Roosevelt High School - Echo Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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Under Miss Lillian Ashby’s guidance, the seventh and eighth grades learn fundamentals of music. The mixed chorus and the girls chorus are under her direc- tion. The choruses perform at special assemblies and in local musical affairs. The active instrumental mus- ic department is headed by Dr. Maurice Riley. He conducts the band and orchestra, and gives private lessons to students wish- ing special help. The band marches at all the football games and in many local parades. The band attended the University- sponsored ‘‘Band Day”’ this year. Both the band and orchestra take part in the music festivals and give joint concerts. Miss Virginia Cooper reigns alone in the Latin Department helping students to gain an in- sight into grammar and word mean- ings and building up a knowledge of classical myths. Miss Cooper is also a teacher of ninth grade English and social studies. Miss Virginia Cooper helps David Goings see the importance of derivatives in the building up of a vocabulary,

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Faculty The Home Economics Depart- ment prepares girls in grades seven through twelve for their future careers as home makers. Students enjoy working in the newly remodeled classrooms. Through this department girls are encouraged to join the school’s F.H.A. chapter. Mrs. Elizabeth Fitch, cafeteria director, and Mrs. Barbara Heffington, home economics teacher, discuss favorite recipes, Miss Vera North provides her students with the skills demand- ed in secretarial work. She helps her classes obtain the right kind of learning in their business courses - shorthand, bookkeeping, and typing. Miss Vera North (I.) explains to Rita Bolden (r.) banking problems involved in checking accounts. The English Department em- phasizes the Big Four of a com- munications program - speaking, reading, writing, listening. Week by week the business of theme- writing occupies the students’ time; and year by year the upper- classmen dig out a research paper. Each year a few students take honors in the various speak- ing and writing competitions. The English Department also sponsors the spring forensics and the annual one-act festival. Mr. Roderick Fraser operates the tape recorder as he and Miss Thelma McAndless listen to Linda Robinson prepare an oral reading.

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EMC Pres ident EUGENE B. ELLIOTT BRUCE K. NELSON Vice-President for Instruction ee WILLIAM C. LAWRENCE Vice President of Student Affairs