Sault Ste Marie High School - Northern Light Yearbook (Sault Ste Marie, MI)

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lem 1 144101 While certain subjects are requir- ed for graduation, students are giv- en as wide a choice as the school can afford in selecting a course to fit their needs. Activities outside the classroom in which a boy or girl may partici- pate, according to his desires and abilities, number more than thirty. Such extra-classroom activities as assemblies, cafeteria work, debate, declamation, extempore, oratory, dramatics, work at school election time, participation in the Hall Patrol and its court, the Safety Patrol with its court, the many music groups for which no credit is giv- en, the Keynote business or editorial staffs, the planning and execution of school social events, the Student Council. These do not in- clude Sault Highis ten or more clubs nor the responsible offices a pupil may hold in his class or in his home room. Thus these pages picture but a few of the means whereby high school youth may broad- en its scope of interests and develop its indi- viduality. Last year Sault High was chosen as one of eighteen schools in the state to participate in a twelve year study of the curriculum, the ultimate outcome of which will be the grad- ual formation of a curriculum that will meet the needs of the changing student population and which will train that student body to cope more effectively with the problems of a changing world. Headed by a student leader, each of three groups of Atom Crackers studies fundamentals and finer points of photography. Members of a fourth group make investigations of individual scientific interest 'IW Through actual experience, students on the Keynote business staff learn the principles of effective salesmanship, efficient business management, successful personal contact. The financial status of the school news- paper depends upon them and their adviser. At concerts, assemblies, and programs of varied types, Sault High's blue- robed choir lends sweet music. Choir members learn group and solo sing- ing, voice development and gain a large repertoire of music of all periods. 14, 4

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825 A. u. My i This is the art class where youthful talents have full sway in highly individualized projects. Here a boy or girl worlis in oils, water colors, charcoals, and numerous other media. Members of the Audio-Visual Club not only learn to use correctly the motion picture pro- jector with its sound equipment and to take moving photographs, but they operate the mov- ie equipment for the many classroom movies. Each year Sault High ex- pands its curricular and ex- tra curricular activities to fit better the needs of the individual student and to aid him in developing his own special talents and abilities. Although hindered by lack of building space and by an adequate number of in- structors, several new organ- izations have been formed, and thirteen new courses have been added since 1935. Five of these courses are agricultural subjects: field crops, horticulture, conservation, soils, animal hus- bandry, and general agriculture. The com- mercial department added advanced book- keeping, and for non-commercial pupils, per- sonal typing. Cooperative vocational education affords students an opportunity to gain actual exper- ience in fields of work which interest them. Thus for two hours each day selected pupils work in stores, offices, and other places of business in the city. Each one is rated by his employer at stated intervals, and if his work is satisfactory, the student is given credit to- ward graduation. To further the cause of safety, a course in safe driving is taught to tenth graders. With local physicians as certified teachers, sex hy- giene is given to seniors. In the manual arts division, general shop teaches boys how to do such useful household jobs as repairing elec- trical appliances, furniture, and other articles. A general course in science, called senior science, aids students, among other things, to become wise buyers and consumers. Composed of nineteen pieces, the orchestra is a central figure in Christmas Vespers, the May Festival, and graduation exercises. Although each member develops skill in playing his par- ticular instrument, he also learns cooperation, discipline, and the joy of musical self-expression. u I ,,.,,--,..--, . 2,1 M

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