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

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D couldnt bc posing, MARJoR1E TURK, A. B. English, Civics Eighth Grade Sponsor could they ? EDYTHE WESSEL, A. B. English Seventh Grade Sponsor jim Jensen introduces janet Benson to lN1ary Lee Fenton in spc.u.li class. Real1ly, my deah, I'm cha'med. American literature in the eleventh grade acquaints the Juniors with the writings of the best authors of our country from 1607 to 1950. Seniors electing literature read English authors from the Venerable Bede to the Twentieth Century writers. A course in Speech provides the student with practice in oral presentation of the thoughts of others and of his own thoughts in front of his equals. Two courses have been added to the curriculum - Theme Writing and journalism. In the former, college-bound students learn to read essay-type materials, to enlarge their vocabularies, and to reproduce the thought in a precis. The Journalism classes have studied the principles involved in news writing and have made use of these skills in publishing the Bobcat Banner? 15

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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

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HAROLD KOSKI, A.B. Chemistry, Physics Junior Sponsor, Hi-Y Photography Club Adviser Science courses begin in the 8th grade with General Science, taught by Mr. Batchelor and continue with Biology under Mr. Jewett in the ninth, Chemistry in the llth and Physics in the 12th grades. Anyone who wishes to major in math at G.B. has a diffi- cult but interesting series of courses. Miss Rempel in Elemen- tary Algebra acquaints the students with linear equationsg in Advanced Algebra they run into quadratic equations. Theo- rems, theorems and more theorems! those three little words describe Plane Geometry. Marjorie and Areta seem to be telling Dora Fitch, Pee Wee Sawyer, and Delores Kremer all about the physics experiment. Rosamonde Bairas, Lorne Kany, and the help of Miss Rempel. DONALD G. BATCHELOR, B. S. Science Athletic Director