Berkeley High School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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— Photo by Chris Hum Mr. Wenrich and his staff frequently met to discuss student counseling and guidance problems. Left to right at this meeting were: Mr. Richard Jaulus, Mr. Herbert Singer, Mr. Wallace Scott, Mr. Vernon Wenrich, Mr. Richard Endsley, Mr. William Sherrill, Mr. William Daoust, Dr. Alden Olson, Mrs. Helen Cassidy, Miss Patricia Kemper, Mrs. Bonnie Rice, Mr. Palmer Whitted, Mr. Albert Auch, Mr. Jay Aungst, Dr. John Urlaub, Mr. Milton Loney, and Mr. Walter Thompson, a visitor. Miss Ruth Jennings was absent. Mr. Thompson was from PACT (Plan of Action for Challenging Times). PACT aids disadvantaged people. The section of PACT that Mr. Thompson represented is concerned with students needing financial aid and information to continue their educa- tion. He urged BHS counselors to send students to PACT. Counseling More Complex Berkeley High school ' s counselors now have offices in the new counseling center of the B building. Each counselor last year had a group of 270 to 280 students for whom he was responsible. This was favorable, in comparison to other schools, in which each coun- selor had as many as 500 said head counselor Mr. Vernon Wenrich. Each counselor advised a group of students from 9th to 12th grades — Photo by Chris Hum M rs. Dorothy Waltz serves as secretary to all the counselors. Her duties in- clude typing letters of recommendation for colleges, recording the tally of class enrollments and various other clerical chores. Her helper, Maureen Lim, waits for instructions. and handles their educational, vocational and sometimes personal problems. They were re- sponsible for the welfare and advancement of the students, said Mr. Wenrich, and to this end they worked with students, teachers and parents. They worked with departments of admissions at colleges and furnished all interested students with details of available scholarships. Mr. Wenrich counseled students from each grade. He also worked with vice-principal Mr. Ray Hitch to balance classes at the beginning of the term, and directed the counselors. Counseling is more complex than it was 10 years ago, he said. It is more demanding. College admissions and job requirements are more difficult. Education itself is more important before going to work. The student and counselor both have more to learn. He focused on the changes in counseling. There are many more student programs such as accelerated placement and new scholarship programs, he said. Mr. Wenrich was chairman of the BHS Scholarship Committee which awards scholar- ships controlled by the Honor Society. A much higher percentage of students are interested in going on in school, He said. Fewer and fewer students are terminal here. They go on to col- lege, vocational schools or job training and as everything else becomes more complex, so does counseling. As people approach the end of three years of high school, they have a lot of growing and learning to do. The greater part of learning is self-education. Self-development, too, does not end. Both learning and devlopment are con- tinuous processes. 27

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Science is the principle means by which man has escaped the brief, brutal and frightening existence of early man to advance to where he now understands an appreciable number of forces affecting him and has gained the ability to control or adjust many of these forces, says Mr. Henry Nelson. Mr. Alvin Caburi Mr. Harry Choulett Mr. James Dickey Mr. Robert Dunk Mr. Urion Galin Mr. Robert Hamilton Mr. Clesson Harvey Mrs. Barbara Lewis Mr. Clayton Little Mr. Edgar Manske Mrs. Emily Moore Mr. Jefferson Nash Mr. Alexander Panasenko Mr. Bruce Whipperman Additional Education Dept. Helps Students achieve greatest potential The philosophy of the Additional Education Services de- partment, says Mrs. Eleanor Lund, chairman, who instituted it 14 years ago, is that every mentally, physically and edu- cationally handicapped student is entitled to the educa- tion which makes it possible for him to develop his great- est potential in academic subjects and to achieve occu- pational adequacy. One of the most valuable developments, says Mrs. Lund, has been the work experience program. This was started seven years ago by Mr. Douglas Boyce. Under this program s tudents attend classes for a portion of the day and participate in realistic work situations for on-the-job training during the remainder of the day. After high school graduation, these students have the opportunity of re- turning for conferences with work co-ordinators for further job planning and assistance in job placement. Most recent phase of additional education, started in 1965, is the program for the benefit of those whose pre- high school education has been deficient. Students who had not been well taught how to read, to understand mathematics and other basic courses were aided in catch- ing up in classes taught by Mrs. Miriam Pollock. The basic principle in the program for the visually im- paired is that the blind and partially sighted students should have the skills to participate as fully as possible — Photo by Chris Hum Mrs. Eleanor Lund confers with students Freddie Davis, standing, and Laurie Gundelfinger. in the mainstream of Berkeley High school student life, said Mr. Thomas Kellis, resource teacher. His program provides Braille, recorded and large print materials for the students, allowing them to take part with their sighted fellow classmates in the classroom. The students take all the required subjects and are involved in other courses such as orchestra, shop, journalism, chorus, home-making and art. They also participate in sports and after-school clubs. The ten totally blind students at Berkeley High also re- ceived instruction in orientation and mobility. These are skills necessary to move about independently using the white cane.

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— Photos by Chris Hum The BHS Library is well used by students as a study center. It contains many facilities, such as the Reader ' s Guide and a magazine section which students find quite useful for research. Librarians (left to right) Mrs. Louise Wheeler, Mrs. Ann Wilbur, and Mrs. Louise Caswell are checking out books. Mrs. Caswell checks out for one period books that have been reserved by teachers for their classes. 28 Many New Goals for Library Set During the Past Year Berkeley High ' s librarians, Mrs. Larissa Rulofson and Mrs. Carol Kala- maras, said they set many new goals for the library this past year. The most im- portant ones for the near future are to increase the book collection from 15,000 to 30,000 volumes, to add audio-visual materials and equipment, and to extend the library instructional program. In the audio-visual field the librarians say that they hope to obtain microfilms which would make it possible to store a back file of magazines for ten years. A collection of records, tapes and film- strips, available to all students and de- partments of the school, will be started and housed in the library. They say they hope a copying and duplicating ma- chine will be added to the library equip- ment by next year. Under the library instructional pro- gram Mrs. Rulofson and Mrs. Kalamaras say they hope to involve as many de- partments and students in the school as possible so that each students learns to utilize the library to its full potential.