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

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Crowd spirit is vital to team victories. Mr. Zednick is aware of more attendance problems that accompany larger enrollment. Betsy Hawes grows anxious as short lunch period elapses.

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Wall-to-wall students crowd Shaker halls. The crowd is regimented. Sea of Humanity Floods Shaker Pep rallies channel enthusiasm in the right direction. Examining our school year in retrospect, we find one char- acteristic outstanding: Shaker was crowded. In the two years since the seniors were sophomores, the enrollment has risen from 1050 to 1450 students. The increase is equal to the size of the graduating class. In some ways were were inconven- ienced by having so many under one roof. Mainly, the roof wasn ' t big enough. Halls and stairways were a sea of hu- manity, with each student finding himself swept from one room to another by a swift current of classmates. The fact that students outnumbered auditorium seats necessitated double assemblies. Fortunately, a good deal of foresight by the administration solved the major problems. For example, the shortening of the lunch periods, although repugnant to students and teach- ers alike, did alleviate the strain on cafeteria facilities by allowing room for a third period. Furthermore, the student- teacher ratio remained satisfactory because of nine additional teachers. Classroom space, adequate to house the students, was barely adequate for accommodating all the teachers, compelling some to move from one classroom to another. In some ways, however, our crowded condition was an advantage. Spirit seemed to increase in proportion to the en- rollment — the wrestling meets must have broken some record for attendance — and students, perhaps because they were under a slight strain, made special efforts to cooperate with teaciers and with each other.

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Pardon this interruption, Shakerites . . . Roger Skolnik radios afternoon announcements. Dick Bell considers the Social Room a cozy place to relax with a fire going. Intense athletic activity . . . Mel Cohen relaxes while Buck Ellsworth does some serious conditioning. Ninety per cent attend college . . . Mr. Morris introduces Andy Schwartz and Bill Oviatt to a Williams College representative.