Grosse Pointe High School - View Pointe Yearbook (Grosse Pointe, MI)

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Women teachers for boys as well as girls are common in America's secondary schools. Not so in Switzerland, Ed reported. Miss Margaret Casteel was his American history teacher. Because he intends to become an engineer, Ed enrolled in physics. Here he made his first acquaintance with the English system of meas- urement--quite unlike the metric system used in Europe. Fourth subject in Ed's course of study was music ' appreciation, complemented by the symphony series. Since music is a universal language, Ed found himself most easily at home in this course. K Mountain climbing, an exhilarating sport for all Swiss boys, ' becomes only a memory in the fiatness ol Grosse Polnte's Pane Four lake-side landscape, Physical education classes iilre Ed's tennis class, plus intra- mural and interschool sports programs, provide a diversity of sports nat found in mcst European schools. That's Benson Condor, 108, practicing his serve. More insight into the country Ed is visiting came to him through American government class, where current affairs were dis- cussed, occasionally altar hearing a guest speaker.

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IH AN AMERICA HIGH IIHIIIIL THIS IS WHAT THEY Iill The train will pull into a crowded station. A pair of eager eyes will scan the welcomers. Eddie Metral's first view of his family will undoubtedly be a moment of excitement. This meeting will come twelve months after he left Switzerland. The American Field Service chose Eddie Cand a hundred othersj to be ex- change students this year. Chances are he'll feel a little important and a little distinguished as he steps oi? the train. Naturally, he'1l have a lot to tell about the things that make American education . . . American! ,s.i...L - I .U . . . EXCHANGE STUDENT WILL BE TELLING PEOPLE IN SWITZERLAND The iirsi thing io impress Eddie abou! Grosse Poinie High School was ifs aimosphere of friendliness and infor- muiify. Thaf's wha! he fold Joan Hamann, HA, Beisy Gibson, HA, and Fai Price, IIA, oui by fhe Hag pole one Sepiember afternoon. Siudenf govemmeni, paiierned afier our nafional governmeni, was a new experience for Ed. Ho Courf is the judicial branch. Facing the culprii are justices Sue Cooper, IOA, Jim DeKorse, 12A Phil Hershelman, l2A, lChief Jusiiz.-el, and Frank Sweei, 98. Page Thre

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I I V - I I I I I I I A erican sfudeni publications like View Poinie and ihe Tower, Ed observed, are eifeciive in m helping siudenfs know each ofher and their schaol. He will send fhis issue of View Pointe baclr fo Swifzerland, fo give his parenfs glimpses af his school life here. For Ed, variety of food was a novelfy in ihe cafeferia, where sfudenfs choose lhair lunches from a menu fha? normally con- sisfs of nearly a hundred different ifems. is I I I One of fhe major differences beiwoen European and American scnoors I5 me Here in the United Sfares Ed's family consisfs of Mr. and Mrs. wiui emphasis placed on exira-curricular adiviiies, such as ihe Junior Red Cross. Los! Adams, Dick, HA, ANN, Gnd El7lUbBYl'l-PlUS l-ill, N10 Ffwfll PDO' ' He describes his homo life as relaxed and charming. Ocfober Ed offended a conference of Pune Lake. Page Five