Neponset High School - Zephyr Yearbook (Neponset, IL)

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--------THE ZEPHYR SCHOOL POLICIES Our school day lasts from 8:57 A.M. until 3:27 P.M. There are eight class per- iods in a day with each of them being forty minutes long. We have a forty min- ute noon hour. Labor Day, Armistice Day, Good Fri- day, and Lincoln's Birthday are the holi- days that we observe. For Thanksgiving we have two days off and for Christmas we generally have twelve days. When the teachers go to institute, we have two more days off. The institutes are held at LaSalle on the second Friday in October and at Princeton on the second Friday in February. Each class is responsible for one school party during the year. The parties start at 7:30 P.M. and end at 10:30 P.M. The freshmen initiation is the first party of the year and is sponsored by the sophomores. After the freshmen recov- er for a month or so, they are hosts for the Valentine Party. The Christmas Party is sponsored by the senior Class. The juniors are responsible for the St. Patrick's Party in March and also the Junior-Senior Banquet and Prom. Each class has to earn money for their activities. The juniors are privileged with taking care of the concessions at all sports events and they also sell candy at noon in the study hall. They have this privilege so they can earn money to sponsor the Junior-Senior Prom. During the year some people are late for class or get sent out for different reasons. It is not exactly a simple prob- lem to get back into class. You must go to the office and have a written excuse from your parents to give to Mr. Ammon and he okays it. Before graduating, each student is re- quired to have sixteen credits. Four of them must be English, two science, one American history and one mathematics. Everybody must take physical educa- tion. In the homemaking and agricul- ture departments, the students must have a home project of some kind. These classes last for two forty minute periods. At the beginning of the school year textbooks are rented to all students and returned at the end of the school year. Fines are imposed if books are damaged in any way. Magazines and newspapers are kept on the rack in the study hall. Books may be checked out of the library by the Eng- lish teacher. When a book is overdue, a fine must be paid. Each spring Miss Morton, the county nurse, gives TB tests. If a student proves positive, he is required to have an x-ray. This person usually is carrying the germ in his body but doesn't have TB. We have s p e a k e r s from nursing schools, vocational schools, m i l i t a r y schools, etc., who put on programs oc- casionally. This page sponsored by Ralph Stablcr, Agent, Moews Seed Corn Co., Neponset, Illinois Ai