Pinckneyville High School - Pyramid Yearbook (Pinckneyville, IL)

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Mdmihtivation eB - 7 —) 5 i Walter P. Grady Superintendent District Football Coach The A person may think that when the staff of a school stays the same from one year to the next, the school would not change very much. PCHS did begin the 1981-82 school year with the same staff that ended last year; however, the school did change a great deal in many dif ferent areas. The Board of Education of Pinckneyville Community High School District 101 underwent some changes, and as the governing body of the school, it made the final decisions which brought about other changes. The staff, the community, and the school were all affected in the fall by one sudden change, the fatal heart attack and tragic death of Board member Mr Charles McKinney. Mr. McKinney, “Chuck” to his many friends, was a well-respected Pin ckneyville businessman, civic leader, and President of the Pinckneyville Community Hospital Board in addition to being a high school board representative. His position on the School Board was filled by Mr. Bob West, who had formerly served on the Board in the 1960's and 1970's. Another change in the Board occurred when Mr. Jim Bauersachs was elected, along with in cumbent Mr. Charles Thomas, in the November election. Mr. Bauersachs occupied the posi tion formerly held by Mr. Stuart Wright The teaching staff also began the year as it had ended last year. Teachers completing their second year in the district were granted tenure contracts; these included Mr. David Brunty, Mr. David Colombo, Mrs. Neva Corn, Mrs. Linda Johnson, Mr. Larry Pfau, and Miss Linda Rudolph. In the spring, the accidental death of Mr. Thomas Shea changed the faculty, and again the staff, the community, and the school felt the loss due to tragedy. Mr. Shea's classes in the Mining and Reclamation Department were led by Mr. Sam Loiacano, who was hired as a “permanent substitute” for the last six weeks of school While the staff underwent sudden, unexpected change, the school building and the cur riculum saw a number of planned renovations and alterations. The major renovation project within the school was in the Girls’ Gym area. Other projects and changes in the building and in the curriculum were related to this change, and many changes, independent of the renovation project, also took place On the west side of the Girls’ Gym in the area formerly occupied by the student lounge and the photography lab, a girls’ physical education locker room was built. On the east side in the area that was the p.e. locker room, a girls’ athletics locker room was built. Room 18 on the se cond level of the gym was converted into a photography lab, so Mrs. Sheley needed a new space for her Individualized Instruction students. The former Language Lab on the third floor became that new space and also housed the new computer added to Miss Ortolan’s Title | Remedial Reading and Math Program Better utilization of space and a response to the “information glut’’ prompted some changes and additions in the library. The most notable change was the creation of a second office in the back part of the library. This housed a number of the library additions, including microfiche readers, storage files, and a printer of magazine articles from microfiche. The addition of storage shelves in the same area also freed a great deal of the audio-visual equipment to be stored in places other than in Mrs. Wilson's guidance office Alterations in the curriculum were many. Among the major changes were the expanded course offerings through semester classes at the junior and senior levels in English. The tradi- tional English 3 and 4 classes gave way to such courses as Introductory and Advanced Ex ear 1981-82 Dean Brewer — Building Principal, Administrative Assistant, Freshman Dean Smith — Vocational Direc- tor, Administrative Assistant pository Writing, The Novel and Important Works, Heroes in Literature, Survey of American Literature, Selections in English Literature, and English for Careers. Many of these courses in- tegrated juniors and seniors into English classes for the first time. Also, the addition of com- puters in the Business Education Department expanded their curriculum to include classes in basic programming. The Social Science Department enrolled more students with an increased emphasis of the freshman level social science course. As well, the Science Department ex panded its offerings with the addition of a course in Human Anatomy and Physiology Along with all of the building and curricular changes that the Board approved, a couple of policy changes were instituted and reinstated. A new absence category, the approved absence, was initiated to cover students’ absences approved by the parents yet falling bet ween the excused and unexcused absences that remained part of the school attendance policy. Due to interest expressed by a number of senior class members and to help emphasize academics, the Board also reinstated a policy of recognizing the class valedictorian and salutatorian at graduation exercises. The students with the highest and the second highest overall grade point average will receive such recognition Thus, the ending of the year, graduation, contained change, much as the rest of the 1981 82 year revealed change, though that certainly wasn’t how a person would have thought of the year when it began Administration 11

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Board of Education Let's« on solv not fic a Seated (I-r): Alan McClurken, John H. Stumpe, president; Charles Thomas. Standing (I-r): Jim Bauersachs, Richard Luke, Dean Crumbacher, secretary; Bob West. 10 Board of Education

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Sudastvial Arka, Business Education. Fiewis é conics Ae x. ; wh : 7 “(3 i aM P yy ‘ ¥! Naar we ate ak 4 « 4 Br Dots RN { ‘ ‘ . Glen Hamilton — Drawing, Electricity, Ramona Hatch Home Economics, FHA Jeanette Hoeinghaus Home Economics, Photography, Yearbook, Cross Count ry Sponsor FHA Sponsor Coach Jean Horn — Business Education Linda Johnson — Business Education Ray Lambert — Mining and Reclamation, Mechanics, VICA Sponsor a | - ba S, m7 Sam Robb — Agriculture, FFA Advisor Tom Shea — Welding, VICA Sponsor Alex Singer — Woods, Metals, Welding and Machine Shop 12 Faculty