North Scott High School - Silver Shield Yearbook (Eldridge, IA)

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ga ,M V., IN. Replacing the trailers at the far lei! oi the picture, the new special ed. wing houses the six programs in the curriculum. Two cranes are required to life the five ton beams to the too of the sixty-live foot fly-way. Behind the yard of beams! the auditorium rises above the profile of the building. NS SKYLEHE

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uilding additions change the North Scott skyline in most years, but the two buildings this year brought among other things a sixty-tive foot tower to change the school's profile, For a cost of over 2,300,000 dollars, North Scott began adding on the 22,500 square feet last year with the start of the special education wing. Completed during the summer, the wing is considered one of the best such facilities in the area. The six classrooms and three offices re- place the trailers that were used at the end of A- hall. The new wing now serves the six special ed. programs, including the self-contained unit which is known for its modern conveniences. While the windows in two rooms and the senior bench had to be removed to accomodate the wing, more changes took place for the audito- rium addition. Seven rooms in A-hall had to lose their walls of windows and their radiators, which meant for some cold classrooms in that hall. A bank of lockers and the workshop room were both removed to make way for a hall. The 800 seat auditorium will be divided into five main sections: a main floor with 600 seats, and four pods behind it with 50 seats each. The pods will be sealed off during the day so that they can be used as classrooms during school, Watking in the main entrance, spectators will walk on to the first floor lobby with offices, a ticketbooth, a concession room, and two coa- trooms, They can enter the main room from the first floor ramp or, after climbing a flight of stairs, from the back of the pods. Several other features make the auditorium unique, Seperate booths, one for sound and one for lighting will be placed in the back of the room. An extensive catwalk will atiow students to ad- just lights. Another interesting feature of the stage will be a walk-way which will curve around the orchestra pit and allow performers to walk out into the audience, The tlyway, the highest part of the auditorium, will allow the scenery to be pulted up, out of view ot the audience, but it is also a new shape on the outline of the school building. Surrounded by the effects of construction, Greg Casel, Dean Wiese, and Todd Case! walk throught the area to get to school, 1 'r v as Now a wall and foundation, the back of the auditorium wiill eventually become pods that will be used as classrooms. 0 , if f il If , ' i Mm 3 3 i ii-li ig g ' S- - '.... ' Z me-H ,,......,. I ' - I Q - aa? - ! 3, , 'F x swf, ts ' -23? QU-A - fs ,p.t,:,,.Af, I-. ,rc ' eps , Lg- ff - , '-' lf-S'e'N e- - -.f-ff?-'fseueff .!,a..L':1- ' if - g ' -:Psy ,-,sig-s A ,.... fqaggig f- .4 --L M'-K' ,: Ages '-,,-sim if EW: iq ft Ffw -if MW ,sg, p F' ,, 3, 'P .. -'ug c.- . .tm I Wk is !NTFtGDUCTlON - ,, 0,-, hu.,-Nlijyjbffgl-f 'm

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X,L! e starts this day, as he starts most days, by jogging in the high school gym. After about three miles he goes home, cleans up, and makes it back to the administra- tion office by 7300 so he can read the morning papers or page through some professional education magazines, lt is the Tuesday after a school board meeting, so he has to take care of all the business the board has di- rected at him the night before, Today, this includes writing letters to Mr. Dan Anderson and Kevin Halstead, con- gratulating them on their performances at the Augustana Jazz Band Festival the weekend before. By the time he has finished writing six letters, classes have still not begun at the high school across the street. His agenda for today includes pre- paring a speech about school budgets that he will present to the League of Women Voters, developing a budget workshop for the school board, meet- ing with a teacher about contract talks, and listening to a bus drivers com- plaints, He is to spend most of the morning on this particular day touring Neil Armstrong and Virgil Grissom ele- mentaries and will stop to walk through the junior high. He's received a phone call from the high school, requesting his presence at an aud for the jazz band, so Marlene, would you call Melva Lewis at the lu- nior high to change our appoint- ment7 . Never mind, he'll stop there when he tours the school. Bear Stevens has only been su- perintendent for one year, and his pre- decessor had held the office for sixteen years, but Stevens has made that posi- tion his in every sense of the word. He carries out the ceremonies, makes the decisions. and initiates the meetings that any superintendent would carry out, but he does it with his own distinc- tive flair. He is a master of non-verbal com- munication, a subject that he has worked extensively with. He carefully uses his size, his iron hand shake, and his down-to-earth seriousness to com- mand respect. He uses his sense of humor, at the appropriate times, and his concern for people almost as a bal- ance: to compensate for his overzea- lous nature. lt is clear that he is not interested in nonsense on his time. He does monot- onous, ordinary things, that get in his way tlike opening drawers in a fast, almost furious manner, He does not like to be kept waiting. If he does ordinary things in a hurry, though, it allows him time to express his interest in people. While touring the TN AL Y ,Q V 'JUCTlON Talking on the phone takes up much of the Bears time every day.