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Lyons Township Junior College
Posted On Thursday April 23, 2009 By Dale HobartIt sat atop the high school and had about 200 students. I was lucky to be there with a group of very creative students. We created a radio station and Produced/Directed/Wrote/Performed a musical review called “Life Along the Q”(Burlington and Quincy commuter line to Chicago).
Student government elections were unusual. The second year students pick teams, like sand lot baseball and each team set up a slate of candidates. The final campaign event was a parade through downtown LaGrange ending at a county park for a picnic/fundraiser. I don’t remember what we raised funds for.
One of the members of the group The Crying Shames was a student so they performed often at the dances that were held in the hall.
We called it tick tock tech, because the deans office was located in the bell tower of the school. The broadcast boot of the radio station was above the deans office. We had to make sure that we were playing a record or tape whenever the bells rang because you could not hear the announcer over the bells.
There was a student lounge on the floor with the classrooms. For entertainment we started out bridge, however, the dean decided that we were missing too many classes so banned cards from the lounge. We took up tiddly winks. The dean surrendered.
It no longer exists, it was merged into a regional community college system. We all received a great education the professors were excellent (some of the best I ever had anywhere). The small size meant that you knew everyone and we got to create events and times that would have been more difficult at a larger place because we may have never found out what the others in the class could do or wanted to try.
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