Dondero High School - Oak Yearbook (Royal Oak, MI)

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The alternative to gym and pool classes is modern dance. The girls who take it, like Joyce Dawkins and Martha Seip, do an interpretive dance in which they tell a story through their motions. For centuries the use of the compass has been an essential skill employed by geometry students, Before his Biology I students, Mr. H. Tenhave presents to the class, in his own inimitable style, a hornets nest. rj'

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Sophomores Lost in Maze of Electives, Which to Choose is Big Decision T? .A Students in Mr. Tessem's world history class pick the subject from the text which they will give an oral report on. The voice of experience, Acorn Managing Editor Bobbie Leib, points out some of the fundamentals of newswriting to Mr. Graham's journalism students. I remember how many different courses I could choose from in my sophomore year, I wasnlt sure whether I should take business courses or continue my college prep curriculumj, reflected senior Dody Silverstein. Most sophomores have the same problem Dody had because of the amount of electives which they have to choose from. If interested in history or science, courses in world history, from ancient Egypt to modern times and Biology, the science of life, are offered. To be a worried and frustrated journalist or a mild, calm and normal English student, that's the question. Sophomores who choose Mr. M. Graham's English J-38c4 class are in for the Hprivilegel' to work on the Acorn or Oak. The more stable choose the regular English course. VVhile the journalism students are frustrated over copy writing and deadlines, the drivers' education teachers are chewing their nails to the shoulder while eager young drivers learn the techniques of driving a car. An invaluable and overcrowded class, drivers' education provides book work on the functions of a car and safety rules involved in driving plus road work where actual driving situations are stimulated on the Kimball Driving Range. To drive the car is half the battle, the other half, a car's maintenance, is taught by Mr. A. Pribish in the auto shop. The shop boys take a car apart and put it back so it rims perfectly. Business courses get a little more advanced and complicated as does the math course, geometry. Most students, through the aid of the counselors, IQ and achievement tests are able to decide which courses are best for them. X .31 i ll ,I

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iii' 3 .E Z2 Driving looks easy enough to Jane Garfield, Dave Sulka and Diane Swanson now, but they have some doubts about what it will be like when they get on the road. Driver training has become almost a required course since it is necessary to have the training to get a drivers license at the age of sixteen. : . In consumers economics some students seem to be taking an active interest in the dis cussion, but others act as if thelr thoughts are miles away. 18