Bishop Feehan High School - Flashback Yearbook (Attleboro, MA)

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The charity of age is to share experience. An integral part of a modern high school is its guidance program. To be effective, this program should have a three- fold function: group guidance, interviewing, and counseling. Bishop Feehan includes in its curriculum planning a period each week for group guidance. Through this aspect of guid- ance, many students can be given the direction and informa- tion that they need and desire. The various techniques used in this area of guidance lend an informality to the classroom situation which makes for better and more enthusiastic re- sponses from the students. The interview in counseling is a conversation with a pur- pose. '' It gives the student an opportunity to have a discussion with a counselor about his own individual problems. A major objective is to help the young person reach a stage of matu- rity where he will be able to make his own decisions intelli- gently. Counseling, often thought to be synonymous with inter- viewing, is a more inclusive term. It implies a thorough study of the student prior and subsequent to the interview. Each student's cumulative record is of significant value in the counseling process. Guidance in all of its many-sided functions is in opera- tion at Bishop Feehan. Its effectiveness rests ultimately upon administration, guidance personnel, and students. REV. JOSEPH POWERS, RESIDENT CHAP- LAIN, is available to all students for spir- itual counsel in conference or in confession. Father's personal interest is evident to each Feehanite. WITH S. M. FREDERICK, head of the Guidance De- partment, are Mr. Peter Gazzola and Miss Eileen McSoley, members of her department. 25

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The maturity of youth is to seek guidance. i tit as ae XPERIA FEEHAN STUDENTS seek counsel from the Source of all Light. They know that from Christ in the tabernacle come light and life and strength. ALFRED BLEAU consults S. M. Frederick, guidance director. He may be seeking advice about this year's courses, or information about college or technical school requirements, or help in career selection. 22

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Student Government means self control. SENIOR OFFICERS of the Student Council pose with moderators, S. M. Timothy and Miss McSoley: Dorothy Coderre, clerk of court; Fred Garland, treasurer; Kevin Martin, secretary; Stephan Nolan, president; Raymond Stafford, vice-president. STUDENT PATROL is a potent auxil- iary of the Student Council. Senior officers are Louis LeBlanc, Mary Melchiorri, Paul Capodanno, Edward Peck, and Cynthia Paioni. This unknown culprit must be acquitted by the Stu- dent Court, judging from the smiles of the officers.