Harrison High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Farmington, MI)

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ABOVE: English Department. Miss Barbara Haas, Mr. Richard Dubuque, Mrs. Laura Sparrow, Mrs. Margaret Rosbolt, Mrs. Mary Brown, Miss Bonnita Felton, Mrs. Joyce Kaplan, Mrs. Kathy Nyberg, Miss Margaret Ferguson. ABOVE LEFT: Inter- pretive reading is shown by Rob Albertson to be an important part of department chairman, Mrs Carla Barrett's, class. ABOVE FAR LEFT: Mass Media's television production runs smoothly with Gary Herman and Chris McCormick giving a news cast. LEFT: A behind-the-scenes shot shows card man David Mitchell, camera man Lee Ross and director Mrs. Ros- bolt. FAR LEFT: Preparing to go on the air, Chris McCormick, Gary Herman, and Larry Serb run through a commercial. 29

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English Knowled e Practically Applied n addition to offering Harrison students the opportunity to write for the school newspaper and yearbook, a new creative outlet has been added to the English Department. The Creative Writing II classes published a literary magazine this year. This is a first at Harrison. The students in the classes wrote various prose and poetry. The best from those submitted were then in- cluded in the publication. They worked very hard on what was considered the schools first magazine. A new course has been added to the many that are offered in the English Department. The new Forensics class gives students a Chance to recite their own interpretations of well known works. Because of the large enrollment of students in the English department this year, three new teachers were added: Mrs. Joyce Kaplan, Mrs. Margaret Rosbolt and Mrs. Laura Sparrow. 28

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30 Student Involved ' In Social Sciences ocial Science is the largest department at Harrison. There is a choice of eighteen differ- ent courses, which are mostly one semester in duration. Students who need or want more knowledge of Social Science can pick from such courses as Middle Eastern History and Psy- chology. Mr. Tyler, chairman of the Social Science De- partment, said of the staff, tiWe have a very fine staff of teachers at Harrison. The teachers use a variety of methods, such as lectures and group work, to cultivate student interest in the subject. The Social Science Department also has accu- mulated a great deal of audiovisual equipment, which is quite an achievement in a school only two years old. Audiovisual aids are very useful to the teacher because they enable him to more ef- fectively relate difficult concepts to the class. Mr. Tyler summed up the new approach of the department by commenting, HThere should be less emphasis on the grade and more on in- volvement. ABOVE RIGHT: Mark Phillips seeks recognition to make a point during a panei discussion. ABOVE FAR RIGHT: A dice game based on historical events motivates Nancy Baillie and Bob Williams to take a more active part in their World History class. RIGHT: Mike Chan, Steve Kursman and Jack Clark col- laborate while engaged in a heated debate over World War I. FAR RIGHT: Models 01 ancient weapons are displayed to an Ancient History class by Candy Troyer, Shelley Beckwith, Dianne Kopernik, and Steve Aiegnani. EXTREME RIGHT: Soe cial Science Department. Mr. Philip Stopke, Mr. John Herring- ton, Mr. Richard Steele, Mr. John Lanzetta, Mr. Tony Imbro- none, Mr. Bernard Goldstein, Mr. Ray Voss, Mrs. Anna Areeda, Mr. Bill Rankin, Mr. Bill Claire, Mr. Dick Tyler tchair- many