Shaker Heights High School - Gristmill Yearbook (Shaker Heights, OH)

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Many r ush through lunch to the Social Room to play cards. Pete Fredrix, Larry Aurbach, and Jim Van Baalen recall the year ' s events through the Social Council Scrapbook. The Ely Gallery offers many interest- ing exhibitions. Toby Silverman and Carole Zolten stop to view the new display on their way home. For a few minutes after school the parking lot is a hubbub of activity. By 3:45 it is marked by a deathly silence.

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If pencils are 2 for 5c, how many can you buy for a quarter? Ann Richards and Martha Brown make a very important phone call — so they say! the limelight on shakerites in their off moments Eight times during the day our schools halls resound with noises as Shakerites come and go, as they spill in and out of classes, as they move into the cafeteria to eat, and as they gather together in twos and three ' s to discuss their all-important daily trials and tribulations. And long after we have forgotten much of our school learning, the memories of certain special moments that we spent with our friends will come back to linger in our thoughts. Miss Ruth Sims dishes out chili to three hungry Shakerites — Corky Maniaci, Ruth Ann Hurt, and Jane Cunat.

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an insight into our school ' s achievements Physical Facilities . . . Faced with a prob- lem common to all schools, that of providing new rooms and equipment for a rapidly ex- panding student body, Shaker has mapped out a program of construction to enlarge and re- model the present high school. The original plant, which was erected in 1930, now provides four laboratories, two gyms, two auditoriums, a cafeteria, several playing fields, and a library shown at the right. Last year, in completion of the first part of the building pro|ect, social and music rooms were finished and opened for use. Next year, fourteen new classrooms will be added as Shaker takes another step to stay out in front in the race against overcrowding. Academic Performance ... In the picture at the left, several teachers are administering the Iowa Reading Test to a group of juniors. Shaker employs the time-honored formula of test, teach, test as the principle for its academic program. Also given during the year are Co-operative tests in English, math, history, science, and language. Shaker medians are nearly always above the median for all independent (private) schools and sometimes from 19 to 35 points above in percentile ranking. More detailed infor- mation on the teaching staff is given on page 128. Another way Shaker teachers find out the results of their work is to talk to the alumni returning from college. Above, Mr. Wayne French is conversing with Steve Kutler, a 1953 graduate now attending Cornell.