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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It's here! All our gay jokes about t'Al- catraz Maine sound pretty hollow and thin now that we are treading the halls for the last time. Inwardly, we reluctantly face the approaching change from just high school kids to men and women fighting a war. Clustering around in little groups, we burst Senior class oflicers and sponsors look happy about the year's accomplishments. Top row: Mr. Lyle Brown, co-sponsorg Rita Stateler, secretary: Art Anderson, vice-pres- ident. Bottom row: Dick Funk, presidentg Alice Larson, treasurerg Miss Edna John- son, co-sponsor. into laughter over each new bit of strained humor on our leaving the workhouse But, though it will be hard to leave Maine and friends we may never see again, we can really be proud of OUR record. And so, having made our notch in this doorway to life, we offer a grateful S'long. Seniors in the News . Barbara Behlke, voted lVlaine's best girl citizen by students and faculty, accepts the D.A.R. award from Mrs. G. E. Harbart of the Park Ridge chapter. Norman Olson, president of both state and district associations of student councils, is shown acting as master of ceremonies at the C-54 dedication. President John Burgeson of the National Honor Society receives the new Minute Man flag from Commander Kuhn of the Park Ridge American Legion post.