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

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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.

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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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Art Prints Decorate Hew Library The Berkeley High School library became more and more visual last year, announced Mrs. Carol Kalamaras, assistant librarian. Mrs. Kalamaras elaborated, saying that the addi- tion of 40 or 50 art prints to the library emphasized some of the literary aspects which tie in with art. The prints, bought with the $200 raised from last year ' s student art work sale, were from various periods in history illustrating the art forms contem- porary with great literary works. Miss Nova Bartlett, who was the art department chairman before she retired last year, coordinated the art sale and bought the picturs. Mrs. Kalamaras expected to recieve from the Elementary and Secon- dary Educational Act an additional $100 with which to buy more prints. The prints were on display in the library and in various rooms throughout the school. On the suggestion of Mr. John Barnes, BHS English instructor, Mrs. Kalamaras started an Art Print of the Week. 29 — Photos by Chris Hum (left) Mrs. Larissa Rulofson, Head Librarian, right, attends to Roger Heilman at the counter of the BHS Library. The library has many new facilities, including a stack area for non-fiction books, and an enlarged reference section, in which is contained a number of art books. The library also has several classrooms which may be used by the library, or by classes doing work in the library. Above, Mrs. Carol Kalamaras, Assistant Librarian, explains library facilities and procedures to 10th graders, in one of the library classrooms.