Three Rivers High School - Reflector Yearbook (Three Rivers, MI)

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Upon Retirement, Mr. Roys Anticipates Traveling in U. S. Three Rivers High School will lose one teacher to retirement this year, Mr. Gerald Roys. After a thirty-year teaching career Mr. Roys has long looked forward to his retirement and plans to travel extensively. During his thirty years of teaching Mr. Roys has taught primarily business subjects such as book- keeping, typing, and in some years, economics and commercial math. He has taught in various Mid- west schools: White Pidgeon, Constantine, Ionia, Saranac, and Elgin, Illinois, as well as at a private business college in Ashtabula, Ohio, for five years. Besides classes in high schools, Mr. Roys has also taught adult classes and night school courses. Mr. Roys, who had always wanted to be a teacher, graduated from T.R.H.S. in 1921. He attended Ferris Institute in Big Rapids and Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. One person who has made a lasting impression upon Mr. Roys in attaining his professional goal was one of his instructors in college, Mr. W. M. Ferris, who was the founder of Ferris Institute. Mr. Roys has sincerely enjoyed his years of teaching at T.R.H.S. He has seen the school grow from four hundred in 1921 to the present enroll- ment of two and one half times that size. During his years of teaching he has ably equipped many, many students for work in the modem world. Now that his long awaited retirement has come, Mr. Roys plans to enjoy his hobbies of gardening and antique collecting and to travel over the United States. Perhaps the most enjoyable prospect to Mr. Roys is that he will not have to spend any more cold, snowy winters in Michigan! Gerald Roys

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Edmund W. Blank, principal; Ruth Henning, secretary Problems Presented by Annexation and Growth Many new curriculum changes have been made this year to offer TRHS students a wider range of subjects. One new class consisting of forensics in the first semester and dramatics the second has been formed for interested upperclassmen. A new social science class is offered to freshmen. The emphasis in this class is placed on the individual in relation to himself, his community, his state, nation, and world. Seniors studied American Government first semester and chose between sociology, psychology, international relations, and economics for their second semester studies. Spe- cial Education students are now being offered a co-operative training program under the direction of Mr. Brueck. Over-crowding is the major problem in the high school with 1085 students enrolled. Classes and halls are crowded and there are not enough assembly seats for all the students as well as the fifty-three teachers in the building this year. Familiar faces to TRHS students are those of Mr. Blank ' s capable assistants: secretaries, Mrs. Henning and Miss Sharon Shutes. Miss Shutes works half .days in the principal ' s office and half days in the guidance office. Suzette Warner , financial secretary; Eileen Milioler, secretary, business office. 17

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Student teachers first semester: Robert Thill, history; Mike Ewing, history and English; Charles Swartz, industrial arts; Byroii Bond, speech; and Peter Jarrad, mathematics. Mr. Wills organizes his materials prior to the beginning vf a school day. Mrs. Langworthy and Mrs. Cleveland, on Hall Duty, discuss a Home Ec. Dept. problem.