New Athens High School - Vespa Yearbook (New Athens, IL)

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Beauty of NACHS As the Sun Rises for Another Day New Athens Community High School —the school we arc all proud to call our own! 1 hough at times we mav complain about our school, we are never really sorry lor the education it has given us. Since the year 1931, when NACI IS was established, it has been the place where many students have spent manv hours, both at work and at play. Our school, like the sun rising steadilv over the horizon, has slowly hut surely made progress. Many shadows have crossed our path, but as the time moves on thev become smaller, just as the shadows which the sun casts. NACHS, steadily growing, became a unit district high school in 1954. The seventh and eighth grades were transferred to this building to form a junior high school. Again on November 5, 1955, the voters and supporters of NACHS made a step in the right direction for better education. Thev brightened the faces of NACHS and her students by approving a proposal for the construction of a new grade school, to be annexed to the present high school building. New features are in store for the high school students, and everyone knows that after the completion of this school we will have a better place to study and a better opportunity to serve our community.

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Readin Riting SCIENCE AND MATH: Courses in science and math arc designed to give the student a keener insight into the physical world. Chemistry, physics, biology, general science, algebra, geometry, and advanced math all help the students to see what a complicated age we live in. Sometimes lield trips, such as the trip to the Science Fair and to Shaw’s Garden, are used to help illustrate these courses. Mr. Robert McCabe, Mr. Walter Loesche, Mr. Don Schriner, and Mr. Walter Price, instructors, are always on hand to help the students achieve the highest degree of understanding in these subjects. VOCATIONAL: For the student who plans to enter into a career immediately after completing high school, the training in the Held he may wish to enter is considerably varied. In our newly completed agriculture, industrial arts, and homemaking classrooms, the student usually has projects which enable him to “sample” future life. Experience in business education is also provided by practice in secretarial work and the operation of new types of business machines. Mr. Joseph Picron, Mr. Walter Price, Miss Betty Shaughnessy, and Mrs. Rachael McMurrv work hard instructing you! BIOLOGY — The study of living things. CHEMISTRY — Will there be a violent exothermic reaction? GEOMETRY — Lines vs. Curves. AGRICULTURE — Original construction HOME ECONOMICS — “We learn to sew a and repairing on the farm are in fine seam. That is just one of our many eluded in the ag. program. achievements in home ec. INDUSTRIAL ARTS — What busy little industrialists!