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

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Tjiteki, 9S6 SUMMER ENDS AND A NEW YEAR OF SCHOOL BEGINS That day looked forward to with mixed emotions is here at last—the first day of school. The buzz of 1850 stu¬ dents waiting before the main door reaches a high pitch as we question what the new school year will bring. The bell rings! Picking up program cards, getting new books, becoming acquainted with teachers, greeting old friends . . . we ' re swept up in the rush of school. Although feelings range from the frightened bewilderment of a fresh¬ man starting a new life to the carefree confidence of a senior ending a high school career, everyone agrees that the first day of school is exciting. Seniors Ken Walter and Bob Blowers, re¬ ceiving textbooks from Mr. Bruce Sorensen, dread the homework soon to begin. A new teacher and new students become acquainted with each other and with the school as Miss Mary DiTullio explains high school life to A1 Heppner, Vic Bernell, Sen- net Tzinberg, and Ronald Schultz, of her freshman homeroom. 7

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. . . FILL HALLS AND CLASS ROOMS Crowds and confusion are a problem in a school with an ever-increasing population. We fill the halls, creating traffic jams outside the library and at the third floor entrance to the new wing. More students produce a need for more classrooms, a need which is met by having English classes in the art room, sociology in the Assembly Room, and classes all through the day in Rooms 322 and 222, which will be hallways when the new addition is completed in September of 1956. More students travel up and down the stairways than ever before as enrollment continues to increase. ) Sidewalk superintendents Joyce Olson, Ted Pristash, and Bruce Peterson look over the foundation of the new wing started in September. With only a twenty-six minute lunch period, students impatiently wait in the long lines in the cafeteria.