Maine East High School - Lens Yearbook (Park Ridge, IL)

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Classes . .. They are our preparation for the future . . . Students here at Maine are offered courses in anything from English to electric shop, and clothing to college algera-and they take them. Every fall, a new and more perplexed class of freshmen e'nters, and gradually prepares and progresses through four years until it is ready to go into the world. Some of its members con- tinue their schooling, for which they have received an excellent background, at col- lege, and others use their secretarial or technical courses to get jobs. In normal times, the entire graduating class would go one of these two ways, but now there are also new courses designed to make Maine's boys the best in whichever service they enter. Shown on opposite page, left to right, top to bot- tom: the machine shop, Woodworkers show their skill, a physics class in action, biology students take pride in their plants, social science classes develop global consciousness, Maine boasts a well-equipped library, English students admire their handiwork.

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l 'N Ililfin x gag yr , V ' 'Oli HEALTH SERVICE With the aid of her ever-present thermometer, Miss Hettie Gooch, school nurse, is about to decide whether or not Dolores Rude, fresh- man, is really sick enough to go home. In Classes and Out o !2'T,T :2! 'H-v- warm-on Left to right: Whether scientifically inclined or just plain thirsty, Phyllis Kunisch seems to en- joy looking at the aquarium in the biology room. Resting up after a long afternoon's work are these tillers of Maine's soil, the agriculture students, who help raise most of the vegetables used in the cafeteria on their 60 acre farm.

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