Prospect High School - Crest Yearbook (Mount Prospect, IL)

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ENRICHMENT BY BOCDKS Students occupied in their favorite pastime-studying. Library aids relieved Librarians and gained a MISS FANNIE MAE BARTMAN. Library Club. Illinois Wesleyan, A.B.g University of Illinois, M.A. M,S. MRS. ROSE A. SIGBORN. Li- brary Club. Eastern Illinois Uni- versity, B.S.Ed. knowledge of library skills. ll 1 This year Miss Fannie Bartmann and Mrs. Rose Sigborn served Prospect High School as librarians. Aided by the clerks, Mrs. Miriam Platell and Mrs. Jessie Sbarbaro, they supplied stu- dents with guidance in library research assignments. A pro- gram of library orientation for incoming freshmen was planned as part of the first semester frosh English course. Fiction and non-fiction books, reference sources, tapes, rec- ords, college and vocational pamphlets, and both recent and back copies of magazines and newspapers were available to the interested student. The conference rooms for faculty and students provided opportunities for discussion with immediate access to library facilities. Prospect can be proud of the wealth of information stored in 14,200 volumes. Occupational opportunities was the theme of the library this year A knowledge of the Dewey Decimal System resulted in fewer questions. -I l 'Hiz-

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UNSUNG HEROINES acl! The attendance and administrative oltices were managed this past year by seventeen secretaries, responsible for operating the switchboard, keeping student attendance records, and managing registration. Two secretaries in the library kept rec- ords in order and helped students find necessary information sources and reading materials. The hectic duties of the counseling and attendance offices were relieved by office guides. These girls helped in office ll4 by OFFICE GUIDES. FRONT ROW: Pam Mayo, Bonnie Polzin, Carol Pheilter, Mimi Shaw. ROW TWO: Linda Woiicak, Barb Ruck- er, Lynda Fincher, Dianne, Mayes, Lynda Carothers. R O W THREE: Ginny Owens, Debbie Reynolds, Bunny Thomas, Sue Mu- tert, J a n Thurnoffer, Cheryl Haut, Bonnie Baarts. Florence Jorgensen, Grace Biederstadt, Grace Erikson serving Prospect. SECRETARIES. FRONT ROW: Haddy Welch, Verbal Dyer, Miriam Platell, Fran McMahon, Denny Humphrey, Jean Pluee. ROW TWO: Jessie Sbarbaro, Doris Hutchens, Evelyn Disbrow, June Griffith, Betty Bara- nowski, Carolle Siebold, Joyce Feddersen. typing, filing, and taking new students on tours of the school. They also provided students with information about the voca- tional files and the college catalogues. Counselors found of- fice guides willing to answer the always ringing phones and to deliver messages to students in study hall. Efficiency and knowledge of school policy enabled Prospect's secretaries and office guides to keep the administration operating smoothly.

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SERVING THE KNIGHTS Social Counselor Mr. D'Agata Special services of speech and social counseling helped to complete a well-rounded counseling program at Prospect. Miss Babcock, the speech correctionist, utilized records and tape-recorded sounds to improve and correct the pronuncia- tion ot many students. Prospect's new social counselor, Mr. D'Agata, encouraged students to discuss social and tamily problems with him. Through mutual confidence workable solu- tions to these problems were more successful. Special counsel- ing services were ottered to all students. Speech Correctionist Miss Babcock r U silk?-yi-zrhii ff: - ,-5?-- .J-.T.. ..,7,.7.T.I . 7:7 , .i ss its ,wi ' .si ii ., .ts sw . ww .. -i site, r J: ii : . Z , ldgijgi .zz 51: gg? i- if ,LQ iii sm, Q, it M315 Tlx ,A 5 it it R- Mais ,gym .. E, gi :sip al it :sg Y. E -ii 4- - V 5 5 Ve: ge ss l . V .fi S 5 . . Hs. School Nurse Mrs. Allen Health Service was again functioning this year under the di- rection of Mrs. E. Allen, RN. The service handled all first aid needs for students and faculty, checked medical records, ad- ministered visual and auditory examinations, and recorded special instructions from doctors regarding the health of cer- tain students. Health Service taught the Red Cross child care course to iunior and senior Home Economics students. Assisting Mrs, Allen in the Health Service room were several girls in- terested in nursing. i l KKK HEALTH AIDS, FRONT ROW: Sylvia Davis, April Lyford, Paula Patton, Linda Hall, Sally Van Cleave. ROW TWO: Marge Brown, Carol Snyder, Mary Klinker, Mrs. Allen, Kathy Freber, Sandy Vasy, Joanne Basil. I2