Frederick Douglass High School - Survey Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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EMPLOYMENT AS AN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY lt has been said of education, it is not a destina- tion but a continuous journey . . . always we are en- route. According to statistics of the Baltimore School Sys- fem, seventy-five per cent of the graduates of our high schools continue their educatonal journey informally via the route of permanent employment in business, in- dustry, and governmental occupations. Twenty-five per cent travel formally the way of institutions of higher learning. Usually from the latter group our leaders have developed, The size of the former group, how- ever, warrants a consideration of the place of employ- ment in the educational journey. The efforts of employers to meet the problems inci- dent to large employee staffs have resulted in personnel practices worthy of our attention. Keeping in mind the more famiilar experiences as demanded of and pro- vided by formal education, it will prove interesting to consider the practices and experiences encountered by a high school graduate of i944 in the initiation and pursuit of a career in employment. The graduate, having been interviewed, and coun- seled by vocational and placement counselors, is re- ferred to a job of his choice. Although the applicant is a high school graduate, the company must know about him in order to place him effectively in its pro- duction organization. Scholastic records, physical and health records are secured and studied after which the' individual is tested for mental and mechanical poten- tialities. These initial procedures furnish factual data for help in the assignment to suitable tasks. Everything EARL W. TURNER, Placement Counselor being favorable to this point, the graduate becomes an employee and is ready for induction into the life of the organization. A induction is facilitated by a period of training of a non-productive nature designed to supplement and adapt the skills and abilities of the worker to the meth- ods peculiar to the new situation. This period varies ac- cording to the complexity of the job to be done. During the induction, which corresponds to orientation week in organized education, the shock of transition from school to work is cushioned and the new worker is eased from the flexibility of the school environment and adjusted carefully to the regimentation of the work-a-day world. Pre-training having been successfully passed, the work- er is placed on the fIoor and his participation in pro- duction begins. Now prepared for contact with and manipulation of machinery, tools, and materials, he be- gins the series of adaptations and adjustments to fellow- workers, supervisors and others who have achieved ex- perience on the job. The impact of the new worker with a new and strange environment and varied person- alities gives rise to conflicts and problems. Satisfactory adjustment and solution of problems is vital in order that the worker be a strong and smooth cog in the pro-- ductive machinery. Personnel workers of experience and training stand by available to counsel toward adaptabil- ity and efficiency, Out of the solution of these problems, come suggestions and ideas for increasing production and improving supervisory methods for greater effici- ency. Here, in a sense, we have curriculum revision in the occupational world. lContinued on Page 467 4 i l 3 W1 Wan Win lt Bt N, A-wi M Mr E W Turner, the Placement Counselor Interviews a Graduate

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'THE WORLD TURNS TO YOUTH In the msdst of chaos and confusuon the hopes of a wretched, ravnshed world are focused on IIS youth Our elders have made a seemnngly hopeless tangle of natIon al and Internatuonal affaIrs It wIIl be up to us t straughten out thus tangle The old folks started a global war, and already mIllIons upon mIllIons of youngsters have sacrIfIced thelr Iuves and futures It IS the task of the rest of our generatnon to conclude the war and to estabIIsh and enforce an endurmg peace We must see that IUSIICC rather than vengeance IS practnced ID our post war treatment of the Axus natsons RacIal dIscrImInatIon wIll prove dlsastrous We must mp potenhal aggressors In the bud and we must stop future HItIers before they start We must advocate world brotherhood and peaceful arbatratnon of dnsputes We must maIntaIn a world poluce force to show that we mean busIness We must see that rIsIng natuons such as lndla, Chlna and the phlllpplnes get a good deal from theur snster countrues and that they learn the op EUGENIA WILLIAMS POFIUDIIICS whuch a true democracy offers Democracy? Perhaps an ImmedIate Iob wIll be to Improve the socnal, economnc, and moral lot of the Negro race, and to promote satlsfactory relateons wath the whute man We as Negroes are optImIstIc The blood of Whlfe and colored young Amencans IS mnngled on the gory altar of War Can such a bond be broken by petty preIudIce7 The ultra conservatives are stnll fnght Ing the CIvIl War It IS our pob to break up conserva tusm and to lIve pacIfIcally wnth ourselves and our whate nelghbors We have a tremendous task ahead of us lt IS our herntage In Chana we are the Students, who are makmg ChIna Into a powerful modern natnon ln Europe we are the savers of our natrve lands from the Nazss ln Germany we are the vuctnms of a brutal New Order In Ameruca we are such orgamzatnons as Amerucan Youth for Democracy The world turns to Youth and Youth ralhes to the call YOUTH FACES THE TASK IMPOSED BY THE WORLD As we the graduatIng class of February nlneteen hundred forty fIve approach the end of our publnc school lufe we realnze that we are about to Inhent a world of tumult, strnfe and dnsorder All the Intrlcate problems of todays world wIll become ours to solve lt wIlI be up to us together wnth the remaunder of our generatnon to cross the barrIers of natIonalIty race, and rellgnon to facIlItate the maIntenance of a har monIous world It wIlI be our duty to see that twenty years hence our chaldren wIll not march once more INTO the grIm fnelds of conflnct We must and the mass es of people to elevate themselves to that level of human dIgnIty to whIch everyone IS entntled To accomplnsh these thIngs wall requlre the utmost In polutlcal leadershIp Therefore, I shall attempt to prove that my generatIon IS fully equlpped to meet the challenge of the new world To substantiate thls Vlew let us take a glance at the preparatnons whuch tomar rows cItIzens are recenvung even now There have been many modes of IndoctrInatIon, but perhaps the most outstandnng have been the lessons learned In war, for here It was that cooperatuon was unvenled as the keynote to the future Our youngsters know that thus does not apply to Internatuonal relatnons The utmost cooperatuon must be shown between all con flnctmg Interests whether natnonal or Internatuonal In character ln an equally outstandung though less spectacular role we fund the natuon s schools Today s educatuonal InstItutIons not only seek to Increase the student s edu catnonal growth but also to supplement thIs growth JOHN GLOSTER wuth InItIatIve resourcefulness Independence economuc understandIng relIabIlIty, and respect These thang accomplIshed by such extra currIcular OCIIVIIIES as dra matIcs sports publlc speakmg school Iournahsm bank Ing and student government For our thurd and fInal glnmpse of youth s educatuon for the task let us look Into the communnty Knownng the value of expernence as a tutor our young people have not wanted for matunty to thrust upon them the dutIes of lIfe Instead they have asked for and ac cepted Important responsIbIlItIes In the communnty A home In churches yes even In the dIffIcult fleld of polItIcs youth has alded In the allevIatIon of commumty problems Who among us has not read of the feats of youth In partIally solvxng IIS own problem of Iuvennle delmquencyr' ComIng even closer to home we can poInt to the BaItImore Inter Hugh School Congress, whlch for the fIrst tIme crossed raclal and FEIIQIOUS barruers to become an outstandung commumty organnzatnon do Ing IIS utmost to see that youth does not Shlfk IIS duty to IIS country Doubtless too you have heard of the YMCA s Youth IN Government expernment I thls project Amerlcas youth sat In formal SESSION at state capltals enactmg statutes some of whuch were later presented to the offucual state legnslatave bodIes ln thus same manner, the youth of today wall soon step Into the shoes of the polItIcIans, statesmen, dnplo mats, and, most Important, the voters of today Wnth a background so full of preparatuon youth, of whnch our class IS an Inseparable part, wIIl march confudently Into the brIght new realm of the future I ll . 0 ' ' X , . . - - - - 11 11 1 A , I T . ll Y ll 1 ' I I I - I I . 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