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

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Diane Garcia proctors for her father, Mr. Alvin Garcia, Mr. Robert Pearl, Curriculum Associate of the Art De- director of the Audio-Visual Media Center. partment (in middle), shows Mr. Garcia in the threading procedure for a film projector while proctor Walter Stewart (far right) looks on. Unique Media Center Aids BHS Teachers Berkeley High School is one of the few schools in the country and the only school in the Pacific coast with its own audio-visual center. The Educational Media Center, as it is called, is de- signed to provide teachers with the extra media they need to perform their teaching function. The center, which was designed and put into effect last year by Mr. Alvin Garcia, is located in G 201. Most audio-visual centers are handled by School Districts, but the Berkeley School Board was willing to appropriate the money for Berkeley High ' s own center. This way there is not the transportation problem and everything is handy for the teachers. Projectors, overhead projectors, tape recorders, record players, and other audio-visual equipment is lent out by the center. There is even a closed circuit T.V. avail- able for use. This can be used to demonstrate close up work for a large group. Another function of the Educational Media Center is materials production. There is equipment at the center which can be used to make transparencies for overhead projectors as well as equipment to make stencils which will run up to 5,000 copies. (A ditto master can make only 100 copies.) There is also a file of up to date material in the audio- visual material field. Teachers may scan this file for ideas or new materials which are available. Mr. Garcia feels that the teachers are making good use of the center. He thinks this is reflected in the classroom by a change of attitude on the part of the students. He feels that they have become more excited and active with the aid of this equipment. Joyce Wallace has her picture taken by Mr. Garcia for her 1 4 ID card with the new Polaroid. Mr. Caroline Smid, Speech instructor, is making copies of some typing with the new reproducing equipment-

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Mrs. Larissa Rulofson and Mrs. Carol Kalamaras discuss history with Walter Pope. Minority Students Helped by New Counselor Assistants The College Commitment Program was an ef- fort by colleges and universities in the area to counsel minority youth in regard to enrolling in four year institutions, said Head Counselor Mr. Vernon Wenrich. Under the direction of Mr. William Sherrill, former counselor at Berkeley High School, minority college students from the University of California, San Francisco State College, and San Jose State College were placed in high schools in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, Hayward, San Francisco, and San Jose as counseling assistants to offer support, tutoring, college admissions and financial aides information. At Berkeley High School there were two stu- dents working in connection with the program. They were Pedro Ruiz and Pat Wilson. Pedro is a Spanish American from Panama. He speaks both Spanish and English fluently. Pedro studied for two years in the mid-west, at Aurora College, then transfered to Cal Riverside for one year and was at Berkeley where he was a senior in Sociology. Pat is a Negro. She grew up in Berkeley and graduated from Berkeley High School in 1965. She is attending the University of California and is Majoring in Business Administration. She was Broad Range of World Literature Encompassed at Seminar BHS students in the new Honors Seminar Study were involved in a panel discussion on the many eras of World Literature. From left to right: English teacher and sponsor of the semi- nar, Miss Elizabeth Bennett; Laurie DeVos, Patricia Smith, Moira Gibbens, Jeff Muscatine and Librarian Mrs. Carol Kalamaras. Honors Seminar, a new course offered at Berkeley High, was a guide in helping inter- ested students to work toward independent study. It was a period long course which met in the library every other day and was instructed by Miss Elizabeth Bennett, English teacher. Library Is Laboratory, Searching Center and Motivating Force Our concern this year, said Mrs. Larissa Rulofson, head librarian at Berkeley High School, has been to define for students, teachers and administrators the functions of a school library — its differences and simi- larities to all other types of libraries. Primarily a school library is a flexible teaching area which is used as a laboratory to discover a variety of materials, a searching center for using keys to information, and a motivating force to use this discovery process as a lifelong learn- ing tool. The teaching aspect of the library within the school is emphasized since the pursuit of independent study is impossible without the knowledge and skills to do research work. As an enrichment area the library welcomes stu- dents to pursue independent reading within reasonable rules set for the benefit of all students, she continued. We have made a beginning toward the concept of the library as a media instructional center with the addi- tion of records in the fields of music and literature, art prints, and microfilms of magazines such as American Heritage, Ebony, Scientific American and Time. Mrs. Rulofson defined a librarian as a media special- ist concerning the selection of media and the thorough knowledge of the media available. A librarian she con- tinued, is also a teacher who plans instructional pro- grams and classes for using the media and teaches about various media to individuals when necessary but primarily to groups. A librarian motivates growth in ap- preciation of a wide variety of materials. She is an organizer who creates efficient procedures for finding stored media and promotes efficient processes for the use of media. Pedro Ruiz and Pat Wilson discuss counseling problems of minority students. Honor Seminar Group in Library.

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