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

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W ff 2,1-ew my '54 if BAND MEMBERS SUCH AS Trisha Taylor and Megan Markee committ two-thirds of their lunch hour to tuning up. REHEARSING FOR A class presentation of Calm Down Mother Laura Wood works in the Little Theatre with her drama class. , A PAPER ASSIGNED in her writing group takes Flexie Jenny Root to the courtyard to work and turn it in on the due-date. A l EMI li it lllll ELECTIVE coURsEs 31

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T'S UPT Why would anyone take a class they don't have to? Some elective courses students not only enroll in as a class but as a special program. They spend two to four years in the program and become extremely involved. And from these factors they become proud to be part of their program. Band and orchestra members begin playing outside of high school and spend two to four years in their high school program. The same is true for choir members. Flexible Scheduling students spend up to four years in the program, 210 credits per year, going through each unit of study. Students learning a foreign language spend at least two years in the class to prepare for college, and sometimes as many as five. Radio speech students can spend two years in the class and more time ww on their own. Players become involved in the music program by trying out for chair positions, drum major, regional honor choir, band-orchestra festival, solo- continued Anne TEACHING ASSISTANT Marianne Buecnel from Switzerland works with Carol Son- quist during her German class to prepare for a test. 30 ELECTIVE coURsEs 'Mi 6

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S ass? .ig 6? si s -, ::.:,, E XX QQ' X X . E Y . M X X sim f N xi? .. ,T ii TO PERFECT THE SOUND for football OFF TIME IN FLEX gives Matt Hogben a games Charlie Hufford and all band chance to prepare for a quiz on The Iliad members work together fourth hour on the in his elective the following hour. field and in the band room. Amie Bischoff 32 ELECTIVE COURSES