Lackawanna High School - Lackawannan Yearbook (Lackawanna, NY)

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Mechanical Drawing, Industrial Arts and Home Economics L Physical Education and Health 137 Q2 5 :A 32225- .,. H 3 NX S25 U5 Don D. Coe loseph P. Keating Director of Vocational Education Adolphine B Long Home Economics Department Head Victor W. Smith Industrnl Arts Department Head Arthur E. Willis Row I----james Tobin Lillian W Kambat Row 2 H-Stmley Bulmty lSupervxsor of Physical Education! ohn S Devit

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Harry Doherty, John Yoviene, Loretta Burns, john A. Nyitrai, Edward Smith-+Heacl of Department, john McCann. Row I--Paul Munich, Mary jean Gannon, Mr. Thomas Meruiclc lDepartment Headj, Catherine McCann. Row 2-Catherine Barrett, Mary Turlcla, Lillian T. Widmer, john Toole, Stanley Raiman, Gertrude E, Widmer. Science Commercial

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Mrs. Alma Pepper and student Mr. Edward Cosgrove and student Guidance and Counseling In September 1946, the Lackawanna Board of Education, through Superintendent Mr. Leo A. Joyce, instituted a formal guidance program. This program is designed to follow the broad principles and concepts of guidance long in use in our schools. Over a period of years guidance programs have been increasing in number and in strength. Instrumental in fostering this work has been the National Education Associa- tion. ln fact, this organization has published its findings in the book, Education for All American Youth. The following quotation taken from this source outlines the scope and intent of our guidance program. The keystone of the school program is guidance-personal assistance to individual boys and girls in making their plans and decisions about careers, education, employment, and all sorts of personal problems. Guidance is no mechanical process, whereby counselors, and teachers sort out boys and girls as a grading machine sorts apples-this one to stay on the farm, that one to work in an airplane factory, this one to be a teacher, that one to run the local garage. Guidance is rather the high art of helping boys and girls to plan their own actions wisely, in the full light of all the facts that can be mustered about themselves and about the world in which they will work and live. 'QGuidance is not the work of a few specialists. It is rather a service from the entire school staff, which requires some people with special knowledge and skills, but enlists the cooperation of all. 'QGuidance is not limited to vocational matters. It includes the whole gamut of youth problems. Guidance, moreover, is not peculiar to the secondary schools. Good education from the earliest grades onward includes guidance from understanding teachers, principals, and counselors. With the above principles in mind the Guidance Department of Lackawanna High looks forward to a life of service to the interests of each and every student who enters Lackawanna High. 16