Central High School - Centralia Yearbook (Bay City, MI)

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Helping Monica Irwin understand a vital point about her composition is Mr. Bruce Anderson. Reading articles in Today’s Publications class to fulfill assignments are a group of students. Wondering about the problems in the world today, before one of her classes, is Miss Ransom. 20 ACADEMICS

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Seeking the help of a visual aid during one of his English Lit. tests is senior Mark Cornelius. New Courses Added, Expand Department Starting this year, along with previous English courses, students may take Reading of Modem Plays or Reading II. Reading of Modem Plays is an addition to the literature section, while Reading II is an advanced class for the improvement of reading and comprehension skills. Central received a new teacher in addition to the two new classes. Mrs. Charles taught Survey of American Literature along with the other new class, Fundamental Grammar. Students planning to go to college must take three years of grammar, three semesters of literature, plus three electives. Non-college bound students must have two semesters of grammar, two of literature, and two elective classes. Members of the English Department planned to revise all classes by combining and adding them. They planned to keep English up to date. Mr. Richard Dalzell carries out a casual atmosphere in his Survey of American Literature class by sitting on top of his desk while attempting to explain a passage from the day’s assignment. ACADEMICS 19

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Speech Requirement Remains Unchanged One semester of speech remained a pre-requisite for graduation. Although the course was offered to both juniors and seniors, most students chose to fulfill the requirement during their junior year of school. Giving students confidence when speaking before an audience was the main objective of the course. A secondary factor was to inform the students by exposing them to various subject matters and conflicting opinions. Three main types of speeches were required by most instructors. These included introductory, illustrative and argumentative. In addition, some included panel discussions and career reports as required types of speeches. No new teachers, textbooks or techniques were used in speech this year. Drama, Radio-TV, Debate and Forensics were among the courses that could be substituted for speech to fulfill their graduation requirement. Demonstrating how to give a speech correctly in one of his speech classes is Mr. Ecker. Delivering a demonstration speech, one of the required speeches, is junior Mike VanPoppelen. ACADEMICS 21