Highland Park High School - Little Giant Yearbook (Highland Park, IL)

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APPLIED ARTS Dept, planning emphasizes job training Home Ec outgrew its niche in the A200'$. Last remodeled in 1 940, with classes of a dozen or less in mind, the facilities proved inadequate for the 450 enrolled in '73. Class size had doubled, with a notable increase in the number of boys taking Home Ec courses, especially Foods. With their classrooms scattered through- out the school, both students and teachers looked forward to the new complex of lab and lecture areas in the E's under construc- tion along with the main auditorium. If guys could take cooking, girls deter- mined to cross the line and learn how to change tires and be the household handy- man. Girl's Home Technology swelled from one class in '69, when the course was initiated, to three in '73. Some girls also opted for Shop, traditionally male terri- tory. Industrial Arts placed heavy emphasis on vocational training and advanced courses continually exposed their students to career opportunities. Applied Arts put the Volunteer Pool to really good use rounding up speakers and arranging field trips. Business Ed also offered traditional course work. Classes included Business and Management, Accounting, Business Law, Stenography and Shorthand. Said Mrs. Hammerberg, Most teachers have had experience in the business world and therefore can give the student a broader background. Having already cut her material, senior Melody Mel- char (for left) learns from Mrs. Young how to tronsfer pattern markings to the material. Putting their tex- tbook knowledge to the test, iuniors Mike Carlson, Rich Kaplan, and Al Piocenxo (above left) dismantle a cat engine to better understand its intricate work- ings. Invading the mole industrial arts world, junior Charlotte Mansur (left) calculates the dimensions of a room for her drafting doss project. 15

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ENGLISH English courses focus on communication arts, options With another year of consolidation after the radical change of the past several years, English curriculum remained essen- tially unchanged this year. At all levels, teachers placed heavy emphasis on the art of communication. Using Gibson's The Miracle Worker as a jumping off place, freshmen experi- mented with wordless modes of communi- cation. They also continued to concentrate on Mythology. Department chairman, Mr. Grunska, commented, The whole educational proc- ess is the learning and unlearning of mythologies. The study of myths enables us to see the myths of our own culture . Sophomores again spent a semester with speech and another with literature. Many sophs requested a full year of speech. As one student said, Speech really helped me communicate. Juniors again had several options, including Search for Self, Social Protest, and Comedy. Seniors switched each quarter choosing from communications, composition, mod- ern and dramatic tragedy, poetry and short stories. The ambitious had AP as a challenge, and budding news hawks took journalism.