Thornridge High School - Piper Yearbook (Dolton, IL)

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Q 'We Are T R' unifies dr verse popula tion No moTTer freshmon, sophomore, ju- nior, senior, or foculiy, oil needed one onoTher. How well did This lorge group of people hold TogeTher ond geT olong? The 'We ore TR' spiriT olwoys monoged To unify our diverse populo- Tion. IT wos nice To see TrodiTion wos olive ond well, sToTed Mr. Richord Kel- ler, ossisTonT principol. The sTudenTs were divided inTo 495 seniors, 563 juniors, 4911 sophomores ond A89 freshmen. T'Hoving The ldrgesT closs did help To win The spiriT color doy becouse There wos o greoTer chonce of sTudenTs hoving school spiriT, re- morked Lori WesT, junior. Freshmen were concerned wiTh The size of The school ond The impossi- piliTy of going from one end To The oTher in only five minuies. The s o p h o m o r e s knew where To go ond how To geT There. Juniors reoched Juniors Char Engelmon, Down Cholewo, ond Julie TiTus discuss The doy's evenTs during lunch. ii' The dll powerful uppercloss sToTus, ond ofTer four long yeors seniors were on Top. WhoT To weor ond where To go become conversoTion Topics os sociol ocTiviTy increosed. The foculTy provided The meoning ond conTrol To school. BuT for mony, The mosT inTeresTing porT of Their job wos The inTerocTion wiTh sTudenTs. Teoching is more Thon lecTuring, cor- reciing popers, ond giving grddes. To be on effecTive Teocher, one musT be concerned dbouf oll foceTs of The sTu- denTs' pockgroundf' sold Mrs. Suzonne Boker, moTh Teocher. WheTher The bond wos sTudenT To sTudenT or sTudenT To Teocher, There w o s o i w o v s someone To Tolk wiTh on The some woveiengTh. This pond wos formed wiTh The premise ThoT Teochers ond sTudenTs ieorn from eoch oTher. Tlfiany Frazier, junior, ond Kim ThorTon, senior, find Time for doily conversdTion. T T

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,uwdmvw Mrs. Barbara Palmer supporTs The fooTball Team by aTTending a game. District 205 AdminisTraTion1 FronT Raw: Dr. Rich- ard Taylor, superinTendenT, Mrs. Cheryl Gan- sauer, direcTor of staff developmenT and voca- Tional educaTion: Back Row: Dr. STeve Hum- phrey, assisTanT superinTendenT, Dr. David Ely, as- sisTanT superinTendenT, Miss Kamala Buckner, di- recTor of sTaTe and funded grams District 205 School Board: FronT Row: Mr. Frank Russo, Mrs. Lyndell Beckham qpresj, Mrs. Blanche FoxworThy Cseoj: Back Row: Mr. James Veld qv. presj, Mr. George McNally, Mrs. Sharon Voliva, Mr. John Mooney Jr. T64 AdminisTraTion Leadership changes in school, district IT was a year of change for The ad- mlnisTraTion of boTh DisTrlcT 205 and of Thornridge. ln The summer of 4987, Dr. STeven Humphrey lefT his posiTion as assisTanT principal in order To become assisTanT superinTendenT of The disTrlcT. The second change for The disTricT was The addiTion of Dr. Richard Taylor as The new superinTendenT as Dr. Jack Curless reTired in July, 4987. WiTh his new posiTion, he was required To Take care of The daily problems of Three schools. The number of assisTanT principals in if K ' K all Three schools was reduced from five To four, so a re-alignmenT of duTies meanT Those four had even more work To do, For Dr. Richard Keller iT meanT busier days. Now ThaT l've Taken over scheduling, daTa processing, and aTh- leTics, my days are much busier and much longer. lT's been an awful loT To learn, and l hope l'm learning iT well, he said. DespiTe all The changes, The adminis- TraTion sTill did a greaT job, always wiTh The benefiT of The schools and The sTu- denTs in mind.