Ernest Seaholm High School - Piper Yearbook (Birmingham, MI)

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Apprehension becomes confidence with practice Speech II explores the finer points of speaking in cluding the arts of contest and debate speeches Stu dents also learn to organize material and pull out the important points of other speeches Stand by is the familiar signal in radio speech classes Whether writing commercials or delivering a full half hour dramatic play radio speech students gain the basic techniques of radio-television broadcasting and soon know the ropes like professionals Field trips to local stations also fill the curriculum New to the speech department this year is the class in dramatics Emphasis is placed on the methods of creating mood and atmosphere as well as on the methods of enunciation and expression To the unaware student passing by B103 third hour, screams or laugh ter may cause him alarm but it IS just the dramatics class illustrating a technique or practicing for a play PAlthough their play is just a practice and will be put on ta e it is im ortant that student actors et ust t h delivering the lines while keeping an eye on the control room Take your hands off me' mouths Janet Taisey to Tom sented to practice good facial expression in dramatic class Collecting and selecting music as background for a radio script and getting the music in on the proper cue keep Bill Baby and Bill Duhn on their toes every moment I O I O 0 , - , ,, 4 H ,, . .. . . . 9 7 p, 'p g j herigt t . . '. timingland cues. Jim Walls and Leigh Stowell concentrate on White in one of the many pantomimersketches that are pre- ' v K . , . I v , I ,,,, ,c I i .- to f Q. H, if' Q. , , ' QA Q at fa' I 12 ' Q 39

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Li la Q 4 sf 3 , f Getting the job takes more than just the qualifications for that job, finds Ann Bailey as she is interviewed by Bill John- son. Poise, neat dress, and well thought speech are just as important, and maybe more so, for first impressions often are the determining factors in who will be accepted. Y Talking isn'T speaking One doesn't have time for jitters or fumbling when he has to make a five minute speech every week. So say speech teachers to the horror stricken students after they have just been assigned their first speech. Students soon learn that it is not enough to be able to just talk. The use of facial expressions and hand action are also essential in delivering a good speech. By the time a semester has passed, all speech students are proficient in giving many types of speeches, rang- ing from introductions to political declamations, and abound in confidence and good speech habits. 4 Thank you, says Patty Mason as she receives a gift from Chris Schad. Knowing the proper etiquette for giving and receiving gifts is essential to the speech student as well as to everyone else, for who knows when the occasion to use this training will arise? f '3 ' s Henrietta Cortright Mtv! u SKTQN -

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Wrmng we Improve our style grammar usage ALong hours rn the library longer hours at the typewriter to the last minute on term papers Dave Hunter can now heave a sigh of relief as his completed masterpiece IS checked off by Miss Heystek All these books' How will I ever read them all'7 The sophomores first look at his English reading list is quite a shock The rows of titles seem endless and reading the required number an impossibility Trying to get a head start Peg Lourle and Geoff Gilbert load up at the lrbrary 'ees' Each year vse experience something new something different in English and though we may forget a few details the thorough tr unml' received rt Seaholm will never be forgotten Ann Heystek Marilyn Arner Dolores Shahmlan 965614 W4 Richard Bagg Mary Underhill Katherine Blunt Dorothy Allen Elizabeth Kmmson Dolores Greig Charles Buell Q5- 40 C O O I I I f A 1 L v ' 5 ' 5 .. ' . I ., . a : ' ' 'c . ' - ., ll l c A ' I V 2 l , 5 In YW E l y of D if ' N m ' -x 'f' Lf 1' 'HT 15 ,, V 1, X ' ' , . x . . . and a decided lack of sleepQall are known to seniors working ah- . . . I v x l A 1 4- J i 5 - N .. J 4 i 1 X 4: ' I r , X '1, D, lb V .. , M V ' :Lil X