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

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and objectives Student Guidance . . . Juvenile delinquency hits the front pages of the newspapers. It is the unusual. What does not hit the front pages are the operations of service clubs, which stress character and citizenship. At the right, Jay Sload and Peggy Yoelson watch over their protege at the Hi-Y Orphans ' Party. Another unpubli- cized program is the guidance counsel which provides help and advice to students. Below, Mr. Senft, Shaker Guidance Co-ordinator, gives advice to Tom Wilson on his selection of college. fUtw pr pPH %» Wr m A HT C Health . . . Every Shaker student gets an annual physical checkup. Below, Bill Godley is weighed by Mr. I. J. Sanna. His growth is charted through all grades on the Wetzel Grid. He has a chance to develop his muscles in daily physical education classes and to flex them in any of the intramural and varsity sports. Creative Opportunities. In the art room Sally Fullerton, Al Cohen, and Janice Rosenfeld are busily at work making puppets. Last year, stu- dents took four first prizes in the National Scholastic Art Contest. At Shaker, students have chances to create, invent, and build in practically every field in high school, in every- thing from classes to clubs. 21

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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.

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The junior girls go collegiate at a pep rally. a page 22 The longest three minutes to Jim Hoff is waiting fo the final bell in seventh period study hall. The strain is on the dads as they sweat it out at the Canton Lehman game.