flurung uutof school hours The school must thereto e serve Os a communutv center a well as an un s tutuon vvhu h er lossroom unstructuon t us for thu reason that the mo lern huoh school must provude facu s or musc s altt un u vudual and group sports recreatuonal readung and th cultuvatuon of spccual unterests extracurrucular actuvutue and ocuau actuvutues ln order to encourage and to pr vude for partucupatuon un actuvutues such a these lust mentuoned the school must have a well s o ked luhrarv and adequate undoor gymnasuum for rntramural and ur' terschcla tuc game and spcrt a fueld for outdoor und u and r u sports on au utoruum r must cutals dramatu performances one puplu meetung ana a school puanned to encourage the development ot The tasks are common to all partucular forms un each the vooth a vvnrthv members of dem cratuc ocuetv ne 'est unte preters of the school t the cutuzenr should be the vouth who have graduated and are now loo ed upon Os members of the school austruct satusfued customers thev must recognuze theur ohluaatuon to the school whuch has helped t nurture. them hv re ectung un theur adult lufe the uleals and values f whuch the school has stood lf the cutuzens of Grant Communutv l-lugh School Du truct desure the school to become a center of com munutv lufe thev must not shackle the school wuth re structed faculutue and personnel An adequate plant must he provuded whuch vvull enable the school to cultu vate the purpose of educatuon prevuouslv duscussed ana tc serve a center of communutv a tuvutue and group unterests when school us not un sessuon The accom pllshment of these servuces requures plant faculutues such as lubrary gymnasuum audutoruum and cafeterua addutuon to suutable classrooms To the extent that these faculutues are Inadequate or not provuded un a hugh chool plant to that extent the school us handucapped un tne servuces ut us expected to render to the students and t the Jrnmunutv r rn vvhat ha n sauc ts oult e ce tha ,ordless at the out ome of the detachment of Rcdnd l. l- Dustrct orant cornmunutv l-lugh school ha a umportant rule un the development of the area contaunen vvuthun ut boundarues The Fox Lake lnalesude vullage guves promu e of levelopung unto a suzable communutv vvuth the characterustucs essentual to communutv luvung F- good hugh school pant essentual to the desurable aevelopment of the area and wrll contrubute more t gr vvth than ant, other sungle fac or The survey staff theref re stranglv recommends l that the Board of Educatuon formulate wtthout UG ong term plan of plant development for the hugh school oased on the educatuonal and socual needs of the students and the supportung area Z that the hoarc seek to fullv unform the utuzens of the dustruct regard ng uts plans and 3 that a referendum be presented t the people of the dustruct as soon as consudered feasulnle for the votung of bonds t provude the plant faculutue needed Actung upon the recommendatuons of the Commuttee cr Fueld bervuces the Board of Educatuon of Grant Com munutv Hugh School submutted to tne publuc the refer endum vvhuch was accepted on October 24 l953 l-uerevvuth us guven the archutects sketch of the pro posed plant whuch fulfulls the requurements set up lov the 'Xlorth Central Assocuatuon of Secondarv Schools ana tne recornrnendatuons of the Connmuttee on Fueld Se v 'vu , on ' ' u , u ' , In 1 ' F f fr j T ' r f 3 ' .- T C' , tl c Aff s C ' ' X l K s K . A , , uw. r o 's hee i u h lp l ar t re- J A ' u tue f 1 , art, phvrucal and he P etlucato , ntl- L r C r ,, w N f' 'T V' , K X I e .4 si. I , u 1 5 fl ,s L s t A l M gl , ' s , :, F 2 ' ' r gt- 5 ' ' H V - T . . . A 4 u E Q , K D I r -ff c ' V ' ' K ,V - . ' ' . l ts ' ' , s s .u s, . .,, s so ,eo N C vud al u g 3 p r 3 d fc 'c re- 'll M ' ' l ' 1 c , . c 5 u , u ' f ' 3 er: s F c c scholarlv pursuuts, vvhuch make for the development of I W J ' + s ' ' c a o s . . Nt U ', ' . A J . 4 T' 1 ' r ' uc 9 . v Z ' ' Q T. ' u A 1 X 4 ,V C ' . k Q r 'r . As 1- 5 ' O 4 7 T Q 1 Q r o ' s fl , Q ' ' or 1- , ,SA W f I V I i ' r Q I A - A , . f u I 1 4 . ' , 4 u ' e Q , N u ' , . 'V l , ' ' u 4 - 5 C , M ' Q 5 f - ' , , r :ces Lew 1 Q ' ' A ff'fm,.,.W , , -. li. i -1 . ., F, . .c ' I Q . , ,lr N uw 1- a y

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Reavis Report DR. WILLIAM C. REAVIS Chairman of the Committee on Field Services Authorized by the Board of Education of Grant Come munity High School District, a systematic survey was made to aid in the solution of the problem of over population in the present school. Dr. William C. Reavis, whose official capacity is chairman of the Committee on Field Services, directed the survey. His findings were published in the hope that the communities con- cerned with the immediate problem would take an active part in its solution. The capacity of the present school building is approximately three hundred stu' dents, but it houses an enrollment of five hundred seventyefive. To accommodate this overload a double shift schedule was adopted. The action of the Board of Education for expanding the present school plant was suspended awaiting the outcome af a petition of detachment of the Round Lake area from the Grant high school district. Since the survey was made Round Lake has withdrawn from the Grant high school district and has passed its own refer- endum for school building and facilities. The with- drawal of Round Lake, however, does not alter the fact that the present plant at Grant requires much renova- tion and remodeling to accommodate the growing popuf lation. Dr. Reavis noted at the time of the detachment that a unity achieved through strong common interests and aspirations should have been the goal of the Fox Lake-Round Lake communities. This could be ac- ro e Seventy-six SURVEY STAFF William C. Reavis, Chairman of the Committee cn Field Services: Dept, of Education of University of Chicago, Director of Survey. Ralph W. Tyler, Professor of Education and Dean of Division of Social Sciences, University of Chicago. Maurice F, Seay, Professor of Educational Administra- tion and Chairman of Department of Education. Maurice L. Hartung, Assoc. Professor of Education and Editor of SCHOOL REVIEW, University of Chicago. Robert C. Woellner, Assoc. Professor of Education and Executive Secretary of Board of Vocational Guide ance and Placement, University of Chicago, Edgar Friedenberg, Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, University of Chicago. ASSISTANTS Carl Tjerandsen Lvnn Shufelt Margaret Dudley Nathaniel Criopens James Crimi William Hicklin Frank Peters Lawrence Fisher Norman Penland complished through strong school interests, and patron- izing better educational programs. The problem of Grant Community high school district continues to be one of serving the youth of the area in o much broader wav than instruction offered in classrooms during the school day. Society, says Dr. Reavis, cannot discharge its responsibility to its youth as simply as it has done in the past. More and more it must depend upon the school as an institution to deal systematically with the problem of education of young people for community living. Not only must adequate school facilities oe provided for the task, but teachers and parents must deal with young people sym- pathetically and understandinglyf' One of the problems which faces youth today is that of taking on the knowledge, skill, and understanding that will make possible a successful adiustment to the life of the social order of which young people find themselves a part. The complexity of the problem of growing up can be appreciated if one considers the number of choices an individual is required to make during the process. ln no society is it possible for a youth to choose his family, his family's social and eco- nomic position, or his race. ln very few social orders does a youth choose his religion today. But in Ameri- can society the youth, as part of the process of grow- ing up, is privileged to select his life work, his friends, his mate, and his philosophy of life. These choices are

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