Redford High School - Redford Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Responding' promptly to the new demands required of high schools by the national emergency, Redford quickly began to put into effect the many curricular changes that will transform the school to a total war basis. While most of the changes were designed to begin next semester, several actually began this term. Among them was the introduction into the mathematics department of Pre-Flight aero- nautics, which attracted enough students in its first year for the formation of two classes. Adapting the general outline for all Detroit high schools to Redford's particular needs, Principal William R. Stocking and Assistant Principal A. L. Hegener are shown plotting the many curriculum additions, substitutions, and subtractions on the huge class plan which charts the schedule of every organized activity at Redford. Beginning next semester all boys will he required to follow one of six pre-induction programs through the 11th and 12th grades. These courses of study are planned to fit boys for either future air service, arlny service, sea service, professional service, comlnercial service, or economic service. In all of these programs, mathematics, science or shop, and physical fitness or R.0.T.C. will be compul- sory throughout the 11th and 12th grades. All these revisions, however, take time to complete and the final result of Redford's streamlined curriculum cannot adequately he judged until all the plans have gone into operation. By next fall Code Practice, Touch Typing, Contemporary Affairs, Fundamentals of Machines, Electricity, Radio and Shop Wfork will probably have been substituted for English History, Physiology, Descriptive Chemistry, Descriptive and Applied Physics and Traffic Safety, which have been dropped for the duration. At present, however, with Aeronautics, First Aid, compulsory Physical Fitness Train- ing for seniors, and in addition the many student sponsored voluntary contributions and drives, the January Class leaves a school definitely '6Geared for War. 3

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