Ovid Central High School - Ovidian Yearbook (Ovid, NY)

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GUI DANCE - What subjects must I take for engineering? What must I study before I can go to a nursing school? Where is a good school for air conditioning? ' Will you please explain the results of the last tests we took? What subjects should I take next year? These and similar questions are familiar ones in the Guidance office. The Guidance Department attempts to help students help themselves. For this it is important to know the pupil and his abilities, to know opportunities which exist, and to help the pupil to fit together his abilities and opportimities. Finding out about abilities is done through various tests, such as academic ability tests and reports of extracurricular activities, self- rating summaries, and teachers' reports of progress and general personality development. All this information is kept in a folder which is begun for each pupil when he en- ters school and is added to each year until he leaves. Much of this information is interpreted to the pupil, especially in high school, in individual conferences with the counselor. The occupational information file and the educational information file and the bookshelf in the Guidance office enable pupils to learn of the world of work, training necessary for various jobs, financial assistance available for post-high school training, and personality development. High school pupils also have the op- portunity to learn on Saturdays to nearby schools and colleges. This year trips included visits to Syracuse University, Cornell University, State Teachers Colleges at Geneseo, Cortland and Buffalo, Central City Bus- iness Institute fSyracusel, Rochester Business Institute, beauty culture schools in Rochester, University of Rochester, and the Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences at Utica. Bulletins posted in the Guidance office and homerooms and a 15-page booklet, You, also serve to keep pupils informed about the importance of self-analysis and means of finding opportunities which are open for those of verying interests and talents. The guidance program is an attempt to gather together all the information the school has about each pupil and then help him to find the best answer to the question, How can I get the most out of Life? ' 9

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FACULTY Front row: Mr. Hughes, Mr. Whitehead, Mr. Iacoby, Dr. Brownell, Mr. Brokaw, Mrs. Depew, Mr. Leet, Mr. Clark, Mr. Wilson, Miss Kinnan. Second row: Miss Bullock, Miss Riley, Miss Emperor, Mrs. Armitage, Mrs. Franklin, Mrs. Netro, Mrs. Limner, Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Simpson, Mrs. Hawkins, Miss Wright. Third row: Miss Turnbull, Mrs. Finnegan, Mrs. Ditmars, Mrs. Excell, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Rob- bins, Miss Maher, Miss McKenna, Mrs. Lee, Miss Crooker, Miss Chamberlin, Miss Stanton. OUR SCHOOL OUR SECRETARY 8

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MAINTENANCE Here's a threesome worth looking at - Messrs. Ackerman, Purcell and Woodington. They keep our building spic and span, see that we are com- fortable winter and summer fat least they say the heat control is perfect D do various kinds of re- pair work, and at last, but not least, advise the faculty! How fortunate we gave them a few min- utes off to be snapped for the yearbook. .11-, This is our maintenance staff. First on the list we find the cafeteria personnel. Mrs. Stout, with Miss Stanton's assistance, plans the cafe- teria menus, seeing that we have a well balanced lunch and one which is well cooked and attract- ively arranged. Mrs. Predmore assists Mrs. Stout, while Mrs. Purcell is cashier. Look happy, don't they? I-Iere's to them and the good work they are doing. Here are the bus drivers ready for action. john Covert seems to be absent, but the other five - Les Conkling, Fred Austin, Paul McMillen, Don Bradley and Seeley Brewer are ready to lead us on board and take us home all safe and sound. Dad and Mom tell us they used to have to walk to school, but we're living in a modern age of A - bombs, school buses and bubble gum!