Niles Township High School East - Reflections Yearbook (Skokie, IL)

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Each year finds an ever increasing crowd of Nile- hiers gathered on the front steps on that dread¬ ed, but looked-forward- to day—the first day of school. Every day is registration day at Niles. Mr. Ihne helps a mid-term trans¬ fer make out her pro¬ gram. ... fan 6,600 Students lif 1962 And still they come . . . Our school, which has grown from a student body of 450 in 1937 to its present total of 1,500 students, expects to enroll 1,900 by next fall. Dr. Claude Reavis of the University of Chicago, in a study under¬ taken for the elementary schools as well as the high school, predicts an enrollment of 5,300 to 6,600 by 1962 on the basis of children already in the district. In seven years, then, Niles will move from its position as the sec¬ ond smallest suburban league high school to that of the largest. Returning graduates of the next four years, seeing the masses of students and the new buildings, will feel you can ' t go home again. ' ' And yet, for all the physical changes, some things will always be the same — the crowd discussing weekend plans at the locker, the mad dash to class before the five-minute bell, and the rush to after-school meetings, all of which add to the excitement in the air. Above all, the same friendly hi will still be heard throughout the halls.