Southwestern High School - Spectrum Yearbook (Flint, MI)

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Students of a speech dess concentrate on a discussion of various topics. Speech Drome 27

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Interest draws Jim Davis to show his feeling in his drama class. Two teachers join SW’s speech area SW's speech and drama classes added two teachers to their area. Mrs. Mary Timm, from Holmes Jr. High, taught stu- dents to express themselves in drama and Lloyd Miller, assistant music direc- tor. taught speech during the I97I- 72 school year here. When acting out their skits and dra- matic demonstrations, students put the dressing rooms, makeup room and cost- ume organization facilities to use. Speech classes offered a variety of ex- ercises to help students gain confidence while giving speeches. The types of speeches included argumentative, dem- onstration and panel discussions. Other speech staff included Mrs. Maria Anderson and Mrs. Sadie Collins. Acting is only a part of drama, as Mary Straith shows. 26 Speech i Dreme

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Working hard i$ Mrs. Dorothy Fitzner. library secretary. 72 Librarians say library the ‘center’ As in previous years the 71-72 librar- ians hoped to make the library the heart of the school. said Mrs. Virginia Shep- pard. To help SW teachers and students some filmstrips concerning Indians, Black history, religion, and narcotics were added to the audio visual department. The Flint Journal was added to the mi- crofilm reader to aid students for past reference needed in classes. SW students in library methods class still met every hour this year. Library methods got the students involved in the library and also taught them how to run film projector for teachers. Co-librarians were Mrs. Virginia Shep- pard and Miss Patrica Brain. Mrs. Doro- thy Fitzner was library secretary. 28 Library Checking the book list is a part of Cathy Loper's library job. Mrs. Virginia Sheppard arranges books.