Hudson High School - Hudsonian Yearbook (Hudson, MI)

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Principal’s Office Our Principal, Mr.Leavell. Office detail kept Mrs. Donaldson, the school secretary, busy, busy, busy. FIRST ROW: Mrs. Donaldson, Cathy Weber, Angie Bloomer, Gail Sanford, Barb Onweller, Sue Ebbitt, Madeline Nichols. SECOND ROW: Betty Hasenkamp, Pam Bishop, Harriett Sherman, Marsha Young, Marilynn Marry, Annabelle Davis. THIRD ROW: Roger Anderson, Dan Speaker, Bill Beal, Cel Hendrickson. 11

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Superintendent, Mr. Ferman Adminis tration The Superintendent’s Office has many jobs. The office keeps track of finance, personnel, curriculum, public relations, physical management, transport, and the school lunches. This office keeps tabs on finance and the budget. It keeps a copy of the income and expenditures. The school is about a $690,000 business. The superintendent interprets state and federal pro- grams for financial aid. An auditor from an outside company comes in every year to make sure the books are perfect. The superintendent has to interview, hire, dismiss, and transfer the personnel. The school employs over one hundred people. Every two weeks, the superin- tendent’s office makes out all the paychecks. The administration works with the teachers to deter- mine what and how to teach. Many times this has to be changed to correspond with financial ability. Transportation is another area which the superin- tendent controls. The school has fourteen buses which travel about 670 miles a day and transport 942 pupils. The office has to see that the state and federal bus safety rules are followed. School lunches are also handled by the superin- tendent’s office. The manager of the hot lunch pro- gram files an order for food, and the office has to approve the plan and buy the food. Public relations is another area the office handles. It has to interpret the state and federal rules, regula- tions, and laws. The School Board has to be kept informed by the superintendent. Mr. Ferman’s secretaries, Mr. Wollet and Mrs. Kinsey, kept the outer office running efficiently. 10 Board of Education: Mr. Swanson, Mr. Lemmons, Mr. Rupp. Mr. Berlin, Mr. Timus, Mr. Hartley, Mr. Deline.

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Drama of Shakespeare at Hudson At the end of the 1965-66 school year our former principal, James Champion, adopted a plan to enable our students to have a variety of English courses from which to choose. A test, along with teacher recommendation and student choice, determined into what phase each student would go. In the future, fresh- men will be tested in the spring so their phase may be determined. At the beginning of our 1966-67 school year, our present principal, James Leavell, inherited the task of putting this wonderful opportunity into effect. After many hours of schedule changing and class- room rearranging, he finally succeeded in pleasing almost everyone in some way. Mrs. James taught ENGLISH I classes which were still required for ninth graders. However, they could have chosen to take an additional English course along with this class. Every Freshman was enrolled in Mrs. James English classes. Mrs. Freeborn taught four courses in the English Department. They were SPEECH, WRITING IMPROVEMENT, WRITING TECHNIQUES, and SPEED READING. Speech was a semester course in public speaking. Writing Improve- ment, a full-year course, was a remedial course in writing. Writing Techniques was a full-year course in advanced writing to prepare the college bound student in various methods of formal writing. Speed reading was an entirely new addition to the curiculum. This course basically taught the students to read without regression, to con- centrate on the main ideas, to increase their eye span, and to develop the student’s capabilities in this area. The tachistoscope helped Mrs. Freeborn teach her class in speed reading. 12