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HPHS Class of ’79: big hair, wide pants, open minds BY JULIE KEMP PICK DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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t’s graduation season, and DailyNorthShore is taking a trip down memory lane to the Highland Park High School Class of ’79, a class that is responsible for producing many community leaders. Former North Shore School District 112 Board of Education member Jane Solmor-Mordini summarized the class best: “The Class of ’79 had big hair, wide pants, big opportunities and wide experiences,” she said. “Everyone got along, everyone did their thing, and the rock ‘n roll poets of the day thrived with lyrics of togetherness, Mother Nature, recreation, love, and no longer focused on objection and antiwar sentiments.” DailyNorthShore asked SolmorMordini and other local leaders from the Class of ‘79 about their high school experiences. Those Continued on PG 12
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Teens learn real police work differs from TV shows BY STEVE SADIN DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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group of teenagers started summer vacation at the Lake Forest police station learning that actual police work is nothing like what they see on television. “You really have to work at it,” said Akindele Aboyade-Cole, a School of St. Mary’s eighth grader from Lake Bluff. “It’s not at all what you see on CSI, where they put things in a machine and you get the suspect,” he added referring to the CBS television show. Aboyade-Cole and 13 other seventh and eighth graders from Lake Forest schools participated in the Lake Forest Police Department’s first Junior Citizen’s Police Academy June 12-16 at the department’s Deerpath Road headquarters. With a lot of hands-on activities, the students learned how to process a crime scene, work with simulated situations, and
Officer Mike Hughes demonstrates how to strike an adult who is harassing you at the Lake Forest Junior Police Academy. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
defend themselves if necessary. They also learned about the intricacies of a traffic stop, and they got an introduction to SWAT,
according to officer Conrad Christensen, the school resource officer for Lake Forest School District 67.
Christensen said he started the He also saw it as an opportunity program because of the success to give teens a positive experience of the adult academy, which inContinued on PG 12 troduces residents to police work.
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