Hales Franciscan High School - Spartan Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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it we .al ,L st, H- it in is Fr. Melchior Toczek explained to us the use of percentages in chemical mixtures. With the continued development of the scientific fields of today and the advances resulting from in- dustrial and governmental pressures, Hales placed an important emphasis on the scientific courses available to us. Both general science for the freshman and biology for the sophomore were required courses of study. As we became more sophisticated and more prepared, we could choose to continue our study in science by taking chemistry or physics-possibly both. Mr. Pliska taught us the general principles of science when we were freshmen. Fr. Terry enlightened us of his advanced knowledge in dissecting a rodent. Fr. Melchior has yet to forget our breaking his self-made solar battery. And, when we had him in chemistry the next year, our cook-book reciped experiments rarely met expectations. Mr. David Pliska returned the results of one of our first general science examinations. -- fs- sa CIE CE

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The path to leadership began as we stepped through these halls to find behind each door a vast resource of learnable material to enlighten us, stimulate us, develop us. Had we the opportunity to peer through the windows of each door, we would have found a devoted leader guiding his class to higher academic achievements. This man, the man behind each door, enabled us to gain from his versatile knowledge and experiences a standard which we shall set for the world. Past the door and in the class we were sometimes duped by the instructed material we were to have read. Here we sat engulfed by the meaningfulness of each statement our instructor made and often encouraged as we answered an inquisitive question. Yes, it was down these halls, inside the doors, where our minds were guided toward leadership with an intellectual approach in a well disciplined manner. After the demolition of St. Xavier College and Academy, the site at Forty- Y '-K l ninth and Cottage Grove took on a new look. An upsurge of construction began and, as an end result, Hales Franciscan High School stood proudly awaiting its opening enrollment of approximately 290 students. The finished school was the con- quest of almost ten years of discussion, planning, and building. Q The new school received the incoming students. Almost all were from Corpus Christi High School which closed down completely. The new Freshman class was the Hrst influence on Hales Franciscan insofar as this class, our first graduating class, would be the actual tradition builders of the school. H With the passing of time the new look of Hales gave into tradition. Each year an increasing number of students enrolled to help the tradition-pacing class of 1966, the Hrst graduating class of all-Hales students. Along with the increased number of students a more diversified course of study was oliered and additional faculty members were added to cope with the continued growth. Now we look back at the joint efforts of the Sacred Heart Province of Franciscan Fathers and the Archdiocese of Chicago to review the impact of their educational ideal. We look back and End an everlasting impression of academic and spiritual growth found in each graduating student. This impression has been carried into the personal lives of the graduates at home, on the job, in the community, and in the world.

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Willie Evans and Bruce Bradley were highly encouraged by Fr. Terry Niebrugge to com- plete their experiment in the dissection of a rat. Many of us had the traditional problem of biology before Lunch. Biology is a branch of knowledge that deals with living organisms and life processes. Our studies of biology enabled us to observe the fundamental basis of being-life itself. From the smallest form of life, the amoeba, to the most complexed form of mammal we observed its life process. Chemistry' enabled us to break- down these living organisms into structure, composition, and properties of elementary liquid, solid, and gaseous substances. Biology and chemistry together with physics, a study dealing with the phenomena of inanimate matter and motion, constituted the advanced courses of science available to us as students at Hales. i'