Edmeston Central High School - Edmestonian Yearbook (Edmeston, NY)

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SENLOIE ANNUAL NINETEEN FQRTY-TWO GUIDANCE PROGRAM Vocational guidance is a planned, scientific effort to help youth solve the very important problem of choosing a life occupation. A majority of high school students graduate without choosing a vocation. They drift into the first job that comes along, About 8072 of those who express a vocational choice-girls pick nursing, teaching, stenography. The boys-aviation, engineering, law and medicine. About 621 of the gainfully employed are actually working in these professions. Many engineering colleges Hunk out as many as 4022 of their enrollees. Medical colleges as high as 30921. There are 25 different kinds of engineering. Most boys can only name four or five. There are 17,000 dif- ferent jobs in this country today. It is estimated that more than half of the work- crs in the country are in the wrong vocation. Each year many college scholarships go unused because young people do no.. know and do not apply for them. Therefore, the guidance program should have the following objectives: To build files of information on educational and occupational opportunities. To give each student an aptitude and interest test. To keep the subject of guidance before the student by discussions in home room weekly, grades 7 - 12, on occupational trends, job requirements, educational opportunities, etc. To instruct the Seniors on such topics as choosing a college, and how to apply for a job. To take trips to colleges and visit industries. To keep a personality picture of each student from the time he enters in the first grade until he leaves or graduates. This record would include test records, in- terests, hobbies, and results of personal interviews. To institute a counseling service for out of school youth. To follow up graduates and drop-outs. To survey the occupations of this area. To have the pupil interview people who are actually engaged in the job that interests the pupil. Just what is being done to attain these objectives? The program itself is iust getting under way. The students wrote for the information to fill the occupation- al file. Every two weeks the county director of guidance visits the school to give group talks to the students, and individual counsel to the Seniors and students ex- pecting to leave school, Each week the county guidance office sends out a news let- ter for use in the home room. This news letter has such features as Occupational Trends and Job of the Week. Each one is concluded by a Job Quiz which brings up pertinent questions concerning occupations. The work in the school is headed bv a guidance committee consisting of the principal and three classroom teachers. Every home room teacher from grades 1 - 12 was asked to start a personal record file for each pupil. Teachers in the spe- cial fields are asked to discuss with their students the various occupations that na- turally grow out of their subjects. For this purpose each teacher is given a list of the occupations prepared by the county office. These lists are for the Ag, Home Ec., Soc. Studies, Math., Science, Art, English. Music and Physical Education. That is what has been done. The remaining objectives are yet to be attained. We feel that not only will this program help the student choose an occupation in which he will be happy and successful, but that the teacher in compiling a case history of the student, will become better able to understand the student and thus be better able to guide, counsel and teach the student. -Alonzo D'uMont. L

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5 E N ' QB A N N U Air N ' N.EIEE.N,-FQ.R.TX.-',T.!f? Back Row: WVilliam Bice, Francis Hickling, Mr. Purple, Lois Shatizel, Douglas Sweet Second Row: Betty Talbot, Virginia Zinninger. Front. Row: Rosemary Blackman, Adrian Cole, Carroll Munson STUDENT COUNCIL Under the direction of Mr. Purple, the principal and Adrian Cole, Jr., the president, The Student Council has accomplished many things. Among these are the sponsoring of several skating parties, the purchasing of cheerleading uniforms and the organization of a messenger service for the town of Edmeston. The Student Council had charge of the enrollments cards for home defense- in the school. For the Edmeston boys in service a chart has been made of their ad- dresses and Annuals will be sent to them. The oflicers and representatives on the council are: President . Vice President Secretary . . Senior . Junior . Sophomore . Freshman . Eighth Grade Seventh Grade Faculty Advisor . Adrian Cole . . Lois Shatzel . Martha Morris . . Betty Talbot Virginia Zinninger . . William Bice . Douglas Sweet . Carroll Munson Rosemary Blackman . . . Mr. Purple