Royal Oak High School - Oak Yearbook (Royal Oak, MI)

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5 'gil .M 22: Douglas Bishop and Dick Wesenberg, along with other E students, stop in often after school to see Miss Hindes to A ' confirm the night's civic's assignment or simply to talk over lg L,...- a lesson. , '14 .' 3 5 ' ll' u 9l' T14 I H ' Clarence Law. helps arrange extra credit clippings of nfaws concerning Michigan in Mr. H. Garen's civic's cass. 'C Linda Palmer pauses in her reading to take a Beth Thompson and her classmates put to use old samples of question from a member of her English I class. wallpaper by using it in art class. The texture gives an interesting Other members are Rae Dwyer and Janet Powell. background to the sketched scene. 11

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Foods class involves not only cooking and nutrition study, but the less glamorous tasks of putting away utensils and washing dishes, performed by Nancy Kidle and Carolyn Keese. FRESHMEN WORRY ABOUT 'STRANGE FACES' I was worried I'd be with all these strange people, not a friendly face around me, remembered Linda Friedlander of homeroom 311, a member of this year's freshman class. But I was looking forward to making new friends, being on WOAK and debate and seeing the Dondero-Kimball football game. High school is a new, exciting expe- rience with a lot of work for most fresh- menf, commented Mrs. Barbeau, freshman counselor. She says Civics is required to make stu- dents better informed voting citizens, and English is a basic course in preparation for later English studies. Linda feels the freshman year unties the apron stringsf' Mrs. Barbeau knows it is a make or breakl' year, determining courses for the rest of high school and possibly careers for the future. Freshmen, aware of the pitfalls and heights, tramp merrily through the halls. :jim Leginnin of af flair: 5 are Ama . N Suzanne Baer is one of the hundred of students who daily consult the dictionary in freshman Eng- lish. Spelling is one of the basic skills stressed.1n the lower grades that is necessary for later English courses. 9 9 While speaking to her class, Janie Stevens gains poise, half the battle in public speaking.

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I Nancy Hewitt, Marilyn Walcott and Cheryl Warren listen as their general business teacher speaks. Instructor Mr. Quigley and student Joe Buckley tackle a general math problem together. The confidence inspired by math teacher Mrs. Hoff- man shows on the face of Doug Friedman. Mr. Diebel explains one of the more difficult aspects of freshman Algebra to attentive Barbara Bates. Advanced Math, German Highlight Frosh An advanced progressive math program, headed by Mrs. E. Hoffman and a new arrival to the Language Department are the newest addi- tions to the freshmen's curriculum as it is again proven that the freshmen are always the first to get every opportunity. Under Mrs. Belaew and Mr. Dolikian a new course in German is available for the lirst time at Dondero. Students are responding excellently, and a second year is expected to follow. Another course just starting is a progressive mathematics system in which 38 selected students seek to speed up and get full advantage of all high school math including algebra, geometry and trig- onometry. Lasting for the entire four years, the program is headed by Mrs. Hoffman. Through these opportunities, the inquisitive freshman of today becomes the learned senior of tomorrow.