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

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There's been a new emphasis upon guidance -that is taking stock of More foreign language! Dr. James Conant's recommendations point the way to a predictable the present and planning realistically for the future. Dr. Robert Hanson increase in advanced classes llike this third- and fourth-year Latin groupt. Next year Grosse helped Claire Langston, l2A, settle the question of which colleges she Pointe High School will add fourth-year French, third-year Spanish, third-year German, should apply for. and first-year Russian. in - - , . 1 WW . .if l 54' hu! ---- ...V 1 21:1 H 1' A .. my . ....,. Q I Q i College-level work in high school? lt's coming! By means of advanced placement exams, more and more students will eliminate some of their freshman college requirements. Don Myers, HA, Ben Weyhing, HA, Peter Mitchelson, l2A, Bruce Paquette, HA, and Carl Jernegan, l2A, set their sights on the exam for chemistry credits. Page Four uw llirvotions in Education Continued from Page Three in this highly specialized age calls for new sight, whether it be in the field of science or in the field of education. Like the rocket, Grosse Pointe High School is chart- ing new directions. More and more confidently, it is broadening old paths and creating new ones. Today's challenge provides the thrust to break away from inclinations to stand fast and rest on past laurels. More changes will follow the changes already insti- tuted. The curriculum will become more comprehen- sive, new in some respects but still retaining the best of the old. With vital interest the Class of June, 1959, will watch the progress along the new paths first traveled during its high school years. Today's seniors feel special pride in having been pioneers in new directions in learning. Already an influence in spreading world understanding, the foreign exchange program Long hours . . . good thinking . . . hard work . . . more will surely expand in extent and vitality. Exchange students from the Detroit area of all of these will produce more projects for future helped an entire audience of Grosse Pointers increase their awareness of other Grosse Pointe Science Fairs. As an example, John David- nationalities. son, l2A, displayed his physics project, a radioteletype. Vi il J 5-.

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Newly designed Border Cities League flags, only recently hung in the auditorium- gymnasium, symbolize the closer cooperation among neighbors that is sure to characterize the future. Whal will they do? Where will they go? What will they need to lrnow? For hig school students like Dave Kalember and Clif? Kuhl, l2A's, the future beckons in directions their fathers never dreamed ol. lew Ilireotions in Education learly and crisply over the loud speaker, an im- personal voice intones the countdown: Five-four- three-two-one-zero! Almost reluctantly, the rocket leaves the launching pad. Then. as if responding to prayerful urgings. it roars off in a mighty display of flame and power. This rocket, sent aloft to place a satellite in orbit, or perhaps to measure radiation above the earth's atmosphere. is a symbol of man's ever-widening search for knowledge - a search that is leading into new directions. Direction is no longer conceived of as a phenome- non indicated only by the compass needle. Direction Continued on Next Page

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