Painted Post High School - Poster Yearbook (Painted Post, NY)

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GUIDANCE This year :aw the inauguration of a new guidance program under the direction of Mr. lofn Bush. The newly constructed guldance office liecarne the focal point of t' is prograrn. Early in the year all frcsl men and seniors were gfven mental ability testo. The seniors were also given scholastic aptitude tests. Many high school pupils who were uncertain as to what kinds of work they would like to pursue in the future were given Kuder Preference Tests to help them find what they were interested in. Other pupils were given aptitude tests to assist them in finding out what they could do. An individual folder record system for each pupil was centralized in the Guidance Cftice. Pcrtinent information concerning each pupil was deposited in these folders. The 'olloac Catalan: library was augmented and centralized in the Guidcnfe Office as was 'Fo cccipatonal file. lrfornnaticn concerning many of the 20,003 occupations listed by the feifus, was given to the pupils upon request. The college information center was also wldely used. Persfrcl counseling interviews granted upon request of the pupils helped to clear up rrcry oduztment problems. Other counseling interviews were initiated by the office in an ottcrnyt to clarify some of the pupils' difficulties and assist them to make a better adjustment. Vlffth the ccofcration cf the Student Council, a Faculty Committee on Citizenship and Mr. Clowe, a citifnslip nnorklrg system was set up to mark every pupil on his citizenship every roikfng poiiod. Eulletin boards and bulletins on schools, occupations and citizenship were prepared and submitted to the pupils for their assistance. All pupils from grades eight through eleven were given assistance in making out next ears schedule pifgroms. ln tle case of the eighth grade pupils a week of reviewing the Fiffrreit courses Cf the hich sclcol program preceded the registration. ln all grades registration wlich recuired tle selection of a course of study was accompanied by an interview with tlie pupil. The Cufdorce Cffice was set up as an aid in helping pupils evaluate their own gualifica' tfcns ard inteiestsg to relate these assets to the requirements of occupations in which the individ- ucl pupils can succeed and in which jobs are available: and to assist them to prepare for those ccufations. Its constant use during the year showed it was making progress toward this goal.

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faults E . T ,,,. i 'fT s5'3f CHARLES W. CLOWE Supervising Principal We all recognize that education is the chief agency ot progress and that education, Within limits, makes men and women what they are. Each of us is largely dependent on our education tor any success We may enjoy in life. Painted Post High School endeavors to create conditions which enable us to develop our personalities and to make as effective as possible the powers with which we have been endowed,

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FACULTY First row, left to right: Edith Swarthout, Nancy Reynolds, Margaret Olney, Alice Terzlan, Esther Herrington, Helen Cumisky, Edna Smith. Second row: Shirley McNulty, lennie Simons, lessie Vargason, Charlotte Daugherty, Mary Shoemaker, Virginia Seeley, Dorothy lirnerson, Betty Evans. Third row: Kenneth Clicquennoi, Geraldine Lewis, Rose Darcangelo, Etta Watkins, Madeline Harrison, Miriam Hassenplug, Dorothy Hall, Audrey Cloos, Norma Williams, Charles Clowe. Fourth row: Marguerite Mitchell, Helen Whitlock, Agnes Affeldt, Edna Meyers, William Sanford, Leo Harrison, Wanda Rader, Lucille Crants. Fifth row: Albert Kershner, Walter McGill, Ernest Prosser, Harry McMahon, Lester Chappell, ,Iohn Bush, Norman Phelps.