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

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We find adventure with Re 1d1ng maketh a full man .1 conference a ready man and writing an exact man Under Seaholms English program students can develop these charac terrstrcs Strange as rt may seem English is one of the most adventurous courses offered We start as sophomores lighting wtrs w1th Julius Caesar and relrvmg France s bloody revolution as seen through the eyes of Dickens There are of course, class dlSCUSS1Ol'lS, liberal doses of grammar and a great deal of composition On we go to American literature where we pursue the gtant whale Moby Dick and follow the trrbula tions of Ethan Frome Much literary criticism and dis cussion md st1ll more writing provide refreshrng changes of pace At last were semors moving from Beowulf to Barrie of English lrterature fame reviewing grammar and strugglmg with our extensrve research papers These term papers two for survey classes and one for modern, are more than just elongated high school type essays, for rn composrng them we are learning skrlls which will prove mvaluable when we tackle college theses Rolvaag, Eliot, Dickens Mary Bernecker Colleen Labbe Alice Price 5 Mary Hartwick Sherman Tarrant Freda R1chards A poem rs much more interesting when the reader under stands the organization and rhythm of it so Junior English classes are taught the mechanics of scanning Judy Blshop drctates as Barbara Fox and Mosby Harvey try On Top of Old Smoky Q s...Lu 4' , ' 1 L L , ' ' , sv 1 , . , - - 1 P p C - . , . I . . . . , L C . . ff I ' x , , ' , ' . . c ' , 5 9 ' ,i . . , 1 9 ' I . . . . . 5 ' t '9 , Y . . K . . . . V y ,H , I ' is H ' v 9. in 0 1 . ' -v- . 41

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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

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We come here to study browse do research A hrstory report on the Hundred Years War a term paper on Communrst doctrmes and a speech on Lou1s Pasteur these are only a few of the asslgnments whrch send students scurrymg to the Seaholm ltbrary In the reference sectron, one can find rnforma t1on rangmg from hrstory and llterature to fashron and home decoratrng If this department doesnt qurte fit the readers needs one can turn to the perrodrcal hterature sectron and get old as well as new rssues of many well known and some not so well known news papers and magazrnes The selectron IS not l1m1ted to just Amerrcan publrcatrons erther several Enghsh and Russran perrodrcals glVC readers a glrmpse of how others l1ve and thmk 'Every year Mr Lather takes tnme out from hrs busy schedule to teach sophomore Engllsh classes thc proper use of the lrbrarys materlals Gene Schmldt llstens attentlvely as Mr Lather explams the Encytloputdru Brztumzzcus page ar rangement When there IS research to be done students often spend therr study hall perrod rn the lrbrary Readmg and taklng notes are Judy OPIIZ Lynn Smlth Rlck Reld Gene Schmxdt Blll Beddow Pete Moorton Barb Lrcht and Karen Rettray 'sit' l lun' 1 1 Q ' 7 7 7 - 7 - - - , - 'we 2? 'il' wel V9 sf 1 ,gt M t t aw-l S-tt, QW, ,. l. ,g s t 3 I l ' ' 1 tg 'Q 5 4, Ay -, Jr . - ,vb