Berkley High School - Bear Tracks Yearbook (Berkley, MI)

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THE CONTINUATION OF OUR NATION'S VIGOR AND PROSPERITY NECESSITATES A WELL-INFORMED CITIZENRYp ONE THAT IS ABLE TO GRAPPLE WITH THE PROBLEMS THAT CONFRONT OUR EXPANDING CIVILI- ZATION. ONE OF THE PURPOSES OF BERK- LEY HIGH SCHOOL IS TO ALERT US TO THIS TASK. A DIVERSIFIED ACADEMIC PROGRAM SERVES TO EXPAND THE BOUNDARIES OF OUR KNOWLEDGE. LINGUISTIC STUDY EN- DEAVERS TO FACILITATE COMMUNICA- TION AMONG OURSELVES AND BETWEEN THE OTHER PEOPLES OF THE WORLDp SCI- ENCE AND MATHEMATICS DEVELOP LOGI- CAL THINKINGp THE SOCIAL SCIENCES SPECIFY OUR PLACE IN SOCIETY. SELF- IMPROVEMENT IS THE FIRST STEP TOWARD CULTURAL SUCCESS. I 13

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Mrs. Helen Fullerton A.F.S. Mrs. Kathleen Annas Yearbook i 1 .,,L .. T ZA Mrs. Phyllis Mc George I ' l' Mrs. Virginia Heicleman 14 English Is the Cornerstone of American Education. The study of English has always been the cornerstone in the edifice of American edu- cation. From the earliest days of the log cabin and the little red schoolhouse, English has been stressed as a basic part of any curriculum. Yet, in too many schools basic has come to mean bland , As a result, a potentially stimulating course is often trans- formed into an unimaginative and uninspiring blob that fails to foster an interest among either students or teachers. This, fortunately, is not the case at Berkley High. Our school employs a staff of English instructors who know how to make the most of the opportunities a far-sighted and broad-minded administration has given them. Berkley High offers a program of English courses that are near-college level in content and encompass every area and facet of the communicative arts. The vocal and physical English skills are stressed in speech, debate, and dramatics classes while the power and usage of the printed word are presented in the study of iournalism, in staff work on the Spectator and the Annual, or within the fierce concentra- tion of the creative writing workshop. This last course, newly introduced, gives the school's best writers an opportunity to utilize their talents in the Scholastic Writing Awards Com- petition, a contest that, in the past, has given our students, and our school, national as well as regional acclaim. These electives, together with the fundamental English classes, subdivided to provide for different levels of ability, make up a curriculum and a department which offer the student a wide range of study so that, in his later life, he may comprehend a wide range of ideas. Short stories are discussed by Mrs. Marlett's creative writing class. + fy s N.- l Mr. Douglas Levasse ur Q. ,gm L if E 4: ,Q gps i gil' -4- of . .Q ,- Miss Marilyn Blomfield 52.7.91