School district plans for Thornton and Thornridge facilities
The Pointer reports district architects recommend modernizing the Thornton cafeteria and enlarging the auditorium, adding dramatics and music space, demolishing the Buda gym for a girls gym, and acquiring adjacent property for athletic use. An extra Thornridge Ingh classroom is proposed alongside a tally of 457 new classrooms since Thornridge’s completion, predicting about 4990 more students in two high schools.
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Thornton
Buda
Thornridge
Ingh Schoo
German Exams Engage Riverdale Students at U of Chicago
Forty two Riverdale students competed in a German examination March 24 at Rosenwald hall on the University of Chicago campus. Participants included Bill DeRooy Dennis Johnson Ronnie Dieck Glenn Heitmann James R Lynn and Vidie Mazer Ed Sumner Beverly Boukard and others under Miss Jeannette Hills. The test covered reading grammar vocabulary and culture with IV level students also assessed on conversation.
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Anornton
Weldtout
Pega
Thornton
The
Amerida
Rosenwald Hall
University of Chicago
Jeannette Hills
Bill DeRooy
Dennis Johnson
Dolton
Ronnie Dieck
Glenn Heitmann
James R. Lynn
Vlidie Mazer
Riverdale
Edward Sumner
Miss Hills
Beverly Boukard
District 149 Homeowners Continued from Page 1 Sec
The notice continues details related to the District 149 Homeowners matter. It outlines actions, dates, and forthcoming considerations for residents and affiliated parties as recorded on the page.
District 149 faces pupil load and board elections
The board notes 33 pupils per room as a long range average while growth slows slightly. District 149 includes Dolton and surrounding areas with 1,700 students in schools Berger, Berger-Vanden Berg, Waterman, and Caroline Sibley. Candidates filing for April 14 board elections include Samuel Brendlinger and incumbent Dolton members plus others.
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Dairon
South Holland
Calumet City
Burnham
Berger
Berger-Vandenberg
Waterman
Caroline Sibley
David Kelley
Board of Education
District 149
Samuel L Brendlanger
Woodlawn
Dolton
Donald E Cleghorn
University
A. David Davis
Dante
Daniel Jacobs
Dobson
Albert G. Plys
Ellis
Richard B Schommer
Ingleside
John G Venning
Merril
Firemen Allow Demolished Condemned Shack Blaze
Dalton Volunteer Fire Department deliberately let a condemned shack at 15100 Dorchester burn to the ground. The owners asked the firemen, and School District 149 approved destruction on Sunday March 25, using it as a training session for firefighters.
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Dalton Volunteer Fire Department
Dorchester
School District 149
Cafe U S A Swinging Success Band Concert Funds
The Thornridge P T A reports a successful fundraiser at Cafe U S A for gym coats auditorium microphones and publicity by Pointer Publications. Gratitude extends to John Pearce Esther Santefort George Watkins John Belland Ethel Aggen and Swing Band director Richard Ance and members for their time and effort. A band concert is suggested for Friday April 13 in the auditorium.
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Thornidge
U.S.A
Richard Ance
Tom O’connell
Ron Devoung
Jim Needham
Todd Booth
Bull Huff
Jan Crull
John Walker
Tom Frank
Roy Bergohl
Mike Lewis
Bill Henricks
Mark Keil
Nancy Wilson
Diana Staat
Larry Bean
Jim Spier
P and T A
Auditori
Inter-parish Teen Dance Hosted by Queen of Apostles Club
The Queen of Apostles Club will host 10 teenagers from nearby parishes for an inter parish dance on Saturday April 7 at eight p.m. The event, at the parish hall on 145th and Wentworth, invites youths from St Benedicts Blue Island St Mary's Riverdale St Jude the Apostle 12 South Holland and others. Admission is fifty cents with tickets via Cullen Barry at VS 9 2980. The Concert Band directed by Mr Ance will perform and the Swing Band will return at the same time to support the Thornridge Band and community efforts.
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Queen of Apostles Si Club
Parshes
St. Benedicts
Blue Island
St. Mary’s
Riverdale
St. Jude the Apostle
South Holland
Parsh Hall
Wentworth
Call Cullen Barry
Register For Ceramics Classes At Dalton Park
Registration for adult and teenage ceramics courses will be held in the administration building at Dalton Park on Saturday April 7 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Fees are 10 for adults and 5 for teenagers. Courses run 10 weeks with firing included. Adults meet Monday Wednesday Thursday 1 3 p.m. and 7 9 p.m. Teen classes Saturday 1 4 p.m. All phases of ceramics taught.
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Dalton Park
Park Commissioner Jim Cullen Has Greenware Selection
Justice discards party friendship and kindred and is therefore always represented as blind. Joseph Addison.
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Dalton Park
Jim Cullen
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Superintendent OF Public Instruction
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Chicago Road
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Ance
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Kodak
Bill's Camera Shop
Indiana Art
Brunetti’s Pizza Castle
143Rd and Halsted Street
Dial Edison
Wasik Bros
Sibley Calumet City
Oly
Public Service Company
Mi G
Spectal
Prbic
DO Public Service Company
Commonwealth Edison
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