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

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-1.11 1 I -1 The library, intellectual center of a school, provides an of fascination and information. Each book helps to form a abundance of knowledge for those who enter into its realm place of peaceful quietness. Library Cultivates Literary Interests An interested student finds time for an hour of browsing, while the biology student prepares a research paper on the grasshopper. A iunior studies Al- gebra Ill and the senior searches for a suitable college. The PCHS library be- comes a personal service providing an answer for every individual need. A storehouse of learning - for plea- sure and study - touches the student's fingertips. The card catalogue and the Reader's Guide are keys to knowledge for those who need research material. For students who don't know how to use such works, librarians Doris Haynes and Helen Lapisch are always there to help. Regardless of the difficulty involved in an assignment, the alert student can always find material- in the library. Students come and go but the busy staff keeps the PCHS library neatly shrouded in an atmosphere of friendliness. Doris Haynes Helen Lapisch : ,D iz Y .,.. ' Q2 -, .-f .lan Gaines begins the iob of checking out books as Hubert l'l0USl0H makes his selection. Materials are used, worn, and used again, yet each book returns to the shelf repaired and smiling.

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Communication Improves - Prospers in Sharing a background of experience in the field of English is ship. Wayne State University student teacher Gwen Yarger an essential characteristic of thisstudent teacher-critic relation-. works with Gertrude Overton to clarify her teaching methods Reading is a process of translating marks on paper into ideas, facts, and mental images. To read faster and with better understanding, Mary Jo Whitfield and Carolyn Davis work with the controlled reader. 22 An extremely valuable exercisewhich involves two often ignored skills-listening and speaking-is undertaken in Elise Best's English Vll class. To Sherry Drinkwater, Pete Wollaeger, and Jim Savage, verbal communication becomes an interesting crea- tive experience. , X X -1 F ,,mm11-'sei i-rm-Mun-.....,-.....l

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Helen Anderson I ,I , , . I :Qi Christine Gary M' 'W ' .,,f F' . X , A V I rs Frances Martz, department head ia A ,F Harry Wenzel . 'N , 1 , 0 Repondez en Francais A command familiar to French stu- seo. With the new visual Old lab, PUPilS 9050 individual dents echos as they forget English and travel across the help and 'become fluent speakers of the language. 1-at -IE Central Promotes Understandin l i , l Films, tapes, microphones, and listening posts are a few products of the revolution which has taken place in Central's foreign language department- Thirty student stations and consoles can be viewed upon entering the newly acquir- ed language laboratory. Teachers can now tune in anytime on students equipped with earphones and microphones and give help without dis- turbing others in the classroom. The new laboratory serves as a great tool l in promoting better speaking ability and comprehension of Latin, French, Spanish, and German. latin lives as Marilyn Sharette receives assistance from Christine Gary in translating a difficult passage from the letters of Julius Caesar. 24 f