St Louis Park High School - Echowan Yearbook (St Louis Park, MN)

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Academics You should be aware of the value of the past, yet realize that questioning what seemed like absolute ideas has often been essential for survival and responsible for progress. —Paul Knutson A good teacher is one who not only teaches something about the subject but also something about the people. The hardest thing about teaching is understanding 150 different people, but it is also the thing I find the most challenging. In the classroom there should be more interaction and less lecture. —Mrs. Cathleen Martin Teaching gives you the feeling that you've uncovered something for some students-a feeling of mutual discovery. Any educational institution can be improved. I'm not sure if the answer is either more student participation or an all-teacher dominated program. Teaching also makes you aware of the differences in people and that you can't treat them as a group. —Roger Thompson 17

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Conflict and dissent troubled school boards across the state as teachers demanded salary increases to meet the rising cost of living. Negotiators often grew bitter when salary proposals were at a stalemate. In St. Louis Park, the Teacher Council, headed by lelartd Erickson, requested an adjustment panel' to aid in the discussion of salary, grievance procedures and other desired improvements. When the School Board took no action, the teachers threatened to withhold summer-school services and all but remedial classes, taught without pay, were cancelled. An adjustment panel was formed in June of 1968, but its proposal was refused because it advocated a dollar increase, a disadvantage to career teachers, rather than a percentage increase. A threat to withhold extra-curricular activities was carried out the first week of school. On Friday, September 5, eighty-seven senior high-school teachers called in sick, closing the school for that day. Communications were reopened and negotiations progressed until September 24, when a majority of the teachers voted to accept the latest School Board proposal. This included a $7,000 annual starting salary with a maximum of $16,198. Concerned with the stalemate of salary negotiations, students air their opinions and discuss settlement possibilities with School Board and faculty members. St. Louis Park Board of Education: Mrs. Winifred H. Northcott, treasurer, Dr. Jud-son M. Haroer. director. Dr. B. Robert Lewis, chairman, A. Bertram Locke, clerk, Robert D. Hanson, director, and S. Allen Friedman, director