Cody High School - Comet Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Sixteen 1 4 5 fiocia sciences CIQUQIOIQ afuolenfa, cifizena ila Good driving fundamentals are one of the first things drivers training classes learn. Students expertly practiced these fundamentals last spring and brought Cody the city championship for safe driving. Keeping abreast of modern social problems, social studies classes used textbook fundamentals in history and government as a basis for a rock- eting interest in world affairs. Courses in American history and civics put the principles of our democratic heritage to use in the study of the present day educational and political situation. World history students used foreign problems of the past to review similar problems the world faces today. And economic classes developed a keener sense of monetary values as they charted the course of recessional problems in our nation's economic crisis. Tomorrow's citizens must be careful drivers too. And drivers training students used the prob- lem of careless, unalert, or drunk drivers to learn and practice safe driving.

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ekcfiued give riae fo incliuiolua! exlareddion Intimate theatre atmosphere prevailed for both audience and performer in the one-act play festival presented by Cody's drama classes. With simple props and everyday costumes, amateur thespians enacted numerous performances The ability to debate with ease and poise is one of the educational values that are derived from speech classes. for English classes who were invited to attend. In The T welve-Pound Look, one of these plays, a wealthy English- man finds himself in many personal tragic situations as he lets position and wealth go to his head. Fifteen

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A Cody victory on Quiz 'Em on the Air made the news as social studies students out- scored Mackenzie in a current events contest at WWJ-T V. OCIAL STUDIES TEACHERS . . . Top Row: K. undon, E. Elconin, W. Foster, F. Gazlay, A. Glovinsky, '. Hahn. Second Row: D. Hochberg, R. Leland, E. ink, C. McHenry fdriver trainingl, S. Mickelson, K. Yiyoshi. Bottom Row: M. Nadis, H. Ottati, P. Shattuck 'river trainingj, S. Teal, A. Warsen, C. Wheaton 'epartment head 1. ' .....h,w i Many Cody students will soon have to meet the demands for service in the various military branches of their country. This Navy recruiter informs students how to meet their future obligations. With the help of blackboard sketches, Mr. Gazley's American History U1 class discusses the territorial divisions of the colonial period. Representative Swainson, now Lieutenant Gov- ernor of the State of Michigan, spoke to the civic classes on governmental problems, em- phasizing the civic responsibility which will confront them in the near future. Seventeen