Pontiac Senior High School - Quiver Yearbook (Pontiac, MI)

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uIn..i..L.li. f-...... ILP..-llisiiillnlllnlifn DEPARTMENT HEADS listen attentively to Dr. Russell W. Curtis, Coordinator nomics, Guy Bevington, Social Studies, Jesse MacLeay, Physical Education, Not Pictured: George Putnam, Vocal Music, Walter Smith, Speech, Dale Har- of Secondary Education, during a recent meeting. Left to Right: Wesley Maas, roll, Trade and lndustrial Education, George Science, John Allshouse, Art, Mrs. Frances Martz, Language, Thomas Atkinson, ris, Instrumental Music, Raymond G Business Education, Dr. Curtis, Francis Staley, Principal, Miss Joyce Sweet, Stewart, Driver Education, Mathematics, Robert Beauchamp, English, Mrs. Elizabeth Sawyers, Home Eco- , ,gf . ' J' ,f DEPARTMENT HEADS CREATE FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING.

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M if ciyfgfii , t ' , I ,I K , Q, E N, DR RUSSELL CURTIS, Coordinator of Secondary Eudaction, and GERALD WHITE Coordinator of Elementary Education, look over the new abacus used in lunior high math classes. Discussing the placement of students for iobs throughout the Pontiac area are RALPH ROTSEL, Co-op Coordinator of Office and Retail Training for Pontiac Central and Pontiac Northern High Schools, and VERNELL DUFFY, Co-op Coordinator of Trade and Industrial and Apprentice Training for Pontiac Central and Pontiac Northern High Schools. ! , . A RICHARD FELL, Director of Vocational and Adult Education, Pontiac Public Schools, and RAYMOND GRAFF, Supervisor of Trade and Industrial Education, Pontiac Public Schools, discuss future educa- tional plans for the Vocational program. gnu-'W - E - ,. U f n 4 ' 3 1 1 ,4 Catching truant students who play hooky is HAROLD SMEAD Head of the Attendance Office, as he calls their homes to check on supposed illnesses . E ti , ,1 , , J 1 v l - 1:54.-.Ju-.

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fin, ' X,.3 ' IJ-.' o xl' ,. -, 1 .-I ur 1,- ',.,.ff -uf. .hnff .' I.. ll v ' ' MISS VERA ADAMS directs the attention of COUNSELOR VERNELL DUFFY lseatedl to some specific information contained in a college catalog while COUNSELORS, MRS. ROSE MCDONALD, - GERALD HUNT, DONALD McMlLLEN, MISS ELMA WATERMAN, and HAROLD DEARING look on with interest. COUNSELORS HELP US PREPARE FOR THE FUTURE The guidance program at Pontiac Central High School is designed to assist the student in solving problems which confront him, so that he can achieve both immediate and long range goals. The work of the eight counselors is more directly 1 related to problems of an educational and vocational nature than to personal problems. However, the per- sonal side necessarily enters into all problems which arise. Since it is often difficult for a student to identify his problems counselors attempt to help students de- velop insights into their problems regardless of the nature of the problem. Each student is assigned to a specific homeroom and remains as a member of that homeroom through- out the senior high school period. Counselors are as- signed to work with students in a certain group of homeroomsg in this way a student has the same home room teacher and counselor during his three years in senior high school. This enables both the home- room teacher and counselor to know and to assist the student. It also helps the student to plan his cur- I6 HAROLD DEARING mam KEN FREER with hi I it d i bl . . . . S cms Sc e ue pm em riculum, to secure occupational information, and to make vocational pla ,QT:', 1 I