Franklin High School - Almanack Yearbook (Livonia, MI)

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Leon Martin Chairman Industrial Educaiion Dennis Dupuie David N. Gilles Donald Jennings George lovich V, 0. Napoleone Roberi F. Zang i , Q fa 'ii' .3 ii: agxs.-ki Q2 - 3 , Qi' El-if f' A 9

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Perry J. Graham Chairman Business Education Laura M. Bosh Margaret M. Casey Lorena Ehinger Charles Elser A. G. Hakala Virginia A. Myers Sue Waldfogel Jack J. Young Hap Youngs Business Ed classes explore as flaring enthusiasm builds lt might be said that the Business Education Department is hiding behind a false front. That's literally true with Ben's Corner, where boys from Wood and Allied Materials pooled their talents last spring constructing a wooden store front. This is the store by Franklin business students and their adviser- teachers to order, display, and sell school supplies. Changes in the curriculum have made the old Bus. Ed. image another false front. It isn't typing-bookkeeping-shorthand any- more, although all of these subjects are taught. Now it's Com- puter Programming and Data Processing, where students have to learn a whole new language. Then they have to learn how to feed the machines. The new image also includes some busy hours in retailing and advertising, poster, showcases. Three or four dozen students who have done well in Busi- ness Ed. Classes are accepted each year for the Co-op Program: supervised work experience with both grade and pay. Ben's Corner specials attracted many eager customs-rs. such as Larry Harper iopposite pagei who admired the heavy iackets. Kathy Pegg ilefti industriously bent over a tricky shorthand assignment. bmi

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Enveloped in his task, Dom Gayk infused diligence with his arc- welding techniques. Bent on completion of his proiect, Dave Martinez smoothed the grain in Woods and Allied Materials. drafts skill in auto, wood, metal shop Longhairs infiltrated the Industrial Education De- partment this year, and we don't mean stylish boys. Several girls answered roll call in Drafting classes every day. What's more, they proved that they could hold their own very well with their male classmates in pursu- ing complicated assembly and detain drawings. Other classes in the department remained exclu- sively masculine, developing skills that could be applied directly to iobs after high schoolg or to practical matters such as the repair of automobiles, small engines, and appliancesp or to hobbies involving delicate and beauti- ful woodworking, metals, and plastic crafts. Metals boys pooled their skills to build a snowmobile. A new teacher, Mr. Dupuie, took over auto tech- nology classes in place of Mr. William Jennings, who transferred to the new Churchill High School as Industrial Education chairman. Mr. Jennings had been with Frank- lin since it opened, and at Bentley before that.