Roosevelt High School - Echo Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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Through the skill and experience of Athletic Di rector Sanford “Bud’’ Dornbos, Roosevelt has established a Physical Education Department second to none. ““Bud”’ also finds time to double as swim coach. This year, Coach Dornbos has worked his team into a formidable and powerful challenger, which, week by week, has tested the best of the class A and B schools. Roosevelt feels that Mr. Dornbos is a definite asset to Roosevelt athletics. Dornbos Leads in Progressive Physical Education Program Miss Mary Drake, girls’ physical education direc- tor and sponsor of the Sinkopators, has been at Roosevelt since 1961. She instructs all grades in physical education and tries to make things inter- esting. . . . If the Sinkopators didn’t have a Miss Drake, they'd be sunk. The youthful, energetic, and resourceful coach of the football and baseball teams, Ron Saunders, is a mainstay of Roose- velt’s progressive physical education and math departments. Always teaching the fundamentals of good sportsmanship and fairness, Coach Saunders is definitely one of the true gentlemen of Roosevelt School.

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Mrs. Jane Kulpinski, the preceptor of the Home Economics laboratories, has brightened the life of Roosevelt students with a whole new world of dreams and ambitions. Mrs. Kulpinski has used her knowledge of the practical arts in the most romantic of moods. She has served as a bridal consultant for Saks Fifth Avenue. She has con- ducted adult education courses in millinery and dress design. She has established herself as a couturiere nonpareil. With all this talent she spon- sors the FHA, gives the middle-school a hand, and helps Roosevelt girls design their own clothes. Miss Vera North deserves well the designation dedicated. Through many long years, she has taught skillfully, determinedly, and conscientiously so that all the students enrolled in the Roosevelt Business Education Department would have a firm understanding of the principles governing the busi- ness world. She has sent out into business and professional life well-trained secretaries, book- keepers, file clerks, and receptionists. She has trained scores of prospective business teachers who could carry on her precepts. But she has not con- fined her professional duties to the classroom. She has served in many endeavors. Dedicated! Yes, and coupled to her dedication, a friendly, thoughtful, self-effacing teacher. Special Areas Provide Specialized Instruction at Roosevelt School Mr. Russell Brumbaugh, driver education instruc- tor, is very important to RHS early morning drivers. He gives them the keys to safe driving, which later entitles them to the keys to their family car. All of the past as well as the present students appreciate Mr. Brumbaugh’s contribution to sportsmanlike driving.

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Arts, Music Attract Students’ Interests Mrs. Jean Sundquist is the director of the middle school and high school music programs. She also instructs a class in the humanities, which makes field trips to nearby museums. The middle school presented the operetta, ‘The Prince of Pilsen’’ in February. Plans are now under way for a joint music and English departments production of the musical, ‘' 0 in the Shade.’ Mr. Thomas Dodd, Roosevelt's art department, suc- ceeded again in creating an art program unlike any other. He tries to give each student the opportunity to explore many media by creating several small inter- est groups in each of his classes, with students switching groups at their own discretion. Instruction is offered in drawing and painting, textiles, jewelry, interior design, sculpture, and ceramics. Several field trips have been planned and carried out in conjunction with Mrs. Sund- quist’s Arts Seminar. Mr. Jeris Miller directs the Roosevelt orchestra which meets every morning at 8:00 a.m. The stu- dents practice as a full group and take individual lessons during the week. Several students take private lessons from teachers outside of school; others take lessons from Eastern Michigan Uni- versity student teachers. Most of the members of the orchestra are in the 3rd year or more on their instruments. All of the students take orchestra as an elective, but several participate in solo and ensemble contests and concerts. The director strives to teach an understanding and appreciation of music from the many ages of history as well as to develop the skill of performing on an instrument.