River Rouge High School - Vigilant Yearbook (River Rouge, MI)

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PRINCIPAL H. M. ROSA THE STUDENT . . THE SCHOOL . . THE JCB The greaTesT Tragedy in The compleTe TuncTioning oT The human race is The social or economic misTiT '. NoThing ThaT comes wiThin The liTe-long experience oT our social relaTionships can compare wiTh The sorrow of an individual groping his or her way Through liTe and never TiTTing inTo The design oT any paTTern. The public schools oT The naTion have only recenTly come To realize ThaT This Tragedy is a parT oT Their responsibiliTy To The public whom They serve. We now Tully recognize ThaT no Two young people are endowed wiTh execily The same TalenTs. We also realize ThaT iT is our duTy To puT TorTh reasonable eT'TorT To help individual sTudenTs To discover Their special TeIenTs and Then direcT Them Through high school in Those courses which will besT bring ouT and develop Those TaIenTs, The problem is by no means solved buT progress is being made. The River Rouge High School has been organized Tor several years wiTh The imporTance of vocaTionaI guidance in mind. Thus, iT has been our aim consTanTly To secure TacuITy members possessing a vision oT This phase oT Their worlc. Personal counsel beTween young people and TacuITy members plays an imporTanT parT in our geTTing sTudenTs sTarTed in The righT direcTion: Therefore, every sTudenT is assigned To a homeroom Teacher or sponsor who has daily oppor- TuniTy To become a conTiding Triend, giving him personal counsel and vocaTionaI guidance. IT we are To guide sTudenTs To a success- Tul career, we musT discover Their TaIenTs: so a wide varieTy oT sub- iecTs is oTTered in The junior high school course of sTudy: ArT, Home Economics, Vocal and lnsTrumenTal Music, PrinTing, General Shop. DraT'Ting, Machine Shop. Woodshop, Junior Business Training, and ElemenTary Science, To menTion only a few. We Then assisT Them To elecT subiecTs in grades Ten, eleven. and Twelve which will help mosT in developing Their special TalenTs, wheTher This be prepara- Tion Tor college. indusTry, commerce, home economics, arT. physical educaTion, or music. GraduaTion Trom high school by no means compleTes a young person's preparaTion Tor his liTe's worlc. RaTher, his high school Training is buT a sign posT poinTing To him The road Tor a successliul and worThwhiIe vocaTion. H. M. ROSA.

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'Q SUPERINTENDENT ALEXANDER McDONALD Guidance, a Responsibility oi Every l-ligh School THE NECESSITY FOR GUIDANCE How besT To deTermine The Tield oT service inTo which each indi- vidual sTudenT should be direcTed is an imporTanT TuncTion oT every high school. All are Tamiliar wiTh The classic example oT Trying To TST a square plug inTo a round hole. To avoid ThaT diTTiculTy indi- caTes The necessiTv Tor early and prolonged guidance unTil an appro- priaTe niche is Tound ThaT will ensure a saTisTying and a useTul career Tor The Trainee. To selecT The poTenTially suiTable sTudenT Tor a parTicular Trade, or proTession and Then plan a course oT Training ThaT will equip as nearly as possible The sTudenT To meeT The demands ThaT are likely To be required oT him by The liTe-work chosen is an involved underTaking, inTo which Tools rush in where angels dare noT Tread . The counsellor ThereTore musT proceed wiTh cauTion because of The changing human equaTion oT growing youTh and The TlucTuaTing re- quiremenTs oT The Trades and The proTessions due To science and Technological advance. THE ROLE OF THE COUNSELLOR Consciously or unconsciously every Teacher parTicipaTes To a more or less degree in The process of guiding young people inTo paTTerns oT behavior, inTo ways OT Thinking, and habiTs OT work ThaT basically TiT The youTh Tor The selecTion oT a career. For a number oT years Mr. HarringTon, The AssisTanT Principal, has assumed The major role in The maTTer of guidance work as such in The high school. To ThaT end in Their many conferences wiTh sTudenTs The High School Principal and Dean oT Girls also conTribuTe much in guidance. Mr. HarringTon aims To have The members OT his guidance classes become Tamiliar with The conTenTs or eporTs oT naTional surveys, periodicals, vocaTional pamphleTs and TexT-books dealing wiTh The Trades, and professional opporTuniTies ThaT exisT, and provides oTher reading maTerials ThaT acquainT The sTudenT wiTh The naTural qualiTi- caTions and Training required To be reasonably successful in each oT The Tields ThaT oTTer promise. While This research and sTudy is being pursued by The sTudenT The counsellor makes a menTal inven- Tory oT The ToTal make-up oT each sTudenT and applies vocaTional apTiTude TesTs To aid him in classifying his sTudenTs. Then a course oT sTudy is prescribed Tor each sTudenT To follow To prepare Tor The Tield oT his choice. lT is Tar beTTer Tor all concerned ThaT in such a sTudy The sTudenT should honesTly arrive aT The poinT of making his own decision as To The career ThaT he wanTs To Tollow. A sTudenT who shuns maThemaTics and science courses is noT honesT if he chooses To became an elecTricaI engineer. Too oTTen The sTudenT's choice is based on pare-nTal inTluence or ThaT oT a dear Triend, ignoring enTirely whaT The personal invenTory indicaTes, whaT The choice should be. Hence, The paTh oT The counsellor is Tull of Thorns and sTumbling blocks. No one can be more conscious oT ThaT Than Mr. HarringTon. THE NECESSITY FOR THE FOLLOW-UP SYSTEM Guidance work can noT sTop wiTh The aToremenTioned sTeps. Much Tollow-up work musT ensue aTTer The sTudenT makes his choice since every sTudenT is subiecT To menTal and physical growTh. Because of ThaT TacT a diTTerenT choice may be wise laTer. However, The con- sTanTly shiTTing sTudenT rarely geTs anywhere. PLACEMENT The TourTh and Tinal sTep is ThaT oT placemenT, Tinding suiTable iobs for school graduaTes. The school never loses sighT oT ThaT TundamenTal responsibiliTy. The Tollowing sTaT:T members are con- sTanTly on The alerT To Tind appropriaTe iobs and promoTions Tor The sTudenT graduaTes: David LesTer, Frank Weeber, Owen Evans, Roger CarringTon, Jesse McGregor, Harvey M. Rosa, Cleo Shellenberger. J. I. HarringTon and A. McDonald. ln behalT of Those having Taken The general and parT-vocaTional courses, The superinTendenT of schools gives considerable OT his Time in The maTTer OT placement A. MCDONALD.

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