George Washington High School - Monument Yearbook (Cedar Rapids, IA)

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Birdsell C. A. Paulson Assistant Principals Office Staff P 1 B Gladys Bleakelv Norma Hamilton J09.I1I'l6 17 Koehn Vi Rid

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PRINCIPAL Fred J. Kluss This yearbook is a Monument of memories for all of us. In it are recorded in pictures and in print the persons who were in Washington this year and some of the special events that occurred. All of us who are connected with Washington--the administration, the faculty, students and parents--have felt pride in the achievements of this school. Its high attainments in scholarship as well as the excellence of its activities are becoming widely recognized. A- mong those fine activities is the preparation and publication of this book. We are about to complete the third year in this new school. Thus the present senior class is the first to have all three senior high school years in this building. This class had an important part in establishing the standards which now may well become traditional at Washington as they are perpetuated and improved from year to year by each class in suc- cession. 2,1 . -16-

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George Novak Elizabeth Burianek l Alice Anderson Donald Wagner n 07,144 Counselors JQJW-ff W' M Counseling in action with Miss Anderson, our new counselor, and Kay Nystul. -1g- The primary aim of the guidance pro- gram is to utilize and develop special services designed to further the learning of the indivi- dual to the maximum degree of his interest, usefulness and ability. Counselors have a number of functions: orientationg testing programg record-keepingg job placementg information services on the student himself, on careers ,on further educa- tion and trainingg evaluation and follow-upg and counseling. Most of these services are self-explana- tory. Counseling, to which the most time is giv- 'en, may be clarified in this way: counseling assists the student in becoming increasingly self-directive and self-reliant. The counselor tries to help the student take the following steps: 111 to define or recognize the task, choice problem with which he is facedg 121 to study various ways of dealing with it or living with it if it can't be changedg Q35 to plan a course of action and 143 to review or evaluate the re- sults of the action and then try still another new plan if those results are not satisfactory. Counselors sometimes initiate appoint- ments with students, but most Washington people voluntarily use these services.