Grand Blanc High School - Echo Yearbook (Grand Blanc, MI)

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7 Yes, teachers, you've finally gotten us off your hands! We've caused many a headache for you, especially in this, our senior year, since we were all so impatient to get out on our owng but the appreciation will come after a year in college. You teachers are really wonderful people. Your profession requires patience, a keen sense of humor and an ever-present fortitude to endure a school year. Q .0115 .uf A nl 9.5:- -3 1-1, .2821

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Keep out, Hatfield, faculty only. The faculty room, insignificant as it may appear, is one of the busiest niches in school. Here teachers correct papers, hold confer- ences and here also is where they think up brainstorms for some of our tougher assign- ments. This year the addition of high school teachers whose headquarters were in the faculty room necessitated doubling up on desks but this didn't hinder our ambitious teaching staff. lVIr. Harvey's exaggerated, but cheery, Good morning, Miss Berdan. How are you this lovely day? usually starts off a typical morning. Mr. White can always be counted on for one of his jokes?? and a lively song or two. So if you didn't realize it before, you can see that our teachers really have a sense of humor. Mis-named faculty room, it is really a meet- ing place and work room for the ECHO Staff. It was we, Miss Manning, who used to re- move about five or six of your heaviest class books when we needed a weight to put on our freshly glued ECHO pictures. We al- ways put them back, though. The faculty room is also used for various committee meet- ings 9th hours, cap and gown measurements, distribution of senior pictures, to name just a few of the extras going on here. Some day the teachers' lounge in the latest addi- tion may be ready for occupancy, but it will not take away the real work from 304A.

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STANLEY j. WHITE, A. B. 4,1 English, Speech Freshman Sponsor Thespian Adviser -can Q Bob Mancour discusses his exchange paper for the journalism Class. Basic English in ninth, tenth, and eleventh years stress grammar, sentence structure, and paragraph construction and help teach the student to put his thoughts on paper logically and coherently so the reader will receive the impression the writer intended to convey. The tortures of getting commas, semicolons, and other small but meaningful marks in the right places and of avoiding the greatest sin of all, misspelling words, proved almost too great for some pupils who just put them in. A Radio Script and expository writing are done in the eleventh grade to acquaint the students with these types of composition. Reading of selections from classic and modern literature- Ivanhoe, Tale of Two Citiesf' As You Like It, Silas Mar- ner, Our Town, and a novel by Thomas Hardy are supple- mented by outside reading. 14 ANN MANNING, A. B. English Sophomore Sponsor These theme writing students