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

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ADMINISTRATION Page Twenty-eight ef 1 N' ,f . N 1-. J -W ,X . 9 O F AIN 'J W4 4 4 W 5 X53 Q F Nl -o l p Q 'x C AQ A Q .F 'X Q :1 3 as Q 31-QD-Q! K 3 J M ,LQPQN jf? tl 402, I KJ l HJ ,., ,XB WL ' 'f 4 - X, ,, QL NA XL l KL W F fl AX 'l'-fl is '44 f W Q' v, AM , xl 'LL 4' X 'U K H rf DR. FOX, Vice Principal Standing back of the counter in the office listening to high-schoolers ration- alize away their mistakes and helping them to the right path with kindness and understanding, has been one who, even in his most solemn moments, has never lost entirely the twinkle in his eye. For over forty years as the scholarly teacher of English, and in the last six years as the vice-principal at Bay View, Dr. Fox has watched youth come and go, and has found in teaching the abiding satisfactions of life. For him the chang- ing scene has always held one constant: there is nothing more important in the task of the teacher than stimulating youth to creating for itself high ideals. The generations that have known his large humanity and found in him both counselor and friend, bear testimony to how well he has met the challenge of that task. '31-'A l f lt x,! ., Q au K

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The School in 1947 The curriculum is more than a course of studyefor each child it is the sum of all his experiences which are in any way affected by the school. This philosophy of education, which puts its emphasis on the living experience of each individual, which insists that the curriculum be never identical for any two, has been dominant at every professional gathering attended by Bay View teachers in the last school year. Indeed, it has become so much a part of their thinking that even at informal bi-monthly faculty meetings, in which teachers have explained to their colleagues either their procedure in the classroom or their part in curricular activities, they have accepted as almost axiomatic the idea that each child should have his chance to develop as completely as he may. The days of minimum essentials that every child in every class was expected to have mastered by a fateful day marked in advance on the school calendar are definitelyno more. Now the primary concern of every teacher is the growth of each child as far as his potentialities admit. That growth will be physical, mental, social. He should not be allowed to develop arrogant selfishness, and he should not miss the training which will help him to become a force in his group, help him to work co-operatively. The school, seeking to bring about this fullness of development, must recog- nize the difference in home backgrounds, the difference even for any two chil- dren in the same home. It must recognize that the home and innumerable social agencies should function together with the school to effect an adequate adjust- ment for each individual to the world he alone knows. And surely no one who looks objectively at the American scene can doubt that the emphasis on the right of the individual to be treated as an individual throughout the years of his formal education is once more an expression of the American way of life, triumphant over all ideologies that would make man the tool of the state and not the master of himself. 2 Page Twenty-seven

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'ins-4-'r' 'Q MR. WHITCOMB, Chief Counselor ' Vu . X 1, an . r .4 X N LIFE ADVISEMENT Every member of the counseling staff carries in his mind detailed information con- cerning the students entrusted to him, and helps the homeroom teacher whenever a pupil varies from the pattern for course and semester. A counselor has visited the grade school before each class comes to Bay View, and has consulted with the eighth grade teacher. He knows exactly how the students entering the freshman class grade on significant tests like the one for algebra aptitude. Then on the basis of the information he has gathered, he plans the program for the student's Hrst semester. This year the counselors have served as the representatives of the school at lay meetings to which members of the com- munity have been invited for group discus- sions of the work of the schools. COUNSELORS Standing: Mr. Suttle, Mr. Wiley. Sealed: Mr. Gillo, Miss Statz 'VQQ 'HP' ff f in