Northern High School - Spirit Yearbook (Port Huron, MI)

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needed skills for future workers Vocational programs play a big part at Northern this year. Three main courses which teach a specific trade have become important to those students not planning to attend college. The first, Vocational Kitchen Work, allows both girls and boys to learn to be chefs by actually working in the Cafeteria preparing food. Another, Electrical Science, helps prepare boys for roles as electricians. Through mathematics and ex- periments, these boys learn to solve electrical problems. The third, Trade Drafting, is a course given only at Port Huron High School. Each morning a bus load of boys from Northern goes to PH to take this three- hour course. These boys from Port Huron Northern participate in a Trade Drafting course at Port Huron High. This group of boys is taking an active part in an Industrial Technology course which is part of the VITECH Program. 21

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Vocational Programs develop Roberta Wooley and Helen Thieke help Evelyn B1 oink to prepare lunch Michael Gladwish demonstrates an electronic project to the rest of in the cafeteria kitchen. They are learning to become chefs by actual his class as Mr. Richard Jinbo looks on. experience. VITECH Program- result of years of study During the past summer, a few teachers have pooled their ideas and talents into a technological program which is commonly called VITECH. These teachers spent their summers studying further in their fields of teaching in order to prepare themselves for this program. The subjects taken by the boys are Vo- cational English, Vocational Math, Vocational Science, and Industrial Technology, along with the required Problems of Democracy and a study hall. The VITECH program allows boys experience in many types of vocations from which to choose their futures. Stanley Renner, Gordon Soflin, David Glenn, and Donald Pearson discuss plans for VITECH at one of their recent meetings. 20

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All classes participate Throughout high school, the Social Studies program gives stu- dents the advantage of selecting courses among Civics, World History, American History, Economics, Sociology, and Govern- ment. Mrs. Edythe Patterson ' s informal teaching methods are ones of interest to her students and prove to be a welcome deviation .