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

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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

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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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i i Lights oull Camera! Roll 'eml Jim Eras, 98, and Carol Dunwoodie, 108, hurry through fhs noon movie line, anxious fo gel info fha old audi- torium before ihe exciting episode sfarfs. Nancy Bailey, 178, checks fhem ihrough the line alter Ginger Marlin, 128. Ihis quarrel headed for algebra or Spanish? Noi on your life! The beaming 1 t was 1 1109, and the halls were Suu' faces of Elaine Kenn, Pal Foster, Janet Lancaster, l2A's, and Joe Moore, HA, can mean only one fhing-lhey're all for some noon-fime fun. Then the minute hand clicked, the rang, and the halls sprang to life like a mechanical toy that had just been wound. It was lunchtime, and a rising din of exuber- P E ant voices, crashing lockers, and scurrying feet resounded through the halls. Books, those scourges of conscience, were tossed into lockers. TH These students were hungry-hungry, na- o o o turally, for soup and sandwiches, but especially hungry for fun! Take one sunshiny afternoon, one radio, and one group of sfudenfs assembled on lhe high school lawn, and you have a formula for incom- parable momenfs of midday camaraderie. Carol Kennedy, HA, Sue Mc.-Kee, HA, Gil Behling, 12B, Art Brooks, 128, John Leele, 128, Dick Manardo, HA. and Bnrw Gil-mm 11.1 ...: II ..-,.-L L, .. -, I I s.........-ww H r,.t .,:f .X wa...- . mi.--.-........... . aamsrsawsssmes.-1..-.s-1-..f ii-i.1..