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

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lt' an Honor . . . CC rother, what a break! Sign up while you '95 have the chance! I did, and am I glad. You! You took an honors course? Why, you're no brain. Of course not! You don't necessarily have to be a genius to be in an honors course. I just loved it. We did a lot of different things, and something was always popping. I heard that honors courses get just piles and piles of homework! Oh, you do more work, I guess, but mostly because you want to. You get interested, and before you know it you've finished a lot of ex- tras . . . you get so you like to. Gives you a feeling of se- curity because you are surer you'l1 be set for college . . . As in Mr. Fox's English V group, honors classes often experiment with unusual and creative projects. This class adopted The Old lady Shows Her Medals for radio presentation and tape-recorded their reading of the lines. The informality of honors courses is demonstrated by journalism l students. Working in small committees they try out their writing efforts on each other. Outside reading, rather than textbook assignments, composes a major part of the history Ill honors course. Mr. Kaloger helps his class digest material from many sources concerning pre-Civil War America. The findings of individual research projects are reported in a panel discussion. Polly Walker, Jo Allor, Betsy Hammond, and Kathy Zabinslri, 1lB's, pooled their analyses at a short story in Mr. Krauz's English V honors class.

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Synchronized swimming provides a pleasant sport and recreation for Judy Johnson, HB, Judy Poppen, HA, llona, Judy Brooks, and Darlene Hall, 1lB's. Swimming classes are something most German schools don't have. Getting to Know Each llther . . . X K. E NS Ilona is impressed by the informality of American home lite. She is living with the Emerson family-Robert, 108, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Emerson, Fran, 128, Judd, June '56, and of course lady Bambi, their collie. rom thousands of miles in opposite directions came Kiichiro Nagai and Ilona Gerlach for their year as exchange stu- dents in Grosse Pointe High School. With them for future American friends, they brought insights into cultures vastly dif- ferent from the American way of life they came to learn about. Next summer when they return to Japan and Germany, respectively, they will take with them a first-hand knowl- edge of an American community-to be shared with family and friends at home. Through the foreign exchange student program Grosse Pointe High School and Ilona and Kiichiro are contributing a lit- tle bit to world understanding. Dr. and Mrs. David Davidson and their son John, HB make up Kiichiro's new family. He enioys the warm, friendly atmosphere of his home in America and will MV- Meflin Sfh'-'lui A iCU G9V9'ff 'f f 'eo'- f 9XPlUi 'S U Point about take back to Japan memories of many wonderful experiences he has shared with A 9I CU S SY-'VSV' of QOVEVNIHBHP to K fl 'f0f U-F -'Une' Weber' MUD' PUHQVSOH ,Ms family' Ann Van Goethem, and Steve VanderVoort, l2B's, linen qttgnfiygly Page Twenty-eight