Bay View High School - Oracle Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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MR. WHITCOMB, Chief Counselor LIFE ADVISEMENT Wiith the close of the War, the problems confronting the counseling have come to include not only those relating to students now enrolled, but also those of many former Bay View students. Frequently during the War years boys were called to the service of their country before they had completed their high school course. Now these boys are coming back, day by day to pick up the loose ends in their educational programs and go on. In attempting to discover just Where a returning veteran belongs in the school system, the counselor begins, of course, with the high school record. Then he tries to determine Whether there are high school credits earned for Work in established service schools in the army, navy, marine corps or coast guard. Recognized service schools are those listed in the hand- book prepared by the American Council on Education. If, even with these military credits added the veteran does not have the requirements for graduation , the counselor plans how the serviceman can complete his high school course and earn his diploma. Page Twelzty-nsine

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ADMINISTRATION Page Twenty-e1'glzf DR. FOX, Vice-Principal Aiteacheri at Bay View who really knows how war and the conversion to peace-time living affects one and all, is Dr. Fox, for all year long he has passed on the excuses brought by absentees. He knows the chronically sick who always look well, he knows those who have to help out at home, he knows all the luckless ones who contract contagious diseases, he knows those students who like pleasant spring days. He reads all the excuses daily, and in spite of them maintains his good sense of humor. Vilhen he has completed his check for the day and handed his reports to the office for the Hnal records, he becomes once more a scholarly teacher of English, the author of a well-known handbook in grammar and text in composition, at wise, human, delightful raconteur whose stories beginning with HN ow, when I was a boyf' have delighted classes for many years. Here is a man who has watched the changing fashions in English teaching along with the changing dress of his students. He knows that however much the outer' appearance changes, students are not very different from their parents and that the work of an English teacher still concerns the whole of living, not just the narrow limits of a text.

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COUNSELORS Although the war has ended, the emotional unrest it caused still prevails among students, and it is the counselors function to try to neutralize the effects of war and prevent young people from making hasty decisions to be regretted in the years to come. A counselor, working with the homeroom teacher, tries to help boys and girls to understand themselves and appreciate tha opportunities offered them at Bay View. Miss Statz, Mr. YYiley, llr. Gillo, hilr. Suttle Each semester at counselor begins to establish himself as a friend of the incoming freshmen by going to the grade schools in the district to interview personally those who plan to enter high school. Wlith the l studentfs past record before him, he gives advice as to the course of study to be pursued. This year the counselors were accompanied on these visits by students who had graduated from the various grade schools, and were able to offer the freshmen-to-be advice from their own experience at Bay View. The counselor works with one group for four years, and finally presents them for graduation. Through all that period, he co-operates with classroom and homeroom teachers in an earnest effort to direct and guide the student to develop good study habits, to adjust socially to his elders and to those of his own age. to lead in outside activities if he can, and to know himself and understand where he wants to go. Page T flirty