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

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The Parent-Teacher Association, which meets the third Thursday of each month, brings our parents into closer contact with school ac¬ tivities and teachers. This year for the first time a monthly paper, the Nile-A-Gram, was sent to all parents to keep them informed not only of programs for the monthly meeting, but also of fu¬ ture school events and general facts of interest. Selling refreshments at football games, entertaining faculty fam¬ ilies and school board members at a buffet dinner were social ac¬ tivities organized this year under the direction of Mrs. Weissburg, president. For the first time since its organization in 1951, the P.T.A. gave a farewell party for the par¬ ents of graduates. This year a Booster Club was organized to increase attendance at athletic events and give sup¬ port to the players. The Boosters have also taken over the custom of serving refreshments for foot¬ ball and basketball players after the games. P.T.A. officers for 1954-55 are Mr. K. Stevens, first vice-presi¬ dent in charge of programs; Mrs. A. Bolt, second vice-presi¬ dent in charge of the P.T.A. newspaper, the Nile-A-Gram; Mrs. R. White, corresponding secretary; Mrs. A. Weissburg, president; Mrs. D. Ames, re¬ cording secretary, and Mrs. H. Walters, treasurer. Mom and Dad get a taste of what students go through dur¬ ing an Educational Develop¬ ment Testing Program. Parents and teachers have a friendly get-together over cake and coffee after the business meeting. 13

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Board members Dr. Walter Bornemeier, Leo Bushey, Warren Meyer, Clyde Anderson, Clarence Payne, and Dr. Daniel Lang study plans for the north wing with Dr. Mason and Miss Helen Johanns. The people of our township express their will con¬ cerning the school through a seven-man Board of Education. These men, whose integrity and good judgment is respected by the entire community, advise without dictating and direct without domi¬ nating in the formation and execution of policies concerning our school. The present board, which has expanded from four to seven members, faces the problem of reconciling the cost of more space for the increasing enrollment to the financial ability of the community. In June the people will be asked to express their approval of another high school by voting the funds neces¬ sary for such a program. Clarence W. Payne, Dr. Walter Bornemeier President of the Board of Education Warren Meyer Leo Bushey Clyde Anderson Dr. Daniel Lang Earl Girard

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YET FINDS TIME TO BE FRIENDLY WITH EVERY STUDENT Dr. Joseph Mason, B.S., Bradley University, M.S., Ed.M., Ed.D., University of Illinois. Superintendent is Webster ' s very simple word for the complex operation of overseeing or directing some work, en¬ terprise or institution. Dr. Mason knows from experience how inadequately this word describes the many roles he plays. He has the responsibility of overseeing a school pro¬ gram to meet the needs of each of us, of providing leadership and direction for a faculty dedicated to the carrying out of this program, of interpreting the needs of the community in whose service the school finds its reasons for being. Moreover, he is active in civic and educational organizations; he is presi¬ dent of the Rotary Club, president of the Illinois Association of School Administrators, and a member of the Governor ' s Com¬ mittee on Education, a subsidiary of President Eisenhower ' s Committee on Education. And yet Dr. Mason is one of us, a man whose warm greeting is known even to the freshmen. Dr. Mason, architects Edwin Bruno and Thomas Higgins, and Miss Helen Johanns study blueprints for the new north wing.