Edsel Ford High School - Flight Yearbook (Dearborn, MI)

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p-A . W F N71 X D . W x YrF,, t if? , ff' ' . ' '11 V v .--1 .TN i .MA-MS if li? Mrs. Nancy Ferdons newsstaff class produces the school paper. the Bolt, every week. frm-' ,,, Q -9 i my 14' IQ ff ffwwf M,ff'fdWhl4iM41AM1lA!04m Humanities Dept. Every student who graduates from Edsel Ford High School is required to take six sem- esters of English humanities. In English hu- manities the students are taught how to com- municate their ideas through literature, art, and music. To aid the students in studying music and art, the teachers have been leaming how to teach these classes themselves. Some of the teachers who were here when Edsel Ford opened are at present teaching music and art in some of their classes. Edsel Ford High School's English depart- ment has, also, sent Mr. Harold King as a representative to the other high schools in Dearborn. The department hopes that Edsel Ford's curriculum will be a great influence -upon the compromise plan to be drawn up within the near future. For the student interested in English, re- lated subjects are offered. Journalism, play production, and public speaking may be taken as electives by those who are desirous of these courses. This is an important year for the English department because the graduating seniors are the first class to go through the entire English curriculum of Edsel Ford High School. ff' i yi Y' X t ff' Zvi Eh ff f ra . , M Q' .' ' ' f it ' it-m i .lf , uiuulibli 'gf' m MMM' , ,,,,, WWW Miss Evelyn Pugh assists Jim Lovett in his work while Ron Bednarczyk and Dick Lange study in preparation for their English humanities discussion. 13 if

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Guidance Dept. Edsel Ford's guidance program is designed to cover the guidance needs of the students as comprehensively as possible. It provides for counseling services to handle the special prob- lems, it also allots a place and time in the scheduling for group guidance. It recognizes the need in a larger high school for students to be organized into relatively small stable groups, a 'home base,', in which they can become known well by a single teacher and can identify themselves with their age-mates for supportive relationships. In terms of or- ganization, students are assigned to class-size groups of twenty-five or thirty. These groups become classes in human relations. Relationships between the human relations classes and individual counseling is indirect rather than direct, Individual counseling situ- ations will and do arise out of the class work, but the basic purpose of the class is to deal with the common or universal problems of high school youth. The aim of the guidance program is to develop basic understanding, which the student can apply to the solution of his own personal problems. Actual problems, which are typical of those conceming high school students, will serve to illustrate devel- oping concepts and to provide practices in the application of these concepts. N VW -5 -'JW y X ' Mr. Wallace discusses scheduling for the next semester with junior, Charles Murphy. Miss Norma Jean Haddad instructs her IZA human relations class on love and marriage. I2 X P ,bg -'X 'Wa

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H 'ff- it-Brig t ls. WNW Art students work on copper and wire projects in Mr. Richard Laing's advanced class. Students work with acids and other materials in doing enamel work in their art class. .3 , ,, 3' I. 4-7 ' I ini il I' if 5. w i as .X lg. xl 3' , is i ff-' Q Art Department In the art department, the staff tries to give the students experience in a broad held. To this end, the students use different materials in different ways. Art I students work with chalk, charcoal, paint, clay, wood blocks, and wood. In Art II the students use ink, enamel, clay heads, and linoleum blocks. Students in their third year of art work with water colors, poster paints, wood blocks, wax, clay, silver, and the solder machine. In advance art, pupils handle char- coal, paint, metal, and learn how to work with photographic prints. I Three art rooms are available for the stu- dents' use at Edsel Ford High School. The creative art room is used for English Human- ities only. The other two rooms, B-13 and B-14, are used for two-dimensional and three- dimensional work. S rsiwqgv' I ,gs t k 3 r i 'rs-. - , if t'.t S -...i Li Under the supervision of instructor Mr. Richard Laing students put together nrt projects. I4