Mona Shores High School - Compass Points Yearbook (Norton Shores, MI)

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Audio Visual Assistant Sam Pulos prepares a film to be shown in a Spanish class. A.V. Department Supplies School With Films The Audio Visual department, headed hy Mr. Charles St. Louis, keeps lVI.S. supplied with films. Teachers order movies through the department, AV student assistants are instructed in winding the films and operating the machines. Language classes use films in their native tongues to give students a chance to hear their language, while the English department uses films of novels as an aid to teaching. Science and math teachers utilize films to explain their subjects further. Student assistant Rhonda F indorff orders film for various teachers. Mr. Charles St. Louis, who heads the Audio Visual Department, looks over an album that has just arrived. Mr. St. Louis is in charge of orderln and showing all films, tapes, and sound recordings.

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Mr. T. G. Lee, head librarian, consults a reference book. Eva Alms, assistant librarian, looks on. The addition of new materials marked improvements in the Library Department this year. More permanent boundbooks, added spinners, a large globe, map and chart case, microfiche readers, a new vertical file, and wallboard brackets were a few of the articles Mr. Lee, head librarian, was instrumental in getting. The Teach- ers' Library was organized and a file added. An innovation-a coronastat copier-caused much reaction this year. Students may copy encyclopedia arti- cles, or most anything, for a dime. The library also received a new microfiche reader. Librarians at Muskegon and Mona Shores had an ex- change day last fall. Mrs. Alms visited Muskegon High School while their assistant librarian came here for a day. Both women received ideas which .they hope to apply to their respective scho-ols. New Materials Vitalize Library Setting up Christmas decorations are Mrs. .lean Prediger and Mrs. Jan Woodring. Teachers allow students adequate library time for term papers.

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Taking attendance in one of his classes is Mr. Robert Driscoll, who teaches U.S. History and Consumers Economics. Appreciation of Formei Better Understanding oi Social Studies aids all MS students by broadening their knowl- edge of the cultural, historical, governmental, economical, and geo- graphical world that is now and the world that has been. In the areas of World History, World Geography, and U.S. His- tory, the Social Studies Department is in its second year of phasing. Many outside sources of information were used by students to supplement their studies in the classroom. The World Geography classes have taken field trips to local governmental and historical locations. In studying religions of the world, classes have referred to local churches and clergy. Government courses stressed the need for students to realize the fundamentals of citizenship and the importance of becoming aware of politics in action. Full-length feature films presenting history in a come alive fashion were shown in the spring to history classes. The failures and achievements of today eventually enter into the sphere of social studies to open up challenges for tomorrow. X Mr. Thomas Wilson fleftj took over Mr. Conrad Woodall's classes in February when Mr. Woodall left Shores to work for IBM. Mr. Wilson teaches World History, U.S. History and assists in Publications. n 1