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

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Foreign Languages Increase Understanding Miss Helene Wilson and Mr. Frank Damiano discuss new methods of teaching languages. Mr. James Ankenbrandt and Mrs. Mary Jane Smith listen to new language records. One of the objectives of the foreign lan- guage department is to prepare students for further language courses to be taken in col- lege. For those not continuing their language in college, knowledge of a foreign language may be helpful in related courses and for greater understanding of other peoples and their cultures. Four-semester courses in each of the four languages, French, German. Latin and Span- ish are offered at Edsel Ford. 12A’s are allowed to elect a course in conversational Spanish. This course was first offered in the spring of 1956. Edsel Ford has added another new staff member to the language department, Mr. James Ankenbrandt. The rest of the staff includes Mr. Frank Damiano, Mrs. Mary Jane Smith, Miss Helene Wilson, depart- ment chairman and Miss Virginia Waldinger. 11

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Driver Training Instructors Promote Safety Mr. William Levantrosser, Mr. Donald Rathbun. Mr. Norman Tomassini. Mr. Bernard Barnett. Mr. David Frye and Mr. Warren Rhodes check safety precautions in the car. Drivers’ education has for its purpose the training of good drivers by teaching the basic fundamentals ol good driving. These include both the physical and the mental aspects of operating an automobile. The physi- cal aspect emphasizes driving skills, control of the car and procedures in case of an emergency. Emotional stability, the ability to control one’s temper, and willing- ness to obey rules and regulations for safe driving are part of what is referred as the mental or psychological aspects of good driving. Edsel Ford was the first Dearborn school to have a drivers’ training area off the streets. That is, it was the first to have a special section for teaching of drivers' training instead of having to learn and practice on the side streets. The state of Michigan requires thirty hours of class work, ten hours of supervised instruction on the training area and one hour of supervised instruction on the road. Mr. David Frye, Mr. Warren Rhodes and Mr. Nor- man Tomassini are regular drivers’ education teachers, however, many other Edsel Ford teachers are qualified to teach in this area and help out when there is need for help. Such help is provided in the present semester by Mr. Bernard Barnett, Mr. Thomas Barrett, Mr. William Levantrosser and Mr. Donald Rathbun. Mr. Warren Rhodes teaching students how to handle cars skillfully.

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Grade Level Counselors Mr. Herschel Wallace is the counselor for the 12B class. Guidance program at Edsel Ford High School is designed to cover the guidance needs of the students as comprehensively as possible. It provides for counselors to handle special problems of individuals; it also gives a place and time in the scheduling for group guidance. It recognizes the need in a larger high school for stu- dents to be recognized into relatively stable groups in which they can become well known by a single teacher and can identify themselves with their age-mates for supportive relationships. Groups of twenty-five or thirty students become known as human relations classes. Individual counseling situations grow out of the class work, but the basic purpose of the class work is to deal with the common or universal problems of high school youth. The aim of the guidance program is to develop understanding of basic conceptions and principals, which the students can apply to the solution of his own per- sonal problems. Human relations teachers consists of Mrs. Barbara Carr, Mrs. Jeanne Flegle, Miss Norma Haddad, Mr. Ford Haskins and Mr. Albert Layton. Other members of the department are Mrs. Almerene Kaufman, Mr. James Shader, Mr. Rudolph Skodack, Mr. Wallace Smith and Mr. Herschel Wallace, department chairman. Also working with the human relations department are Mr. Martin Holtgrieve, Mr. Harold King, Mr. William Macintosh. Mr. Robert Dalton, Mr. Russell Peterson. Mr. Ralph Cornell, Mr. Allen Dawson and Mr. Martin Erickson. Mr. James Lehman, Mr. Richard Seavitt, Mr. Burl von Allmen and Mr. Matthew Zipple also teach human relations classes. Mr. Herschel Wallace, Mrs. Almerene Kaufman, Mr. Wally Smith. Mr. Rudolph Skodack, Mrs. Jean Flegle, Miss Norma Haddad, Mrs. Barb- ara Carr, Mr. James Shader and Mr. Ford Haskins conduct a meeting in the multi-purpose room. 12