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

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WE PLAN FOR COLLEGE THROUGHOUT HIGH SCHOOL. In the early years of the twentieth century only a small percentage of the population at¬ tended high school; today, a college education is commonplace. Colleges, confronted with this problem of increasing enrollments, have raised and are continuing to raise their requirements for admission. To help the sixty-five per cent of students who will attend college meet the entrance re¬ quirements of the college of their choice, Niles Township High School offers seven college pre¬ paratory tracks or courses of study. In general, a college preparatory course includes three years of English (with four strongly recom¬ mended), one year of algebra, one year of plane geometry, two years of a foreign lan¬ guage, one year of a laboratory science, and two years of social studies. Six other college preparatory tracks in commerce, engineering, science, nursing, natural science, and home economics are designed to provide a student with the courses required for entrance into a specific school of a university. Since a knowledge of man ' s past experience is necessary for an understanding of the present, world histor y students Richard Young, Sharon Olnick, and Jay Doney find the history of past civilization a very per¬ tinent study.

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This is the view of Mexico we saw from the plane. Debbie Rothholtz describes the Mexico trip to Eileen Corr, Dorothy Collin, Carole Goldstein, Jim Hodgkinson, Don Morton, and Don Michonski, members of her Spanish class. 20

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Angles, triangles, and circles are a puzzle to most of us, but geometry students Alan Berberick, Joyce Kor- tauck, and Gary Spain solve the mystery with the use of protractors and compasses while Nina Nipper and Linda Timmel work theorems. liv I o TAKING COURSES IN TRIGONOMETRY, PHYSICS AND ENGLISH ... Allen Lange motions Jerry Vick to the left, while Bob Kuchar assists, as they take the angular measurements between the tower and the front sidewalk. Examining the internal structure or a lima bean, biology students Sue Bell and A1 Cantor prepare a report on what they have seen.