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

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CCUPWARD BCU 'D 4' ' lllifutmllifi Dave Brown and .lim Williams QLD boarded Hales' bus with Youth Corps workers and parents for a summer at Northern Illinois. A l5700,000 program to provide college experience to 380 high school students from disadvantaged communities played an important part in the lives of 21 of us near the end of the school year. We were selected for the Up- ward Bound program in the Chicago area. Upward Bound was intended to bridge the gap that existed be- tween high school youngsters who come from culturally and educationally deprived environments and the high pressure problems of modern university life. Potential toward college and satisfactory grades were the basis of selection. In the summer of 1966 eleven attended Northern Illinois University, four went to Loyola University, and six to Roosevelt University. During the seven or more weeks we spent on campus, we took part in cultural enrichment programs. Special teachers were on hand to help us over- come individual academic difficulties. We were proud to be the First students selected to represent Hales Franciscan! -lim Compton got an assist from .lim Knight as they stowed their gear for an eight-week stay at Northern. t Universities 4 UL 1 .-Q! I' 5 .7 J -Jai fi

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. . . From Manual Labor to Teaoher's Aids Payday and off to the business office to put part of the check toward tuition. One sign of achieving manhood is the ability to perform hard work. Some Fifty of us this year got a chance to prove our reliability on the job. Under the govern- ment's help and supervision, we worked under Brother Aquinas and other personnel at Hales to help our families and ourselves. Whether it was inside or outside work, it was a task which had to be completed. We earned the money we made. But more than the salary, we began to learn content- ment with an assignment and a deep satis- faction that we accomplished something worthwhile. For some of us it meant new musclesg for others dishpan hands. But we making our own way-something we had never done before. It was a big step toward man- hood. 1. x - x imiiw . 'll sexier ss., , in mil . - Q frm. 1 ,i ,. - i . v JA ,Q- 41 Brother Aquinas, coordinator of Hales' Anti-poverty Program, presented awards to deserving workers ata special Youth Corps banquet.

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. . . at Hales During the summer of 1965, we couldnlt find Fr. Mertin or Fr. Evan very easily. If we wanted either of them, we'd have to knock on the walls. They were busy snaking thousands of feet of coaxial cable through the building for Hales' new master antena system. Every classroom became capable of television reception from both local commercial and educational stations and from the far distant Airborne Television CMPATD of Purdue University. The new television system began to open the world to us in the form of new teachers and new techniques. We intend to use our window on the world more and more to broaden our outlook on our city, our country, and the world. Part of the electronic gear that drove Hales' master antenna system. Even the shop building a block away was connected to the main building by underground cable. After a sprint up the tower, Fr. Mertin checked airborne television for signal strength on one of our new mobile classroom receivers. rt! J l l l. t l Fr. Mertin was often seen making critical adjustments on our gia that picked up the weak signals from a DC-6 Hying 140 miles away. nt M PATI antenna il v T l ' A:-V V '- r '. 1 l X lil!! ?