Thornridge High School - Piper Yearbook (Dolton, IL)

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Students tackle Industrial Arts challenge TR's Industrial Arts Department has a wide variety of shops from Auto Me- chanics to Electricity. These classes are also open to girls. The Industrial Arts Department welcomes all who want to learn. Industrial Arts means learning to those who don't know, and experience to the inexperienced. Following their cours- es in the Industrial Arts Department, students sometimes enroll in technical schools for more specialized training in a certain area or may join the masses of blue collar workers. V Right: Iohn Basil uses a reamer in metal shop. Above: The lathe can turn out a work of art or a useful tool. In metal shop Tony Aroyal learns to do both. ,JE

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Speech 'important Speech can play a very important part in anyone's life, so all freshmen are re- quired to take one semester of Speech I. However, for those who wish to, TR has a number of more advanced classes from Speech II to RadiofTV. In these classes students learn to improve their public Y part' of TR life speaking, to act or to direct a television production. from these advanced speech classes come many of the cast and crew involved in fall, winter and spring theatrical pro- ductions performed annually for the en- tertainment of TR's students. Above Left: Miss Schultz instructs Richard Paterik in Speech I. Fifty students participated in this ex- perimental program combining English and speech with greater emphasis on improving the speaking ability of freshmen. Mrs. Watts taught in conjunc- tion with Miss Schultz. Above: Kathy Davia and Linda Binder watch and listen as Sue Steffens describes a newspaper article in Speech I.

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. .' P 'i t 2' f Q at 5 f s '3 A ga . A I C' Q as .Sf ' . Wits, W g. Family unit important in Home Ec. The Home Economics Department recognizes that the basic unit in our democratic society is the family. There- fore, classes such as a Home Economics Survey, Contemporary Living, Child Development, Creative Hobbies, Cloth- ing and Food courses, Interior Design, and Housing and Home Economics Re- lated Occupations CHEROJ courses are offered. E Building, a traditionally male haunt of TR, succumbed to Women's Lib as E108 and E115 were utilized by Home Economics classes. Above Left: Candice Capolillo and Mary Knabe concentrate on their needlepoint in Creative Hob- bies class. Top: Mike Phelps and Regina Webb work together on a sewing machine. Above: Mrs. Roberson explains a stitch pattern to Janet Lichne- rowski in Clothing I class.