Meyers High School - Colophon Yearbook (Wilkes Barre, PA)

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GUIDANCE MR. ENSO FROSINI fa T r E. Miss Louxsz Fiscmzn MR. ROBERT SABATINO ng. Ma. Roamu' JACOBS MISS MARY BURNS The Guidance Office is well-equipped with information pertinent to students in every grade. Until the school year of 1958-9, Meyers had no facilities for a guidance department. Students with problems discussed them with their teachers, and students, intending to further their educations, went to the library for catalogs and other materials. Recognizing the need for such a department, the school remodeled the old seventh grade homeroom, 105, into our present-day Guidance Office. The staE had graduallybincreased and presently, we have two full-time counselors. And 3 part time counselors. Teachers with outside training in this field, serve as guidance counselors for the different grades. Without fear, students can discuss private problems freely, and often recommendations to alleviate or erase the troubles are given. All students are helped in choosing courses and careers. Numerous pamphlets are in the odice and posters exhort the students to plan ahead, and balance their time. Seniors interested in colleges are aided in making their choices, in securing admissions, and sometimes, in obtaining scholarships. In fact, the Department seems to do a remarkable job in finding schools and academic assistance for certain students. Each fall a survey is made on the last graduating class, and it reveals the number of students attending colleges and nursing schools, and those working or unemployed. After interpreting the results of the battery of tests administered by the Guidance Department, the counselors are assisted in the determination of the student's aptitude and interests careerwise. Class standings, so very important to Seniors, are compiled by the Guidance Department. During individual confer- ernces, these facts are discussed. By its advice, its tests, and its knowledge the Guidance Department tries to direct the students into making the right decisions for themselves and to become better citizens of this complex world. The addition and assistance of our Guidance Oflice has been a most wel- come innovation to the educational structure of our school. It is hard to con- ceive how we could manage without it. 21

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BUSINESS EDUCATIO 'ra- Qbv. -Q- f 4 Sharon Kingeter and Margie George Typing class doing daily assignment working with business machines on modern machines. l Miss ANN Hucurs Miss CATHERINE MCMANMON The Business Education course at Meyers is designed as a terminal course. This means that, when a student maintains the standards set by the department and completes the prescribed study, he is ready for employment in the business world. The subject matter trains the students for the following positionsg secre- tary, stenographer, bookkeeper, typist, business machine operator, and general ofiice worker. The course of study in this department includes business mathe- matics, beginning and advanced shorthand, dictation and transcription, begin- ning and advanced typewriting, beginning and advanced bookkeeping, accounting, and office practice. Students are considered in the second semester of the twelfth grade for placement in business ofiices under the Business-Co-operative Work Experience Program. Under this plan students are dismissed from school at 1:40 P. M. and work in local business offices at the minimum wage rate authorized under the Wages and Hours Law. This department has made many changes from year to year. This includes the purchase of new and better equipment and the teaching of more up to date methods. This year's new equipment includes electric typewriters, adding machines, and oiiice machines. V g 1 X A ' M Miss RxTA MURRAY Mus. BERTHA PARK Mas. L0nnA1N5 RIOFSKI 20

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VOCATIONAL EDUCATIO --:Sl MR. ANTHONY YUKNAVICH MR. Fnsmsmcx McDAN1ELs Mn. ADAM VWENCJ-is ' -' 1 Mlgggsease , ,f up :fl A1 fs hi-s' g Q are-.ziggy H.. . 4 'T a 'vu ., 4- 'x The Vocational Education Program of Meyers molds the student for a successful entry into his specific field upon graduation. The basic aim of the vocational depart- ment is to teach the student to be independent and able to face any problems that might arise in his particular work. Meyers has the main vocational shops. They are: machine shop, sheet metal shop, electric shop, print shop and automotive shop. The machine shop is very well equipped and teaches the use of various metal working machines found in shops all over the country. In addition to these the shop has three new lathes. Graduates, who have taken machine shop for three years, find plenty of opportunity for employment as machinists and as apprentices. The sheet metal shop is another shop that trains stu- dents to become adept at a trade and in this case it happens to be the sheet metal trade. Students in this shop learn various phases of the sheet metal industry and good em- ployment is available upon graduation. The electric shop is one of the most modern shops. It has to be in order to teach its students everything new they need to know about residential and appliance wiring. Print shop is a very progressive shop and offers the latest methods of printing. Perhaps the greatest advance of the shop is that it has been moved to a new location. There is great opportunity for employment in this field as shown by the fact that almost all of the seniors in this shop are employed part time in some phase of the printing in- dustry before graduation. The automotive shop is one of the larger shops and because the automobile is a relatively modern invention, this shop is also modern. The knowledge passed on to stu- dents in this shop has increaed over the years as more and more new facts about automobiles have been discovered. Students in this shop are prepared to become first class auto mechanics, mechanics' helpers, gas station attendants, parts specialists and automobile salesmen. .lf ff' . MR. WILLARD GEORGE Mn. AsA CAs'rsm.lN MR. JOHN GRIFFITHS MR. JOSEPH JACOBS ll MR. THOMAS PARK Meyers' vocational program prepares its students to enter the world of industry with pride and stature. 22 MR. SAMUEL PAULETTI