Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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Guidance The Guidance Department has the task of helping students make decisions that relate both to the now and the future. This can include academic success, career choice, personal concerns, employment and future education. The counseling staff utilizes both group and individual contacts to assist students and their parents in the search for options and alternatives. The department makes use of a number of information systems as supplementary resources. These include the English 111 career development program, evening seminars for parents, and lunch hour group guidance sessions for interested students. The counselors also visit the adviser rooms to convey necessary information to their assigned counselors. In addition, students can use the VICS computer information system located in the school library. Students can visit a school or college campus during a free period by making use of the video cassette and laser disc equipment housed in the departments' college resource center. Other information channels include the Guidance Newsletter, visits by school and college representatives, school and career vertical hanging files, departmental handouts booklets, and a number of bulleting boards at strategic locations in the building. John H. Althousc Mahlene D. Lee Chairman Jeffrey Marmon Lcnore H. Leonard 22

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William Lucian, Assistant Principal Principals )ohn Skilton, Assistant Principal G. Donnon McGinley, Assistant Principal Norman W. Schmid, Principal Time is a strange phenomenon for many of you. For some, the past twelve years have moved swiftly and have been filled with school-centered study and activity. For others, those twelve years took on a slower pace, and the center of their focus was on other aspects of life. For most, they were a mixture of both. Yet each one of you passed through exactly the same number of days and hours and minutes. Only the perceptions have differed and will remain with you as you leave one way of life to enter another. No one can say how much time the future holds, so it is important that you make the most of every opportunity. Your parents have given you life and taught you and your teachers have tried to prepare you for what lies ahead, but only you can fully realize what you have been given. Only you can turn the passage of time into success and well being and feelings of self-worth. To do this is your right and also your duty. No matter what your immediate endeavor in life may be, a profession or a career of service, early marriage or the armed forces, you are receiving a new start and a new opportunity. Time lies before you. Make the most of it.

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