Warren High School - Echoes Yearbook (Warren, IL)

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 ? z6Ce (?o tte tt Dedication 5 Faculty 7 Seniors 11 Undergraduates 19 Organizations 27 Senior Page 42 Athletics 43 Patrons 51

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ran i ci This, our last year at Warren High, has been an eventful year --perhaps even an historic year. We have seen advancements in our school, in our community, in our nation, and in the world. We have seen the birth of the Space Age. the increase in man's destructive power, and the definite need for technical education. We realize that the present world situation offers greater challenges to its youth, and we feel prepared to meet these challenges. We believe that our years in high school have served to prepare us for this future rather than to provide us with a past. We proudly present FUTURAMA.

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Crofton, Stamford Road Bowdon, Cheshire England To the pupils and faculty of Warren High School: Forms instead of classes; head mistresses and head masters instead of superin- tendents; masters and mistresses instead of teachers; for the most part, separate boys' and girls' schools instead of our co-educational schools; grammar, secondary- modern and comprehensive schools instead of our junior and senior high schools; terms instead of semesters; several long holidays and school until near the end of July instead of our less frequent and shorter breaks and a long summer vacation; eleven pluses and General Certificate of Education exams, upon which all promotion depends, instead of our semester exams and system of grading; school uniforms for students and often academic robes for teachers instead of our casual dress; cricket, socker, net-ball, and la crosse instead of baseball, football, basketball and volleyball --these are some of the many ways in which English schools are different from American. In England students are streamed into different kinds of schools depending upon how they rate in exams which are given when they are just past eleven years old. Those who rate highest go into the grammar schools, many of which have been long established and pride themselves upon their traditions and academic standings. Stu- dents who do not rate grammar school acceptance enter the secondary modern schools, where their education aims to prepare them for the kind of lives they will be living. The comprehensive schools are an experiment which encorporates the features of both the grammar and the secondary modern school. The next rating for a grammar school student depends entirely upon his G.C.E. exams for which the fifth form stu- dents are preparing. If they pass these exams they may stay on in school for a year or two preparing for teachers' training or, if their records are high enough and they can win admittance, for university. In Altrincham, boys' and girls' schools are so completely separated that all my impressions must be based on the girls' school. The Lancaster shire and Cheshire accent is quite different from our middle Western American, and at first there may have been a little difficulty in understanding and being understood. Perhaps you and Miss Walkley have noticed the difference there. Though there are differences in our accent, our idiom, our terminology, our school traditions, and our emphasis in edu- cation, I've learned that girls will be girls in England as well as in America, and though I've missed knowing the boys, I'd venture to guess that boys will be boys too. We do have a common heritage in language literature and much else in common too, as an exchange of teachers and pupils has taught us on both sides of the ocean, I feel sure. Best wishes to you in Warren High School in all your endeavors. I shall look for- ward to being back with you next year. Sincerely, Edith Groom