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

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Studenti can always find help in the guidance ana. although they sometimes have to wait aufhile. Pat Baker waits to have a conference with Miss JoAnna Bielecki. Edsel's Visiting Teacher, who is busy talking to the school's Special Education teacher. Mr. Charles West.

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Human Relations Edsel offers unique guidance Human Relations class helps to give students keen insight Would you like to have a class that only meets two or three times a week? Sounds like a pleasant change from the regular routine of five classes a week, doesn’t it? Well, that’s exactly what Edsel Ford's Human Relations class is. It is part of the school's unique guidance program which combines counselling and class sessions. The total program is aimed at helping students to better understand themselves and their abilities. The classroom part of the program is aimed at giving students a real look at life. Although students begin by learning school policy, the curriculum soon broadens to include speed-reading, psychology, college planning, budgeting, and marriage and family life. The second phase of the program, the counselling por- tion, gives students a better chance to know their advisor and counselor. They are able to see him in the regularly scheduled Human Relations classes in addition to individual conferences. Sound like an interesting program? Undoubtedly! Af- terall, every Edsel Ford student signed up for it . . . but maybe that's because it's a required course. This beautiful green frog was a present from one of my grateful counselees, says Counselor Joseph DiFranco to Pam Whitmore and Kathy Gendjar, who came to him to ask him for advice concerning college. HUMAN RELATIONS DEPARTMENT. FRONT ROW Mr. Arthur Bour- assa, Mrs. Victoria Stock, Mr. Addison Dixon. SECOND ROW: Mr. Harold King, Mr. Ford Haskms. Mrs Almerene Kaufman, Mr. Harry Adams. TOP ROW: Mr. James Irwin, Mr. Rudolph Skodack, Mr. Matthew Zipple. Mrs. Jan Flegle, Mr. James Shader (Department Chairman). ABSENT: Mr. Joseph DtFranco. In the tenth grade, students practice speed reading Larry Hanlm and Pat Coumeya answer questions to check their comprehension. 20 Staff and Academic Life

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Science wi . • t Revamped science program confuses sophomore classes Major, minor sequences offer wider variety to new students You mean I can’t take a whole semester of biology like my sister did? asked an incoming 10B student. No, not with the new science curriculum. As always, sophomores must decide whether they are going to take a major in science, a minor, or the minimum required amount of science. However, now their decision must be made immediately, because science majors and mi- nors take different sequences. Those who want only one or two years of science take a new general science sequence which condenses each course into 13 week periods. Students who major in science, on the other hand, take one year each of the same three courses. However, when photosynthesis, oxidation-reduction equations, and indexes of refraction appear, science majors tend to wish that they had taken the general science sequence instead; but, when they find themselves performing some of the same experi- ments that led to great discoveries, they change their minds. Who knows? Maybe there's an Einstein at Edsel Ford! Science Department. FRONT ROW: Mr. Stanley Smith, Mr. Jack Bridges, Mr. Alan Drake Mr. Arnold Domke (Reserve Basketball coach), Mr. Richard Hough. SECOND ROW: Mr. Mark Boersma (Department chairman and Science Club sponsor), Mr. Ltt Bartlett (School photographer), Mr. Arthur Konarske, Mr. Eugene Wozntak. Mr. Michael Materia, Mr. Joseph Mottillo. Absent: Mr. Alan Dawson (Cross-country and Track coach). Fascination seems unlimited when students first encounter slide rules. The large model slip-sticks, found in every science room provide a unique method of study for Bill Waite and Jackie Smith. D ' Ct Ik Sk Si Tt I 01 80 Ht« Vims'' n» “aat) 22 Staff and Academic Lif