Gale Ettrick Trempealeau High School - Arrowhead Yearbook (Galesville, WI)

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION ABOVE: AURORA WARRINER The Physical Education Department expanded upon its well-rounded program again this year. New activities in the curriculum included beginning skiing, tennis, indoor recreational games, and team handball. Seniors are now offered electives within the program. Each quarter four different activities were presented and the students chose from these areas. 'This offered a more varied program and gave seniors the opportunity to select team or individual sports more suited to their own interests. There was an expansion of co-educational activities alsc this year, with experiments in soccer, flag football, anc dance. Student teachers from the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse were helpful in the boys department this year as well as the girls. 118 ABOVE: DON SKWIERAWSKI BELOW: Physical education promotes both fitness and fun.

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OUR SPECIALISTS ABOVE: RUSS LUND ABOVE: MARLA HENKE ABOVE: MELISSA HAYES The primary duty of the school counselor is counseling, the one to one relationship which facilitates the process of a student's understanding and acceptance of himself, and to use this self-knowledge in developing his poten- tial as a fully functioning person. Some of the specific duties are: interviewing students, maintaining cumulative records, coordinating testing programs, providing an information service relating to colleges, financial aids, vocational and occupational data, working closely with teachers on student problems, assisting the principal with student registration, assist- ing students with schedule changes, compiling honor role and class rank, assisting when possible in securing part time or summer jobs for students, assisting students with college or technical school applications and mak- ing recommendations to these schools regarding indi- vidual students. Marla Henke works with over 40 students in the three elementary schools, the junior high school, and the senior high school. Seeing each student twice a week, Miss Henke works with the students individually or in small groups. The students and the therapist try to cor- rect problems in speech, hearing, and language, which includes enunciation, sentence structure, vocabu- lary and general communication skills. This is the second year G.E,T. has had a speech and language therapist. The students in the Special Education Department learn on individualized basis. Miss Hayes teaches English, math, and geography. A study of occupations is also included in the curriculum. Here the students are taught labor laws, how to fill out an application, and what to do during an interview. They leam about social secur- ity benefits and pay check deductions. Three students this year are participating in the on-the- job training pro- gram, with one at Snapper's Cafe, one at the Galesville printing office and one at the cafeteria here at school. Each student works two to three hours a day and is eval- uated twice a year by the employer and Miss Hayes. During her summer vacation, Miss Hayes toured Europe with two friends. Spending a total time of about nine and a half weeks hitch-hiking, train riding, and walking, they saw the major cities in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and six other countries. 117

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MUSIC DEPARTMENT ABOVE: DON ROWLANDS RIGHT: RANDY SWENSON A new idea being worked on in the Music Department this year was the earning of letters or emblems. These awards would be given to each individual music student who has a certain number of points. These points would be earned by participating in the solo-ensemble contest, the concert contest, or the piano contest by providing special music in church, such as a vocal, or instrumen- tal solo, or an instrumental accompaniment, and by playing in the pep band. The solo-ensemble contest, concert contest, and piano contest was hosted by Taylor this year. Any student in Band, Chorus, or Girls Glee Club can participate in the contests. To be eligible to participate in the piano contest a student must accompany the chorus or Glee Club. Each year the Music Department produces three musical concerts: A Christmas Concert, a Pops Concert, and a Spring Concert. All students in the department partici- pate. These concerts are always open to the public. 119