Clarkston High School - Hilltopper Yearbook (Clarkston, MI)

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Various Problems Are Met Efficiently... Numerous times, when we needed assistance, we turned to our competent custodial staff, always getting help beyond their many daily tasks. Keeping our school in excellent condition, they have made it an institution of which we can be proud. Throughout the entire year, our qualified kitchen staff prepares well balanced, appetizing meals for the entire school. Having a difficult job, and doing it excellently, they have provided us with nutritious and enjoyable meals. Our day at school is important, but getting to and from school is a large responsibility which is fulfilled by our indispensible bus drivers. They also assisted us when we needed a driver for a spectator or player bus. Waiting for the students to board their buses are our competent bus drivers: Row 1; Elaine Tones, Janet Trarop, Raymond Cooper, Marshall White, and Richie Parks. Row 2; Nina Olson, Elva Birchett, Betty Jo Dresser, Jean Nelson, Margaret Nelsey, Sara Boggs, Betty Prevo, Joan Turvey, Betty King, Elouise Taking a brief moment out of their busy morning schedule are the cooks Mrs. Lee Funk, Mrs. Ora Church, Mrs. Margaret Snyder, Mrs. Eleanor Sommers, Mrs. Bonnie Locklar and Mrs. Lorell Verbeck. Beach, Audrey Pethers, Helen Orr, Dorothy Sanson, Florence Blimka, Leone McDonald, Gladys Bates, Mary Russell and Jean Walters. Not pictured: Vera Torr, Pauline Roy, Norma Ross, and Dewey McConnaughey. Mr. Sherm Lowery and Mr. Rec Bird constantly watch over the conditions of the school, making plans as they are doing here, to keep it neat, clean and appealing to the students.

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Providing For Extra Privileges In School., Mrs. Marilyn Hanson Western Michigan University MacMurray College B S. and M.S. degrees Girls Counselor Mr. Dom Mauti Head of Physical Education Department Eastern Michigan University B.S. degree Varsity Club Sponsor Varsity Basketball Coach Boys Counselor Mr. Barry Breidenbaugh Indiana State Teachers College B.S. degree Special Education Mr. Ralph Thayer Eastern Michigan University B.S. degree Driver Education Mrs. Lawric Burnette Lambuth College B.S. degree Publications John Knox and Cheryl Cullen are preparing themselves for an hour of driving. Dale Allsop and Dennis Szeremet have just completed their hour at the wheel. Our futures lie as dim horizons until an experienced voice speaks to us with knowledge and understanding, and helps us prepare ourselves for adult life. The counseling staff begins to prepare students in their freshman year to meet the challenges of the future. Vocations, colleges, high school courses and activities are discussed and planned. It is then up to the student to use the advice and counsel to the utmost. With the complicated network of our modern roads presenting greater and greater challenges to the well-educated driver, it is the responsibility of the school to instill in all future drivers the qualities which characterize a good a iomobile operator. The driver’s training staff patiently- prepares pupils for tomorrow’s more advanced automotive mechanics. The Work-Experience Program is provided for the special education student at the senior high school level. In addition to the required subjects which are directed toward job preparation, this phase of the program provides help in specific problems of job preparation during and prior to actual job placement. The special education teacher acts as job coordinator, and works closely with the student, employer, and parents in the process of job placement. Upon actual placement, the teacher continues his coordinating activities with an intensive follow-up. The success of the special education student in actual job placement is one of the major factors in meeting requirements for graduation on the Work-Experience Program. The purpose of speech correction is to help prepare the student for present and future social contact. Speech correction in the Senior High School is available for those students desiring to improve personal speaking habits. Classes are designed to describe areas of weakness to the individual, and methods to strengthen and improve these areas. The individual is given the responsibility of improvement outside of class in normal speaking situations. Preparing for a future in journalism, the members of the publications staff, fulfill to the utmost, their duties as newspaper and yearbook publishers. While practicing individual writing techniques each adds a bit of color to the pages of the Hilltopper or Wolf Cry. Punctuation, capitalization - all the rules of writing must be followed accurately to insure the success of each publication. Newspapermen and yearbook staff members practice daily the rules of writing for the coming enjoyment of the reader of the Wolf Cry and Hilltopper. With the combined qualities of these groups maintaining hard work with a sincere interest in what they are doing today, the Wolf Cry and Hilltopper are turned out in the tradition of Clarkston Senior High. Choosing the right college is of the utmost importance to seniors. The counselors are always ready to go over all Michigan College bulletins at any time with the interested students.

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Mr. Milford Mason serves Clarkston Senior High School as Principal, performing with efficiency and high standards the many difficult tasks involved in meeting the problems of a large high school. His office is the scene of many consultations with troubled students, college bound students, and students in need of advice concerning school projects. The office of Mr. Terry Thomas, Assistant Principal in charge of Guidance, finds almost every student at one time or another seeking help for future plans. His thorough knowledge of colleges, technical schools, scholarship plans and other student aids is offered to every student at least once during the academic year. Mr. George Barrie, Administrative Assistant, aids in the coordination of educational activities within the elementary schools of our system. Seen here in his office, he spends countless hours checking over new material that may be used in the education of Clarkston Elementary School students. Supervising Today’s Early morning tasks completed, Dr. L.F. Greene, Superintendent of Clarkston Community Schools, leaves the new administration building for lunch. Upon his shoulders rests the final decisions of school problems and their solutions, their seriousness detected from the expression on his face this early afternoon. Mr. Floyd Vincent, Assistant to the Superintendent has countless duties to face each day. In his office at the Administration Building he supervises many various activities concerning the betterment of community schools, including those of buses, funds for the school, and new school sites. 18