Cody High School - Comet Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Informal conferences with parents enables Mrs. Emily Stern to discuss a student's progress and assist in helping to straighten out student problems. School enrollments present many puzzling problems. Mrs. Laughner attends to these bewildering details through orientation and explanation as she aids enrolling students in the school library. An overcrowded school must make use of a back hall to construct a much-needed study hall. Mr. Rensberry supervises and counsels students here at a considerable distance from his own office. - Eleven

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counfie ora' a uiaory Lego afrengfkena dfuclenfd Ten SECRETARIAL STAFF . . . Top Row: B. Emmel- kamp, M. Gccn lbookkceperl, J. Holiday. Second Row: M. Koppitch, E. Kryn lbookkeeperj, A. Masters. Bottom Row: M. McCormick, F. Rush, R. Tozer. COUNSELORS . . . Top Row: J. Cumming, M. Eccles lattendancej, E. Keller, A. Klink, M. Laugh- ner. Bottom Row: R. Miles, B. Rensberry, J Sebaly, E. Stern, T. Weaver lspecial educationj H. Wholihan. Students have quickly learned to appreciate and profit by the advice of their counselors. Years of teaching experience and a special training course qualifies these guidance experts for their demanding job. The start of each semester brings weeks of hectic work in order to get every student settled in the proper classes. Yet with careful planning weeks before, schedule changes still occur. Counselors have more than enough paper work to occupy their time. But with the capable help of the office secretaries, who are each assigned to a counselor as a part of their duties, routine tasks are taken care of. This leaves time for counselors to talk over problems with both stu- dents and parents which is the most important part of their job.

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Aferafure an comlooaifion fun amenfags emia afiize A chair becomes a footrest for Mr. Bachner as he emphasizes a point in a class lecture. Miss Quinn directed her class' attention to illustrative examples in the textbook on how to outline and write a research paper including footnotes. Twelve The unfortunate loss of English teacher Mr. Thomas Hallam this year l1as left Cody indebted to u talented man. A foreign exchange teacher to Scotland in 1958, he was also presented a Ford Fellowship to make a compara- tive study of education. Q. I 332,57 . 'X Jix ' Qi 1 im ., il e s ji . ,e ,, is S ri s ' .itat i Modern education stresses aca- demics . . . to the Cody student this meant a new interpretation of his English course. Now, classes in liter- ature and composition worked to develop and teach the student on a higher academic level. Literature classes explored the vast realm of American, modern, and classical writings. But it was the classics that seemed to challenge the imagination of each student and pro- voke thoughtful study of different in- terpretations of life as seen by various authors. Composing original essays and critically reviewing many topics in composition classes taught students to develop their ability to express what they comprehend. And a thorough study of grammar and punctuation also helped students master the art of being able to write well.